James Earl Ray Pulled The Trigger But Who Loaded Gun That Killed Martin Luther King: Why Was Black Police Detective Not Assigned To Security Detail Immediately Before Assassination? - RI10

James Earl Ray Pulled

The Trigger But Who

Loaded Gun That Killed

Martin Luther King:

Why Was Black Police

Detective Not Assigned To

Security Detail

Immediately Before

Assassination? - RI10

Michael Corleone (Al Pacino): "My father is no different than any other powerful man -- any man who's responsible for other people, like a senator or president."

KAY (Diane Keaton): "You know how naive you sound...senators and presidents don't have men killed."

Michael: "Oh, now who's being naive, Kay?"
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If the assassination of Martin Luther King and the assassination of Malcolm X appear to have more in common than the fact that both were Black leaders, maybe these three letters will lead you to a valid conclusion: USA.

Malcolm X was being followed, profiled, studied, investigated and undermined. When his assassination day arrived, the federal agents suddenly decided to take a “day off”.

Martin Luther King was being followed, profiled, studied, investigated and undermined. When his assassination day arrived, the federal agents suddenly decided to take a “day off”. Only in King’s case the Black Police Detective was REMOVED from doing his job – surveillance and protection of the Civil Rights Icon.

The operative questions here are who and why. Anyone can answer the question, “Why would high U.S. government officials want to have Martin Luther King assassinated?” If you need Tabacco to answer that question, you haven’t been paying attention to Big Biz, Suppression, Oppression & Politics. I will say that King’s assassination was attributable to Business Interests as much as to racism. Just consider why he was in Memphis in the first place.


April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King shot dead

The American black civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King, has been assassinated.

Dr King was shot dead in the southern US city of Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a march of sanitation workers protesting against low wages and poor working conditions.

He was shot in the neck as he stood on a hotel balcony and died in hospital soon afterwards.

Reverend Jesse Jackson was on the balcony with Dr King when the single shot rang out.

"He had just bent over. I reckon if he had been standing up he would not have been hit in the face," said Mr. Jackson.
       
    I ask every citizen to reject the blind violence that has taken Dr King
    - President Lyndon Johnson
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Police in Memphis were put on alert for a "well-dressed" white man, who is said to have dropped an automatic rifle after the shooting and escaped in a blue car.

There were early signs of rioting in Memphis after Dr King's death and 4,000 members of the National Guard were drafted into the city.

A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been ordered to ward off disturbances.

The US President, Lyndon Johnson, has postponed a trip to Hawaii for peace talks on Vietnam.

Piling On The Manure! 

Bus boycott

Dr King, 39, had previously survived several attempts on his life including the bombing of his home in 1956.

The charismatic civil rights leader joined the crusade for equal rights for black people in America in the mid 1950s.

He first came to national prominence as one of the leaders of the Alabama bus boycott in 1955.

In 1963 Dr King led a massive march on Washington DC where he delivered his now famous "I have a dream" speech.

Dr King advocated the use of non-violent tactics such as sit-ins and protest marches.

In 1964 he was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

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Martin Luther King's assassination led to riots in more than 100 US cities.

James Earl Ray was convicted of his murder and sentenced to 99 years in prison.

But he later retracted his confession and said he had been only a minor player in a conspiracy.

Tabacco: If you can call “PULLING THE TRIGGER” “MINOR”! Nothing was done about Ray’s confession because no one in high places wanted to find out who “PAID THE BILL”. I assume no one actually believes James Earl Ray pulled the trigger without being paid for the deed!

However, his appeals for a new trial were rejected and he died in prison in 1998.

Ray was supported by some members of Martin Luther King's family who believed the US Government may have been involved in Dr King's death.

Their case was strengthened in December 1999 when a jury in a wrongful death case brought by the King family, decided the civil rights leader was the victim of a murder conspiracy.

However, in June 2000 after an investigation the US Justice Department said it had uncovered no reliable evidence of a conspiracy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/4/newsid_2453000/2453987.stm

REMINDER TO READERS:

 

Retired Memphis Policeman: No Black Officers Assigned to

Martin Luther King on Day of Assassination

Monday, January 15th, 2007
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/15/1534255

We speak with retired Memphis police sergeant Jerry Williams about the day Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. Williams, who worked in the homicide bureau, was twice assigned to head King’s security team on his visits to Memphis, but on the day he was assassinated, Williams says no black officers were assigned to King’s detail. [includes rush transcript]

    * Jerry Williams, retired Memphis police detective.

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AMY GOODMAN: On Sunday, we went to the Metropolitan Baptist Church and ran into a retired police detective.

      JERRY WILLIAMS: My name is Jerry Williams. I’m a retired Memphis policeman. During the time of Dr. King's assassination, I was working the homicide bureau in the Memphis Police Department. And on two previous occasions when Dr. King would come to Memphis, I was assigned to head his security team. But the last time he came, there were no black officers assigned for that security.

      AMY GOODMAN: Why?

      JERRY WILLIAMS: Well, I really don't know. I just know that I reported to work on the morning of Dr. King's assassination, and I was told by my inspector that we would not be on the assignment. So I commenced to do my regular duties as a homicide officer in the office, and later on, around 5:00 in the afternoon, we heard that Dr. King was assassinated. When we got the information in the office, Inspector Zachary said that we have to get down to the Lorraine Motel, that Dr. King had been assassinated. And I remember getting my hat and coat, and when I got to the door, the inspector said, “No, I’m going to have to have at least two officers to stay in the office, because we’re going to be getting calls from all over the country,” which we did. Within five minutes, we were getting calls from San Francisco, New York, Hawaii, and London, England, all wanting the confirmation of Dr. King's assassination.

      Shortly after that, I was called to the scene, where Dr. King was assassinated, to bring the camera. The police camera had broken, and, of course, we have cameras in our office in Homicide, so I was told to bring a camera down there. So I carried the camera down there, and they proceeded to do the pictures at the scene. My partner and I left and went to the St. Joseph Hospital on North 2nd Street to view Dr. King's body. And from that time on, we were assigned to work the homicide.

      The lonely sanitation people who Dr. King gave his life for, they were the ones who stuck with him. They were the ones who marched and picketed City Hall, had the sign on, “I am a man.” They are the ones that had a tremendous effect on the change that took place here in Memphis, not these so-called professional people. It was the little person, the ones who worked on the sanitation trucks, who hauled the garbage in tubs on their shoulders. They were the ones that stuck with Dr. King. And these others -- as I said earlier, these other people who came after his death, they was not there marching with him, as a whole. After his death, everybody came out the woodworks.

      AMY GOODMAN: Did your view change of him?

      JERRY WILLIAMS: Yes. My view -- when I realized my office was across the street from City Hall, the homicide office in Memphis Police Department, on that January afternoon or morning, when I looked out and I saw those men, it was snowing. And they was walking in a circle, and as their backs turned to me and I saw that sign that said, "I am a man," it had a definite effect on me, because I realized that time they was marching not only for themselves, but for me and all black people.

      And I listened to some of the remarks that were made in the office. Some of my white associates, detectives, were in agreement, and there was some who was not in agreement. They said, for instance, “What do they want?” But there were some who said, “Would you want to work on a job where you are hauling garbage in a tin tub and the filth running down your shoulders on your back?” He said, “No, you wouldn't want that,” said, “Those men are right.” So that's just to kind of give you an idea of how the temperament was during that time.

      AMY GOODMAN: Did you see Dr. King's body at the Lorraine Motel?

      JERRY WILLIAMS: Yes. I saw his body at the -- as I said, we brought the camera down there. The attorney general was afraid of riding down there by himself, so he rode with me down to the scene. And then, when I left the scene, I went out to the hospital, and I saw Dr. King's body. He had been cut from his chest all the way down to his stomach. And I asked the nurse why was that necessary. They said the doctor cut him open to try to massage his heart. And that was it. That's about all I can remember. That's been a long time, say, some 30 years ago, but I do remember that much of it. And I do know that had it not been for Dr. King giving his life here in Memphis, things would have been a lot different. Things did not begin to open up until after he came and made that terrific sacrifice.

 
Martin L King & Jesse Jackson at
Lorraine Motel just before King’s
Assassination.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/4/newsid_2453000/2453987.stm




Tabacco: When assessing the JFK assassination from hindsight, knowing what we now know about Lyndon Johnson and his relationship with the Kennedys, it is inconceivable that Lyndon B. Johnson would have been “out-of-the-loop” in the plot to assassinate President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Not only did Johnson have too much to gain by JFK’s death, but also it could not have been predicted that the Warren Commission Report would blame the whole affair on a “lone gunman”, Lee Harvey Oswald, without Johnson’s knowledge, acquiescence & participation.

In order to answer questions 1 and 2, stated above, let’s consider the following approach: Which high-level US government officials could NOT have been left “out-of-the-loop” in the plot to “allow” the Martin Luther King assassination?

There is no way that Hoover could NOT have known about James Earl Ray if the government had prior knowledge of it; and there is no way Hoover would have given the order without Johnson’s “go-ahead”. These most certainly were not the only two government higher-ups involved, but these two were essential collaborators.

Lyndon Johnson was complicit in both the Kennedy and King assassinations and likely also in the assassination of Malcolm X. Hoover’s guilt is inextricably bound to the corpses of all three, if not as an accomplice, at least by having knowledge “before the fact”.

J. Edgar Hoover’s “SKELETONS” – being both Black and Homosexual – led him to get the “Dirt” on everybody else high in the upper echelons of government and in the public consciousness. But those same skeletons made him the perfect FBI Director because his own morality would never stand in the way of his complicity in murder, assassination, suppression or whatever. And his lips would never betray these vile acts or implicate others, who were also complicit. These unique qualities are used to great advantage by the Bushites today.

Low-Morality is the PRIMARY REQUISITE to be a Higher-Up in the Bush administration or a Supreme Court nominee. High-Morality and a Sense of Right & Wrong are verboten in Bushland. The Corleones would be ideal candidates for Cabinet Posts in the current administration.

Tabacco: I consider myself both a funnel and a filter. I funnel information, not readily available on the Mass Media, which is ignored and/or suppressed. I filter out the irrelevancies and trivialities to save both the time and effort of my Readers and bring consternation to the enemies of Truth & Fairness! When you read Tabacco, if you don’t learn something NEW, I’ve wasted your time.


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