>Is this the same Jack O'Dell who was prominent in SCLC and CP circles, and
>who was, along with Stanley Levison, the focus of charges that MLK and the
>civil rights movement were Communist dominated?
I believe so, yes.
About 10 years ago, the late Samori Marksman, long-time program director at WBAI, told me that there was a group of "God that failed types" on the Pacifica National board that was behind the rightward move. I think that former PNB chair Pat Scott also had a CP background.
Doug