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Stanley Levison — Part 3
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point of rule by assassination as in South America. Levison
told Jones that King should say that President Kennedy's
foreign policies must be carried out.
This same source furnished information on
November 22, 1963, which indicated that Clarence Jones
engaced in conversation with Martin Luthe ar King an that
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date. The assassination of the President was discussed
and the possibility of comments from King being requested.
Jones said that there are three points to be made: That
this is the work of a crazy man, that for a period of time
there has Leen this violence and lawlessness against the
Negro, and that he (the President) did seek a shift to a
more progressive foreign policy. It was indicated that
the first statement would be short and that this would be
followed by a more detailed statement which would be
"definitive,"
On November 23, 1963, a second confidential source,
who has furnished reliable information in the past, furnished
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information which s1ngictaved whic. Clarence vw WVLIt contacted
Dora McDonald, secretary to Martin Luther King, on that date.
Jones told her that he has a statement which King wanted to
get from him for "The Herajd Tribune." Jones said he thinks
that the title is supposed to be "The Implications For Civil
Rights From President Kennedy's Death," but Jones said that
King could put whatever title he was asked to put on it.
Jones gave the statement to Mc Donald. It decries the
loss of a leader who had the courage to be a friend of
civil ri ghtes. It went on to atete that the murder of the
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