SUMMARY OF CUBAN MEDIA TREATMENT OF DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., IAO APRIL 1968

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2017
• Case Number: F-2012-02055
• Publication Date: April 11, 1968

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-0 SUMMARY OF CUBAN MEDIA �TREATMENT OF DEATH OF MARTIN
LUTHER KING JR., 'IAO APR IL 1968
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IN ADD IT ION TO THE SUMMARY OF CUBAN MEDIA COVERAGE. OF THE
.1 ART IN LUTHER-
KING
ASSASSINAT ION TRANSMITTED IN REFERENCE ,THE
OLLO ING SUMMARY FOR 8-9: APR IL HAS. BEEN � FURNISHED BY THE
Qt GRANMA p...0 APRIL PAGE ONE JUMOBILIZATION OF .55,000
TROOPS TO REPRESS THE NEGROES" A �THE ARTICLE REPORTED ALL. THE
ISTURBANCES WHICH H,AVE
OCCURRED IN THE U.S. AS A RESULT OF THE
DEATH: OF MART IN OTHER KING.
- WM GRANMA 0 APRIL., PAGE 3 A JjWITH THE ASSASSINATION OF '
1 ART IN LUTHER KING THE ,IDEOLOGY OF NON-VIOLENCE HAS DIED' 7 A AN. �
INTERVIEW WITH FLOYD MCKISSICK 0 NATIONAL, DIRECTOR. OF THE
CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY /CORE/. .JJI HIS SIMPLY MEANS. THATH.
ON VIOLENCE HAS CEASED AS A MEANS OF ?IGHTING, THE -PEOPLE
CANNOT BE TAUGHT TO BE NON�VIOLENT 'WHILE WE ARE INVOLVED .IN �
A VIOLENT WAR- IN VIETNAM, NON-VIOLENCE CANNOT BE PREACHED' TO
HE .;LACK PEOPLE WHO HAVE �JO FACE. VIOLENCE EVERY. DAY
ON THE
3TRE.--ETS OF. THIS COUNTRY." THIS WAS SAID IN A TELEPHONE CONVERSA�
ilON BETWEEN 'RADIO .HABANA AND FLOYD MCKISSICK. 'WHEN. ASKED ABOUT THE
POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF THE. ASSASSINATION OF KING, MCKISSICK RE
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AMERICAN NEGRO IS NOT WILLING TO CONTEMPLATE IMPASSIBLY THE ASSA SS I-
NAT ION OF OUR. LEADERS, OUR HEROES, AND OUR PEOPLE.' �
EM .GR ANMA 0 APRIL , PAGE .3 A. ART KEE BY JU:AN -MARRERO ENT
FLED JJTHE AMERICAN NEGROES. ARE ..WR IT ING THEIR FINEST PAGE OF
HEROISM,'' JJAGA INST ALL THAT AND MUCH MORE , THE 'NEGROES ROSE UP
ODAY IN MORE A HAN SIXTY CITIES. AND IT IS LOGICAL TO, EXPECT NEW
PAGES OF HEROISM. STOKELY CARMICHAEL THE NEGRO LEADER GAVE THIS �
1'4 AR NING ONE DAY AFTER THE DEATH pF MART IN LUTHER KING
JW HAT
HAPPENED. ON THE- NIGHT WE...LEARNED OF.- THE ASSASSINATION OF, DR KING
IS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT IS GOING TO: HAPPEN.' JJ
RM� GRANMA 0 APRIL, PAGE PAGE . 3 A JJTNE WIDOW OF LUTHER ..KING HEAD'S
t HE MARCH IN MEMPHIS," THE ART ICLE.'TELLS ABOUT THE. MARCH -AND
SHOWS, PHOTOGRAPHS.. OF � IT.
. TM RADIO REBELD.E. NEWSCAST I APRIL /755 A.M./ A &IA TENSE
. CALM -REIGNS IN THE U.S. BUT IT IS A PHiLUDE TO SERIOUS EVENTS.
l'IAT TONAL MOURNING DECREED BY LYNDON JOHNSON 'OR YESTERDAY kJ' APRIL,
ilARKS. A ..LESSENING OF DEMONSTRATIONS. WHICH ARE EXPECTED TO START UP
AGAIN AT ANY MOMENT."
[ .YM RADIO REBELDE NEWSCAST, 1-APRIL /955 JFORWARD
0/ IT H BLACK � POWER UNTIL CAPITALIST.. MISERY, THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF
HUMAN INJUSTICE, IS ..OVERTHROWN' SAID .THE SOCIALIST� PARTY OF . CHILE
.IN A CABLEGRAM SENT TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO LEADER, STOKELY pARMICHAEL.
ON THE OCCASION OF THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER �KING.''
UM RADIO LIBERACION, 1-.APR IL /1230 P.M../ A- THI, NEWSCAST
REFERS TO A DEMONSTRATION IN WHICH. 200' LAT IN AMERICAN, ASIAN, .AND
AFRICAN STUDENTS WERE SAID TO HAVE PART ICIPATED IN FRONT OF
U.S. EMBASSY IN WARSAW, POLAND- 'AS -A PROTEST.. OVER THE DEATH OF.
lART IN LUTHER KING. ..
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