The thoughts of liberal heroes behind closed doors.

“I just can’t see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man’s terrible,” Mrs. Kennedy said, as part of an oral history series of interviews released this month.

Why did she think that?

Apparently (I stress apparently) FBI surveillance revealed King tried to arrange a sex party while in town for the March on Washington. And Bobby Kennedy apparently revealed that King made derogatory comments towards JFK during the president’s funeral.

Jackie-O goes on to call King a “tricky person”. And there’s this:

She also said that the president himself told her about surveillance suggesting that King sought to organize a sex party while in town for the March on Washington in August 1963.

“He told me of a tape that the FBI had of Martin Luther King when he was here for the freedom march. And he said this with no bitterness or anything, how he was calling up all these girls and arranging for a party of men and women, I mean, sort of an orgy in the hotel, and everything,” she said.

The former First Lady does say her husband refused to judge King over the alleged sex parties. Perhaps that’s because Kennedy (the president, that is) was known to have his own extramarital affairs.