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Jackie Kennedy: Martin Luther King Jr. Was A 'Phony'

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Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis didn't think too highly of Martin Luther King Jr., saying in newly released interviews that the civil rights leader was "tricky" and a "phony."

According to the AP, Kennedy made several unflattering remarks about King Jr. in an interview with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a historian and former aide to President Kennedy, who is releasing a book of his interviews with the former first lady. That book comes with eight audio CDs of those interviews, in which Kennedy questions King Jr.'s integrity and accused him of mocking her husband's funeral.

"I just can't see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man's terrible," Kennedy says in one interview.

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