CIVIL RIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHER A SNITCH FOR THE FBI

Ernest Withers, a revered civil rights photographer who captured iconic images of Martin Luther King Jr. on the night King was shot in Memphis, actually played a different role the day before: FBI informant.

The Commercial Appeal, a newspaper in Memphis, just completed a two-year investigation that reveals how Withers provided the FBI with details about where King was staying and information on his meeting with black militants on April 3, 1968 — the day before the assassination.
Withers' spying, however, extends far beyond the slain civil rights leader.
The Commercial Appeal found FBI reports indicating that Withers collaborated for years with FBI agents monitoring the civil rights movement. Those FBI reports, the paper's Marc Perrusquia writes, "reveal a covert, previously unknown side of the beloved photographer.  Click here for the rest of the article.

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CNN REPORTS ON NO SNITCHING

I tell you what if someone is doing something illegal or to hurt my family I will snitch on them all day. People need to realize in the long run you can't beat the system unless you are rich enough to get around it. And even then you may have to do some time, i.e Madoff, Vick, T I etc.

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