National Convention in Chicago (Kurlansky 6ff et passim).
The late 1960s were an unquiet time for American culture because alternative narratives of the times were being set beside one discredited official story after another. As early as 1964 the WCR's view of JFK's assassination had been challenged. An early cogent challenge was Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment. That monograph systematically questioned the integrity of the investigation and reports on the case--from procedural/protocol lapses in the Dallas Police Department to Oswald's record with military intelligence to the so-called "magic bullet" theory, which accounted for the trajectory of one shot by setting aside the laws of physics but which became part of the WCR's official story (Lane 69 et passim). More typical of the raft of texts challenging the WCR would be Lifton's overwritten and derivative text that aims to document a break in the chain of crime evidence, viz., JFK's body, which appears to have been subjected to postmortem (but pre-official-autopsy) "plastic surgery" aimed at suppressing crossfire/conspiracy evidence, hence challenging the lone-gunman theory of Oswald's guilt.
Throughout the 1960s until his death, as later investigations revealed, Dr. King was the target of secret and extensive FBI surveillance because of what seems to have been a personal antipathy for King, who criticized lax FBI enforcement of federal protections for minorities and whose colleagues included members of left-wing organizations, on the part of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Attribution of the murders of King and RFK to lone gunmen, meanwhile, abetted by the skepticism with which the WCR had been greeted, fostered suspicion of official reports about them.
Such suspicion was answered in kind. In 1975, the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities (the Church Committee) discovered (for example) that during the 1960s the LBJ White Hous...