The FBI tried to get Martin Luther King to kill himself with a threatening letter

The FBI tried to get Martin Luther King to kill himself with a threatening letter

"There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation."

This chilling threat comes at the end of an anonymous letter Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received almost 50 years ago, but which The New York Times discovered in its entirely only recently:

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Mike Barry

Mike Barry is the senior editor of audience development and outreach at TheWeek.com. He was previously a contributing editor at The Huffington Post. Prior to that, he was best known for interrupting a college chemistry class.