One of the strangest stories to come down the pike yesterday was the “revelation that celebrated civil rights era photographer Ernest C. Withers was an FBI informant”.

Here’s what might lend salience to this revelation:

Withers … was the only photojournalist in Room 306 of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, which was the room occupied by King on the night he was assassinated, and had tailed King for the FBI after he arrived in the Tennessee river city to support striking African-American sanitation workers.

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