Monday, January 16, 2006
Execution of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Today is Martin Luther King Day in the U.S., a day to honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King. Today on WMNF, my favorite local radio station, I heard a wonderful interview of William Pepper, author of the book An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King. Dr. Pepper was the King Family's attorney in the 1999 legal trial King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Conspirators. The jury of that trial heard sufficient evidence to confirm that Martin Luther King was assassinated by a conspiracy that included Loyd Jowers and agencies of local, state and federal government. Nonetheless, the beliefs that James Earl Ray acted alone and killed Dr. King and that there was no conspiracy seem to live on despite the evidence to the contrary.
