Posted on 01/02/03
Who really killed Martin Luther King?
An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King By William F. PepperVerso, 334 pages, $36 When a beloved and messianic prophet of moral progress and social revolution is "taken out" -- to use that vulgar, cop-shop metaphor -- by a low-class loser suddenly flush with cash and fake Canadian passports, the idea that a high-powered cabal fashioned the spectacular homicide is a viable suspicion. Thus, when Nobel Peace Prize laureate and U.S. civil rights champion Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 39, the celebrated African-American leader and anti-war and anti-poverty crusader, was shot through the neck -- "officially" -- by James Earl Ray, a blue-collar, white-trash redneck, in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, not everyone was convinced of Ray's singular sniper artistry.
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