“Did they name the CIA or FBI? No.”
So who do you think they were referring to when they accused “higher
levels of the government of the United States and some of its agents
and officials”? USPS? The Agriculture Department? There is little room
for doubt Pepper accused the CIA and FBI in his books and the King
family went along for the ride and Pepper directly implied the FBI was
involved during the trial. Your original claim “according to the court
case which the King family won the conspiracy was financed by some
dumb country hick with lots of money, not the CIA, not the FBI” was
way off the mark. This topic has nothing to do with the topic of my
paper, which I doubt you’ve read, I have nothing more to say about it.
> > was a joke; it was a publicity stunt. Loyd Jowers, the ‘defendant’,
> > and his lawyer also said there was such a conspiracy but claimed he
> > was but a small cog, the King family only asked for $100. Why would
> > someone pay a lawyer to fight a $100 claim? Why would a prominent NYC
> > come down to Memphis for a few weeks to claim that amount? It was an
> > abuse of the judicial system.
>
> So, we have the confession of conspiracy and you claim it was NOT a
> conspiracy?
I don’t believe Jowers for reasons previously stated; he also declined
to make his most damming claims under oath, as spelled out in the DoJ
report which I doubt you’ve read. Why would someone sue for $100? Why
would a prominent NYC lawyer spend over 3 weeks in Memphis, not to
mention his prep. time, for his cut of such an award? Why would a
defendant hire a lawyer to defend him in such a case? Pepper wanted a
soap box with the legitimacy a court case would provide, Jowers and
his lawyer wanted a quick buck. It was a show trial, both sides took
essentially the same position; there was no one to provide counter
evidence.
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http://www.thekingcenter.org/civil-case-king-family-versus-jowers
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> > As noted in my paper:
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> > “The Civil Rights Division of the DoJ however made a very strong case
> > that Jowers later claims were BS, he told an essentially consistent
> > story for over 25 years, then told various inconstant and implausible
> > tales of a complex conspiracy which he eventually recanted and
> > described as “b***s***”. His ‘confession’ was apparently part of a
> > scheme to try and get a book or movie deal”
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> >
http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/crm/mlk/part3.php
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> >>>> How do you explain all his travel with no money?
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> >>> That's outside the scope of my paper but I think it's quite possible
> >>> someone was giving him money, also IIRC there is evidence he was
> >>> involved in some robberies
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> >> Nice dodge.
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> > How was my answer a dodge? Where he got his money was outside the
> > scope of my paper. He and one of his brothers were suspect in one bank
> > robbery which netted “more than $27,000 in cash”, half that would have
>
> Suspect? How about some proof? Never from a WC defender.
>
The evidence is circumstantial; the robbery occurred in his hometown a
couple of months after he escaped, he started spending heavily the day
after it. He and his brother had used a similar MO in other robberies.
Most of the money taken was $20 bills, many of Ray’s purchases were
made with large numbers of 20s. In any case a) he was a habitual
criminal if he wasn’t one of the Alton robbers he could have committed
other crimes, b) I don’t doubt he might have been funded by some Klan
types it’s not like he spent exorbitant amounts of money. What makes
you think local reporter Dan Brannan was “a WC defender”?
This topic has nothing to do with the topic of my paper, which I also
doubt you read, I have nothing more to say about it.