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By Dave Dahl
SPRINGFIELD – Recordings ordered by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI may depict Martin Luther King Jr. in an unflattering, personal light, and State Rep. Carol Ammons (D-Urbana) wants those recordings destroyed.
“He was targeted and harassed,” “and that harassment also included his family, their most private moments, that most of us would not want to be illegally taped, and we’re calling on the National Archives to remove those private tapes.”
Ammons has passed a resolution – following the lead of a national Black lawmakers’ caucus – asking the governor to write the National Archives to destroy the tapes, which, Ammons says, should never have been made in the first place.
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