“What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.” - Napoleon Bonaparte [69]
The following is from : Occupy This: US History exposes the 1%’s crimes then and now (6-part series)
Dr. Martin Luther King’s family and his personal friend and attorney,
William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty in the
wrongful death of Martin Luther King. The 1999 trial,
King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators, [70] is the only trial ever conducted on the assassination of Dr. King.
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.
The US government also denied the King family’s requests for independent investigation of the assassination.
Therefore, and importantly, the US government has never presented any
evidence subject to challenge that substantiates their claim that Mr.
Ray assassinated Dr. King.
US corporate media did not cover the trial, interview the King
family, and textbooks omit this information. Journalist and author,
James Douglass: [71]
“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?” ”
For comparison, please consider the
media coverage of O.J. Simpson’s trials: [72]
“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.”
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.
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.
Source: RT
