<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
I grew up in a remote rural area that was 100% white. <br>
Some towns in southern Illinois even had laws against Italians<br>
living there (such as West Frankfort, IL).<br>
<br>
I was in grade school when MLK was shot.<br>
I had no way to know what King said about the war in Vietnam.<br>
<br>
I recall distinctly that my schoolmates came to school with <br>
clever racist jokes about the King shooting; jokes they had<br>
heard at home.<br>
<br>
But I knew that the war in Vietnam was wrong and stupid.<br>
<br>
I also knew that MLK was killed by a government agency<br>
and I thought that LBJ was involved with the killing of JFK also.<br>
<br>
My fellow Americans... <br>
I come to you tonight with a heavy heart.<br>
I had bah bee Q for suppah...<br>
<br>
<br>
On 1/22/2014 7:06 AM, David Johnson wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:9CC0662D731240248957499E476DACA3@johnson8547dac"
type="cite">
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.23543">
<style></style>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font size="5">Dr. Martin Luther
King assassinated by US govt: King Family civil trial verdict</font></font></div>
<div>
<div class="fb-like fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget"
fb-xfbml-state="rendered"
data-href="http://www.examiner.com/article/dr-martin-luther-king-assassinated-by-us-govt-king-family-civil-trial-verdict"
data-layout="button_count" data-send="false" data-show-faces="false"
data-width="90"><span style="width: 80px; height: 20px;"><iframe
style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; width: 80px; height: 20px;"
id="f2ea582e81c93d6" class="fb_ltr"
title="Like this content on Facebook."
src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?api_key=113003962065478&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D28%23cb%3Df30165eda8de44c%26domain%3Dwww.examiner.com%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.examiner.com%252Ff32cf13b2d1386%26relation%3Dparent.parent&colorscheme=light&extended_social_context=false&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Farticle%2Fdr-martin-luther-king-assassinated-by-us-govt-king-family-civil-trial-verdict&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&send=false&show_faces=false&width=90"
name="f20c8c6331ed02a" scrolling="no"></iframe></span></div>
<div id="featured-video"
class="featured-video media media--vertical box box--dark padding--all padding--half-bottom">
<div
class="media__img ocm-video ocmap video-list__image omniture-click-processed"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
style="cursor: pointer;"
title="Martin Luther King killed by the authorities"
alt="Martin Luther King killed by the authorities"
src="http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_large/hash/c2/f9/c2f9edc207914bd97969e16e4df8c54e.jpg?itok=bZEZezwK"
typeof="foaf:Image"> </font>
<div style="display: block; cursor: pointer;"
class="icon icon--play icon--replace news"><span class="visuallyhidden"><font
face="Arial" size="2">Play</font></span></div>
</div>
<div class="media__body caption"><span class="caption__body"><font
face="Arial" size="2">Martin Luther King killed by the authorities</font></span><span
class="caption__credit"><font face="Arial" size="2">mila10215 YouTube</font></span></div>
</div>
<aside class="inset promoted-media push--bottom">
<div
class="media separator separator--bottom author-block soft-half--bottom news">
<div class="media__img"><font face="Arial" size="2"><img
moz-do-not-send="true" alt=""
src="http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumb_medium/hash/drush/8c/d1/8cd1b4c52aee62eeb14e9fb1220046e3.jpg?itok=7u99vm6u"
typeof="foaf:Image" width="180" height="180"> </font></div>
<div class="media__body">
<div class="author-block__byline"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="author-block__name"
href="http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/carl-herman">Carl
Herman</a><a moz-do-not-send="true" class="author-block__title"
href="http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/carl-herman"
property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" typeof="skos:Concept">Nonpartisan
Examiner</a></font></div>
<ul class="author-block__links list list--series">
<font face="Arial" size="2">
<li class="0 first last">April 4, 2012</li>
</font>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="node__content cf">
<div class="article-content article-content--story node--story">
<div class="article__body cf"
property="schema:articleBody content:encoded">
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>from my 6-part series: </i><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/occupy-this-us-history-exposes-the-1-s-crimes-then-and-now-1-of-6"><b><i>Occupy
This: US History exposes the 1%’s crimes then and now</i></b></a></font></p>
<blockquote><font face="Arial" size="2">Anyone who wants the most
important history of the Vietnam war, and American history, must be
briefed of this stunning and game-changing “current event”: </font></blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Dr. Martin Luther King’s family and
his personal friend and attorney, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.williampepper.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William
F. Pepper</a>, won a civil trial that found US government agencies
guilty in the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_death_claim" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">wrongful death</a> of Martin Luther King. The 1999
trial, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.thekingcenter.org/civil-case-king-family-versus-jowers/"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">King Family versus Jowers and Other
Unknown Co-Conspirators</a><i>,</i> [70] is the only trial ever
conducted on the assassination of Dr. King.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">The King family’s attempts for a
criminal trial were denied, as suspect James Ray’s recant of what he
claimed was a false confession was denied. Mr. Ray said that his
government-appointed attorney told him to sign a confession in order to
receive a trial. When Mr. Ray discovered that his signature meant no
trial, his and the King family’s subsequent requests were denied.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">The US government also denied the King
family’s requests for independent investigation of the assassination.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Therefore, and importantly, the US
government has never presented any evidence subject to challenge that
substantiates their claim that Mr. Ray assassinated Dr. King.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">US corporate media did not cover the
trial, interview the King family, and textbooks omit this information.
Journalist and author, James Douglass: [71]</font></p>
<blockquote>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> </font>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">“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 <i>Publico</i> 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 <i>is</i> the trial of the century, and
who’s here?" ”</font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">For comparison, please consider the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://law.jrank.org/pages/12147/Media-O-J-Simpson-Case.html"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">media coverage</a> of O.J. Simpson’s
trials: [72]</font></p>
<blockquote>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> </font>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">“Media coverage of the Simpson
trial, which began in January 1995, was unlike any other. Over two
thousand reporters covered the trial, and 80 miles of cable was
required to allow nineteen television stations to cover the trial live
to 91 percent of the American viewing audience. When the verdict was
finally read on October 3, 1995, some 142 million people listened or
watched. It seemed the nation stood still, divided along racial lines
as to the defendant's guilt or innocence. During and after the trial,
over eighty books were published about the event by most everyone
involved in the Simpson case.”</font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">The overwhelming evidence of
government complicity introduced and agreed as comprehensively valid by
the jury includes the 111th Military Intelligence Group were sent to
Dr. King’s location, and that the usual police protection was pulled
away just before the assassination. Military Intelligence set-up
photographers on a roof of a fire station with a clear view to Dr.
King’s balcony. 20th Special Forces Group had an 8-man sniper team at
the assassination location on that day. Memphis police ordered the
scene where multiple witnesses reported as the source of shooting cut
down of their bushes that would have hid a sniper team. Along with
sanitizing a crime scene, police abandoned investigative procedure to
interview witnesses who lived by the scene of the shooting. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">The King family believes the
government’s motivation to murder Dr. King was to prevent his imminent
camp-in at Washington, D.C. until the Vietnam War was ended and those
resources directed to end poverty and invest in US hard and soft
infrastructure.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Please watch <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.examiner.com/la-county-nonpartisan-in-los-angeles/mlk-assassinated-by-us-government-martin-luther-king-civil-1999-decision">this
six-minute video</a> of the evidence from the trial, [73] and this <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k383kA7p7vs" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">eight-minute video</a> [74] on the FBI’s disclosures
of covert operations against Dr. King, including confirmation from his
closest friends and advisors.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Coretta Scott King, Dr. King’s wife,
is certain of the evidence after 30 years of consideration from the
1968 assassination to the 1999 trial:</font></p>
<blockquote>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> </font>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">“For a quarter of a century, Bill
Pepper conducted an independent investigation of the assassination of
Martin Luther King, Jr. He opened his files to our family, encouraged
us to speak with the witnesses, and represented our family in the civil
trial against the conspirators. The jury affirmed his findings,
providing our family with a long-sought sense of closure and peace,
which had been denied by official disinformation and cover- ups. Now
the findings of his exhaustive investigation and additional revelations
from the trial are presented in the pages of this important book. We
recommend it highly to everyone who seeks the truth about Dr. King's
assassination.” — <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://actofstate.org/book/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Coretta
Scott King</a>, <i>Dr. King's wife.</i></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">The US Department of Justice issued <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/crm/mlk/part1.php"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a report in 2000</a> that explains
their investigation into their own possible guilt in the assassination
found no evidence to warrant further investigation. Dr. King’s son
issued the following <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=4480"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">statement</a> [75] rebuking a
“self-study” rather than the independent investigation the King family
assert the evidence demands:</font></p>
<blockquote>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> </font>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">“We learned only hours before the
Justice Department press conference that they were releasing the report
of their results of their "limited investigation," which covered only
two areas of new evidence concerning the assassination of Dr. King. We
had requested that we be given a copy of the report a few days in
advance so that we might have had the opportunity to review it in
detail. Since that courtesy was not extended to us, we are only able at
this time to state the following:</font></p>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> </font>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">1. We initially requested that a
comprehensive investigation be conducted by a Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, independent of the government, because we do not believe
that, in such a politically-sensitive matter, the government is capable
of investigating itself.</font></p>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> </font>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">2. The type of independent
investigation we sought was denied by the federal government. But in
our view, it was carried out, in a Memphis courtroom, during a
month-long trial by a jury of 12 American citizens who had no interest
other than ascertaining the truth. (Kings v. Jowers)</font></p>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> </font>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">3. After hearing and reviewing the
extensive testimony and evidence, which had never before been tested
under oath in a court of law, it took the Memphis jury only one (1)
hour to find that a conspiracy to kill Dr. King did exist. Most
significantly, this conspiracy involved agents of the governments of
the City of Memphis, the state of Tennessee and the United States of
America. The overwhelming weight of the evidence also indicated that
James Earl Ray was not the triggerman and, in fact, was an unknowing
patsy.</font></p>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> </font>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">4. We stand by that verdict and have
no doubt that the truth about this terrible event has finally been
revealed.</font></p>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> </font>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">5. We urge all interested Americans
to read the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.thekingcenter.org/civil-case-king-family-versus-jowers/"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">transcript of the trial</a> on the King
Center website and consider the evidence, so they can form their own
unbiased conclusions.</font></p>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> </font>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Although we cooperated fully with
this limited investigation, we never really expected that the
government report would be any more objective than that which has
resulted from any previous official investigation.”</font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Let’s summarize: Under US Civil Law,
covert US government agencies were found guilty of the assassination of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King was the leading figure of the
Civil Rights Movement, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and widely
recognized as one of the world’s greatest speakers for what it means to
be human. The family’s conclusion as to motive was to prevent Dr. King
from ending the Vietnam War because the government wanted to continue
its ongoing covert and overt military operations to control foreign
governments and their resources.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">It is therefore a factual statement
that under US Civil Law, the US government assassinated Dr. King.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">This is similar that under Criminal
Law, both O.J. Simpson and the US government are not legally guilty for
murder, but both parties are guilty for killing innocent victims under
Civil Law.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Let’s apply some critical thinking
skills to this history of Dr. King that is probably new to you. People
of sufficient intellectual integrity and moral courage to apply
critical thinking skills will embrace the trial evidence and testimony,
jury conclusion, and King family analysis as appropriate and helpful
information in seeking the facts. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">People who at least temporarily reject
challenging information out of fear might say something like, “The
government killed Dr. King? That’s a crazy conspiracy theory!”</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Let’s consider that statement.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">When someone says that a body of
evidence is “crazy,” or a “conspiracy theory” (meaning an irrational
claim easily refuted by the evidence) that’s a claim. With a claim
comes a burden of proof. In this case, the person would have to
demonstrate command of the facts to explain and prove why the evidence
from the civil trial is somehow “crazy” and easily refuted.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">If the person can do this, it would be
tremendously helpful in understanding the facts. However, we know from
our experience that such statements almost always have zero factual
support, and that the person making such a claim literally doesn’t know
what they’re talking about.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">We also know from our experience, a
person making such a statement is really voicing an emotional reaction
something closer to the spirit of, “The government killed Dr. King? Ok,
I read and understood the paragraphs about the trial and evidence. I
read Mrs. King’s and her son’s statement. I haven’t invested the time
to verify how valid that information is. I’m not stupid, but because
the implications of what that means is so disturbing, I’m going to deny
anything about it could possibly be true as my first response. If I’m
going to continue being in denial and refuse to discuss the evidence,
I’ll attack the messenger.”</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">We also need to consider the lack of
coverage by US corporate media of this compelling evidence, trial
verdict, and King family testimony from over 30 years’ analysis of the
facts. Recall the evidence of US corporate media reporting being
infiltrated by CIA agents to propagandize Americans’ access to
information. This included the Director of the CIA’s admission to
Congress that they have over 400 agents working in corporate media to
make the US public believe what the CIA wants them to believe. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 2006, George Washington University
used a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the US military’s
“Information Operations Roadmap.” This formerly secret and approved
document details present US government strategies to generate
propaganda, and then attack Internet alternative media that provides
dangerous facts and discussion. The military promoted the term, “Fight
the net.” [76]</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Although I won’t enter the burden of
proof here, you may know that there are similar and related bodies of
evidence that the US government assassinated other American leaders who
opposed key policies of an apparent violent faction within US
government. The 1975 Senate Church Committee disclosed that the US
government initiated and helped assassination attempts on multiple
foreign heads of state. [77]</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">If we were discussing how the
population of some other nation could employ critical thinking skills
to understand current events from anytime in history, we would
certainly understand the importance to anticipate disinformation from
government, danger of controlled media, and assassination as a
political weapon. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Failure to do so would appropriately
elicit the label attributed to the first dictator of the Soviet Union,
Vladimir Lenin. Such people who believe what their government tells
them when the history and present have overwhelming objective evidence
to explain, document, and prove that the government is typical of so
many other historical self-serving oligarchies are:</font></p>
<blockquote>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> </font>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>“Useful idiots.”</i></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">To the extent the United States today
is any different from all other nations and all other times is up to
your exercise of critical thinking skills.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Your choice of a current event to
research and consider will provide you with helpful evidence to answer
that question for yourself.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">endnotes:</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">69 Conversation with Emmanuel, comte
de Las Cases (20 November 1816), <i>Mémorial de Sainte Hélène</i>, v.
4, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://books.google.com/books?id=945jAAAAMAAJ&vq=%22fable%20agreed%20upon%22&pg=PA251"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">p. 251</a>.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">70 The Martin Luther King Jr. Center.
Civil Case: King Family versus Jowers. Transcript of closing statement:
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.thekingcenter.org/civil-case-king-family-versus-jowers/"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.thekingcenter.org/civil-case-king-family-versus-jowers/</a>
. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">71 Probe Magazine. The Martin Luther
King Conspiracy exposed in Memphis. Douglass, J.: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ctka.net/pr500-king.html"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ctka.net/pr500-king.html</a> .
Mr. Douglass took what he learned from the MLK trial and wrote a book
on the explanation and evidence that similar covert US government
factions assassinated President Kennedy: <i>JFK and the unspeakable:
why he died and why it matters. </i>Reviews for your consideration <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1570757550"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16273"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Because the evidence for JFK
being murdered by interests in our own government is so strong, AP US
History teacher John Hankey created this DVD: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thedarklegacy.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dark
Legacy</a><i>.</i></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">72 One of many analyses: law.jrank.
Media - The O.j. Simpson Case: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://law.jrank.org/pages/12147/Media-O-J-Simpson-Case.html"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://law.jrank.org/pages/12147/Media-O-J-Simpson-Case.html</a></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">73 Documentation from the King family,
trial information, and video resources: Examiner.com. Martin Luther
King assassinated by US government: MLK civil trial decision. Herman,
C. Jan. 15, 2011: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.examiner.com/la-county-nonpartisan-in-los-angeles/mlk-assassinated-by-us-government-martin-luther-king-civil-1999-decision">http://www.examiner.com/la-county-nonpartisan-in-los-angeles/mlk-assassinated-by-us-government-martin-luther-king-civil-1999-decision</a>
. For further documentation of evidence: What Really Happened: The
Death of Martin Luther King: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MLK/mlk.html"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MLK/mlk.html</a></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">74 RevolutionNewz. MSM blackout - the
US govt executed Martin Luther King...Proven in US court, 1999: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k383kA7p7vs" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k383kA7p7vs</a></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">75 Global Research. Martin Luther King
Day: King family statement on the Justice Department’s “Limited
Investigation” of the MLK assassination. Jan. 15, 2007</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">76 George Washington University. The
National Security Archive. Rumsfeld’s Roadmap to Propaganda. Jan. 26,
2006: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/</a> .
BBC News analysis: US plans to ‘fight the net’ revealed. Brookes, A.
Jan. 27, 2006: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm</a></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">77 History matters. Church Committee
Interim report: Alleged assassination plots involving foreign leaders: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.history-matters.com/archive/contents/church/contents_church_reports_ir.htm"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.history-matters.com/archive/contents/church/contents_church_reports_ir.htm</a></font></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</aside></div>
<pre wrap="">
<fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset>
_______________________________________________
Peace-discuss mailing list
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a>
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
</body>
</html>