“How could they do that?” Kennedy asked doubtfully. “Who’s the judge? You can’t deny bail on a misdemeanor.” Martin decided that Kennedy may have lost sight of the essential fact that King was a Negro—a detail Southern politicians carefully avoided in their protests against interference in the King case. “Well, they just did it,” said Martin. “They wanted to make an example of him as an uppity Negro. That’s why it’s so dangerous to us in the campaign. I’ve heard that Jackie Robinson is trying to get Nixon to hold a press conference and blame the whole thing on the Democrats. Those are all
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