The FBI was obsessed with the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King was only 39-years-old when he was killed on April 4, 1968, having spent 12 years—almost a third of his life—under J. Edgard Hoover and the FBI’s watch. In all the time, the bureau—and Director Hoover…
