Who Shot Martin Luther
King?
As 69-year-old James Earl Ray wasted away in a Tennessee
prison - suffering from terminal liver disease - even the family of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. argued that he should be allowed a trial on whether he killed the Nobel Prize
winning civil-rights leader.
As a journalist I've been following the Ray case for a
quarter-century. The more I study it, the more convinced I become that Ray did not
personally shoot Martin Luther King. I am also firmly convinced he was involved in the
assassination. I believe Ray was covering up for white supremacists. Too many people,
however, think of Bubba when they hear that phrase - some Cro-Magnon foreheaded,
tobacco-spitting redneck. In the South, when you speak of white supremacists, you are
often speaking of lawyers, police officers, businessmen.
Janet Reno has
announced that the Justice Department will undertake a limited review of the King
assassination. That seems destined to lead nowhere.
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