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   From: rkoch@banmlkday.com   
      
   Before scoffing at this headline, you should know that in 1999,   
   in Memphis, Tennessee, more than three decades after MLK's   
   death, a jury found local, state, and federal government   
   agencies guilty of conspiring to assassinate the Nobel Peace   
   Prize winner and civil rights leader. The same media you would   
   expect to cover such a monumental decision was absent at the   
   trial, because those news organizations were part of that   
   conspiracy.   
      
   William F. Pepper, who was James Earl Ray's first attorney,   
   called over 70 witnesses to the stand to testify on every aspect   
   of the assassination. The panel, which consisted of an even mix   
   of both black and white jurors, took only an hour of   
   deliberation to find Loyd Jowers and other defendants guilty. If   
   you're skeptical of any factual claims made here, click here for   
   a full transcript, broken into individual sections. Read the   
   testimonies yourself if you don't want to take my word for it.   
      
   It really isn't that radical a thing to expect this government   
   to kill someone who threatened their authority and had the power   
   to organize millions to protest it. When MLK was killed on April   
   4, 1968, he was speaking to sanitation workers in Memphis, who   
   were organizing to fight poverty wages and ruthless working   
   conditions. He was an outspoken critic of the government's war   
   in Vietnam, and his power to organize threatened the moneyed   
   corporate interests who were profiting from the war. At the time   
   of his death, he was gearing up for the Poor People's Campaign,   
   an effort to get people to camp out on the National Mall to   
   demand anti-poverty legislation – essentially the first   
   inception of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The government   
   perceived him as a threat, and had him killed. James Earl Ray   
   was the designated fall guy, and a complicit media, taking its   
   cues from a government in fear of MLK, helped sell the   
   "official" story of the assassination. Here's how they did it.   
      
   The Setup   
      
   The defendant in the 1999 civil trial, Loyd Jowers, had been a   
   Memphis PD officer in the 1940s. He owned a restaurant called   
   Jim's Grill, a staging ground to orchestrate MLK's assassination   
   underneath the rooming house where the corporate media alleges   
   James Earl Ray shot Dr. King. During the trial, William Pepper,   
   the plaintiff's attorney, played a tape of an incriminating 1998   
   conversation between Jowers, UN Ambassador Andrew Young, and   
   Dexter King, MLK's son. Young testified that Jowers told them he   
   "wanted to get right with God before he died, wanted to confess   
   it and be free of it."   
      
   On the tape, Jowers mentions that those present at the meetings   
   included MPD officer Marrell McCollough, Earl Clark, an MPD   
   lieutenant and known as the department's best marksman, another   
   MPD officer, and two men who were unknown to Jowers but whom he   
   assumed to be representatives of federal agencies. While Dr.   
   King was in Memphis, he was under open or eye-to-eye federal   
   surveillance by the 111th Military Intelligence Group based at   
   Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia. Memphis PD intelligence   
   officer Eli Arkin even admitted to having the group in his own   
   office. During his last visit to Memphis in late March of 1968,   
   MLK was under covert surveillance, meaning his room at the   
   Rivermont was bugged and wired. Even if he went out to the   
   balcony to speak, his words were recorded via relay. William   
   Pepper alleges in his closing argument during King v. Jowers   
   that such covert surveillance was usually done by the Army   
   Security Agency, implying the involvement of at least two   
   federal agencies.   
      
   Jowers also gave an interview to Sam Donaldson on "Prime Time   
   Live" in 1993. The transcript of the interview was read during   
   the trial, and it was revealed that Jowers openly talked about   
   being asked by produce warehouse owner Frank Liberto to help   
   with MLK's murder. Liberto had mafia connections, and sent a   
   courier with $100,000 to Jowers, who owned a local restaurant,   
   with instructions to hold the money at his restaurant.   
      
   John McFerren owned a store in Memphis and was making a pickup   
   at Liberto's warehouse at 5:15 p.m. on April 4th, roughly 45   
   minutes before the assassination. McFerren testified that he   
   overheard Liberto tell someone over the phone, "Shoot the son of   
   a bitch on the balcony." Other witnesses who testified included   
   café owner Lavada Addison, who was friends with Liberto in the   
   1970s. She recalled him confiding to her that he "had Martin   
   Luther King killed." Addison's son, Nathan Whitlock, also   
   testified. He asked Liberto if he killed MLK, and he responded,   
   "I didn't kill the nigger but I had it done." When Whitlock   
   pressed him about James Earl Ray, Liberto replied, "He wasn't   
   nothing but a troublemaker from Missouri. He was a front man ...   
   a setup man."   
      
   The back door of Loyd Jowers' establishment led to a thick crop   
   of bushes across the street from the Lorraine Motel balcony   
   where Dr. King was shot. On the taped confession to Andrew Young   
   and Dexter King, Jowers says after he heard the shot, Lt. Earl   
   Clark, who is now deceased, laid a smoking rifle at the rear of   
   his restaurant. Jowers then disassembled the rifle, wrapped it   
   in a tablecloth and prepared it for disposal.   
      
   The corporate media says it was James Earl Ray who shot MLK, and   
   he did it from the 2nd floor bathroom window of the rooming   
   house across the street from the Lorraine Motel. The official   
   account alleges the murder weapon was dropped in a bundle and   
   abandoned at Dan Canipe's storefront just before he made his   
   getaway. But even those authorities and media admit that the   
   bullet that tore through MLK's throat didn't have the same   
   metallurgical composition as the bullets in the rifle left   
   behind by James Earl Ray. And Judge Joe Brown, a weapons expert   
   called to testify by Pepper in the 1999 trial, said the rifle   
   allegedly used by James Earl Ray had a scope that was never   
   sighted in, meaning that the weapon in question would have fired   
   far to the left and far below the target.   
      
   The actual murder weapon was disposed of by taxi driver James   
   McCraw, a friend of Jowers. William Hamblin testified in King v.   
   Jowers that McCraw told him this story over a 15-year period   
   whenever he got drunk. McCraw repeatedly told Hamblin that he   
   threw the rifle over the Memphis-Arkansas bridge, meaning that   
   the rifle is at the bottom of the Mississippi river to this day.   
   And according to Hamblin's testimony, Canipe said he saw the   
   bundle dropped in front of his store before the actual shooting   
   occurred.   
      
   The Conspiracy   
      
   To make Dr. King vulnerable, plans had to be made to remove him   
   from his security detail and anyone sympathetic who could be a   
   witness or interfere with the killing. Two black firefighters,   
   Floyd Newsum and Norvell Wallace, who were working at Fire   
   Station #2 across the street from the Lorraine Motel, were each   
   transferred to different fire stations. Newsum was a civil   
   rights activist and witnessed MLK's last speech to the striking   
      
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