Quits Ellen Finnigan:
Dear Lew,
May I recommend a few links today on the 50th Anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
On December 8, 1999, after four weeks of testimony and over 70 witnesses in a civil trial in Memphis, Tennessee, and after only one hour of deliberations, twelve jurors reached a unanimous verdict that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy which involved the U.S. government.
Your readers can go to KingCenter.org -> “About” -> “About Dr. King,” and scroll down. They will see ” For more information regarding the assassination trial of Dr. King, click here. ”
In the transcript from the family press conference on the trial, Dexter Scott King sounds pretty fed up with what we would today call “fake news” and he calls out those involved with what he calls “media manipulation.” It’s worth a read.
If anyone goes to the Civil Rights Museum in Atlanta, which opened in 2014 and is offering free admission today, they should not bother to look for this information about the conspiracy surrounding his death. When I checked a couple of years ago, there was no mention of it — at all. All they say is that he was “assassinated.” I guess proven deep state conspiracies to assassinate our leaders have nothing to do with our civil rights! Flushed down the memory hole.
I would recommend a link to Jim Douglass’ “Letter to the American People,” who was one of only 2-3 people who attended the whole trial, outside of the courtroom participants.
Jim Douglass attended the trial and he said: “I can hardly believe the fact that, apart from the courtroom participants, only Memphis TV reporter Wendell Stacy and I attended from beginning to end this historic three-and-one-half week trial. Because of journalistic neglect scarcely anyone else in this land of ours even knows what went on in it. After critical testimony was given in the trial’s second week before an almost empty gallery, Barbara Reis, U.S. correspondent for the Lisbon daily Publico who was there several days, turned to me and said, ‘Everything in the U.S. is the trial of the century. O.J. Simpson’s trial was the trial of the century. Clinton’s trial was the trial of the century. But this is the trial of the century, and who’s here?’
What I experienced in that courtroom ranged from inspiration at the courage of the Kings, their lawyer-investigator William F. Pepper, and the witnesses, to amazement at the government’s carefully interwoven plot to kill Dr. King. The seriousness with which U.S. intelligence agencies planned the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. speaks eloquently of the threat Kingian nonviolence represented to the powers that be in the spring of 1968…Thirty-two years after Memphis, we know that the government that now honors Dr. King with a national holiday also killed him. As will once again become evident when the Justice Department releases the findings of its ‘limited re-investigation’ into King’s death, the government (as a footsoldier of corporate power) is continuing its cover-up – just as it continues to do in the closely related murders of John and Robert Kennedy and Malcolm X.”
He writes in his letter: “What is radically threatening about the assassination of John Kennedy, inextricably linked with the killings of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy, is that here we are faced with a total system of evil that envelops us and our society. We have denied its gross reality for three and a half decades for the sake of sheer psychic and personal survival. In a painful part of our being, each of us knows the truth…May I suggest the possibility, to you and to myself, that we are ruled behind the scenes by a benevolent fascism? We consent to it by a tacit agreement. “
