How the FBI Tried to Intimidate Martin Luther King Jr. - Drunk History

[@essex3777]

'It all makes so much sense when you think about like a crazy person.' Best quote I've heard in a long time.

[@waynefeller8824]

Nothing crazy about it. MLK was an outspoken socialist. Nothing crazy about it, and no shame in it. The crazy part is that Hoover felt there was no room in America for those who believe in alternate economic models.

[@martinlutherkingjr2901]

Beloved, I don't know you in person but God knows you. God showed to me a revelation when I was on your profile to see things around you,I saw blessings but spiritual attacks holding on to them,in prayers,i saw a woman in the realm of the spirit monitoring and plotting delay in your life, with an evil mirror, and a motive to destroy. But as I speak to you now her time is up, Render hand of favour with Anything you can afford to these motherless foundation (DIVINE MERCY ORPHANAGE HOME FOUNDATION) in Edo State Nigeria, before 2DAYS with faith, as I Rise my hands towards heaven and pray for you they shall serve as point of contact where ever you are, you will receive double portion of grace to excel and total restoration of breakthrough in your life and in the life of your family. Contact the MD in charge of the orphanage to get their details [phone] tell him I sent you. For it is not by might nor by power but of the spirit saith the lord (zechariah 4:6). You shall testify to the Glory of God in your life. God bless you:

[@dominiquemartin48]

Did anyone else notice that the FBI agent pushed a "send" button on a typewriter? Hilarious.

[@6ch6ris6]

yeah. FBI sure has amazing secret technology!

[@wkatc007]

It's because that's what the drunk storyteller said lol

[@likeastarbaby]

thats the joke...

[@Wanderer25]

I started laughing when he said "see the attachment". The "send" part had me LMFAO.

[@sjeasley9594]

Lol. Straight up!

[@Santoryu90]

It all makes so much sense when you think about like a crazy person

[@kingnaga619]

And that's how Fox news and Trump supporters were born

[@wherefancytakesme]

Probably my favorite Drunk History quote.

[@kanebess4169]

Santoryu90, that's one creepy line. I got chills..lol

[@mbriancohen]

The line is funny 'cause the guy saying it is drunk.

[@conorjames2075]

I laughed so hard at this.

[@RedQueenCreative_Roxie]

Man the color timer and lighting director did an amazing job of highlighting mood and tone and visually enhancing character development for a 5 minute segment, better than most blockbuster films!

[@lemminjuice]

Don't forget that sound design too!

[@Ella-bo8dm]

The difference is that this is a 5 minute segment and not a 2 hour long blockbuster film.

[@grangergreenback7152]

Is that the main thing you got from out of that story is just that!

[@RedQueenCreative_Roxie]

@@grangergreenback7152 it's not wrong to give credit where it's due.

[@grangergreenback7152]

@@RedQueenCreative_Roxie all I'm saying Roxy is that is the historical significance of that seeing that they just showed it just seems like something would have been said about that first and then mentioned about the lighting and how well it was done in the sound and whatever else you wanted to make remarks about but I guess that's Roxy, you go foxy Roxy you go that lets me know everything I wish to know about you

[@FirlowXD]

So basically J Edgar Hoover had the emotional capacity of a 12 year old

[@knocks101prime8]

@I. Wynn Wynn take this W you deserve it

[@leroyd.griffin6857]

@I. Wynn Wynn awwww

[@maxhydekyle2425]

He was a sexually confused and frustrated gay man.

[@diedriegibbs6938]

Does that remind you of someone?? I mean

[@maxhydekyle2425]

@@diedriegibbs6938 Just like Woody Harrelson

[@TheGameGetterKuzuri]

" *THE END. IM BLACK* " This is one of the best things ever

[@minako134]

It sounds like something someone on Reddit would say tbh

[@UltraNAGO]

Sounds like a Twitter bot

[@martinlutherkingjr2901]

Beloved, I don't know you in person but God knows you. God showed to me a revelation when I was on your profile to see things around you,I saw blessings but spiritual attacks holding on to them,in prayers,i saw a woman in the realm of the spirit monitoring and plotting delay in your life, with an evil mirror, and a motive to destroy. But as I speak to you now her time is up, Render hand of favour with Anything you can afford to these motherless foundation (DIVINE MERCY ORPHANAGE HOME FOUNDATION) in Edo State Nigeria, before 2DAYS with faith, as I Rise my hands towards heaven and pray for you they shall serve as point of contact where ever you are, you will receive double portion of grace to excel and total restoration of breakthrough in your life and in the life of your family. Contact the MD in charge of the orphanage to get their details [phone] tell him I sent you. For it is not by might nor by power but of the spirit saith the lord (zechariah 4:6). You shall testify to the Glory of God in your life. God bless you:

[@zmaj12321]

You should read the actual letter, it sounds about that absurd

[@kikilicious99]

I'm dying laughing at Coretta's facial expression.😂

[@thursday3967]

kikilicious99 you should have seen her when Jeff Sessions was nominated to be attorney general.

[@AllenQuid]

She just holds it the entire time it's brilliant

[@tashajackson7968]

kikilicious99 is that Tori Hart playing her?

[@daniellemhall1358]

Came down here just for this comment.

[@julianhermanubis6800]

Hoover's story should be a cautionary one. He was literally a hero in the 1930s who took on notorious gangsters and organized crime and mostly won, but, after decades of unquestioned authority over the FBI, he lost all perspective and became a paranoid figure who suspected everyone and who abused his powers.

[@mgmcd1]

Felix Blackwood a great book on the subject is Enemies, a history of the FBI.

[@voodazz]

He also took on the KKK

[@cyndimoring9389]

reminds me of giuliani

[@javierescuella7957]

They started as the Pinkerton agency but they were discontinued because... you guessed it, abuse of power.... I think 🤔

[@iamhungey12345]

Basically the usual case where the person had noble intention but later got corrupted by power over time.

[@Dieuvanni973]

"I have a dream?! This is total communist stuff!"

[@dankhnw8]

Marajuano ikr!

[@OsirusHandle]

He was supporting left wing unionists and campaigned for a general strike to raise living conditions for poor white and black workers. He and other groups like the black panther were socialists.

[@PeterG00000]

@@OsirusHandle No, they were not.

[@jailbirdsjailhouse852]

My new catchphrase

[@buttonmasher7615]

"The only dream should be the American Dream. Anything else is commie talk."

[@TheWinstonConnor]

u forgot about the part where the fbi murders him

[@crankydragon]

And the part where hover was dressing in women's clothing too! Hehehehe....

[@milascave2]

Micahael: Hoover's transvestism is probably a myth. But he was almost certainly gay. He had a male assistant with whome he had breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, like every single day, eveen when traveling. I've had close friends of the same sex, but not that close. All of which would be OK, if not for his hyprocracy. He used people's sex lives to damage them, In the case of straight MLK, it was his exra marital affairs. But if he had an oponant who way gay, he would use that to crush them too. By the way, Hoover had a fear of the rising of "A black messia." At that point, it was MLK. But later it became other black leaders. Hoover was a bad person in so many ways.

[@Vanpotheosis]

Classic comedy!

[@merbst]

@Josh Franklin The FBI payed $25k to break Earl Lee Jones out of prison, and $100k to set up a sharpshooters nest across the street from MLKs balcony, then the Memphis Police Department sharpshooter did the deed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYWvnKOHmZKcZrc

[@NajSinghs...CreativeRecipes]

@@merbst FACTS

[@TheCrimebaby]

He's an adorable drunk

[@MissBlueEyeliner]

I desperately need them to do _’Stoned History’_

[@samaraisnt]

They wouldn't get through it. duh

[@matendewaako656]

stoned history would look normal

[@omarbeal6823]

Bianca Bloom swear to godddd 😂😭💗

[@makavelitrained2488]

@@samaraisnt if drunk people can do it so can stoners 🤣🤣

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

It would last too long. Too many tangents.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

I doubt the modern FBI is _that_ much more ethically grounded.

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

They are just a state sponsored reactionaries, status quo defenders that can't deal with things not being exactly as they are. "You being subversive there? Because we don't appreciate it."

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Luiz Alex Phoenix, I do consider myself likely a surveillance target of my country's GCHQ, simply due to being a radical centrist pacifist hippy.

[@merbst]

The "Black Identity Extremist" program of the FBI is today's version of CoIntelPro.

[@iamhungey12345]

If any.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

They're just fancy po-po who act above their station.

[@jamessmall9709]

I'm going to die now....goodbye

[@martinlutherkingjr2901]

Beloved, I don't know you in person but God knows you. God showed to me a revelation when I was on your profile to see things around you,I saw blessings but spiritual attacks holding on to them,in prayers,i saw a woman in the realm of the spirit monitoring and plotting delay in your life, with an evil mirror, and a motive to destroy. But as I speak to you now her time is up, Render hand of favour with Anything you can afford to these motherless foundation (DIVINE MERCY ORPHANAGE HOME FOUNDATION) in Edo State Nigeria, before 2DAYS with faith, as I Rise my hands towards heaven and pray for you they shall serve as point of contact where ever you are, you will receive double portion of grace to excel and total restoration of breakthrough in your life and in the life of your family. Contact the MD in charge of the orphanage to get their details [phone] tell him I sent you. For it is not by might nor by power but of the spirit saith the lord (zechariah 4:6). You shall testify to the Glory of God in your life. God bless you:

[@josh_the_alien]

@@martinlutherkingjr2901 I know what you mean but I think he/she's quoting the video

[@UltraNAGO]

@@josh_the_alien it's a spam bot. Pay no mind to it.

[@tomashart234]

Martin Luther King is perhaps one of the most powerful figures in US History, not just during the civil rights movement. He fought for equality and everyone should follow the example he has helped set forth.

[@annieandelsieofarendelle3294]

K Harris Go home, you're drunk.

[@laveyanpride9362]

Annie and Elsie of Arendelle I am home. But I do not drink.

[@annieandelsieofarendelle3294]

Well, what you said was still dumb.

[@laveyanpride9362]

Annie and Elsie of Arendelle another dizzy bitch talking shit. Who the fuck asked you your opinion in the first place?? Go sing another a song from frozen while you play with yourself quietly tho so your parents don't hear you in their room next to yours. Smh

[@annieandelsieofarendelle3294]

Nobody asked for yours either and at least I don't write like I dropped out of the sixth grade.

[@nym0s177]

“Im black. The end. Send.”

[@YoshiXO]

Abigail Howard 💀

[@storksforever2000]

Whoosh!

[@nym0s177]

@@storksforever2000 Whoosh? I'm so confused. I literally commented this a year ago??

[@storksforever2000]

@@nym0s177 That's the sound effect it makes.

[@CraigBickerstaff]

@@storksforever2000 Hashtag only iPhone kids will understand.

[@HermesSonofZeus]

I think I've just realized why, for me, this show works so well: I've had drunk history sessions with my friends since university.

[@MizuAstrum91]

4:06 Great attention-to-detail in regards to Dr. King's Alpha Phi Alpha pin.

[@SmegInThePants]

4:08 "they tried to make him give up his corba leaf"s.

[@bruh-cp2nq]

SmegInThePants are you deaf? He said core beliefs

[@artofanamateur]

+Papa Stalin r/woosh

[@salotevakatalai3317]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@samhenley7156]

Ain't nobody gonna take my corba leaf's!

[@krisenger4410]

“You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.” FBI letter to MLK in 1964

[@thursday3967]

Kris Enger Bro, that's messed up. Fuck those guys. J Edgar Hoover was a terrible person and every dress he ever wore made him look fat.

[@milascave2]

Thursday: When Hoover died, Clinton said "Hoover left some big pumps to fill." Though Hoover's transvestism is probably a myth, it was still an epic sick burn.

[@Datniceman]

FBI was always fucked up, pigs are pigs after all

[@thirtythreeflavors]

@@thursday3967 daaaaaaaamn!

[@16lucylover]

I love how the lights change when "J. Edgar Hoover" started talking it goes to show how he always saw things in black and white with no gray all over!

[@TheBlarggle]

The way he said "I'm going to die now. Goodbye." was so serene and matter-of-fact, I almost believed him.

[@bencampbell7662]

"I think he was just very upset, at anyone that had sex. He just thought it was a really bad idea"

[@JUGGERNAUT____]

Typewriter has a *SEND* button... lol

[@deborahminter6231]

🤣

[@sharebear9165]

“I’m gonna die now. Goodbye...”

[@emilygracey]

It's like the drunk man's version of Batty's death in Blade Runner 😂

[@Rurusa11]

AYYYYYY WINSTON BISHOP

[@SnowmansApartment]

he speaks way too clearly for a drunk person

[@AgentJaffacakes]

SnowmansApartment maybe he’s a special drunk

[@milascave2]

snow: They all do. I'm not sure I get the premise of this show. If the people narrating were really as drink as they pretend to be, they would not be able to present history coherently.

[@jamesatkinson]

I swear I was drunk. I puked a lot after the shoot. the morning afterwards my speech was still slurred and I thought my brain was permanently broken but it turned out I was just still drunk. (my brain works ok now). thank you for watching, I love you, bye

[@headphonic8]

A lot of them are just comedians but I think this guy might be a legit historian? That or he's one of those drunks that always acts really hard to be soberish.

[@johnpliskin8759]

@@milascave2 i can drink til i pass out and not slur

[@goodlife8044]

@3:37 😂😂😂 send button on a typewriter 💀

[@Endgame707]

Martin Luther King Was An iraqi 🇮🇶

[@shiteyanyo1111]

This guy is one of my favorite story tellers from the show! The way he says everything is hilarious

[@nataliejohnson9865]

"When you think about it like a crazy person" 😂 Nuts to J. Edgar Hoover, tbh.

[@lucyatkinson8748]

the narrator is my legit brother

[@marquis911]

Does he make as much sense when he's sober?

[@jimbynewchron2901]

I love how the lighting changes when Martin Luther and J. Edgar Hoover talk.

[@rachelcastillo9035]

This was probably in the top three, of my all time favorite narration! It's a subtle type of hilarious.

[@SoSa506]

I love how they were after he said “in gonna die now, byeeee” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@flibgonrtsheglis242]

That poor man is going to have the most vicious hangover!! Lol

[@uploead]

That look on his wife’s face. That’s the t I want to sip.

[@cameronsmith8731]

it's kind of hard to focus when the same guy who played MLK jr in this ALSO played Winston in New girl

[@arithebookworm6173]

I know right

[@shifra1967]

"It all makes so much sense when you think about it like a crazy person!" -- My life in a nutshell

[@LoveisKiing]

The send button on the typewriter 😂

[@itsall_legal]

2:28 i imagine this was kid cudi and kanye after the trump meeting 😂

[@aisha02a]

one of my fave episodes because i appreciate the colour-gradient shift when each character speaks. amazing

[@audi9844]

"it all makes so much sense when you think about it like a crazy person"

[@qhines9272]

Comedy central! Love you guys man!

[@quizzicalsphinx]

Bonus for the auto-translated spelling of "J. Edgar Hoover" slowly deteriorating as the narrator becomes more incoherent.

[@lundylow]

Ah yes, founder of the FBI, Jayga Hoover.

[@pentalway]

My god, imagine if Martin Luther King Jr's speech actually went like that in real life.

[@Junius]

"... you can... achieve anything you believe in..." I cracked up.

[@sidikitraore7746]

the way they change the lighting to match the mood is just amazing

[@rand0m0mg]

Keep these coming! Powerful duncan trussel

[@Teamo86]

I love how the coloring stresses Hoovers evil :D

[@therahrahman]

Kind of disturbing that a man like Hoover was head of a federal agency and its more disturbing that there were others like him who also became heads of agencies

[@noveldixon9963]

Sounds like trump

[@hamptonmyles6230]

@@noveldixon9963 It does not sound like him at all unless you have proof that he is behind the deaths of tens and hundreds of innocent people who simply preferred to sit next to another race while eating or to piss in a urinal next to someone of a different race or even to not be beaten or killed without reason. Do you even plan on voting? If not, stop your silly comments and go stand in a corner with your nose touching the wall.

[@hamptonmyles6230]

@@noveldixon9963 It does not sound like him at all unless you have proof that he is behind the deaths of tens and hundreds of innocent people who simply preferred to sit next to another race while eating or to piss in a urinal next to someone of a different race or even to not be beaten or killed without reason. Do you even plan on voting? If not, stop your silly comments and go stand in a corner with your nose touching the wall.

[@justadrum]

Definitely have to give y’all credit on this series; very amazing!

[@pappucantdancesaala1]

jaegerhoover 2:34

[@Exe3D]

4:52 i love this scene man

[@0nD4R1z3]

Winston! All day, WINSTON!!

[@justin.e.s4121]

Yesss! I love winston

[@tuenkhbold]

I’m drunk and listening to Drunk History. Woohoo.

[@MsSanette16]

That walking away -akward ending -was hilarious AF 😂😂

[@JohnSmith-dq4dx]

4:39 aaah yhes, this position. The beginning of the end. ExXCELLENT video! Makes much sense wheuikle drunk

[@ErikaMcQueen89]

Hoover was obsessed with Martin and Malcolm

[@hamptonmyles6230]

He was doing his job and he did it well enough to where he still gets praise til this day. As we type there are modern day Hoovers busy at work and competing for top spot. Be smart and focus.

[@deborahminter6231]

He was a strange man!

[@nicojax4572]

I love that James' voice makes Rob Riggle seem wayyyy different.

[@katherinealbee7501]

I love watching the auto captions try to make sense of drunk speech.

[@chironapolonio]

"A human being should be in a body bag, if this is how much is left..." Ha ha ha Amateur

[@twiggalloway1]

Her face at 4:05 😂😂😂

[@VC-xj1fs]

Fucking Rob Riggle 😂😂😂😂😂

[@sgtsantiagousmc79]

Can you imagine if they actually spoke like this? 😂😂😂😂

[@takarastar]

This was a true Drunk recall of these events. Classic.

[@shivshankarnair2399]

Wow I love how it becomes black and white (Sort of noir) while they show J. Edgar Hoover and colorful and more serene when they show Martin Luther King jr...

[@mikkosimonen]

That saturation shifting, tho. *chefkiss*

[@waynefeller8824]

There was nothing crazy about Hoover's belief that MLK Jr. was a communist. Dr. King was, in fact, an outspoken proponent of socialism. He spoke of it often in his speeches. What is sad is that Hoover believed that there was anything unAmerican about dissenting opinions in a country that is supposed to profess freedom of speech and beliefs. Examples of King on Socialism: “I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.” - Letter to Coretta Scott, July 18, 1952. “In a sense, you could say we’re involved in the class struggle.” -Quote to New York Times reporter, José Igelsias, 1968. “And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society…” -Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967. “Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis.” -Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967. “Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.” - Speech to the Negro American Labor Council, 1961. “We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together… you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others… the whole structure of American life must be changed. America is a hypocritical nation and [we] must put [our] own house in order.” - Report to SCLC Staff, May 1967. “The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.” -Speech to SCLC Board, March 30, 1967. “I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective - the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the guaranteed income… The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.” - Where do We Go from Here?, 1967. “You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.” - Speech to his staff, 1966. “[W]e are saying that something is wrong … with capitalism…. There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.” - Speech to his staff, 1966. “If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.” - Speech at Bishop Charles Mason Temple of the Church of God in Christ in support of the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike on March 18th, 1968, two weeks before he was assassinated.

[@deborahminter6231]

Probably the quotes that Hoover repeatedly highlighted 😂

[@jedellie9555]

Hoover also went to harass the black panthers, causing many of the members deaths.

[@faizjalal5600]

I love the way they changed the lighting when one of them talks

[@djridge11]

This might be one of my new favorite things😂

[@doomgloom8414]

That smartphone that you're holding right now is J. Edgar Hoover's wet surveillance dream.

[@abosaurus]

how you gonna tell this story without finishing it with the fact that they murdered him??? 😬

[@alexthorpe2522]

4:28. The guy on the left is the guy that is on the left in Eric Andre’s game ‘These Are People’

[@jovi8422]

1:03 my response to anything I disagree with.

[@jizzncookies]

This is the funniest one 😂😂😂

[@chrisrose9314]

A lot of these episodes are pretty funny! But some of the people drinking don’t look like they drink very often! Not sure this was a great idea LOL thanks for the video.

[@256bradley6]

lol the umbrella gun 🤣

[@jongussner6590]

And yet snowden admits that the government is listening in today and everyone's like wtf?!?!?

[@samhenley7156]

They betrayed our trust...

[@rumham2834]

He was the definition of glassy eyed lol

[@ronque23]

Can we do a drunk current events featuring the Drumpf Admin? I think it’d be comic bronze

[@jmjw2004]

“It all makes so much sense... when you think about it like a crazy person...”

[@melgotkickz]

2:35 j goohoover 😂😂😂

[@anitashortz2554]

@2:20 why does Martin Luther Kings friend look more like Martin Luther King himself. He looks more like Malcolm X 🤔

[@GimpingFish]

I love that it switches from color to greyscale when Edgar is being fucking crazy

[@ericoung4602]

Winston!! I can do this all day

[@eusou0]

Corn Chowder, Money. They're connected, and they feed back to each other.

[@musicaldramaqueen]

This is amazingly fantastic. As always. However, I'm worried about how much that guy drank.

[@TEXAS2459]

It all makes so much sense !!!!............ If u think like a crazy person LOOLLL

[@MattCampbellArt1]

Someday someone is going to do drunk history about the crazy shit happening now.

[@Christian-Gigi]

The FBI was also listening in on Malcom X. They were amazed how Malcom never cheated on his wife and would call his family every night, whereas, Dr King, a pastor, would be with a different woman every night and rarely called his family.

[@Justin-li8sx]

Source - trust me bro

[@mcdonaldtrump228]

source - pffft th-they exist! take my w-word for it. i swear on ur dad's life

[@deborahminter6231]

You would have been great pals with Hoover!

[@floriankoch3165]

I tried to make a presentation about MLK and the FBI and found this...

[@ozzyhaye]

Lamorne could do mime and still be funny AF

[@nappamon9309]

There's a lack of beer in this series. I'm distraught.

[@picklepirate]

lol too expensive to get drunk on beer

[@perrionhurd7509]

Excellent.

[@vakejargas]

Coretta was definitely not believing Martin 😂

[@katcoyle2710]

I’d like to thank this man for telling the story well and not being so drunk he can’t talk. That always bothers me even though the show is called drunk history.

[@jaewebb3699]

See the attachment lol

[@we2e2ew65]

This is not what happened. it's not emotions between 2 people, it's about interest and influence.