About the assassination of MLK...

[reprehensor]

Did you know that in 1999, a lawyer who knew MLK Jr. personally, took members of the King family (including Mrs. King) to court and got a verdict which includes this finding;

THE COURT: In answer to the question did Loyd Jowers participate in a conspiracy to do harm to Dr. Martin Luther King, your answer is yes. Do you also find that others, including governmental agencies, were parties to this conspiracy as alleged by the defendant? Your answer to that one is also yes…

If you didn't know about the Kings v. Jowers, etal trial, don't take it personally, most people don't.

Here, the prosecuting lawyer, William Pepper describes how his relationship with MLK began;

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/WFP020403.html

This story actually begins with Vietnam in 1966. As a very much younger person I was there as a journalist and didn't publish anything whilst I was there, but waited until I got back to the United States. Then I wrote a number of articles. One of them appeared in a muckraking magazine called Ramparts, that had its home in this city, published by Warren Hinckle in those days. It was called "The Children of Vietnam." That is what started me down the slippery slope of the saga of Martin Luther King; his work during the last year, and his death. And then an investigation which has gone on since 1978.

When Martin King saw the Ramparts piece he was at a -- there are different stories of actually where he was -- but I think he was at Atlanta Airport on his way to the West Indies and he was traveling with Bernard Lee, his bodyguard. They were having a meal and he was going through his mail, according to Bernard, and he came upon this issue of Ramparts, January 1st, 1967. It had in it the piece that I wrote called "The Children of Vietnam." Bernard said as he started to thumb through it he stopped and was visibly moved. He pushed his food away. Bernard said, "What's the matter Martin, aren't you hungry? Is there something wrong with the food?" And he said, "No. I've lost my appetite. I may have lost the ability to appreciate food altogether until we end this wretched war."

Then he asked to meet with me and asked me to open my files to him that went well beyond what was published in the Ramparts piece in terms of photographs. Some of you probably saw, if you're old enough to remember, a number of those photographs. Portions of them used to appear on lampposts and windows of burned and deformed children. That was what gave him pause. He hadn't had a chance to read the text at that point but it was the photographs that stopped him.

The introduction of the article was by Benjamin Spock. It resulted, ultimately, in a Committee of Responsibility bringing over a hundred Vietnamese children, war-injured children to this country and our placing them in hospitals around the nation. This was so that people would have a chance to see first-hand what their tax dollars were purchasing...

Here, Pepper reflects on the trial and the media blackout that accompanied it;

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/WFPonMLK.html

So far as we are concerned the truth about the assassination was fully revealed in court, under oath over a month long trial in late 1999 in Memphis. In Kings v. Jowers, etal, some 70 witnesses completely set out the details and the range of the conspiracy which was coordinated by the US Government with the assistance of state and local officials and on the site implementation of local organized crime operatives.

The entire trial is on the web site of the King Center. It took the jury about one hour to find the Government liable through the actions of its agents. The identities of the shooter and James Earl Ray's handler, Raul, were also established... (the trial) was blacked out by all of the mainstream -- network and cable -- media. Court TV promised to cover it live but their team was ordered to stay in the hallway outside of the courtroom and only enter when Mrs King or members of the family took the stand. This was the demeanor of the rest of the press corps as well...

...it is not true that this case is open. It is open, officially, but unlike the other assassinations we know and have evidence of the details of the killing. The family believes that they are completely vindicated. Even the New York Times in a front page piece (never again mentioned, by their local reporter) acknowledged that members of the jury were quoted as saying that the evidence -- never before seen or heard or tested under oath -- was overwhelming...

Your analysis is correct. This type of claim distracts us from the overall coordinating role of Government and the powerful economic interests which decided that MLK had to be removed from the scene because of his increasingly effective opposition to the war and, perhaps, more significantly, his commitment to bring upwards of 500,000 of the wretched of America to Washington, not to march but to encamp and daily visit their elected representatives to demand the restoration of the social welfare/health and educational programs which had been severely, even terminally, cut in deference to the military budgetary increases.

We bear witness, Martin. Happy Birthday.

Thank you, William Pepper.

VIDEO:
William Pepper: An Act of State
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8419499993878733310&q=an+act+of+state

[MadMaddie]

1. I didn't know...thank you and other on DU for always

bringing historical facts to the table.

Happy MLK day!:hi:

[reprehensor]

10. Didn't know about it myself until last year.

I found out about the trial throught this video;

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1867620316217562249&q=william+pepper

[seemslikeadream]

2. An Act Of State

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUBOZtsyhfM


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3124094&mesg_id=3124094

[H2O Man]

3. William Pepper

has published a fantastic book about his investigation, too. I strongly recommend it.

[IndyOp]

4. The truth. Dr. King and the King Family deserve the truth be known. (n/t)

:(

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. K&R..

[wildbilln864]

6. great work as usual...

:hi:
End the war and impeach the sobs!

[John Q. Citizen]

7. Wow, it's amazing what our media doesn't tells us. I had no idea that this case

was tried and proved in a civil court.

What else aren't they telling us?

[Recursion]

9. The rabbit hole goes deep...

What else aren't they telling us?

Heh... there's a topic forum you might want to check out some time. It has three numbers in its name.

[John Q. Citizen]

13. Also interesting is when the media tells us, then decides it shouldn't have,

as in he case of "The Dark Aliance " series that documented the US military/intel connections to known Contra coke smugglers, and how the cosy relationship led to the invention and explosion of crack (smokable) cocaine use in the inner- cities in the US.

The efforts to kill that story were almost as facinating as the original story itself.

[Wilms]

8. K & R n/t

[Octafish]

11. Retired US Army intelligence agents say they monitored King in Memphis

Not that they had anything to do with Memphis...

Retired agents say they monitored King in Memphis

Associated Press, 30 November 1997

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (November 30, 1997 2:53 p.m. EST) -- Army intelligence agents monitored Martin Luther King Jr.'s public appearances in Memphis in the days before his murder in 1968, said retired agents speaking publicly for the first time.

The agents claim they had no foreknowledge of the assassination. They also said conspiracy theorists have misinterpreted and twisted the purpose of their Memphis mission.

They watched for outbreaks of violence during the city's volatile garbage workers' strike, the agents said, and the information collected was used to decide whether to send armed troops to Memphis.

We were never given any mission to keep King under surveillance. Never, said retired Col. Edward McBride, who oversaw the 111th Military Intelligence Group's Memphis operations from Fort McPherson in Atlanta.

Newly declassified reports show at least four agents were in Memphis on April 4, 1968, when King was shot by a sniper while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.

Overall, the 111th sent as many as 10 undercover agents to Memphis after a March 28, 1968, riot that erupted during a protest march King led in support of striking workers, according to reports obtained by The Commercial Appeal under the Freedom of Information Act.

Some of the 111th's Memphis visits in March and April 1968 coincided with King's arrivals and departures, the documents show.

We (took note) when he was in Memphis in his public moves. We knew he was speaking at (Mason Temple the evening of April 3), we knew he was going to march in the parade, said Jimmie Locke, who led the Memphis operation and was in Memphis when King was shot.

We weren't particularly concerned except that he might be the catalyst for an event of some kind, Locke said in an interview at his home in San Antonio.

CONTINUED...

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/383.html

More resources:

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/index-bcb.html

KR&B: Excellent post, reprehensor. Thank you.

[rman]

12. James Earl Ray's appeal

to overturn his guilty plea.

The judge who handled James' request for appeal was found dead in his office with his head on the appeal documents, cause of death: heart attack. Under the law when a judge dies while he is handling an application for retrial, it is automatically granted. Two people had filed for retrial with this judge, one of them got granted, the other didn't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2EE64XHcnI

[autorank]

14. I'm blown away. K&R for YOU!!! Thanks

I was upset but not surprised that MSM/CM failed to report on the incidents involving the Iranian
consulate. It's a provocation but they left it off the news. Too much time on the Donald and Rosie,
I guess.

This is mind blowing. When will there be a report on this...oh, there is, right here.

Thank you so much. This simply shocks me.

[Mnemosyne]

15. Error: You've already recommended that thread. lol n/t

:hi:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

16. kick