Gordon Gunter to Chancellor Caldwell

Gordon Gunter to Chancellor Caldwell

In the 1968 summer issue of Phi Kappa Phi Journal, NCSU Chancellor John T. Caldwell wrote a favorable article on the recently-departed Martin Luther King, Jr., titled, "Where do We Begin?" As a result, Chancellor Caldwell received both praise and criticism from the NC State community.

Gordon Gunter

" Letter to Chancellor John Caldwelll from Gordan Gunter of Gulf Coast Research Lab," November 13, 1968, North Carolina State University, Office of the Chancellor, John Tyler Caldwell Records Box 82, Folder 18, North Carolina State University Special Collections Research Center, Raleigh, NC.

1968-11-13

Mandy Benter

Sir:

I read your article in the summer issue of Phi Kappa Phi.

I began a long time ago. My father was Mr. Atticus I, I always said.

But Martin Luther King went astray after doing some goods things in Birmingham. He advocated non-observance of the law and violence followed him as flies follow raw meat and he knew it.

Mr. John Edgar Hoover publicly called him the "most notorious liar" in the United States. That is libel but it was never retracted. Mr. King was guilty of some dark secrets. Power corrupts, as they say. In any case he reaped the whirlwind of his own advice.

We do not begin by embracing a fraud and that is what you did in your speech.

Sincerely,

Gordon Gunter

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