The President had asked the Attorney General for a report after the last King jailing, but so far nothing had been heard of it. “Moreover,” said Anderson, “I feel as though the President can make a firm statement himself as regards the matter.” The FBI was investigating instances of violence and illegal arrest, he added, but the President had directed no response “as a result of this cumulative material.” President Kennedy was on holiday that Sunday, sailing in his sloop Victura off Hyannis Port—not far from Martha’s Vineyard, where King had planned to spend the entire month of August.
