JFK's widow says civil right leader mocked her husband's funeral
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy didn't think too highly of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. when they were both alive. In a new book titled "Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy," Jackie O. says that MLK found the part where the pall bearers almost dropped the casket to be mildly entertaining.
The New York Daily News writes:
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy described King as "phony" and "tricky" in a 1964 interview just made public in a new book about White House life with her husband.
Kennedy, in one of seven Q&A sessions with former JFK aide Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., said King had mocked her slain husband's funeral Mass and its celebrant, Cardinal Richard Cushing.
"He made fun of Cardinal Cushing and said he was drunk at it," Kennedy recounted. "And things about they almost dropped the coffin. I just can't see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, 'That man's terrible.'"
Kennedy's negative impression of King was forged in part when she heard about FBI tapes that captured the married activist in a hotel room with another woman.
Her own philandering husband - whose extra-marital romps were yet unexposed - urged the First Lady not to judge King for his indiscretion, she recalled.
How much more MLK "revealing" can your heart take?
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy didn't think too highly of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. when they were both alive. In a new book titled "Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy," Jackie O. says that MLK found the part where the pall bearers almost dropped the casket to be mildly entertaining.
The New York Daily News writes:
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy described King as "phony" and "tricky" in a 1964 interview just made public in a new book about White House life with her husband.
Kennedy, in one of seven Q&A sessions with former JFK aide Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., said King had mocked her slain husband's funeral Mass and its celebrant, Cardinal Richard Cushing.
"He made fun of Cardinal Cushing and said he was drunk at it," Kennedy recounted. "And things about they almost dropped the coffin. I just can't see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, 'That man's terrible.'"
Kennedy's negative impression of King was forged in part when she heard about FBI tapes that captured the married activist in a hotel room with another woman.
Her own philandering husband - whose extra-marital romps were yet unexposed - urged the First Lady not to judge King for his indiscretion, she recalled.
How much more MLK "revealing" can your heart take?
I am not surprized. mlk does not deserve any honors, ever.
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