num_pages: 230
description: "After following Melanson's meticulous pursuit of seemingly every lead in the case there can be little doubt in the reader's mind that neither of the two official versions of what happened could have been the whole truth." - Publisher's Weekly - The Reverend Martin Luther King was not merely targeted by white supremacists or the gun of James Earl Ray. Agents of the U.S. Government plotted to silence this civil rights leader's opposition to the Vietnam War. This courageous, independent investigation reveals shocking new information about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. DISCOVER THE TRUE AND DISTURBING FACTS BY READING INTERVIEWS FBI operatives who tracked the King family and a high-ranking CIA agent who tells how the Agency targeted MLK. The courier who brought James Earl Ray his escape money. The James Earl Ray look-alike planted at the murder scene. Learn the unreported truth about the complicity of the Memphis police, the planting of manufactured evidence, and the government's propaganda effort to push the lone-assassin claim. FIND OUT HOW AND WHY THE CIVIL RIGHTS GIANT WAS FELLED BE ELEMENTS OF THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
language: English
title: The Martin Luther King Assassination
titlecomplete: The Martin Luther King Assassination
ratings_count: 8
publisher: S.P.I. Books