The real story of Rev. Martin Luther King's assassination?

[KeepItReal]

"...the most under-researched and clouded subject is that of his assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968. Neither the speechmakers on MLK Day, nor the Americans who are taught about the man in school and college know who shot King on that fateful evening and why. Like three other contemporaries who were assassinated inexplicably in the turmoil-ridden 1960s, John F Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Malcolm X, King's murder has remained an unsolved mystery.

Pepper began poring through the official version of events that was published for limited circulation by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Some startling facts surfaced. As early as December 1963, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials met in Washington "to explore ways of neutralizing King as an effective Negro leader". (p 11) Wiretaps and phone bugging of King and his entourage went on uninterrupted for the last five years of his life. The bureau also engaged in surreptitious activities and burglaries against King to soil his reputation. There was an attempt to assassinate King in 1965 through the collaboration of FBI and Louisville police officers, involving a US$50,000 contract to kill.

Martin Luther King's vision of root-and-branch transformation of society to overcome militarism, infringement of liberties and unresolved racism is still a valid pursuit for decent Americans. The truth about his assassination plot is a wake-up call for them and a shocking rebuttal of what George W Bush loudly trumpets as "the meaning of American justice."

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EG26Aa03.html

An Act of State. The Execution of Martin Luther King by William Pepper

[On the Road]

1. I'm Surprised the Civil Case Didn't Get More Play

They quickly reached a verdict that it was a conspiracy. Second-page mention. No followup. Seems like more people would have been all over it.

[NJCher]

2. what a horrifying story

I knew some of this but most of it is new to me. We need to get this book in every public library. Contact your library and ask them to order it!


Cher