4 Apr 2008

The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Also see:

A church minister says his father - not James Earl Ray - assassinated the Rev Martin Luther King jnr at a Memphis motel in 1968.

"My father was the main guy," Mr Wilson, 61, of Keystone Heights, north of Gainesville, Florida, said on Thursday.

"It wasn't a racist thing; he thought Martin Luther King was connected with communism, and he wanted to get him out of the way."

Mr Wilson said his father belonged to the Ku Klux Klan and took part in the beatings of black people. His father had also fired gunshots at houses in St Augustine, Florida, during King's visit there in 1963. "My dad told me James Earl Ray had nothing to do with the shooting other than to buy a rifle for them," the newspaper quoted Mr Wilson as saying. "My dad was the one who shot Dr King." (The Sydney Morning Herald)

But also read this:

MARTIN LUTHER KING - THE FATAL SHOT CAME FROM A DIFFERENT DIRECTION

a very impressive piece by Ted Wilburn. He had the courage not only to ask questions, but to find the answers when nobody else would.

Obama be warned... Scary stuff.