TELEPOUCH:SUMMARY OF CUBAN MEDIA TREATMENT OF THE DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING,
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Document date: 4/11/68
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TELEPOUCH: SUMMARY OF CUBAN MEDIA TREATMENT OF THE DEATH OF MARTIN

LUTHER KING,

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O SUMMARY ÖF CUBAN MEDIA TREATMENT OF THE DEATH OF

MARIIN LUTHER KING, IAI APRIL 1963

THE FOLLOWING. SUMMARY OF CUBAN MEDIA COVERAGE

OF THE MARIIN

LUTHER KING ASSASSINATION-DURING THE PERIOD 5-8 APRIL HAS BEEN

PREPARED BY THE

RM

GRANIA /HAVANA DAILY NEWSPAPER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF

CUBAL, & APRIL 58, FRONT PAGE - "LAST MINUTE NEWS - MARTIN LUTHER

KING ASSASSINATED IN MEMPHIS, U,S.A: ACCORDING TO FIRSI REPORIS,

LUTHER KING HAS BEEN SHOT BY A 'WHITE WELL-DRESSED YOUNG MALE."•

IT GRANA, I APRIL, FRONT PASE - 'TWENTY-SEVEN PERSONS HAVE

BEEN KILLED IN THE U.S. AS A RESULT OF INE FIGHTING WHICH

HAS BEEN

GOITS ON SINCE THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING.. IN WASHING-

TON ALONE THERE ARE 750 WOUNDED AND 4,186 PERSONS ARRESTED: SNIPERS

CONTIRUE TO BE ACTIVE IN DIFFERENT CITIES IN THE VIS. THE KHITE

HOUSE AND THE CAPITOL ÄRE UNDER HEAVY GUARD.' /FULL INFORMATION

HERETE

CRANIA, I APRIL, LASI PAGE :

•'TO RICHMOND TO LIBERATE RAP

BR.OUN.".

/WASHINGION;

FRENCH TENS AGENCY ANX

L APRIL, ASSOCHATED FRENCH PRESS - AFPA

LEAFLETS WERE DISTRIZUTED HERE THIS MORNING,

VESING THE REGRO PEOPLE OF WASHINGION TO GO TO RICHIOND TO LIBERATE

HAP BACKW.

• HITHE LEAFLETS CALLED ON THE NEGROES TO FORM A MUOS

• CADE AND LÉAVE FOR RICHSONO TOMORROW, MONORY

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FAGE TWO •

4. GRANDA, I APPIL, LAST PAGE - ARTICLE ENTITLED •PRINCIPAL

GRO ORGANIZATIONS IN THE U.S."', BY JUANA CARRASCO. IME ARTICLE

¡YS THAI NEGRO ORGANIZATIONS ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS - THE

•OLENT ONES AND IXE NON-VIOLENI ONES.. IT MENTIONS THE FOLLOWING

JONG. THOSE WHICH ADVOCATE THE USE OF VIOLENCE - CONGRESS OF RACIAL

QUALITY / CORE!, STUDENT NON-VIOLENT

COORDINATIG COMMITTEE /SNCC/,

ACK MUSLIMS, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, BLACKSIONE RANGERS, THE ALERT

VIROL, REVOLUTIONARY ACTION MOVEMENI /AM/, THE BLACK GUARDS, THE

¿ACONS, AND

'•THE U.S.'.

•THE FOLLOWING NEGKO ONGANIZATIONS ARE

ENTIONED AMONG IHOSE WHICH ADVOCATE NON-VIOLENCE - NATIONAL ASSO-

IATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE /NAACP/, NATIONAL

BAN LEAGUE; AND THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP COFEHENCE

SOLC/.

ÉS GRANMA, 1 APRIL, LAST PAGE - SJATIEMPTS ARE BING MADE TO

_AME CARMICHAEL FOR THE OUIBREAK OF RACIAL VIOLENCE IN IHE U.S.

* GRANA, I APRIL, LAST PAGE - INACIAL CLASHES BETWEEN NEGRO

ND WHITE AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN JAPAN.

L GRANMA, I APRIL, LAST PAGE - JETHE AMERICAN NEGRO PEOPLE...

IS: GRANNA, FAPRIL, LAST PAGE - "MARTYRS OF THE NEGRO

TRUGGLE.

O RADIO LIBERACION AND RADIO FROGRESO /HAVANA RADIO STATIONS/:

APRIL, CUP AT ANO 12 NOON - WETHE CHIEF OF THE MISSION TO CUBA

= THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT HAS SENT A NESSAGE

O AFRO-AMERICANS ON THE ASSASSINAIION OF THE LEADER, MARTIN LUTHER

•ING. IHIS MESSAGE SAYS THÄT THE CRIME WHICH WAS COMMIITED AGAINST

ARTIN LUTHER XING UWASKS: THE EVIL FACE OF THE RULERS ANP

-MACISTS

F. THE UNITED. SIAIES. " THE MESSAGE OF THE VIEINANESE MISSION IN

AVANÄ ENDS BY SAYING. THAT, WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF LUTHER KING,

LE THAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BY THE RULERS OF THE UNITED STATES

S TO POUR OIL ONTO THE FLAMES OF INE STRUGGLE OF AFRO-AMERICANS,

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INAT INESE FLAMES ARE RISING VIOLENILY TO PUT AN END TO ALL THE

RESSION AND INJUSTICE WHICH IS FOUND IN INE UNITED SIATES, WHICH

IDERS INE ADVANCEMENT OF THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN INE ENTIRE

INTRY.''

SPIT RADIO LIBERACION, T APRIL, REP P.M. - BOSTONELY CARMICHAEL,

ADER OF BLACK POWER, SAID. - AWE NEGROES MUST AKK DUKSELVES WITH

FLES AND PISTOLS AND LAUNCH AN ASSAULT ON THE STREETS OF THE

TIES OF THE UNITED SIATES IN REFRISAL FOR KING'S ASSASSINATION.

RMICHAEL PREDICTED THAT THERE WILL BE EXECUTIONS IN THE STREETS AS

RESULT OF KING'S ASSASSINATION.

HE ALSO PREDICTED THAT THE

CLENCE WHICH HAS BEEN UNLEASHED BY NEGROES AS A RESULT OF KING'S

ATH WILL -BE PALE AS COMPARED TO WHAT WILL HAPPEN. IN AMERICAN

ITIES."'

SEE RADIO HABANA, APRIL, PEN A SOMIS AKING S/ DEATH SHORS

VE AGAIN THAT THE EXPLOIIED MASSES CAN ONLY ANSWER REACTIONARY

JOLENCE WITH REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE.

GET RADIO PROGRESO, APRIL, ILE POL. A NICARMICHAEL SAID

URING A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW THAT 'A SERIOUS MISTAKE HAS BEEN MADE

ASSASSINATING DR. KING BECAUSE HE HAD. BEEN INE LEADER OF A MOVE

ENT. WHICH URGED THE NEGRO PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES NOT TO BURN

HE CITIES, NOI TO COMMIT ACTS OF VIOLENCE. THIS MEANS THAI IT WILL

¡E NECESSARY TO START AN ALL-OUT REVOLUTION.: CARMICHAEL ADDED -

SERIOUS INCIDENTS HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN 3S CITIES WHERE THERE HAVE

EEN FIRES, SHOOTING, FIGHTING, AND DEATHS AS A RESULT OF THE CRIME

COMMITTED AGAINST DR. KING. RATURAULY, OTHER SIMILAR THINGS WILL

AKE PLACE.

GUERRILLA WARFARE WILL RAPIDLY SPREAD THROUGH THE CITIES

ECAUSE IT IS ALREADY EVIDENT THAT WE CANNOT OPENLY REBEL AGAINST

THE POLICE.

STOKELY CARMICHAEL ENDED THE INTERVIEW BY SENDING

AFFECTIGNATE REGARDS TO THE REVOLUTIONARY CUBAN PEOPLE AND THEIR:

-ZADER, FIDEL CASTRO RiZ.:

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13.

PADIO HABANA, T APRIL, UP.M. A DEJUAN INARI, ERAS,

¿CRETARY-GENERAL OF THE MOVEMENT FOR IKE INDEPENDENCE

OF PUERTO

ICO; MADE INE FOLLOWING SIATEMENIS IN A LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE

VIERVIEW - PDR. LUTHER KING'S ASSASSINATION WILL UNDOUBIEDLY PRE-

IPITATE IHE REBELLION OF THE NEGRO. PEOPLE OF THE UNITED SIATES..

JAINST ALL THE ABUSES OF WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN THE OBJECI.' A

ARM RADIO HABANA, 5 APRIL, LÉ POM. A MATHE EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAI

F. INE ASIAN, AFRICAN, AND LATIN AMERICAN PEOPLES SOLIDARITY ORGANI-

ATION /AALAPSO/ SENI A MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE TO THE SNCC ON INE

SSASSINATION OF LUTHER KING.'•

• "THE

AALAPSO'S MESSAGE TO IHE

MERICAN PACIFIST ORGANIZATION ENDS AS FOLLOW'S A SWE BEG YOU TO

XPRESS TO THE FAMILY OF MARTIN LUINER KING AND TO ALL AFRO-AMERICANS

UR DEEPESI SORROW OVER HIS DEATH, OUR DECISION TO SUPPORI YOUR

TRUGGLE, AND OUR DEEP CONVICIION THAI THIS TERRIBLE CRIME--WHICH

HOWS US IHAI ARMED REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE IS THE ONLY WAY OF ACHIEV-

NG GENUINE LIBERATION--WILL HELP. SIRENGIHEN THE SIRUGGLE OF THE

FRO-AMERICAN PEÖPLE WHICH IS ALREADY AIMED IN THE DIRECIION OF A

OTAL CONFRONTATION. A

15.

GETT

RADIO HABANA, A APRIL, É P.M. A STAGUSTIN SOONZALEZI.

ARTINEZ, BISHOP OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF CUBA, MADE IKE FOLLOWING

TATEMENIS IN A SPEGIAL INTERVIEW - DiAY THE TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE

F IHIS. GREAI LEADER AT LEASI HELP IO SPEED UP INE ARRIVAL OF THE DAY

HEN EVERY MAN IN HIS NATION AND IN ALL OTHER NATIONS WILL BE TREATED

ITH THE RESPECT WHICH IS DUE TO THEM AS RUMAN BEINGS.

ETA RADIO MARANA, YAPRIL, U P.M. I OJREVEREND RAFAEL PASTOR,

È THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN LUSAND, HAVALA, MADE THE FOLLOWING.

TATEMENIS IN A SPECIAL INTERVIEL - SHIS BROTHEPS, INE AMERICAN

EGROES, WILL LEARN MUCH FROG HIS DEATH. WE CAN ALMOST ASSURE THAT

HEY, THE AMERICAN NEGROES WHOSE DIGNITY. ANO DECOHUM HAS SEEN

HUSHED, WILL COME BACK TO LIFE AFTER CENTURIES OF LETHARGY AND

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ILL RISE FROM IMEIR SHAVES AND FORM AN INVINGIBLE ARMY. DE-

RE RADIO LIBERACION, APRIL, IP.M. A EDITORIAL CONNENTS

BITICIZING IKE NON-VIOLENT LINE WHICH WAS ADVOCATED BY LUTHER KING,

AYING THAT THIS LINE WAS INOPERATIVE. SOMARTIN LUTHER KING DID NOT

TEACH VIOLENCE BUT HE WAS THE VICTIM OF VIOLENCE. HE DID NOT -

NLEASH VIOLENCE BUI VIOLENCE MOWED HIM DOWN."•

@I RADIO HABANA, & APRIL 58, TEP P.N. I 'JOHNSON POSTPONED

IS TRIP. HE CALLED THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS - WHO WERE MORE OR

ESS UNDER CONTROL--TO GO TO THE WHITE HOUSE.

JOHNSON APPEARED ON

ELEVISION. HE EXPRESSED HIS ANGUISH AND HIS SORROW.

HE MADE

NSPIRED COMMENIS ABOUT MARIIN LUTHER KING.. THESE ACTIONS AND THESE

ORDS HIDE FEAR OVER INE WAVE OF JUSI VIOLENCE WHICH IS SIARTING TO

PREAD THROUGH INE UNITED SIATES:" JJAI A TIME WHEN COMPLEX. INTEN-

'ATIONAL

NEGOTIATIONS MIGHT BE UNDERWAY, UNDER DIFFICULT. CONDITIONS,

HIS NEW CRIME WIDENS INE CHASH WHICH DIVIDES THE PEOPLE OF THE

INITED STATES AND INCITES INE PEOPLE IO PROMOTE DISTURBANCES WHOSE

FAR-REACHING EFFECTS ARE HARD TO PREDICI. '"

ESTHE ASSASSINATION OF

¡ARTIN LUTHER KING CONFIRMS. THAT IHE VIOLENCE OF IMPERIALISI RACISTS

IS ONLY ANSWERED EFFECTIVELY WITH THE VIOLENCE OF THE REVOLUIIONARY

STRUGGLE.

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