{"podcast":{"title":"Scheer Intelligence","slug":"scheer-intelligence-426023","podcast_index_feed_id":426023,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/scheer-intelligence/","website_url":"https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-show-rss","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/5c014846-05c2-4b8d-b060-be7d9ddbcc89/09dcfeb7-185a-4496-b8a4-0e3551e820e1-1400.jpg","author":"Scheerpost","episode_count":476,"summary":"Scheer Intelligence features thoughtful and provocative conversations with \"American Originals\" -- people who, through a lifetime of engagement with political issues, offer unique and often surprising perspectives on the day's most important issues.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scheer-intelligence-426023"},"episode":{"title":"The State Didn’t Just Watch MLK — It Went to War Against Him","slug":"the-state-didn-t-just-watch-mlk-it-went-to-war-against-him","published_at":"2026-01-19T06:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scheer-intelligence-426023/the-state-didn-t-just-watch-mlk-it-went-to-war-against-him","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scheer-intelligence-426023","url":"https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-show-rss","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/73186298-95d2-4eff-916a-fde055a34c78.mp3","summary":"Every year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, official tributes reduce a radical critic of empire, capitalism, and militarism into a safely packaged icon — while quietly ignoring the brutal reality of how the U.S. government treated him in real time. Martin Luther King Jr. was not merely monitored by the FBI; he was hunted, harassed, and psychologically terrorized by a federal agency determined to silence a man whose moral authority threatened entrenched power. In this republished interview, acclaimed filmmaker Sam Pollard exposes the depth of the FBI’s crusade against King — a campaign far darker than most Americans are ever taught. Revisiting this history is not an exercise in nostalgia, but a necessary confrontation with how the state responds when demands for justice move from rhetoric to action.","meta_description":"Every year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, official tributes reduce a radical critic of empire, capitalism, and militarism into a safely packaged icon — wh…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2676,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scheer-intelligence-426023/episodes/the-state-didn-t-just-watch-mlk-it-went-to-war-against-him/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scheer-intelligence-426023/the-state-didn-t-just-watch-mlk-it-went-to-war-against-him.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}