Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself (2014)

The FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, conducted extensive surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. after his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech, seeking to prove communist ties and discredit him. When the surveillance failed to find evidence of communism, FBI officials compiled tapes of King's extramarital affairs and sent them to his home with an unsigned letter suggesting he commit suicide, a tactic that King and his advisers quickly recognized as coming from the FBI.