The history of the Martin Luther King Jr’s death
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Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4th, 1968. Join us as we talk about the history of that day and what happened …
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It's amazing WHITE FOLKS who killed him. Wanna tell his Story
Such an interesting story about this dark event in our history in Memphis. The comment made to you about the Civil Rights Museum was sad. I tell people that they need to visit there before anything else. The irony of him dropping everything in the doorway is that now is the doorway to the museum gift shop. Thanks for another wonderful video.
I haven't watched the video, but will during the day. However, I was dismayed by your statement that James Earl Ray might not have been the assassin.
I have two books to be recommend:
1. Killing the Dream – Gerald Posner.
2. Hellhound on His Trail – Hampton Sides.
Sides' book is much more impressionistic and poetic. Posner's book is a masterpiece of forensic analysis. Both books will leave a reader in no doubt that James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King.
Posner deals with it as a great lawyer and investigative reporter would. He covers everything, every nook and cranny. He does leave open the slight possibility that Ray had heard about and hoped to collect a bounty on King. If so, he hadn't collected it when he was in Montreal after the crime, because he didn't have the money to get a plane ticket to South Africa. Posner thinks the money to keep Ray on the loose from his escape from the Missouri penitentiary in March, 1967, to his capture in London in June, 1968, came from a Ray brothers' specialty, stick ups. Still, he deals with the "Raoul" story and does a nice job of cutting it to pieces.
It distressed me to hear you say that Ray didn't have the gunman's wherewithal to have shot King. He was in the army in the late 40s, and proved to be a good rifle shot.
I fear that people your age have been so infected by irrational conspiracy mongering that you simply don't understand the absurdity of the whole mindset.
Read Posner's book, and Sides', and you won't have any doubt about who killed Martin Luther King.