We Shall Overcome: Lessons of Dr. King

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Jerry Mazza

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_420.shtml

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According to international human rights attorney William F. Pepper in his book An Act of State-The Execution of Martin Luther King, on that April 4th evening, two top-level army snipers were posed to knock King out when ordered. Two military officers were placed on the roof of a fire station across the way from the Lorraine Motel, to take pictures. Two black firemen were ordered not to come to work that day and a black Memphis Police Department detective on surveillance duty in the fire station was physically removed from his post and taken home.

Dr King’s room at the motel was changed from a secluded ground-floor room to number 306 on the balcony. Loyd Jowers, owner of Jim’s Grill which backed into the motel from the other side of the street, had received $100,000 in cash for his participation in the assassination. He was to go out into the brush area behind the grill with the shooter then take the gun from the shooter immediately after the deadly shot was fired. When it was over, King was down, the clean-up began, six FBI men running from the fire house to be first on the scene to provide first aid.

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