The New York Times decried any combining of the civil rights and peace movements, and rebuked King for “recklessly comparing American military methods to those of the Nazis.” The black Pittsburgh Courier complained that King was “tragically misleading” American Negroes on issues that were “too complex for simple debate.” New York Senator Jacob Javits branded the speech “harmful,” and Life magazine called it “a demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi.” King “goes beyond his personal right to dissent,” Life said, “when he connects progress in civil rights here with a
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