October 1967 formation of a SFG sharpshooter group Alpha 184 to train for intervention in racial unrest. Nonviolent protest must nowmature to a new level to correspond to heightened black impatience and stiffened white resistance. This higher level is mass civil disobedience. Clifford had discovered that he had been kept out of the loop by the way the White House was running the war. They blamed the violence on segregation, poverty and the frustration they breed.
Police retaliate, one youth killed.
King is invited to Memphis again to try to get things back under control. April 3, Memphis, Tenn.- City authorities obtain court order to ban outside participation. King answers that he will participate anyway. Raul had been the handler of James Earl Ray since August. At the same time King and Andrew Young were in the sights of Alpha 184 sharpshooters.