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Lyndon Johnson & J. Edgar Hoover Phone Calls on Murdered Civil Rights Workers

Washington, DC
Saturday, August 6, 2011

On June 21st, 1964 during what was called the “Freedom Summer” three civil rights workers were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi by the Ku Klux Klan.

Listen to a series of White House telephone conversations between President Lyndon Baines Johnson and F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover about the murdered civil rights workers.

Updated: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 3:53pm (ET)

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