Martin Luther King was another public figure that was assassinated for the martyr effect.  As the evidence below shows, the evidence of King's corruption, womanizing and Communist sympathies, we was becoming more a liability to the Civil Rights agenda than an asset.  It was only a matter of time before King's reputation would self-destruct.  By engineering his death and blaming it on a supposed racist, the Powers That Be could turn MLK into a hero.  With the assistance of controlled judges, they could have his records sealed and make sure the public would not have access to the real Martin Luther King. 

 

MARTIN LUTHER KING--THE MAN BEHIND THE MEDIA MASK

Every year America endures the same propaganda media-blitz on Martin Luther King day--the false portrayal of the �Reverend� King as an American hero; a saintly, self-sacrificing religious martyr for the cause of civil rights.    He was everything but that and certainly no hero that any American should look up to.  I have written extensively about the defense of true civil rights, no one can accuse me of hating the cause.  I say this be way of introduction in anticipation of the fury my remarks will generate among the media attempting to perpetrate this growing myth upon American culture.  Everything about Martin Luther King is a fraud. Here are the real facts.

 

1) NAME CHANGE: MLK is really Michael King, Jr.  His father was a minister and arbitrarily decided to rename himself and his son, Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr. 

 

2) PLAGIARISM IN HIS DOCTORAL THESIS:  The most complete analysis of King�s chronic plagiarism in his academic career was done by Gerry Harbison, professor of Chemistry at University of Nebraska:  �In 1988, the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project made a discovery that shocked it to its core. The Project, a group of academics and students, had been entrusted by Coretta Scott King with the task of editing King's papers for publication. As they examined King's student essays and his dissertation, they gradually became aware that King was guilty of massive plagiarism - that is, he had copied the words of other authors word-for-word, without making it clear that what he was writing was not his own. The Project spent years uncovering the full extent of King's plagiarism. In November 1990, word leaked to the press, and they had to go public. The revelations caused a minor scandal and then were promptly forgotten.�   Suppressed would be a more accurate description.  The National Endowment for the Humanities actively suppressed the story in preparation for celebrating King.  Its then director was Lynne Cheney, wife of the current Vice President.   For the full story see Prof. Harbison�s website: http://chem-gharbison.unl.edu/mlk/plagiarism.html

 

3) COMMUNIST BACKGROUND AND CONTACTS: It appears that King established an early liaison with the American Communist Party and sought to create civil unrest in support of the revolution.  His own biographer, David J. Garrow admitted that king once privately �described himself as a Marxist.�  King constantly surrounded himself with Communists, hired them, and even went to great lengths to keep them on through secret relationships. King�s personal secretary in the 1950s was communist and homosexual Bayard Rustin.  According to Sen. Jesse Helms, �King was repeatedly warned about his associations with known Communists by friendly elements in the Kennedy Administration and the Department of Justice [DOJ] (including strong and explicit warning from President Kennedy himself). King took perfunctory and deceptive measures to separate himself from the Communists [Stanley David Levison  and Hunter Pitts O�Dell ] against whom he was warned. He continued to have close and secret contacts with at least some of them after being informed and warned of their background, and he violated a commitment to sever his relationships with identified Communists.�

 

4) IMMORAL AND ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR:  Dr. King had an ample reputation as a philanderer and abuser of women of ill repute.  The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover had run surveillance on King and his entourage for years attempting to gather data on his Communist connections.  While the Bureau did surveill King�s attendance at Communist meetings, but most of the surveillance records show an extreme preoccupation after hours with illicit sex.  In deference to King�s usefulness in promoting a national holiday for civil rights, US Federal judge John Lewis Smith, Jr. ordered all the FBI records sealed up in the National Archives for 50 years (till 2027).  When I was Executive Editor of Conservative Digest, I called retired  Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray and asked him what was in the evidence locked away.  His answer surprised me.  He said there were approximately 15 file cabinets of evidence on King--14 of them were full of recordings and transcripts of his illicit relationships with prostitutes.  Only one file cabinet contained evidence of his Communist relationships.

 

Even former co-workers have blown the whistle on King�s scurrilous conduct.  The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, in his book, And the Wall Came Tumbling Down, King spent his last night in the motel having an immoral liason with three women and then beat one of the woman in the morning before he was shot. Assistant Director of the FBI Charles D. Brennan wrote a letter to Sen. John P. East (R-NC) in which he stated that King's conduct consisted of  "orgiastic and adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be bestial in his sexual abuse of women."  The FBI surveillance records covering his first night in Stockholm, Sweden, where he was to receive the Noble Peace Prize, document that his only interest was how to secure prostitutes for he and his entourage.  An orgy followed.  King�s surveillance and wiretaps were personally authorized by then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.   If these allegations are true, this man should never have been put forward as a national hero.  Yes, I am aware that other national heroes have had there weaknesses, but King�s conduct borders on a Clinton-like sexual addiction.

 

Here is a synopsis of the problems with the official version of events:

Source: www.whatreallyhappened.com

 

On April 4th, 1968,... 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.

Even worse, when the evidence of wrongdoing is really hot, colluding judges will seal the evidence for 50+ years in official archives to make sure that by the time the public finds out about it, all the guilty parties will be out of office or dead.This is precisely why the FBI files on Martin Luther King were sealed prior to the debate on whether King would be worthy to honor in a national holiday.According to a former Asst. Director of the FBI, who had first-hand knowledge of the facts, 14 of the 15 file cabinets full of the sealed surveillance files document Reverend King�s chronic pornography and prostitution habits, including his raunchy activities while in Sweden accepting his Nobel Prize.The other file cabinet full of evidence traces his connections to the far left and the Communist Party.Had the public known of this information, King would have been disgraced rather than honored. What we need is a piece of legislation making it a crime to classify as secret any evidence of a crime committed by government officers or agent.�� But then again, as long as only government insiders are allowed to view and judge the contents of classified material, the public will never know the truth--except through a leak by some patriotic government employee--which is exactly what this kind of legislation is trying to preclude.