104-(0071-10121 iwoex: CJyes [Jno . / CLASSIFY TO FILE NO. CLASSIFIED HESSAGE . —”—sTOTAL COPIE XoREF FO FILE NO. . . aan Fite aid Cheer. to [BRANCH oO SECRET poree-e pesteoy {Jsic. | REPRODUCTION OF THIS COPY PROHIBITED NOTIFICATION TO L_] 3 | DISSEM BY 1 PER # 2 Pa ADV. COPY ACTION: ROUTENG AND/ OF IMITEALS ° SEEN BY SECRET @71415Z2 APR 68 CITE MEXICO CITY 5143 | WAL ECA 2 DIRECTOR : an 7 i?) Ae MHALPHA | 1. FOLLOWING INFORMATION SUBMITTED ON ASSUMPTION THAT ic - i - : Ju HADQUARTERS INTERESTED IN REACTIONS TO ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LATHER KING; PLEASE ADVISZ. | 2. PER LIENVOY 5 APRIL 1968, IN CONVERSATION BETWEEN LUIS QUINTANILLA AND. HIS SISTER TERESA, THE LATTER QUESTIONS WHETHER ASSASSINATION MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE WORK OF SOME MOVEMENT "POR. ABAJO", NOT EXACTLY THE GOVERNYENT. LUIS SAID IT was THE FASCISTS, THE CRAZY ONES ..° THE FORCE THAT KILLED LINCOLN... ALL THE ANTI-NEGNO ORGANIZATIONS OF TTE SOUTH. TERESA COMMENTED ON FACT THAT KING WAS NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, AND THAT JOHNSON Now - IN PREDICAMENT. LUIS PREDICTS ACTS OF VENGEANCE, TERESA BELIEVES ‘COULD EVEN SPARK A REVOLUTION. LUIS SAIDHE HAD MET KING IN GENEVA, REFERRED TO HIN AS "ELEGANT" AND LIKENED HIS DEATH TO THAT. OF | GANDHI, “A CHAMPION OF{PEACE, LIKE ALL THE DECENT AMERICANS,..HE WAS AGAINST THE WAR IN VIETNAN". BOTH LUIS AND SISTER CommENTED ON FACT THAT PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO HONOLULU WAS DELAYED, WITH LUIS ADDING, IN ‘REFEREWCE TO THE SOUTH VIZTNAMESE, "HE HAS TO MAINTAIN THE FARCE - Fy | SECRET | tea (L ge MSPs,
14-00000 SECRET CLASSIFIED MESSAGE . | PAGE TWO MEXICO CITY 5143 SECRET THAT THEIR CONSENT IS NEEDED", 5. LIZENVOY, SAME DATE, REPORTED SxCHANGE BETWEEN FORMER MIMEDIATE REACTION OF BOTH was THAT KING'S DEATH CAUSED DELAY IN FRESIDENT'S TRIP, AND THAT RACIAL REPERCUSSIONS WOULD BE ‘CONSIDERABLE, TISBE SAID "MY FRIENDS LOVED HIM VERY muUcH cMty FRIENDS ARE RICH) 5 THE ADVOCATES OF NON-VIOLENCE ARE WELL TO DO...THE VIOLENT ONES ARE THOSE WHO DON'T EVEN HAVE ANYTHING TO EAT...THEY BOUGHT KING OFF BY GIVING HI’ THE NOBEL PRIZE". 46 ‘DEATH wi k1dG CAUSED BANNER HEADLINE: LW Ave se LEADING "Mexrco cith PAILTES, BUT BECAUSE ALL OF THE Minis. COVERAGE CONSISTED GFAP, UPI AND OTHER AMERICAN WIRE SERVICE REPORTS, REPORTING IN THE ‘MEXICAN PRESS WAS OBJECTIVE ON 5 APRIL. LARGEST HEADLINE WAS g6 POINT "LUTHER KING ASSASSINATED” IN LEFTIST DAILY “EL DIA", WHILE POINTAGE GF HEADS IN ALL OTHER PAPERS WAS AVERAGE, INDICATING MEXICAN EDITORIAL toes WORKING SO ENENING 4 APRIL NOT CERTAIN AS TO NEWS INTEREST s GTH OF STORY IN MEXICO, CENTER LEFT "EXCELSIOR", WHICH DEVOTED ALL THREE OF ITS LEAD EDITORIALS TO JOHNSON WITHDRAWAL A FEW DAYS AGO, DEVOTED ONLY ONE SHORT LEAD EDITORIAL WHICH ANTI-U. Se — GOVERNIENT IN TONE AND WRITTEN BY TOP EXCELSIOR FIGURE AND PROFESSIONAL
14-00000 “CLASSIFIED MESSAGE - PACS THREE MEXICO CITY 5143 S$ ECRET ANT + AS=R ICA JULIO SHERER GARCIA. SECOND LEAD EDITORIAL WAS BY LIGUIFIER RE HOPE FOR VIeT NAM. AFTERNOON DAILIES REPORTED THAT STOKELY CARMICHAEL CALLING rOR REBELLION, BUT ARTICLES WERE AP AND UPI WRITE SERVICE STORIES AND CONTAINED NO MEXICAN EXPRESSION OF SENTIMENTS FOR OR AGAINST BLACK REBELLION. IN AMERICA, D2 ON 6 APRIL * "EL DIA” FRONT PAGE TOP FEATURED MURALIST TYPE SCRATCHES CARD ARTWORK DEPICTING MARTIN LUTHER KING IN ROBES IN THE SKY WITH PERSONS WITH NEGRO, ASIAN “AND INDIAN FEATURES IN BACK- | Giound. HCWE EVER, “ELD IA" FRONTPAGE WAS FAIRLY OBJECTIVE DESPITE BEING A CONGLOMERATE OF AFP, REUTER, UPI, INFORMEX, CIK, EFE BAD PRENSA LATINA WIRE STORIES, FRONT PAGE ALSO FEATURED A — LENGT RY ANT i-WATTE-ASERTICANS POEM ABOUT KING WRITTEN ORIGINALLY BY LEFTIST RAYNUNDO RANOS IN 1963. _ HEADLINES IN ALL OTHER NEWSPAPERS EXCEPT “EL UNIVERSAL" WERE BANNER KEADS BUT IN COMPAR ITIVELY SMALL TYPES POLITICALLY VARIABLE "EL HERALDO” RAN 1967 RIOT PICTURES OVE -R . CAPTIONS CLAIMING THEY WERE TAKEN IN STATES ON 5 APRIL 1968. BIGGEST Ak SOST COUPAEHENSIVE STORY WAS PUSLISHED IN "EXCELSIOR", FILED . FRO} GEMPHIS BY REPORTER FAUSTOFERNANDEZ PONTE WHO RECENTLY FILED A aLSE "EXCLUSIVE" INTERVIEW OF PR -ESIDENT JOHNSON. EXCELSIOR SERIES — SAOWS KING DEATH SITe. FERNANDEZ PONTE DESCRIBES IN MINUTE DETAIL
14-00000 . “CLASSIFIED MESSAGE : : _—— * i, PAGE FOUR MEXICO CITY 5143 SECRET EVERYTHING TRANSPIRING IN MEMPHIS BUT TALKS OF MACHINE, GUN FIRE AND THE PRESENCE IN TENNESSEE OF 16,000 MEMBERS OF WHITE CHRISTIAN “GRGANIZATION OF AMERICA, "EXCELSIOR" AND MANY OTHER PAPERS CARRY prctugé OF KING IN COFFIN MOURNED BY WIFE AND PICTURES OF SPKELY CARMICHAEL CALLING FOR REBELLION ON TV. MOST. NEWSPAPERS SIMPLY CONF INE THEMSELVES - TO REPORTINGEIVIL UNRE ST, ANGUISH AND VIOLENCE IN U.S. BUT "EL HERALDO” « “CARRIES A CHEST -SEATING ARTICLE ENTITLED “UNANIMOUS CONDEMNATION | IN HEXICO OF EXTREMISM AND INTOLERANCE” AND IN ANOTHER ARTICLE. QUOTES VISITOR AND PLAYWRIGHT ee AS STATING THAT DEATH OF KING MAY BRING ABOUT. REVELOUTION IN U.S. 6, LEAD "EXCELSIOR" EDITORIAL OF 6 APRIL FORTUNATELY WRITTEN. - BY LIQUIFER. IT 18 OBJECTIVE AND REASONABLE ESSAY EXPLAINING THAT WHILE WUCH HAS BEEN DONE LEGISLATIVELY IN THE UNITED STATES IN RECENT YEARS TO BREAK DOWN THE INEQUALITIES OF RACE IN THE U.S., THERE 1S A MARKED DIFFLRENCE BETYZEN THE TECHNICAL RIGHTS OBTAINED THROUGH “LEGISLATION AND THE DEGREE OF INPROVENENT OF THE WEGRO'S LOT. HE EXPLAINS FURTHE2 THAT NEW NEGRO PRESSURE GROUPS HAVE DEVELOPED SEPARATE se | FROM AND OPPOSED TO THE KING FOLLOWING, SOME OF THEM MOTIVATED TO TAKE. Cc) a] > un ] tet Oo a> \ND VIOLENT ACTION BECAUSE THE PROGRESS IS TOO SLOW. THE ty ARTICLE ENDS DEPLORING THE NEGRO VIOLENCE AND POINTING ouT THATIN
14-00000 / CLASSIFIED Message PACE FIV MEXICO CITY 5143 5 £ ¢ RET TRE LONG RUN THE NEGROES HAVEILESS To GAIN BY VIOLENT ACTION THAN ay PEACEFUL POLITICAL ACTION, — a fe IN SUMMARY THE MEXICAN PRESS AS OF 6 APRIL IS FarRLy OBJECTIVE IN REPORTING THE TROUBLES qy THE U.S. 2AND HAS NOT BEGUN TO SERMONIZE ABOUT THE EVILS oF MIERICA, THE LEADING DAILIES APPEAR ALARMED OND INTRIGUED, BUT NOT HOSTILE TOWARDS THU.S., WITH THE EXCEPTION GF THE Pozi NOTED IN "#L DIA” IN CONTRAST LOCAL AMERICAN RADIO STATION "VIP" IN mExIe9 CITY HAS BEEN RE- BROADCASTING NEWS AND COMMENTARY PROGRAMS FROM STATES WHICH BORDER on. THE HYSTERICAL, SZCRET