MLK/Assassination

 MLK/Assassination (Assassination,  Deep event,  shooting)  

Date	4 April 1968
Location	Lorraine Motel,  Memphis,  Tennessee
Perpetrators	'Raoul', Loyd Jowers, US/Deep state
Blamed on	James Earl Ray
Witnessed by	Earl Caldwell
Type	•  Sniper •  assassination
Exposed by	Earl Caldwell, Loyd Jowers
Interest of	Garrick Alder, HSCA, John Judge, Truth And Reconciliation Committee on the Assassinations Of The 1960s
Subpage	•MLK/Assassination/Perpetrators
Description	Officially a US-government assisted assassination!

The Lorraine Motel balcony just after the shooting of MLK.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was cut down by an assassin's bullet on 4^th April 1968. The murder was originally blamed on "lone nut", James Earl Ray, but he was never tried by a jury. A 1999 jury ruled unanimously that [unnamed] "governmental agencies" were involved in his murder.

Official Narrative

The televised confession by Loyd Jowers of involvement in the MLK assassination

Martin Luther King's killing was blamed by the FBI on the "lone nut", James Earl Ray, who originally plead guilty to forego a jury trial, but later made many unsuccessful attempts to withdraw his confession and be tried by a jury. The official narrative changed in 1999, with the successful case by the King family. This commercially-controlled media not only ignored this case (only a single, local reporter was sent) but they quickly suggested that the verdict was suspect - although neglecting to initiate any legal challenge to it. This case illustrates the inconsistency of Wikipedia - since it minimises the importance of the official US government narrative that the courts are a reliable indicator of what has happened, and that therefore the US government was involved in the assassination of Martin Luther King.

Witnesses

Earl Caldwell, a New York Times reporter has consistently claimed that he thought the shot was fired from bushes below the balcony, not from the boarding house which the FBI claimed.

Cover-up

The bushes below the motel balcony were cut down the day after the assassination, on order of the Memphis Public Works department, a destruction of evidence which stated on the record at the civil trial.

Classification of evidence

Many documents from the FBI's original investigation into the assassination of Martin Luther King are not due to be released until 2027.

Journalists

Journalist Gerald Posner suggested in Killing the Dream that the jury had been “spoon fed” the evidence in the MLK Civil trial, and in defiance of their verdict stated "that there was a conspiracy, but on a very low level. Someone, I'd guess part of a racist group, probably agreed to pay him maybe $25,000 or $50,000."

Exposure

William Pepper has been successful in exposing the involvement of the US deep state in this case.

1999 Civil Case

In a 1999 the King family and William Pepper brought a civil case and the jury ruled unanimously that Loyd Jowers and others, including unspecified "governmental agencies", were all part of a conspiracy to kill Martin Luther King Jr. One juror, David Morphy, said after the trial, "We all thought it was a cut and dried case with the evidence that Mr. Pepper brought to us, that there were a lot of people involved, everyone from the CIA, military involvement, and Jowers was involved."

Motive

Dr. King was planning a mass march on Washington to demand the end of the Vietnam War. He had also written in support of a universal income as a measure towards economic justice. Mark Gorton suggests that the corrupt establishment leadership had King killed because they saw him as a threat, having identified him as a potential leader who would not be silenced into covering up their past crimes.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
1960s	“After five decades, the mysteries behind the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X may finally get the scrutiny they deserve. A group consisting of relatives of the Kennedy and King families, as well as their confidantes and other prominent voices, is calling for a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to get to the bottom of these tragic murders.”		19 January 2019
Encyclopedia of Domestic Assassinations	“[Martin Luther] King, ... your end is approaching.”	FBI	1964
Jonestown	“One of the persistent problems in researching Jonestown is that it seems to lead to so many other criminal activities, each with its own complex history and cast of characters. Perhaps the most disturbing of these is the connection that appears repeatedly between the characters in the Jonestown story and the key people involved in the murder and investigating of Martin Luther King.”

 

Witness

Witness	Description
Earl Caldwell	A New York Times reporter who witnessed the assassination of MLK and who never accepted the FBI's official narrative.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Fifty Years of the Deep State	book	22 November 2013	Mark Gorton	A detailed overview of the modern US deep state which names names, the most prominent of which, George H. W. Bush, is exposed as the kingpin of the US Deep state and probable a key mover behind the 9/11 plot.

 

The Official Culprit

Name	Description
James Earl Ray	Charged by the US government for the killing of Martin Luther King. He died in jail having never had a trial.

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See Also

• Radio show about the assassination of MLK