Conspiracy theory or worrying revealed Truth?

[PhilT]

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[GreyGeek]

Re: Conspiracy theory or worrying revealed Truth?

That is a video about the book by William F. Pepper, "an English barrister and an American lawyer. He convenes a seminar on International Human Rights at Oxford University. He maintains a practice in the U.S. and the U.K." In 2002 he gave a speech at a book review of his, then, newly released book, "Act of State". In the speech Pepper recounts what led him to first, doing a "Trial" for TV and later actually representing the King family in their trail against Loyd Jowers, a retired Memphis businessman who claimed six years ago that he paid someone other than confessed killer James Earl Ray to kill civil rights leader. Also named in the suit was the US Gov, Tennessee, Memphis, and several other individuals. On December 8, 1999 the Tennessee jury found that the 1968 assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the result of a murder conspiracy, and not the act of the James Earl Ray.

The motives for the assassination are also given by Pepper at talk given at Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, on February 4, 2003

Thank you. And good evening. This story actually begins with Vietnam in 1966. As a very much younger person I was there as a journalist and didn't publish anything whilst I was there, but waited until I got back to the United States. Then I wrote a number of articles. One of them appeared in a muckraking magazine called Ramparts, that had its home in this city, published by Warren Hinckle in those days. It was called "The Children of Vietnam." That is what started me down the slippery slope of the saga of Martin Luther King; his work during the last year, and his death. And then an investigation which has gone on since 1978.

When Martin King saw the Ramparts piece he was at a -- there are different stories of actually where he was -- but I think he was at Atlanta Airport on his way to the West Indies and he was traveling with Bernard Lee, his bodyguard. They were having a meal and he was going through his mail, according to Bernard, and he came upon this issue of Ramparts, January 1st, 1967. It had in it the piece that I wrote called "The Children of Vietnam." Bernard said as he started to thumb through it he stopped and was visibly moved. He pushed his food away. Bernard said, "What's the matter Martin, aren't you hungry? Is there something wrong with the food?" And he said, "No. I've lost my appetite. I may have lost the ability to appreciate food altogether until we end this wretched war."

Then he asked to meet with me and asked me to open my files to him that went well beyond what was published in the Ramparts piece in terms of photographs. Some of you probably saw, if you're old enough to remember, a number of those photographs. Portions of them used to appear on lampposts and windows of burned and deformed children. That was what gave him pause. He hadn't had a chance to read the text at that point but it was the photographs that stopped him.

What I found interesting is that the "Ramparts" magazine article King supposedly read while in the airport changed the direction of his civil rights activity and he began speaking out directly against the Vietnam war. I recalled MLK's shift from equal civil rights for Blacks to anti-war activities, primarily because, IIRC, Black soldiers were represented disproportionately in both their numbers and deaths. Pepper also mentions some planned activities about bringing Vietnamese children injured by American military activities to America for treatment and as political pawns. I found the mention of Ramparts interesting because I remembered that a current Right wing activist, David Horowitz, was a write for Ramparts, and the magazine's Washington correspondent was Brit Hume, now of the Fox News Channel. Wikipedia gives some interesting info on Ramparts.

Did James Earl Ray NOT kill Martin Luther King? MLK's family believes so and hired Pepper to represent them at the trial in Memphis, after the ABC docudrama "The Trial of MLK" was aired several years earlier. But, like the 9/11 conspiracy and other tin hat paranoias, the evidence appears to be on the other side. But, none of the other tin hat causes resulted in a trial that, if the accounts Pepper gives are accurate, resulted in a jury returning a guilty verdict in one hour.