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Martin Luther King Jr. was a man who had a "tremendous amount of burdens he had to deal with, both politically, socially and personally," says MLK/FBI director Sam Pollard. Courtesy of IFC Films hide caption

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Documentary Exposes How The FBI Tried To Destroy MLK With Wiretaps, Blackmail

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