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Campaign To Destroy King [12]

The MLK Tapes by iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV

Mar 28, 202243:46Society & Culture

Dallas oilman H.L. Hunt hated communists, and in his mind this included Martin Luther King. He attacked King regularly on his program Life Line, carried daily on 500 radio stations across the country. Hunt believed this...

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