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My curiosity about Dr. King's assassination was acutely aroused in January of 1994 when I went to The
Memphis Commercial Appeal in mid January to get a back issue of their December 1993 Christmas week
paper. While the CA clerk retrieved a copy of the paper for me from storage I began looking through the
CA's book, I AM A MAN, for sale there at their counter. It is a picture book of the Memphis Sanitation
Workers strike of 1968, the reason for Dr. King's presence in Memphis when he was shot. Page 101 is a
picture of the murder scene.

In this picture Dr. King is lying on his back on the walkway with his feet stuck beneath the wrought iron
balcony railing. His legs are bent at his knees forming an inverted "V"; his back lying flat on the walkway
that turns left and passes the side of room 306 where he was staying. The balcony turns right again at
room 307, which is offset from room 306 by a distance of nearly the length of the room. I belabor this
point because it is important to know the physical layout of the rooms to determine where Dr. King was
actually lying immediately after being shot.
I had no prior knowledge that day in mid January of 1994 that the CA's book I AM A MAN existed. But I
left the CA with their book and newspaper less some twenty-five dollars and went to the city library
located at Peabody & McLean to do some genealogy research. As I passed a display of books about Dr.
King in the library's history department one book caught my attention, The FBI & Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., by Mark Lane. Picking it up I opened it to within about three pages of Dr. Jerry Francisco's autopsy
report testimony he gave at Ray's trial about a year after the murder.

Dr. Francisco stated that the death bullet entered Dr. King's body on the right side of his face, traveled
downward right to left through his neck, and lodged beneath the skin close to his left shoulder blade. That
information is consistent with where the eyewitnesses (one of whom is Reverend Andrew Young) in the
murder scene are pointing. Finding this interesting I went to a copy machine and copied the page with Dr.
Francisco's statement regarding his autopsy report.
In the murder picture Rev. Young is actually looking in the direction of his pointing finger, but I couldn't
see any rooming house where he or the others with him were pointing. Page 107 of I AM A MAN is a
picture of the Lorraine Motel taken from inside the bathroom window of the rooming house.
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The write-up on page 106 about this picture says "Officers soon discovered the bathroom window at 418
1/2 S. Main through which they say James Earl Ray aimed when he shot Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Also
on page 106 there is a statement made by Charlie Stephens who lived in the room next to the one rented OilPrice.com
by Ray. Stephens is quoted here as having said this after he heard the shot: "I went to the door and
walked out into the hall. I could see the man in the offset in the hall. He had in his hand something Wikio
wrapped in a newspaper." Even though Stephens doesn't mention Ray by his name its obvious that Ray
is the person to whom he refers.
My curiosity now fully aroused I left the library and went home, got my Pentax K1000 camera and a
supply of film, and drove directly to the Lorraine Motel which was then open to the public as the National
Civil Rights Museum. There I found Miss Jackie Smith living on the street in her 5th year of boycotting the
museum. It was she who pointed out the bathroom window of the rooming house from where police
officers claimed Dr. King was shot. It was not even close to where Andrew Young and the other witnesses
were pointing! I used two rolls of film that day taking pictures of the area from the street, the courtyard of
the museum, and the Lorraine balcony.
Over the next few weeks I used up several more rolls of film photographing the area. Twice I paid the
entrance fee and was allowed to use my camera inside the museum. On my third trip to the museum the
employees were very helpful. One of them took me up directly to room 307 and unlocked the door and we
went out on the balcony where I used up another roll of film. Incidentally, room 307 is the one next to
room 306 (Rev. King's room) where the offset of the rest of the rooms begins.
This museum employee who escorted me to the balcony even posed for me pointing exactly like the
eyewitnesses are pointing in the murder picture. I put several of these together to form a panorama.
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These pictures were taken during the summer when the trees behind the rooming house were in full leaf.
Consequently none of the rooming house is visible in my panorama. I was never able to get the museum
employees to cooperate with me again to take pictures from the balcony during the winter when all the
leaves were gone.
One of my photographs I took from the Lorraine balcony is a wide-angle view. The bathroom window of the
rooming house is visible in this picture because I got it when there were no leaves on the trees.

When I took this picture in January of 1994 it didn't occur to me to take enough shots to make a
panorama. It is among the first pictures I took when I didn't know what I was looking for. The blue tiled
facade of the museum entrance was blocking my view of a building in the direction where the
eyewitnesses were pointing when the murder scene picture was taken. So I took a few steps backward
until it came into view and then I took my wide-angle picture. I still didn't know what it was even after I saw
the developed photo, but it didn't take me long to find out that it was the top of the Fred P. Gattis building
elevator shaft. This part of the Gattis Building is actually a penthouse that houses the motor and control
equipment for its freight elevator.

There are two structures in the murder scene photo in the direction where the eyewitnesses were
pointing. The closest one is a chimney on the rear wall of the Lorraine Hotel where the Lorraine Motel
building begins. The farthest one is the Gattis penthouse. My telephoto shot of the penthouse shows that
it was a perfect location for an assassin to fire on Dr. King from and not be seen. The hotel chimney was
much too small and too close to accommodate a killer in such a manner (as the Gattis penthouse) that
he wouldn't be seen. The Gattis penthouse is obviously the only structure in the entire area whose
location supports the eyewitnesses' silent testimony and Dr. Francisco's autopsy report. The bathroom
window where police officers claimed the bullet was fired from obviously does not support the
eyewitnesses' pointing fingers or the doctor's autopsy report. James Earl Ray could not have been in two
places at the same time (1) the rooming house, and (2) on top of the Gattis penthouse. Obviously,
someone other than Ray was the killer and he fired on Dr. King from atop the Gattis penthouse.
From my collection of photos I produced five pages of pictures of my discovery, and a three-page
explanatory document. Each page is numbered, and each photo is numbered and identified for cross-
reference to the written document.

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Attorney William Pepper, Ray's London based lawyer, was in Memphis in April of 1994. One Sunday
evening I received a phone call from a private investigator, Kenneth Herman, who was working for Pepper
and his associate attorney, Wayne Chastain. They had learned of my discovery and wanted to see what I
had. I had provided Jackie Smith a copy of my pictures and document shortly after I completed them. I
learned from her that someone in the Memphis Police department, another private investigator from
Jackson, Mississippi, and someone from Twentieth Century Fox had been there and asked her for copies
of my work.
I can't say where Pepper & Chastain or the others heard about it. Anyway, I met with Pepper and
Chastain later that same Sunday when Herman called me. I hand passed Pepper a copy of the same five
pages of photographs and document that I gave Jackie Smith and carefully explained it all to him and
Chastain. I never heard anything more from either of them, but I did visit with Herman twice at his home.
He was interested then, but a year or so later when I called him he was very rude. He let me know that he
was no longer interested in Dr. King's murder because nobody was paying him for his services.
Pepper's book Orders to Kill, his conspiracy theory first edition, was printed in 1995. I bought a copy in
1996 after discovering it in a bookstore at Corpus Christi, Texas. Pepper had been in possession of my
photographs and three-page document for about a year before his book was published, but he made no
mention of any of my material in his book. However, I found a map of the murder area, a photo of Dr.
King's body lying in the morgue with the shape of the bullet showing beneath the skin on his left shoulder
blade, and comments about the bullet being all in one piece when it was removed. The bullet I've seen in
TV specials and in Pepper's book is in three pieces.

The bullet I've seen in TV specials and in Pepper's book is in three pieces. It's a mystery to me that the
death bullet is claimed to have been in one piece when removed from the body, sent to the FBI in one
piece, but came back from the FBI in three pieces.
The map in Pepper's book shows the geographical layout of the murder location, with the exception of the
Gattis Building penthouse. It also shows where the bushes and trees behind the rooming house are
located. So I made two copies of the map, enlarged them, and drew in the Gattis Building. I marked the
maps to show the penthouse, the rooming house, the Lorraine balcony, and a Memphis fire station
communication tower at Main Street and Butler Avenue toward the left of the balcony.

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The fire station tower is considerably higher than the penthouse and the balcony. I mention it for this
reason: If there was a conspiracy in Dr. King's murder there would be the possibility that someone with
access to the top of the communications tower would have observed that the penthouse overlooks the
balcony.

But my writing is not to promote conspiracy theories. It is to show certain facts that were missed during
investigations. My triangulations drawn in Pepper's map show that the trees and bushes behind the
rooming house do not block the view between any two of the three buildings I mention, the Penthouse,
the balcony, and the fire station tower. However, the tree does completely block the view of the balcony
from the rooming house when it has leaves on it, and partly when it is bare.

The city cut down the trees and bushes the day after the murder so there may not be any pictures that
show how much foliage there was. But it was April and people were walking around in their shirt sleeves
at the murder location shortly after Dr. King was shot. A police officer was also standing in front of the
rooming house in his shirt sleeves guarding a bundle of things allegedly belonging to James Earl Ray.
See page 105, I AM A MAN.

I mention this because it shows that the temperatures were warm enough for trees to start putting forth
leaves and the possibility that they blocked the view of the balcony from the rooming house. The city cut
down the trees & bushes the day after the murder, but they grew back. So the tree in my pictures isn't
the same tree that was growing there the day Dr. King was killed, but it is (or rather was) growing where it
blocks the view as my pictures show. In 1999 the City of Memphis again cleared the trees and bushes
from behind the rooming house as it did April 5, 1968.

A Commercial Appeal article of 5-7-98 tells about the museum's plans to take in the rooming house and
some other buildings on South Main Street to expand its exhibits. Mr. Ellis Chappell had owned and lived
in the rooming house for some twenty years where he had his art studio, as I understand the CA's article.

This article about Chappell and the museum's intentions to take his building for expansion purposes
appeared only two days after Janet Reno made her 5-6-98 appearance at the Memphis museum. (More
about that later). I called Chappell on the phone the following Saturday morning and talked with him for
about a half-hour. He was very upset over his predicament. As I recall he informed me that he had the
options of either selling out to the museum or face having his building condemned by the City of Memphis
to get him out. It was also my understanding that he wasn't being offered a good price for his property.
The CA article also had this to say about the intended purchase of Chappell's property: "Autozone
founder and civil rights benefactor J. R. Pitt 'Hyde' Jr. intends to buy Chappell's building and donate it to
the Lorraine Foundation, which operates the museum, said Beverly Robertson, museum executive
director."
June 2, 1997 I wrote to Ray at River Bend Prison at Nashville, TN where he was incarcerated. I let him
know about my discovery and sent him copies of some of my photos.
I also told him about a Commercial Appeal story of 4-10-97 about a three-judge panel in Memphis that
wanted to see evidence of his innocence before they would consider reopening his case. (Only judge Joe
Brown is mentioned in this 4-1-97 CA article).

I received a letter from Ray dated 6-15-97 giving me the names of attorneys William Pepper and Wayne
Chastain indicating that he wanted me to give my discovery to them. I wrote to Ray again on 6-18-97 and
informed him that Pepper and Chastain had had my discovery material since April of 1994. After that I
received a second letter from Ray asking me if he could call me as a witness if his case should be
reopened. I wrote to Ray again agreeing to appear for him as a witness.
The Memphis CA's story 4-10-97 story also mentions that Ray had a defense attorney named Jack
McNeil. (Fourth paragraph). Their story says that McNeil was pleased with the three-judge ruling and that
Ray's defense team was expected in court at the end of the week. Ray told me in his letter of 6-15-97
that he never heard of Jack McNeil except in the papers. Ray got McNeil's name wrong in his letter to
me. He wrote McCain, but it's spelled right in the newspapers and in my letter to him.
As for the scientific evidence that three judge panel wanted to see, these things are day-one
documentation, (1) the eyewitnesses fingers pointing at the Gattis penthouse and, (2) Dr. Francisco's
autopsy description of the bullet through Dr. King's body that agrees with the eyewitnesses' pointing
fingers.
After my correspondence with Ray I received a phone call from another lawyer, Andrew Hall, who said he
was representing Ray. He wanted to know if I had any expertise in criminology. I sent him a copy of my
materials, but never heard from him again. Hall was later mentioned several times in the Memphis
Commercial Appeal.
Ray died in prison April 23, 1997, at age 70 without ever seeing his case reopened, only ten months after
I first wrote to him
Pepper was eventually interviewed on ABC's TV Turning Point. In his interview Pepper was questioned
about claims he made of a U.S. Government conspiracy to kill Dr. King, and particularly about Major Billy
Eidson who he said was in charge of it. Pepper confirmed his accusations to ABC's host, Forrest
Sawyer. Sawyer then called Billy Eidson and Former U.S. General Henry Cobb into the conference room
for a face to face meeting with Eidson's accuser, William Pepper. General Cobb had charge of the 20th
Special Services Group in Alabama & Major Eidson was under his command. Cobb and Eidson disputed
Pepper's claim of their being involved in any conspiracy. Pepper thought Eidson was dead when he wrote
accusations about him in his "conspiracy" book, Orders to Kill, but he was very much alive. Major Eidson
filed suit against Pepper for libel in Charleston, South Carolina in 1997 according to a Memphis
Commercial Appeal article of 03-09-99.

New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell was also interviewed on ABC's Turning Point program, which aired
the same evening as Pepper's interview. Caldwell talked about Dr. King's driver Solomon Jones telling him
that he (Jones) saw someone in the bushes and saw the "puff of smoke from the shot being fired from
there," however, modern ammunition uses a charge of smokeless powder.
During these past six years I have reported my discovery to the authorities from Memphis to Washington,
DC, including President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno. I have had no response from any of
them except Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist and ABC News 20/20.
They indicated that they weren't interested. My letter to Reno was sent to her on June 12, 1997. Although
I didn't hear anything from her I learned from Jackie Smith that she was in Memphis at the museum on
Tuesday, May 5, 1998. Her picture appeared in the Memphis Commercial May 6. I arrived in Memphis the
next day to visit my daughters and grandchildren. Miss Smith informed me then that Reno walked out on
the balcony looking over the murder area. In the CA photo Reno is pictured with Dr. Benjamin Hooks,
museum board chairman, and Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles. The three of them are looking out the window over
the wreath that marks the balcony where Dr. King was shot to death. The room they are in is 307. Dr.
King's room was 306.
Now as a matter of interest, there aren't three levels of rooms in the Lorraine, and there never were. Miss
Jackie Smith informed me that the Lorraine Hotel's rental rooms started at 100 on the second floor
because the ground level consisted of a restaurant, offices, and some guest rooms for their personal
friends. When the Motel was constructed the ground level rooms started at 200 and the upper level rooms
started at 300.
Last June 1999 I was in Memphis again visiting my daughters & grandchildren. Late one evening I was
with my daughter Terri at an office supplies store on Union when I ran into Dr. Benjamin Hooks and his
wife Mrs. Frances Hooks. With Terri looking on I took the liberty of showing them my two wallet sized
photos of: (1) the murder scene, and (2) my wide angle picture of the murder area. After briefly explaining
to them that these photos tell a different story about where the fatal bullet was fired from, I asked Dr.
Hooks if he had any interest in my discovery. He told me "No."
Among those to whom I have sent my discovery materials from which I have had no response are:
April 30, 1997, Mrs. Corretta Scott King.
Life Magazine, owner of the murder scene photograph, 6-7-97
Memphis Mayor, W. W. Herendon, 5-13-97
The Commercial Appeal, 6-21-97
Memphis Judge Joe Brown, 5-12-97
Modern Maturity Magazine, 5-22-97 (Because they ran a story about Dr. King's murder featuring Rev.
Andrew Young, one of the eyewitnesses in the murder photograph)
Janet Reno, 6-12-97
President Clinton, 6-18-97
With as much interest as these have publicly shown in Dr. King's murder I thought that by now I would
have had some positive acknowledgments, but I haven't. However, besides all these people to whom I
have showed this evidence I have also shown it to some police officers, doctors, lawyers, ministers,
personal friends, family members, and complete strangers, not a few. So far I have not had one
disagreeing comment from anybody to whom I have personally shown this evidence. I have given this
information free to everybody I have contacted. It is not for sale. All my letters to these people have been
sent by certified mail - at my personal expense. I have not made any accusations or issued any
conspiracy theories as others have done, nor do I intend to.
NEW! Letter from Jackie Smith.

Jackie Smith, the homeless lady mentioned in the article above, read about herself at this web site and
sent Ted Wilburn the following letter.
FLORIDA MINISTER SAYS THAT HIS FATHER, NOT JAMES EARL RAY, WAS THE "TRIGGERMAN"
IN THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
RAOUL PROVEN!
This just in from Reuter's
Tuesday March 24 11:07 AM EST
New Evidence Revealed in King Assassination
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A former FBI agent who investigated the 1968
assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was to present on
Tuesday what he claimed was evidence never before disclosed in the case.
Donald Wilson, who left the FBI in 1987, was one of two agents who on April
10, 1968, impounded a white Ford Mustang belonging to James Earl Ray, who
confessed to the killing but later recanted, saying the case was a conspiracy
involving federal agents.
Wilson said Monday he found and kept two slips of paper from the car, which
was found in Atlanta's Capitol Homes housing project, that may support Ray's
claim of a government conspiracy in the April 4, 1968, assassination.
"This is very significant," King's son, Dexter King, told The Atlanta
Constitution. "The evidence that he has will go a long way toward disputing the
official story."
Ray, 70, was sentenced to life in prison for killing King He has been diagnosed
with liver cancer. The King family said it supports his request for a new trial.
Wilson said he did not reveal the evidence earlier because he did not trust
some of the investigators in the case. He said he also feared for his family.
He said he contacted the King family after hearing the slain civil rights leader's
wife Coretta Scott King ask Tennessee officials in 1997 to let Ray's case go to
trial.
Wilson, who heads a career management company, was to present the
evidence to Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard because the
documents were found in Atlanta and Howard has jurisdiction.
CNN - THE JAMES EARL RAY RIFLE DID NOT FIRE THE BULLET
THAT KILLED MARTIN LUTHER KING!
July 11, 1997
Web posted at: 11:47 a.m. EDT (1547 GMT)
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (CNN) -- Markings on some of the test bullets fired from the rifle believed used in
the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. do not match the markings on the bullet that killed King, according to
an affidavit filed by confessed killer James Earl Ray's attorneys.
The results of bullet tests, conducted in May, were read in court by Judge Joseph Brown .
Lawyers for Ray, who sought the tests in a bid to prove his innocence, are asking Brown to approve
additional tests on Ray's .30-06 hunting rifle .
"A comparison was conducted of the bullet material removed from Dr. King with the 12 test bullets that
could be adequately analyzed," Brown said, reading from a report on the test firings.
"This comparison revealed that the gross and unique characteristic signature left on the 12 test bullets by
the James Earl Ray rifle was not present on the death bullet."
IF JAMES EARL RAY DID NOT KILL MARTIN

LUTHER KING, THEN WHO DID?
PART 1: COINTELPRO
Back in the 60's, the FBI's COINTELPRO program specifically targeted the civil rights movement for
harassment and disruption. Not lawful investigation, but actual criminal acts committed by the FBI
designed to deny the black population (along with Native Americans, the anti-war movement, and the
early feminist movement) their civil rights.
That no limits were set on the type of actions directed against the central figures of the civil rights
movement is illustrated by the following quote from an FBI document made public by the Freedom Of
Information Act.
"Concerning the first proposal submitted by Detroit, counterintelligence action
by San Francisco to capitalize on Huey P. Newton's favorable stand toward
homosexuals has already been authorized by the Bureau. The second Detroit
proposal to consider directing an anonymous communication to Newton
accusing David Hilliard of stealing BPP funds and depositing them in foreign
banks does have merit and the Bureau does not concur with San Francisco's
observation that this would have little effect since there is no record that
Hilliard is skimming large amounts of money. Purpose of counterintelligence
action is to disrupt BPP and it is immaterial whether facts exist to
substanciate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the sucess of the
proposal but the Bureau feels that the skimming of money of money is such a
sensitive issue that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it
up."
-from Sept. 16, 1970 Airtel from Hoover informing his COINTELPRO operatives
that outright lies were appropiate content for anonymous letters.
Among the "outright lies" committed by the FBI against the civil rights movement was a fraudulent
coloring book distributed by the FBI but blamed on the Black Panthers by the all-too-willing media. Scans
of the book are at http://whatreallyhappened.com/~rivero/POLITICS/COINTELPRO/coloring.html.
The coloring book was chosen because this attack came long before the Black Panthers became
militant, when their primary activities were the 60's equivilent of food banks, free food for children, and the
desire for local control of the schools.
The fact that mostly white households were receiving the coloring book in the mail should have been the
tipoff that the coloring book was not what it was claimed to be. But those were innocent days, when the
true nature of our government was still well hidden from the general population, and the media was always
assumed to tell the truth (those days are forever gone as the last poll taken shows that the media is
trusted by only 5% of all Americans).
The coloring book was filled (as you san see at the above URL) with highly racist, overtly anti-white and
anti-police illustrations that so angered the white population that they stopped listening to the black's
legitimate political grievences, which is what the FBI intended. The manufactured image of the Black
Panthers as racists educating their children to hate whites legitimized open political repression.
Individuals who had become prominant supporters of the civil rights movement were targeted for similar
"outright lies". No more tragic example exists than the FBI's scheme to deliberatly ruin the career of
actress Jean Seberg, a vocal and financial supporter of civil rights.
Jean Seberg, a well known actress in the 60s, starred in such films as "Saint Joan", "Airport", "Dead of
Summer", "Paint Your Wagon", "Pendulum", "A Fine Madness", "Moment to Moment", "Lilith", and "The
Mouse That Roared" along with dozens of films made in France. Jean Seberg was married to French
Diplomat Romain Gary and was carrying his child when the Los Angeles office of the FBI sent the
following memo to Washington D.C.
"Bureau permission is requested to publicize the pregnancy of Jean Seberg,
well-known movie actress by (name deleted) Black Panther (BPP) (deleted) by
advising Hollywood "Gossip-Columnists" in the Los Angeles area of the
situation. It is felt that the possible publication of Seberg's plight could cause
her embarrassment and serve to cheapen her image with the general public.
" 'It is proposed that the following letter from a fictitious person be sent to local
columinists:
"I was just thinking about you and remembered I still owe you a favor. So ---- I
was in Paris last week and ran into Jean Seberg, who was heavy with baby. I
thought she and Romaine [sic] had gotten together again, but she confided the
child belonged to (deleted) of the Black Panthers, one (deleted). The dear girl
is getting around!
" 'Anyway, I thought you might get a scoop on the others. Be good and I'll see
you soon.
'Love,
" 'Sol.,
"Usual precautions would be taken by the Los Angeles Division to preclude
identification of the Bureau as the source of the letter if approval is granted."
(Note the comment about "usual precautions"; yet another indicator that such smear campaigns, then
and now, are common operations).
Permission was granted (but with the suggestion that the smear be delayed until Jean Seberg's
pregnancy was in a very obvious condition), and the rumor started by Los Angeles Times propagandist
Joyce Haber. The story was picked up by Newsweek and the international press. The shock of the story
was so severe that Jean Seberg suffered a miscarriage. The funeral for the child was held with an open
casket, so that the lie stood revealed in it's most tragic form. Jean Seberg, her baby dead and her career
shattered by this outright lie, attempted suicide several times, finally succeeding in a French Hotel.
(The name which was redacted from the above memo during the FOIA process is thought by many to
have been Raymond Hewit, a Black Panther leader. His "outright lie" was far more direct. The FBI typed
up a letter on official FBI stationary identifying Hewit as an informant and planted it where other Black
Panthers would find it in the hopes that Hewit would then be killed.)
Following Seberg's death, the Los Angeles Times, the key instrument of her torment, issued a statement
by the FBI.
"The days when the FBI used derogatory information to combat advocates of
unpopular causes have long since passed. We are out of that business
forever."
The Senate committee that looked into COINTELPRO disagreed, however.
"Cointelpro activities may continue today under the rubric of 'investigation.'
(From my own experiences in Hollywood following my interest in the Vincent Foster murder, I can attest
that the Senate committee has a far more accurate grasp of reality. Threats, smears, and blacklisting are
still the tools of choice for the FBI.)
Disinformation was not the limit of the FBI's tactics against the civil rights movement. While officially
critical of the KKK, the FBI's "White Hate" program let it be known that KKK attacks against certain
black leadership targets would not result in any reprisals.
All of the covertness and subterfuge was to allow COINTELPRO to stifle dissent while maintaining the
illusion that the nation was a democracy with a still-functioning Bill Of Rights. However, no matter how
many times the word "Democracy" gets drummed into our ears as we grow up, common sense will tell
you that the mere existence of a secret police force, able, willing, and permitted to destroy the lives of
citizens at will, proves we live in a dictatorship.
PART 2: MARTIN LUTHER KING

No single figure of the "unpopular" civil rights movement attracted the ire of the FBI more than Martin
Luther King. Several attempts were made to discredit him and to drive him to suicide so that a more
"tractable" synthetic leader could be manufactured to take his place; someone who would provide a focus
for the black population, but who who could be counted on not to cross certain lines (and I note that when
the children of Dr. King went public with their belief that James Earl Ray was actually innocent, the most
vocal criticism of them came from the Reverend Jesse Jackson).
Martin Luther King first became a target of the FBI following the riots in Albany, Georgia, when the New
York Times ran an article critical of the overt racism the FBI was demonstrating, and Dr. King went on
record as agreeing with that assessment.
Notice that in all cases, the appellation "hate-group" was used as psychological justification for the
actions being undertaken, even against clearly pacifist organizations such as Dr. King's.
SAC, Albany August 25, 1967 PERSONAL ATTENTION TO ALL OFFICES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [From] Director, FBI
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BLACK NATIONALIST - HATE
GROUPS INTERNAL SECURITY [...] The purpose of this new
counterintelligence endeavor is to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or
OTHERWISE NEUTRALIZE [emphasis added] the activities of black
nationalist hate-type organizations and groupings, their leadership,
spokesmen, membership, and supporters, and to counter their propensity for
violence and civil disorder. The activities of all such groups of intelligence
interest to the Bureau must be followed on a continuous basis so we will be in
a position to promptly take advantage of all opportunities for
counterintelligence and inspire action in instances where circumstances
warrant. The pernicious background of such groups, their duplicity, and
devious maneuvers must be exposed to public scrutiny where such publicity
will have a neautralizing effect. Efforts of the various groups to consolidate
their forces or to recruit new or youthful adherents must be frustrated. NO
OPPORTUNITY SHOULD BE MISSED TO EXPLOIT THROUGH
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND
PERSONAL CONFLICTS OF THE LEADERSHIPS OF THE GROUPS AND
WHERE POSSIBLE AN EFFORT SHOULD BE MADE TO CAPITALIZE
UPON EXISTING CONFLICTS BETWEEN COMPETING BLACK
NATIONALIST ORGANIZATIONS. [emphasis added] When an opportunity is
apparent to disrupt or NEUTRALIZE [emphasis added] black nationalist, hate-
type organizations through the cooperation of established local news media
contacts or through such contact with sources available to the Seat of
Government [Hoover's office]*, in every instance careful attention must be
given to the proposal to insure the targetted group is disrupted, ridiculed, or
discredited through the publicity and not merely publicized... You are also
cautioned that the nature of this new endeavor is such that UNDER NO
CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD THE EXISTENCE OF THE PROGRAM BE
MADE KNOWN OUTSIDE THE BUREAU [emphasis added] and appropriate
within-office security should be afforded to sensitive operations and techniques
considered under the program. No counterintelligence action under this
program may be initiated
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
by the field without specific prior Bureau authorization. [Emphasis in orig.]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -
-- * [EDITOR'S NOTE: "Seat of Government" (SOG) is an official designation
created by J. Edgar Hoover to refer to his own office. Hoover was director of
the FBI for some 40 years, even receiving a special exemption from
compulsory retirement by President Ford (blackmailable because of the same
reason he was appointed Vice President under Nixon; his connections to the
coverup of the JFK assassination). The "SOG" appelation is indicative of his
egotistical view of his power, which saw presidents come and go.]
PART 3: THE ASSASINATION

Years later, the growth and popularity of the civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King's
persistant ability to survive the various COINTELPRO operations launched against him, prompted this
memo.
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BLACK NATIONALIST - HATE
GROUPS RACIAL INTELLIGENCE 3/4/68 [...] GOALS ~~~~~ For maximum
effectiveness of the Counterintelligence Program, and to prevent wasted effort,
long-range goals are being set. 1. Prevent the COALITION of militant black
nationalist groups. In unity there is strength; a truism that is no less valid for all
its triteness. An effective coalition of black nationalist groups might be the
first step toward a real "Mau Mau" [Black revolutionary army] in America, the
beginning of a true black revolution. 2. Prevent the RISE OF A "MESSIAH"
who could unify, and electrify, the militant black nationalist movement.
Malcolm X might have been such a "messiah;" he is the martyr of the
movement today. Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Elijah
Muhammed all aspire to this position. Elijah Muhammed is less of a threat
because of his age. King could be a very real contender for this position
should he abandon his supposed "obedience" to "white, liberal doctrines"
(nonviolence) and embrace black nationalism. Carmichael has the necessary
charisma to be a real threat in this way. 3. Prevent VIOLENCE on the part of
black nationalist groups. This is of primary importance, and is, of course, a
goal of our investigative activity; it should also be a goal of the
Counterintelligence Program to pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize
them before they exercise their potential for violence. 4. Prevent militant black
nationalist groups and leaders from gaining RESPECTABILITY, by discrediting
them to three separate segments of the community. The goal of discrediting
black nationalists must be handled tactically in three ways. You must discredit
those groups and individuals to, first, the responsible Negro community.
Second, they must be discredited to the white community, both the
responsible community and to "liberals" who have vestiges of sympathy for
militant black nationalist [sic] simply because they are Negroes. Third, these
groups must be discredited in the eyes of Negro radicals, the followers of the
movement. This last area requires entirely different tactics from the first two.
Publicity about violent tendencies and radical statements merely enhances
black nationalists to the last group; it adds "respectability" in a different way.
5. A final goal should be to prevent the long-range GROWTH of militant black
organizations, especially among youth. Specific tactics to prevent these
groups from converting young people must be developed. [...] TARGETS
~~~~~~~ Primary targets of the Counterintelligence Program, Black
Nationalist-Hate Groups, should be the most violent and radical groups and
their leaders. We should emphasize those leaders and organizations that are
nationwide in scope and are most capable of disrupting this country. These
targets, members, and followers of the: Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) NATION OF ISLAM (NOI) [emphasis
added] Offices handling these cases and those of Stokely Carmichael of
SNCC, H. Rap Brown of SNCC, Martin Luther King of SCLC, Maxwell Stanford
of RAM, and Elijah Muhammed of NOI, should be alert for counterintelligence
suggestions. [...] J. Edgar Hoover ----- [SOURCE: Brian Glick,
_The_War_At_Home: _Covert_Action_Against_U.S._
Activists_And_What_We_Can_Do_About_It_ (Boston: South End Press,
1989) ISBN: 0-89608-349-7.]
On April 4th, 1968, one month after the above memo was sent out by Hoover, Martin Luther King was in
Memphis Tennessee, trying to pick up the pieces of a peace march that on March 28th had been
disrupted by a gang of agents provocateur called "The Invaders," later revealed to be connected with
COINTELPRO.
When Martin Luther King announced his return to Memphis, the FBI, with direct approval of J. Edgar
Hoover, circulated to friendly press contacts a memo riducling Martin Luther King for staying at the white-
owned Holiday Inn instead of the Motel Lorraine, which was black-owned. King fell for the ruse and
booked himself into a ground floor room at the motel. An unknown individual, claiming to be King's
advance man, changed the booking to the second floor room with the balcony, claiming that King liked to
look at swimming pools.
This new room, in the rear of the building and facing open alleys, was a security disaster, wide open to
sniper fire from numerous angles.
At 6PM, while standing on the balcony and speaking to his driver, Martin Luther King was shot and killed.
Conveniently placed individuals immediately pointed to the bathroom window of Bessie Brewer's boarding
house. Those individuals who claimed that the shot had been fired from a hedge next to the building were
ignored and ridiculed. James Earl Ray was arrested, urged to confess by his lawyer, then retracted his
confession. He is still in jail, at present dying of liver desease (but probably not fast enough to suit the
FBI).
There are numerous reaosns to doubt the official story.
1. James Earl Ray, not unlike his lone-nut cousin Lee Harvey Oswald, was a poor shot in the Army.
2. At Ray's evidentiary hearing, a former FBI ballistics expert testified that not even the most skilled
gunman could have accurately fired a rifle in the manner claimed by the government prosecution.
According to the expert, to effectively line up the rifle for such a shot, the butt of the rifle would have had
to stick six inches into the wall. The prosecution countered that Ray had contorted himself into position
around the bathtub in order to make the kill shot, which seems equally incredulous.
3. After the assassination, Wayne Chastain, a reporter at the Memphis Press Scimitar, came across
an unpublished Associated Press photograph in the newspaper's files which was taken from the boarding
house bathroom window, through which Ray allegedly shot King. The sniper's view was obscured by
branches from trees growing between the boarding house and the Motel Lorraine. The City of Memphis
ordered the sanitation department to cut those trees down shortly after the assassination, making it
impossible to conclusively determine how the tree branches may have interfered in a shot fired from the
boarding house bathroom. (Students of one of the other assassinations from that period, that of President
John F. Kennedy, will recall how the government of Dallas almost immediately replaced and relocated all
the street signs in Dealey Plaza, some of which were reported to have had bullet holes).
4. Only one witness claimed to have seen Ray leaving the boarding house bathroom, a man named
Charles Stephens. According to two other sources, Stephens was extremely inebriated at the time. The
first three descriptions Stephens gave didn't resemble Ray at all--in fact, Stephens' first two descriptions
of the alleged assassin were of a black man. Stephens admitted that he did not get a good look at the
alleged assassin. It wasn't until the FBI paid $30,000 in bar tabs for Stephens that he fingered Ray as the
hit man. Charles Stephens, it should be noted, did not see the actual shooting. According to another
witness, Stephens was busy urinating in some bushes when the killing actually occured.
5. Two other witnesses saw someone leaving the boarding house bathroom. One witness, Bessie
Brewer, the owner of the boarding house, could not identify the individual and refused to identify Ray as
the man she had rented a room to. The other witness, Stephens' common law wife Grace, said she did
get a good look at him, and that it was definitely not James Earl Ray. Grace's drunken husband became
the preferred witness. Grace was committed to a mental institution. According to her lawyer, C.M.
Murphy, she was committed illegally, and after she was committed, the Memphis prosecutors removed
her records from the hospital. After years of imprisonment under heavy sedation, Grace still refused to
recant her story.
6. In addition to Brewer, two other witnesses at the boarding house insisted that the man who rented
Ray's room looked nothing like James Earl Ray.
7. Less than two minutes after the fatal shot was fired, a bundle containing the 30.06 Remington rifle
allegedly used in the assassination and some of Ray's belongings was conveniently found in the doorway
of the Canipe Amusement Company next door to the boarding house. Ray would have had to fire the shot
that killed King from his contorted position in the bathroom, exit the sniper's nest, go to his room to
collect his belongings and wrap and tie it all in a bundle, leave his room, run down the stairs and out of
the boarding house, stash the bundle next door, and then get away from the scene unnoticed--all within
two minutes! (Again, students of the JFK assassination will recognize a familier pattern in the
superhuman running skills attributed to the patsy).
8. A service station manager told an investigator for Ray's defense team that he saw Ray several
blocks from the boarding house at the time of the shooting. He was stabbed soon after he started talking
to the defense team. After changing his story about his involvement in the assassination, Ray himself
was stabbed while in the library of the Brushy Mountain Prison.
9. Martin Luther King's brother, an excellent swimmer, was found drowned in his pool following Martin
Luther King's assassination.
10. Finally and most telling, the FBI lab was never able to ballistically match the bullet recovered from
the body of Martin Luther King with the James Earl Ray rifle conventiantly found in the doorway.
PART 4: THE JAMES EARL RAY RIFLE

The only basis for James Earl Ray's imprisonment is his confession, one offered under coercion by his
court-appointed attorney and immediately retracted. There exists no evidence at all that James Earl Ray
was the killer of Martin Luther King.
James Earl Ray is now trying to avail himself of a Tennessee law which allows the re-opening of his case
in the face of new investigative technologies that might exhonorate him. Here was the initial CNN story
(quoted under "Fair Use").
Bullet test results due in King assassination evidence May 21, 1997 Web
posted at: 3:14 p.m. EDT (1914 GMT) CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP,
Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Criminal experts might know by the end of the day
whether James Earl Ray Jr.'s hunting rifle was the murder weapon that killed
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Technicians at the CamScan laboratory were to use
a powerful scanning electron microscope to zoom in on markings made on
bullets test-fired from the hunting rifle found with Ray's fingerprints on it near
the Memphis motel where King was slain in 1968. The test bullets are to be
compared to a bullet taken from King's body. If tests prove Ray's rifle was not
the murder weapon, he can ask for a hearing on his assertion of innocence.
The results, however, may not be released until June. Eighteen test bullets
were fired from Ray's .30-06 Remington rifle last week in Rhode Island and
taken to the CamScan lab near Pittsburgh for the analysis.
The tests were completed a month later. Had they concluded that the rifle owned by James Earl Ray had
indeed fired the bullet that killed Dr. Martin Luther King, I think it's safe to say that it would have been
page one news across the country. Instead, the release of the results has been continually put off, and
now is on indefinate hold under the claim that new tests are needed because the rifle was not cleaned
properly.
Here is the latest CNN story (quoted under "Fair Use").
Sources: Tests fail to rule out King assassination rifle June 13, 1997 Web
posted at: 10:31 a.m. EDT (1031 GMT) Ray photo MEMPHIS, Tennessee
(CNN) -- Defense lawyers for James Earl Ray have requested a second test-
firing of the rifle believed to have killed Martin Luther King Jr., sources citing a
sealed affidavit told CNN. The defense made its request after testing last
month failed to rule out the rifle as the murder weapon, the sources said. The
results of those tests were to be released June 18, but could now be delayed.
Defense attorney William Pepper, contacted by phone Thursday, said the
defense request does not mean the test results are inconclusive. "The process
is still going on, so there are no conclusions," he said, adding that he could not
comment further due to a gag order on the case.
Note that the only actual statement made by the defense lawyer is that the tests were NOT inconclusive.
All else is attributed to "sources" and commentary about "sealed affidavits". Note also that a gag order
has been issued in this case.
The meaning of the hemming and hawing is clear. The test results are not something that the government
wishes We The People to be aware of. So, by decree, and with the willing complicity of the ministry of
truth (otherwise known as ABCNNBCBS), We The People will not be told.
We will not be told that the tests did not match the bullet that killed Martin Luther King with the rifle
owned by James Earl Ray. We will be given excuses, delays, obfuscations, and hopefully we will all
forget that tests even took place. Hopefully, James Earl Ray (who has spent his life behind bars solely for
the crime of trusting his court appointed attorney) will die soon and solve the government's problems.
The sealing of the affidavits, the issuance of a gag order, and the claim that the complete failure to match
the bullet to the rifle doesn't "rule out" the rifle as the murder weapon all underscores the scale of the big
lie being protected.
Ballistics tests are an either/or situation. Either the bullet matches or it doesn't. Either the James Earl
Ray rifle fired that bullet or it didn't. Legally, if it cannot be proven, it didn't happen.
A report leaked from the court confirms that the second set of ballistics tes showed that there is a
manufacturing defect in the James Eal Ray rifle that gouges any bullet it fires. That mark does NOT
appear on the bullet that killed Martin Luther King. When the judge ordered one more set of tests to make
sure, the Federal government, instead of complying with the court order, had the judge removed from the
case March 7th, 1998!
In the 60's, COINTELPRO, with the full knowledge and blessing of the political leadership, destroyed the
leadership of the civil rights movement, intentionally, covertly, and with malice aforethought.
In the present, the inheritors of COINTELPRO, with the full knowledge and blessing of the present political
leadership, still perpetuate the lies and coverups.
And all of Bill Clinton's postured "apology for slavery" does not change that fact. A photo-op is not
absolution.
What does it say about the reality of our nation when the secret police destroy careers and frame
innocent people, aided and abbetted by the media and the machinery of so-called law and order?
What does it say about the reality of our nation when a quarter of a century after the murder and frame up
took place, a government composed of entirely new individuals willfully perpetuates the lies of the past?
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