An act of state : the execution of Martin Luther King /
Pepper, William F.,1937-
London ; New York : Verso,
2008.
On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting a workers' strike. By nightfall, army snipers were in position, military officers were on a nearby roof with cameras, and Lloyd Jowers had been paid to remove the gun after the fatal shot was fired. When the dust had settled, King had been hit and a clean-up operation was set in motion-James Earl Ray was framed, the crime scene was destroyed, and witnesses were killed. William Pepper, attorney and friend of King, has conducted a thirty-year investigation into his assassination. In 1999, Loyd Jowers and other co-conspirators were brought to trial in a civil action suit on behalf of the King family. Seventy witnesses set out the details of a conspiracy that involved J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, Richard Helms and the CIA, the military, Memphis police, and organized crime. The jury took an hour to find for the King family. In An Act of State, you finally have the truth before you-how the US government shut down a movement for social change by stopping its leader dead in his tracks. -- Back cover.
"Updated with a new afterword"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
PART ONE. 1. The beginning --- 2. The television trial of James Earl Ray --- 3. The continuing investigation: Loyd Jowers's involvement --- 4. New strands and connections --- 5. Raul and the Grabows --- 6. The conspiracy deepens --- 7. New allies, revelations, and untimely deaths ---- PART TWO. 8. The trial --- 9. The aftermath and a post-trial summary --- 10. A vision unto death and a truth beyond the grave --- 11. The state's case: the how and the why of the assassination --- 12. The United States Attorney General's report ---- Appendixes.
On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting a workers' strike. By nightfall, army snipers were in position, military officers were on a nearby roof with cameras, and Lloyd Jowers had been paid to remove the gun after the fatal shot was fired. When the dust had settled, King had been hit and a clean-up operation was set in motion-James Earl Ray was framed, the crime scene was destroyed, and witnesses were killed. William Pepper, attorney and friend of King, has conducted a thirty-year investigation into his assassination. In 1999, Loyd Jowers and other co-conspirators were brought to trial in a civil action suit on behalf of the King family. Seventy witnesses set out the details of a conspiracy that involved J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, Richard Helms and the CIA, the military, Memphis police, and organized crime. The jury took an hour to find for the King family. In An Act of State, you finally have the truth before you-how the US government shut down a movement for social change by stopping its leader dead in his tracks. -- Back cover.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Ray, James Earl, 1928-1998.
Conspiracies
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