The "Rev. Dr." Martin Luther King Hoax
A Holiday for a Cheater




The holiday for a cheater is once again upon
us; a time of infamy
when public school children across the United States make
obeisance to the secular idol of the new religion, "Rev. Dr." Martin
Luther King Jr.

Ronald Reagan, the conservatives' hero, signed the holiday
legislation on behalf of a man he personally regarded as immoral
and unworthy of the honor. "But," Reagan told a former New
England governor with a monumental shrug of the shoulders,
"image prevails over reality."

Indeed. It has been conclusively documented that Martin Luther
King Jr. cheated to obtain a doctorate, but the national "civil rights"
hoax perpetrated in his name must be shielded, and hence he's
still "Dr." King.

King's leftist biographer, David J. Garrow, author of the standard
reference work, "Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference," has stated: "Nothing
can be gained by attempting to minimize or understate either the
amount of King's plagiarism or the seriousness of the academic
wrongdoing it represented."

King's plagiarism in his doctoral dissertation at Boston University is
not the only academic fraud he perpetrated. Recent scholarship
has disclosed that King plagiarized much of the writing of his entire
career. The fact is, King cheated in one form or another throughout
his life.

The first public sermon King ever gave, in 1947 at Ebenezer Baptist
Church, was plagiarized from a homily by Protestant clergyman
Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled, "Life is What You Make of It." The
first book King ever wrote, "Stride Toward Freedom," was
plagiarized according to documentation assembled by King
scholars Keith D. Miller, Ira G. Zepp Jr. and David Garrow.

King's essay, "The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding
God," written at Crozer Theological Seminary, pirated passages
from the work of theologian Edgar S. Brightman. Another of King's
theses, written shortly after he entered graduate school at Boston
University, "Contemporary Continental Theology," was largely
stolen from a book by Walter Marshall Horton.

King's Boston University dissertation, "A Comparison of the
Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry
Nelson Wieman," for which he was awarded the PhD. and upon
which his title of "Dr." King is based, contains more than "fifty
complete sentences" represented by King as his own writings, but
which were actually lifted by King, without attribution, from Jack
Boozer's doctoral dissertation, "The Place of Reason in Paul
Tillich's Concept of God." The four senior editors of "The Papers of
Martin Luther King, Jr.," state: "...only 49% of the sentences in the
section on Tillich contain five or more words that were King's
own..."!

Since the record of King's cheating is irrefutable, how is it that his
doctorate has not been withdrawn? On Oct. 10, 1991, a committee
of researchers at Boston University admitted, "There is no question
but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation." However, "Despite
its finding, the committee said that 'no thought should be given to
the revocation of Dr. King's doctoral degree,' an action the panel
said would serve no purpose." ("Boston University Panel Finds
Plagiarism by Dr. King," NY Times, Oct. 11, 1991, p. 15).
Do any of you really think he deserves a day of Honor?