Benjamin Epstein, former director of the ADL, with Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House in 1963. Photo: Corbis/Getty Images On June 4, an executive at the Anti-Defamation League, which was founded with a mission to defend the Jewish people and “to secure justice and fair treatment to all,” walked into a room on the fourth floor of the Eisenhower building, across the street from the White House. They were there to attend a meeting