Hear William Pepper, King family lawyer, on noliesradio.org, Tues June 09 12pm EDT

[JohnyCanuck]

Coming up Tuesday at 9:00 am Pacific - 12:00 Noon Eastern - 17:00 GMT
“FAIR & BALANCED” with Kevin Barrett
Tuesday Hear a Live Interview with William Pepper — Human rights attorney, proponent and prospective Commissioner, New York City 9/11 Ballot

Email your questions now.
Live interview with Human rights attorney extraordinaire William Pepper, proponent and prospective Commissioner, New York City 9/11 Ballot Initiative; author, Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, Jr. In November 1999, William Pepper won a jury trial finding that James Earl Ray was innocent, and that U.S. military and intelligence officials conspired to murder Martin Luther King, Jr. He is currently working with the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative to get a real investigation of 9/11 with subpoena power, and is in line to become one of the Commissioners. Last month William Pepper spent ten sixteen-hour days preparing a legal defense of the Spanish Court’s initiative to prosecute George W. Bush for war crimes. He writes: “I believe that this case may be the most important case in my lifetime for the advancement of international human rights law and condemnation of these atrocious policies and practices which go back to the divine right of kings, perpetuated by fascism. “
Deadline for emailed questions is 9pm Pacific Time, Monday, June 8th. Not all emailed questions will be answered on the air.

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[JohnyCanuck]

1. Youtube videos of William Pepper in action at MLK conspiracy trial

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6CDDC2D378CC12CD&search_query=reprehensor

The video playlist linked above contains attorney William Pepper's Closing statements to the jury at the MLK conspiracy trial in which he was representing the King family. The jury agreed with Mr. Pepper and the King family that MLK's death was a result of a conspiracy involving US government agencies.

[JohnyCanuck]

2. Transcript of William Pepper's speach on the release of his book,

An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King.

SNIP

Martin King was killed because he had become intolerable. It's not just that he opposed the war and now was going to the bottom line of a number of the major corporations in the United States; those forces that effectively rule the world at this point in time, the transnational entities. But more importantly, I think the reason was because he was going to bring a mass of people to Washington in the spring of '68. And that was very troubling. He wanted to cap the numbers. But the military knew that once he started bringing the wretched of America to camp there in the shadow of the Washington Memorial, and go every day up to see their Senators and Congressman and try to get social program monies put back in that were taken out because of the war -- and once they did that, and they got rebuffed again and again they would increasingly get angry.

It was the assessment of the Army that he would lose control of that group. And the more violent and radical amongst the forces would take control and they would have a revolution on their hands in the nation's capital. And they couldn't put down that revolution. They didn't have enough troops. Westmoreland wanted 200,000 for Vietnam. They didn't have those. They simply didn't have enough troops to put down what they thought was going to be the revolution that would result from that encampment. <6>

So because of that I think, more than anything else, Martin King was never going to be allowed to bring that mass of angry, disaffected humanity to Washington. He was never going to leave Memphis. And that was the reason for the elaborate preparations that they had.

That trial (of course) was not covered, with very few exceptions. You probably never even heard of the trial. General Counsel of Court TV is a friend of mine. He said, `Bill we're going to cover this live because this is the most important trial in terms of the history of democracy in this country; these issues that are being raised of any I can think of.' Court TV's camera stayed in the hallway with the rest of them except when Mrs. King testified or Andrew Young or Dexter or somebody. They never came in and they certainly didn't cover it live. All the other media people came and stayed in the hallway and came in at selected points and came and went. None of this was ever reported.

There was one ABC local anchorman who came in, very cynical in his outlook, and he started to film for his local station. As he started to listen to the evidence he was fascinated and intrigued. He decided he was going to stay and he was going to film this thing. He was told by his producer, `Don't do that. Get yourself out of there.' He ignored that, under threat of being fired and eventually he was fired. But he tried -- and he did film it -- and finally got his job back, ultimately through wrongful dismissal. But it was a chastening event for him to sit there and to listen to this evidence and to realize that he was being told to suppress it. To his credit he tried to hang on.

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

[RT Atlanta]

4. Act of State was a good book

and I highly recommend reading it - I found the investigation very thorough and its conclusions reasonable.

[RT Atlanta]

5. Poor People's Campaign

one more thing on the planned campaign that King wanted to bring back to DC in the summer of '68, I am quite excited to know that SCLC has recently sought to re-visit that program.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1070266.html

[JohnyCanuck]

3. Remember, if its investigative reporting you want,

You'll will never find it on NBCABCCBSCNNMSNBCFOXCNN.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. -- Ted Koppel

http://123realchange.blogspot.com/2009/06/tgif-lite-post.html

[JohnyCanuck]

6. KIck, n/t