(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Destroy the tapes! That’s what a state House resolution urges the National Archives to do.
Surreptitious 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,” Ammons said. “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 Illinois' governor to write the National Archives and urge them to destroy the tapes.
Ammons said the surveillance should never have been happened in the first place.
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