There's More to the Story
The idea that anyone other than James Earl Ray had assassinated
Dr. Martin Luther King would have struck me as a crazy conspiracy
theory until I read an article in 1990 about it in the Chicago Reader
newspaper. https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-conspiracy-to-kill-martin-luther-king/Content?oid=875281 Very convincingly the article put forth the evidence that
Mr. Ray could not have done the deed.
Later, the King Family put on a civil lawsuit in Federal Court in Memphis, Tennessee to put forth the evidence that someone other than Mr. Ray had killed Dr. King.
The FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, is well known to have pursued a vendetta against Dr. King. The Poor People’s Campaign Dr. King was organizing was a plan to bring tens of thousands of poor whites, blacks, browns, yellows, and reds to Washington DC to essentially Occupy Congress and demand economic justice. Bobby Kennedy had agreed to participate.
The King trial was not perfect. The plaintiffs had a willing defendant who was dying and wanted to make his peace with the Kings and with his God. The defense attorney declared in his opening statement that he agreed with 80% of everything the plaintiffs would assert. He limited his activities to trying to minimize the culpability of his whistleblowing client.
The imperfect trial was the best the King family could get. Mr. Ray had died. The state had refused to allow him to have a free liver transplant to treat the liver disease he contracted as a result of a blood transfusion in the prison hospital. In effect, the State executed him.
Other witnesses were dying right and left. The King family wanted to put the evidence on the record while they still could. The trial transcript runs 420,000 words and with its back-and-forth Q&A format is rather tedious to read. I have restated the testimony as a simple declarative narrative that is easier reading. It can be accessed at MLKHit.com
Later, the King Family put on a civil lawsuit in Federal Court in Memphis, Tennessee to put forth the evidence that someone other than Mr. Ray had killed Dr. King.
The FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, is well known to have pursued a vendetta against Dr. King. The Poor People’s Campaign Dr. King was organizing was a plan to bring tens of thousands of poor whites, blacks, browns, yellows, and reds to Washington DC to essentially Occupy Congress and demand economic justice. Bobby Kennedy had agreed to participate.
The King trial was not perfect. The plaintiffs had a willing defendant who was dying and wanted to make his peace with the Kings and with his God. The defense attorney declared in his opening statement that he agreed with 80% of everything the plaintiffs would assert. He limited his activities to trying to minimize the culpability of his whistleblowing client.
The imperfect trial was the best the King family could get. Mr. Ray had died. The state had refused to allow him to have a free liver transplant to treat the liver disease he contracted as a result of a blood transfusion in the prison hospital. In effect, the State executed him.
Other witnesses were dying right and left. The King family wanted to put the evidence on the record while they still could. The trial transcript runs 420,000 words and with its back-and-forth Q&A format is rather tedious to read. I have restated the testimony as a simple declarative narrative that is easier reading. It can be accessed at MLKHit.com
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