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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to —_ 2) fs) File No. | , mew H rks 568 YORK gu INFORUATION CONTATIE) * “ HEREIN 15 UNCLASSIFIER Bufile 100-106670 Sie EXCEPT ¥ a SHOW” ed OTHERWISE 2 REE aT NEE 8 AE I ee co ee Martin Luther King, Jr. Security Matter - C A confidential source, who has furnished reliable information in the past, learned on March 29, 1968, that on that date, Stanley Levison and Martin Luther King, Jr. discussed the position which King has found himself in as a result of the violence that occurred in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 28, 1968, at the time when King led a march through downtown Memphis. King told Levison that he feels they have to face the fact that, from a public relations point of view and every other way, "we are in serious trouble". He referred to the Washington D.c, Spring campaign, known as the Poor People's Campaign, and said as far as it is concerned it is in trouble. King noted that it will be much more difficult to recruit people for the Washington campaign now because they (the Southern Christian Leadership Conference )(SCLC) are recruiting non-violent people and these people will hold back if they think they will be in a campaign that is going to be taken over by violent elements. King stated that this is not a failure for the SCLC because it has enough of a program to affirm its position but that it is a personal setback for himself. King continued that persons such as Roy Wilkens (Head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and Adam Clayton Powell, and Negroes who are influenced by the press, will now feel that he, King, is finished, that his non-violence is nothing, that no one is listening to it. King reiterated that they have had a great public relations setback as far as his image and leadership are concerned. Nh . . CLASS. & frt. BY REASON-FCIM II, DATE OF BEVIEW TINS DOCUMENT CONTAINS NEITHER RECGMHENDATICGNS KOR CONCLUSION OF THE FBI AND1I3 LOANED Tv YOUR — AGENCY; IT AND ITS CONTESTS ARR /OO =m Od LU S , 2 NOT TO BE DISTRIBUTED GUTSIDE — YOUR AGENCY, ENCLOSURE. TAREE ec a 7 fe peer ee ag TE Boke