~~ q ‘ (Mount Clipping in Space Below) The FBI and King Dinner), ae de Associate Editor Bill Shipp’s Sunday colum May 9 on “The Rubber-Hosing of the FBI,” However, it is regrettable that he failed mention the three prime movers of the. Atlanta civic banquet honoring the late Martin Luther King—after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Coca-Cola’s Robert Woodruff was a late and reluctant starter. SAN FRANCISCO—I read with at - ~*_ The three men most responsible for the.” -banquet were former Mayor Ivan Allen, the Jate Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan, and the “ . Jate Rabbi Jacob Rothschild. They were the ‘Sriginal organizers who went ahead with the banquet planning,. despite pressures from ‘ the FBI. - “Several weeks before the banquet, as editor of The Georgia Bulletin, I was visited by-a bureau agent concerning alleged extra- ' marital sexual activities by Dr. King. I was- urged not to let the Archdiocesan newspaper be party to the sponsoring of the banquet. One quote of the FBI agent stood out: .. “The Church should be very careful about honoring such a man, for you will only regret it when all the facts come out.” I told the agent that he would have to come up‘with more than an innuendo, and | * tefused to drop the sponsorship. Several days later, the agent visited the , Archbishop, who was seriously ill in St. Jo- Seph’s Hospital. I saw the Archbishop after the visit, and he was very upset at the FBI tactics. He told mie he had refused the FBI suggestion that he back out as a prime spon- sor of the banquet: And to show his support for Dr. King, he left his’ sick- bed to attend the banquet. Contrary to what Mr. Shipp says, the we {Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) Page 5-A THE APEANTA COASTITULIO.: Atlanta, Georgia Date: 5~ 31 -76 Edition: Morni: ng Author: Gerard Sherry GERARD E. SHERR ‘ Editor: Hal Gulliver Co Editor-Manage ; Title: ay oy : Chee bet The Monit © SEI STUDY 75 ff ove information cannot he found in “old i ewspaper clippings.” ag L- Character: Ks pr Classification: 62-2854 ft a Submitting Office: AT, ArTp s I Being Investigated z Ao ee IE Aone Netiee  e  GODISS modes ~28A0 7 sank pi OES 3 wee YG Bence ae - wl arene U1 1976 FBI = ATLANTA. JbNW 54561 Doecld:32585455 Page 85
Hal Gulliver Gulliver “M “McGill a ae s This i is about ‘he tate Ralph McGil, ‘TNongtime editor. and publisher of me + Atlanta Constitution, ‘and FBI memos: andthe allega- seme ‘A tion that McGill -2 ‘stried to undercut 323 ‘the - effort. to by “honor Dr. Martin “eae Luther King Jr. 558! ’ There are two other _. reports “relating to that - -same matter .on the : opposite ~editorial page . today, one a let- s& i er, the Other a colimn by: Eugene atterson who was-editor of The Con-' peta on at the time the King dinner “being - planned. Both are worth; . eading, , “Other. close associates of McGill have-.of course already called-the FBI - memo into question. “If McGill had. done anything like that he would-have told me,” said Publisher Jack Tarver ‘ after the news story on the FBI memo broke.. “Ralph McGill always thought very well of Martin Luther King and defended hith;” said Mills B. Lane Jr., then head of the C&S National Bank, adding, “as I remember it, he five helped to organize that ‘thing (the dinner honoring King for his; Nobel Peace Prize).” . Patterson sent along a copy of the 54961 Doold: 32969495 qf ” eet ge i Sullivan miemo is a ridiculous slandet. . rate or not.- . ““ score, Page 64 @ (Mount Clipping In Space Below) ind King and the FBI! rere] column he wrote for the St Peters® | burg Times, with a note, “The William} on _ of- Pappy (MeGill who isn't here te is . defend himself.” 4 Perhaps one of the most interesting I (Indicate page, name of - observations is offered -by Patterson, - _ ‘. newspaper, city and state.) - that indeed J, Edgar Hoover was re- - - ceiving memos from top assistants Page 4uA .that seemed designed mostly to fell” THE Hoover what he wanted to hear, aces, The whole. ‘sorry ‘néident does “noth. -ing: to.mar McGill’s great record as - .editor and journalist. “He had guts, “when -it took guts to have guts,” as gsomeone once said of him. And he has, «friends and admirers enough to pth, | something like the FBI memo’s “all -¥ gation in perspective. “I + But it does expose a sorry perlod i in _the history of the FBI. - Maybe the letter ‘from Gerard B  Sherry,- then “editor of the’ ‘Georgia Bulletin, is most’ “revealing Qn. that Yet .it’s.".a nice. thought ‘to en remember, as Sherry does, that, the late Archibishop Paul J. Hallinan’ was _g0 outraged at an FBI suggestion that he withdraw as sponsor of the King banquet that, though. he was seriously’ nu at St. Joseph’s Hospital,. Archib- shop Hallinan got out of his sickbe(] ip attend the dinner... Date: Edition: Author: Editor: Titles ot av te 5-31-76 Morning Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: CJ Being Investigayed UT 1976 FBI- ATLANTA os mars § * . 4 1 SDM Lae abe APGANTA COASTITUL Atlanta, Georgia Editorial Hal Gulliver SENSTUDY 75 62-2854 Pe Ane | cea