DICK GREGORY BLASTS CIA IN LECTURE AT VILLAPOVA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040066-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: March 20, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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By CAROL UNDERWOOD "They're gonna git him, too, 5 aking before a"preunrnrn- _ Tir most stirring moment in
e said. "The only reason Bobby'ant q young audience of over i Grrh lengthy talkathon came
ulat
king the students
tilt; The star ng c are enncdy was killed was because I~CO in the Villanova Fieldhouse,;-top i of the C.Ls is controlled a was on to them. He found out ?~ Gregory held the students spell- + -when,after as
by former Nazis" who master- he truth about the other assess-',yound for two hours and forty-, tr carry the o ther in pockets, h
-ence minded the assassinations of inations.'' five minutes and then lingered de end enly began to read from
John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Ken- Asked how he thought the Na another half hour for a serious-
nedy, Martin Luther King, Mal- zis had gotten control of the,, minded question and answer pe- khAt document. He did not read it,
colorn
color X and George Lincoln Rock- - -:h~rang it.
well was made last Thursday by C.I.A., Gregory theorized that riod. in the high ceilinged fieadhouse,
Dick Gregory, defeated presi- "Dulles swallowed up the whole Gregory told them that next to the historic cords vibrated
dential candidate of the Peace Nazi intelligence after World hunger the country's most press' the air to the peoples. Greg
never more dignified
and Freedom party. War II. He promised to lea ?? ing internal problem was th?' -throry ough
Gregory explained his curiou them free from prosecution it ! American Indian. nor fervent. He received a
belief in a press conference pre they would go to work for us.'' "Get that Indian off the res- standing ovation, as did one
ceding a speech on "Black Pow. Gregory's hatred of Nazis may ervation," he urged. He said 'other time during the evening.
ere and. Civil Rights" at Villanov be particularly keen because his though, that if they tried, there
University. audience appeared to like
sand respect him. appeared
t
father was killed in action in would undoubtedly be some "Un- The
(like Uncle Tom Negroes who 'many asked what they could do
phy of In non-violence, his he said, philoso- cle Tom-Tom" 'type Indians
The slightly built, bearded mai 1942.
~ He told them , ' "or ganize a national
said he was certain history wit phy like
prove James Earl Ray was i plaintively: "I've been all these hold back progress) who would Hte t union of students" wh
-on the conspiracy and that hi years without no daddy because ` yay "Me like-um reservation. could be instantly united '' bah
Problem come from young
life is in danger, as a result ? of war. an issue or fight one.
having been caught and ends The 38-year-old pacifist was bucks. A Villanova student pointed ou
gering the government's seer 10 when he lost his father. One of He said, "We guarantee a they couldn't even unite th
the measures that he favors is ,foreigner a better way of life that that day students at Villanova o
ey' payment of a large sum of mon- than the American Indian. 6000 When we become as ashamed of I? an issue, so. how were, they goin
father, families which have lost a the injustices at home as we are to unite all the students in t
father, plus guaranteed contin- country?
.. n ry ..
uing support for any surviving t aware of the injustices abroad, Gregory ' Said that it might n t
children. America will be truly beautiful. " reset Disappointed at not getting A question strangers often ~sM1 be rou ~ possible because with they the p
were tear -
into the White House, Gregory him is ''What progress is the ing as they went along; but th it said "I counted on Philadelphia I NEEE-gro making?','- He said the group that was in high but sch( t of
to put me in office. he wished they'd learn to now had already begun its edu a-
tion, and that when the next g n-
He received 7,821 votes in say black instead of Negro.
Pennsylvania, "We got our first real prog? eration got to college they wo n- {
d
Recently, he set himself up as ress recently down in Texas. We`;'1already know how to achieve 't ii
"President-in-Exile" and had got our first Negro hurricane. ? al ty. T c Their r common desire for u
himself sworn in to the imag- They named it Beulah." ends would u to
fnary office. Plans are made for Emphasizing that the Negrn thmain.
em: ul are bet
him to occupy a Black House in would make no progress until ev- em said young people
Washington. From this rather ery minority group made prog- most morally dedicated be
P unusual executive mansion, he ress, he said he could not enjoy committed- group in the coo
today, '.'You've got a ry
will direct a food crusade to end seeing black folks in South Caro. b
hunger in the United States. ling Appalachians getting food } to do , ly y i - ob
Gregory said he believes hun- stamps 'while my whit@ hilly-
ger is the number one problem billy, brother stands by lookini; in in America. He and his wife fast.., and he is hungry, too.''
four days a week and give the lie expressed compassion for
'food savings to a fund that will the Mexican-American and urg-
feed the poor. He has asked young . ed the young people present to
people to join them in this ef- boycott grapes, grape juice and
fort. raisins out of sympathy for the
Thin from fasting, Gregory's migrant workers in California
general appearance was sulk- who are having trouble with the
ing. Some things about his dress grape industry.
i are reminiscent of the Civil lie said that in addition to
War period and, like his beard, the ethnic groups mentioned, he seem g e wore a wouldn't until
long navy, blue double breasted :Rican brother, his Jewish broth-
jacket with slanted, flapped Poe- ere, all his brothers were treated
kets. Under it was a grey "body . fairly and allowed to share in .?
shirt" that emphasized his lean- the American way of life.
ness, Instead of a necktie, he "There's no 'point in taking
wore an oversized, flowing silk democracy abroad when we still
scarf fastened with a slide in- }I don't have it at home. If we did
stead of a knot. His trousers have it here, we wouldn't have
were dove-grey velveteen bell- to take it elsewhere. It. would
hntfoms which almost hid his l look so good other countries'
ten inch black r oo s.
tat effect was neat and pleasing "something good, people will steal
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