Jesse (Jackass) Jackson Dismisses Book's Claim of Rift With Martin Luther King Jr

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CHICAGO (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday contested the
assertion in a new Martin Luther King Jr. biography that he
had a bitter split with the slain civil rights leader.

Speaking to reporters after a breakfast held by his
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to commemorate King's birthday,
Jackson denied that King accused him of trying to use the
movement to promote himself. That claim was made in historian
Taylor Branch's book "At Canaan's Edge: America in the King
Years, 1965-68," which was released last week.

Asked about the passage in question, Jackson said King and
his colleagues argued frequently about strategy but always
came to a consensus afterward. "We often had challenging
meetings," he said. "And that was what we did. But in the end
we left there together."

In the book, Branch describes King storming out of a meeting
with Jackson and other aides in a "fury" days before his
death. The author quotes King as saying angrily to
Jackson, "If you want to carve out your own niche in society,
go ahead. But for God's sake, leave me out!"

Jackson said a heated argument did take place a few days
before King's 1968 assassination. But as evidence there was
no break between them, he distributed excerpts from the
famous "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech that King
delivered in Memphis on the eve of his death, mentioning
Jackson by name.

After urging striking sanitation workers to boycott several
corporations over their hiring policies, King said in that
speech: "As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the
garbage men have been feeling pain. Now we must redistribute
the pain."

Jackson said on Monday that those comments came "five minutes
after the meeting Branch refers to. And if what he said is
true, this wouldn't be here. That paragraph speaks for
itself."

He said he holds Branch in "high regard" but was never
interviewed for the book.

At the breakfast, attended by about 2,000 people, Jackson
called King a "prophet" but said his "I Have a Dream" speech
has yet to be fulfilled for blacks.

"We are free, but not equal," Jackson said. "We are unequal
in life expectancy, unequal in infant mortality, unequal in
access to education."

[CreatorsCollege]

I have read that Jesse Jackson has been an FBI informant since his late-teens. Some of his "recollections' and assertions about his role and whereabouts (King died in his arms) during the King assination have been revealed as untrue.

Of course he's going to deny that there was a rift, he's been riding on King's coat-tails his entire "public life." I am suspicious of him, his history and his motives, and would be inclined to believe the author over him. I don't recall seeing the King family and Jackson together.

Come to think of it, doesn't if seem weird at least that he has not offered to fund-raise or campaign to keep the King Center out of gov't hands?

HHHHHMMMMMMM.......

[GoodRain]

I wonder what was he really doing in Iraq when claiming trying to save some U.S. soldiers.
Out all the so called Black leaders I never thought of him as being a FBI informant. Something to think about. But there are allways more wolves in sheep clothing than meets the eye.

[Nefertiti]

Him and Al "the perm" Sharpton seem a lil suspicious in there ventures

[GoodRain]

I would be suspicious because of the perm alone.
Sometimes a person name goes alone with how that person thinks.
He is supposed to be looking uniquely "sharp"(good) all the time with the suits and perm.
Sharp is a term used by Negroes(negative growth) mostly before the 1980's.

[Nefertiti]

Originally Posted by GoodRain

I would be suspicious because of the perm alone.
Sometimes a person name goes alone with how that person thinks.
He is supposed to be looking uniquely "sharp"(good) all the time with the suits and perm.
Sharp is a term used by Negroes(negative growth) mostly before the 1980's.

Oh yeah, you aint never lied there!

[CreatorsCollege]

Originally Posted by GoodRain

I wonder what was he really doing in Iraq when claiming trying to save some U.S. soldiers.
Out all the so called Black leaders I never thought of him as being a FBI informant. Something to think about. But there are allways more wolves in sheep clothing than meets the eye.

THE MURDER OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.--Unspoken Details--PART ONE

by Sherman H. Skolnick
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/mofmlk.html

Over a period of more than four decades, my associates and I have learned a lot about two activities in particular. About reporters and journalists in the mass media. And about various movements and persons supposedly promoting equal rights.

Self-taught in Law and legal research, but not comfortable to become a member of the Bar, I became widely known in the 1960s. In Illinois, in the federal courts, I brought and won a whole series of voting cases to re-do malapportioned voting districts. Some voting districts had 50 per cent more people than other districts, diluting their vote. Although not an attorney, I was grudgingly allowed to represent the entire class of aggrieved voters. Because of various court hearings, I was often for a minute or so on the evening TV local news.

I constantly risked jail for so-called "contempt of court". Why? I often put the judges' financial corruption in their faces in Court. I documented, for example, how the Chief District Judge in one of my numerous voting cases, was an official of a so-called "foundation" set up as a money laundry by a known hoodlum and thus, the Chief Judge was subject to blackmail. [The Albert Parvin Foundation, of which a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, William O. Douglas, was the President.] When I confronted the Chief Judge in Court, he had two Court bailiffs suddenly grab my wheelchair and try to turn it upside down. This was witnessed by 18 news reporters in Court for the voting case. Their stories about this, if any, never got on the air or in print. My suit against the bailiffs for assault and battery was torpedoed by the banker-judges in Chicago's federal appeals court.They alleged in their published ruling [Skolnick vs. Guadagno et al.] that the Law does not permit damage cases against court personnel.

I became known as "Mr. One Man, One Vote", a take-off on the slogan for reapportionment. In those days this type of case required a special three-judge panel in the U.S. District Court. With such cases, I tied up 24 judges, more than all they had in the courthouse. The Judges were sore at me. Media types, who I got to know by way of such cases, seeing I am an independent, surviving on a shoe-string, and not tied to corporate interests, confided in me. In effect, I became their "Father Confessor". They knew I would risk jail but would never give out their identity in their lifetime. They communicated with me on the sly, sometimes at an out-of-the-way, all night eatery. I found out and fingered:
1. A CBS Network bigshot with a sideline of illegally selling babies from Europe to couples in the U.S. who could not have children.
2. An NBC Network Vice-President in the dope traffic. Hushed up, it was publicly instead blamed onto a lower level technician who was railroaded into prison as a scapegoat. 3. Hot items reporters are working on which they know endanger their jobs and their career in the media. They knew and know, that off-the-record, I will aid them in some way.
4. The buying and selling ot TV jobs. One TV reporter, with a three-year contract, said he cannot be fired but was. "I bought my job, it is mine, dammit. Don't you know of a lawyer that will sue?" He thus protested to me. Sensitive to his plight, I quietly told him such suits are not allowed, being against Public Policy. Sort of like a bank robber himself robbed by corrupt police on the way from the stick-up; he cannot sue for theft. As I found out from him and others, it is a wide-spread media policy: you have to pay 15 per cent in front in cash, of the first year's contract. One-third goes to the union business agent. One-third goes to the "celebrity" lawyer specializing in arranging such deals. [I fingered six such lawyers in Chicago.] And one-third of the bribe goes to the station manager or news director. The IRS is well aware of all this but uses the details as blackmail to get the mass media to say nice things about America's fearful Gestapo, the IRS.

In 1988, I got into a big ruckus with "60 Minutes" CBS Program boss Don Hewitt by confronting him with the details. His team vowed to keep me off the air forever and to shut me up. [Without public access Cable TV I would not be seen "on the air".]

An honest, hard-hitting reporter, Ted Smart, I knew from NBC's Chicago outlet, WMAQ-TV, Channel 5. "I got the goods, Sherman. I can prove it. The FBI was implicated in the assassination of Dr.King" he confided to me. "Ted, it's a death warrant and you know it. Cool it." I responded. My pal, Ted Smart, was murdered on the night before July 4, 1970. Another journalist, Louis Lomax, on the track of the same data, was murdered about three weeks later.

Playing an evil role as to the murder of Dr. King and its aftermath, was Rev. Jesse Jackson. He falsely claimed he had been up on the motel balcony and that Dr. King died in his arms. In 1975, Barbara Reynolds, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, wrote a book about Rev. Jackson, "The Man, The Myth, and the Movement". It was loaded with eye-opening details. It surely painted Jesse as a charlatan and scoundrel. Such as, the tricks he used to reportedly put the arm on local businesses. The tricks he used to replace Dr. King. Some claim the reputed Dr. King blood on Jesse's shirt was actually chicken blood.

As the book was coming out, I spoke to Barbara Reynolds. She met me at a restaurant near Tribune Tower. She kept looking apprehensively at the door. "Jesse is going to run me out of this town. I can't stay here anymore" she told me. Someone came to the door and looked right at her. Frightened, she fled our table. Three weeks after the publication of her book, it was withdrawn. I have one of the few copies of the original book. In the early 1990s, Barbara Reynolds finally went public with what happened to her and her long-suppressed book. The Establishment had been plainly protecting their man, Rev. Jackson. She told of her plight while on "Tony Brown's Journal" TV Program. About that time her book was re-issued but not widely mentioned.

A former U.S. Justice Department official, who once held a key position, responded to my questions about the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "I examined Jesse's secret file locked up in our office. I shouldn't be talking about this", he leaned over and spoke in a low voice. "It was a stack of paper several feet high", he added. Impatient, I asked, "So what did it show?" And he confirmed what I found out from other sources over the years,"Jesse has been an FBI informant most of his adult life". "So he's a government fink" I added. "Absolutely. My boss knew, I knew it" he said as he cut-off the discussion.

Starting about 1970, my associates and I became very knowledgeable about the financial dirty business of Rev.Jackson. We had volunteered as consultants to a group made up of 25 thousand would-be home owners, Afro-Americans. They called themselves the South Side Contract Buyers League. In those years, mortgage companies "red-lined" certain neighborhoods, such as where blacks lived. No mortgages were to be issued in such areas. So, desperate to live in their own home instead of an apartment, the blacks were forced to buy "on contract". An examination of the area and the contracts showed the blacks were paying TWICE THE MARKET PRICE for the homes they were occupying. It was blatant racial discrimination.

The South Side Contract Buyers League had an office a few feet away from Jesse Jackson's office which was an abandoned movie theater. For a while Jesse paid no attention to them. He failed their repeated requests for aid. The Buyers League members organized a payment boycott. One morning the Cook County Sheriff, Joe Woods [brother of Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's secretary that reportedly doctored up the mysterious 18-1/2 minute Watergate tape] was set to evict Buyers League members, all at once, for engaging in a payment boycott. For that purpose, the Sheriff arranged with the phone company and the electric company to shut off the entire area so blacks would have no lights and could not communicate with each other about the mass eviction. Residents in the area who were not even members of the group also had their phones and electric all cut off. After the eviction, the whole area looked like a war zone. Household goods scattered on the street. Fronts of houses crashed in. Windows and doors smashed, all around the house.

The leaders of the Buyers League found out that my associates and I were investigating and researching the lawyers who sold them out in Court, the banker-judges trying to control the blacks, and such. So I was invited to be the guest speaker at a huge mass meeting in a large Church. There was about 650 people packed in there. I detailed to them the dirty financial forces and public officials that were their sworn enemies, and what I suggested be done.

As I continued to make suggestions and show up at most every session in Court, Rev. Jesse Jackson pulled a trick on the leaders of the Buyers League, to get them falsely jailed. He had a group of ruffians, he called "Black Men Moving", who filled up the Courtroom and shouted slogans and would not be still, and stood next to the leaders of the Buyers League. Instead of blaming Jesse who was present, the Judge arrested the leadership and had them locked up in the basement of the Courthouse. At that point, Jesse crossed the street to the Mayor's office apparently to work a deal to take over the Buyers League now that the leaders were jailed.

A group of Buyers League women showed up as I was sitting in front of Jesse in the Mayor's outer office. "Rev.Jackson, you do not represent the Buyers League". Jesse must have thought I was just another wilted, foolish "liberal", and snarled at me and shouted, "What are you doing here white face?" Although angered how he was trying to psych me out with black-white slogans, I simply said, "Rev. Jackson, the leaders have told me that you repeatedly refused to help them. Why?"

Jesse went into the Mayor's inner office as the women, by now alarmed, pounded on the Mayor's office door, "Jesse, come out of there! YOU are NOT our leader!" they screamed at the door. As Jesse came out, he walked past me, and with a vicious look, turned to me, "I am going to get you for this!" Little if anything about this was mentioned in print or on the air. But my confronting Jesse on his trick apparently got the Buyers League leaders released from the court basement jail.

The various strategies that I suggested resulted in the Buyers League members being issued mortgages at half the price of the contracts. That is, a mortgage for the true, not inflated, value of the homes.

Resentment built up, however, against Rev. Jesse Jackson in the black community. Well-informed black business people began meeting me on the sly. I became an authority on Jesse's rise to be a multi-millionaire. We compiled files with details. The Federal Government apparently gave him a 16-room house to live in a swank neighborhood not far from the University of Chicago. The pressfakers often said Jesse lives in the "ghetto". They never showed a picture of his mansion.

Jesse reportedly owned a private garbage truck business, Cross City Scavengers. The traditional mafia apparently made a deal with him, allowing him to horn in on their trade. They reportedly allowed him to empty off his garbage trucks in dumps under the control of the Mob. Jesse reportedly shook down a major food store chain in Chicago, claiming "discrimination". They apparently set him up in numerous businesses as a pay-off, concealed from the IRS. He reportedly got a major interest in a dairy that supplied--now get this--Grade "B" milk instead of Grade "A", foisted by strong-arm methods on certain stores and restaurants. He likewise used his gangster-like methods to reportedly force his orange juice company products on various stores.

As a mobster-type shakedown, Jesse began marching his troops on a near lakefront restaurant that had a black cook who was QUITE SATISFIED, WELL-PAID, and had no grievance. Jesse demanded the restaurant owner use his Grade "B" milk which the owner refused. Jesse demanded that the owner use Jesse's garbage removal services at TWICE THE RATE PER BARREL as charged by others in the industry. Jesse demanded that the restaurant use his pesticide services.

The restaurant owner told me how he got rid of Jesse's shakedown. He matter-of-factly pointed out, "The owner of this building where I lease space for my restaurant is a known hoodlum. He threatened to have Jesse's office bombed. You know, gangster versus gangster, stay out of my territory, you understand."

That ended the problem. A gangster firm itself took over the restaurant later and the nearby motel.

A downtown bank that had Jesse's secret accounts interested me, Amalgamated Bank and Trust. They are a long-time highly-political, reputed mob front. At great risk to themselves and their jobs, some of the bank clerks, on the sly, informed us of how Jesse pulls up in his Rolls Royce, is taken downstairs by a Bank Director especially assigned to reportedly hide Jesse's transactions, and everyone that works at that Bank is warned that they see nothing.

A small, elite team of federal agents were interested in all these financial rackets. About 1972, using our numerous details and witnessess, they got Rev.Jesse Jackson indicted on federal criminal charges of massive tax evasion and extortion done in the name of human rights. Jesse's cronies reportedly paid 850 thousand dollars to the Nixon White House to secretly quash the indictment. The money reportedly was conveyed through an Indiana GOP National Committeeman. The Chief Federal Prosecutor set to proceed with the prosecution, was forced out of his office.

I and two friends of mine in the media came to a secret meeting. A former member of the elite federal team ticked off to us how they got Jesse indicted, how he corruptly squelched the charges, and how the matter was covered up. One of the media people got himself a good job with the Wall Street Journal and never wrote what he found out. Do some get their jobs by blackmailing others? The other reporter, from ABC Network, died in a sabotaged plane crash enroute to a Mid-East assignment. His friends are mad how he was steered onto that doomed plane. And I dare mention all of this.

In session 1975-76, was the House Subcommittee on Assassinations, delving into the murders of President Kennedy and Dr. King. A staff member who I knew told me of records they had which will be locked up and not included in the Subcommittee's Report. The records show, he said, that the FBI hand-picked Rev. Jesse Jackson to replace Dr. King BEFORE King was assassinated BY THE FBI. That Dr. King opposed the Viet Nam War and was threatening to interfere with U.S. foreign policy. Dr. King in a speech he made exactly one year prior to his death said he planned to go to Viet Nam to tell black GIs they should not be killing yellow-skinned people in someone else's civil war. The staff member led me to understand that the records take the position that Rev. Jesse Jackson is acceptable to Federal agencies like the FBI and CIA, and Dr. King, perceived as a national security risk, was not. These bombshell disclosures will not be publicly divulged for thirty years, he told me.

So, was the late Ted Smart, a murdered reporter, correct? What did Louis Lomax. another murdered reporter, find out? Oh, so you are naive and you think reporters are only murdered in Mexico and Third World countries. Is Barbara Reynolds correct in her book? Rev. Jesse Jackson has plenty to consider and plenty to conceal. Reports are circulating that a key Chinese witness is set to testify that the Clinton White House demanded he come up with several million dollars from Bejing, for the political ambitions of Jesse's son, Jesse Jackson, Jr., a U.S. Congressman from Chicago's south side. Junior before becoming a Congressman, worked for the mafia-linked Hotel Workers Union. When grilled on this, on a radio show, Jesse Jr. said he never heard of the mobster who headed the Union for which Junior worked. Yet Junior was paid 59 thousand dollars a year as an alleged "organizer". Some contend Junior performed little, if any work.

The bottom line: was reputed FBI stool pigeon, Rev. Jesse Jackson, complicit in the murder of Dr. King, whose position Jesse coveted? Stay tuned. More details in further stories on this subject.

[GoodRain]

Amazing!!!!

[Moorbey]

i have felt all along that Jesse Jackson was hand picked by yt to replace Rev. King.And for years that he was mob connected and did not have the interests of the Black community on his agenda. He has been about lining his pockets from the very beginning.His track record speaks for itself.An i also tend to believe that his son s following in his footsteps.They are a threat to all Afrikans here in the Amerikkka's and the world.

[GoodRain]

Not meaning to switch the topic but I think you would find the same to be true of Farrakhan in replacing Malcolm X.

[General]

Originally Posted by GoodRain

Not meaning to switch the topic but I think you would find the same to be true of Farrakhan in replacing Malcolm X.

Absolutely, Though I believe that according to many studies that have been put out the Nation may not have carried out the assassination by themselves. I know U weren't saying that directly. I think though that he has hoodwinked a large amount of brothers and sista's.

[Moorbey]

I am in total agreement when it comes to the murder of Malcolm that Farraka played a major in along with the F.B.I.,N.Y.P.D.,F.O.I.,C.I.A. and not excluding one or two of Bro. Ministers own security team.

[Moorbey]

I am in total agreement when it comes to the murder of Malcolm that Farrakhan played a major role along with the F.B.I.,N.Y.P.D.,F.O.I.,C.I.A. and not excluding one or two of Bro. Ministers own security team that helped bring about the demise of Bro. Malcolm.

[CreatorsCollege]

Okay,

I just finished reading a looong article chronicling the history of the Jesuits and Zionists and where the (white man) spoke about how the Jesuits of Chicago control the N.O.I. and that Brother Malcolm found out that he was being used, and was killed. The man went on to say that Malcolm X was a "good guy!!" shocked me to hear a yte man state that, but his concerns are bigger than ethnicity at this hour.

Incidentially, he states that the Zionists controlled King.

The overarching artilce is about a the history of the Jesuits and Zionists and their murderous history and co-conspiracy in the world's misery, not particularly about Africans.

[Moorbey]

CreatorsCollege i read that same article a couple of weeks back. Had i thought about it i would have posted it, i thought it was rather long ang most people would have not read it because of it's length.