"In director Sam Pollard’s new documentary MLK/FBI, close friends and family of the murdered civil rights leader say he dismissed concerns that government authorities, under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover, were tracking his every move. The truth arrived in the form of a threatening letter and embarrassing recordings from bugged hotel rooms, sent to King in an effort to demoralize and silence him. A half century later, it’s the FBI that’s wracked with shame over its conduct—in the documentary"