James Earl Ray,not killer of Martin Luther King,Jr?
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Erik L.
>I think we all know that Ray did not kill Dr.King.It was a government plot.
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I think we all know that you are an imbecile.
Erik L.
Robert R. Feigel
Nice to see you finally got a thesaurus of insulting terms.
bob
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Former CIA Participant Says He Was Part Of It - Raoul Identified As FBI Agent By
Pat Shannan Media Bypass Magazine
New evidence has surfaced in the 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. murder case,
supplied by an insider who claims to have been part of a "hit team" that had
come out of the "Missouri Mafia" headquartered in the town of Caruthersville, a
small town in the boot heel section of that state.
In a yet-to-be-published book, former Missouri County Deputy Jim Green reveals
his assigned role in the conspiracy, the name of the actual triggerman, and the
long-suspected involvement of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Green also believes
that he possesses the actual murder weapon, which he personally secreted away
only hours after the murder. "Jim Green is telling the truth," says Lyndon
Barsten, an astute researcher of the case over the past decade. "I have no doubt
whatsoever. The pieces he has supplied fit perfectly and could not have come
from someone who was not there." Indeed they do fit, and it is all backed up by
FBI documentation derived by Barsten through numerous FOIA requests.
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down on the second floor
balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., by a single shot from a
high-powered rifle. Several witnesses said the shot came from the bushes on a
slope from across the street. The FBI concluded that it came from the rear
bathroom window of a cheap hotel, also across the street and higher up the hill.
Two weeks later the name of James Earl Ray, a fugitive escapee from the Missouri
State Penitentiary, was announced to the world as the man who killed King, had
escaped to Canada and was currently in hiding somewhere across the border. After
Ray was identified as the killer, and long before he was captured, the FBI spent
little or no time pursuing any other leads. Two months later the fugitive was
caught changing planes at Heathrow Airport in London after having left Canada
and spending ten days with persons unknown in Portugal. He was attempting to
board a plane to Brussels.
On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray, with his attorney Percy Foreman, pled guilty
to the murder before the court of Judge Preston Battle. He was sentenced to 99
years in prison. He recanted almost immediately and filed a motion for a trial
only three days later. But before the month was out, Judge Battle was found dead
in his chambers, slumped over his desk. Beneath his head were the papers of the
handwritten motion from James Earl Ray. The case was closed, and Ray began his
sentence in the Tennessee State Penitentiary.
The "Official" Story - The scenario released by Memphis police and the FBI and
later used by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was that in
late March of 1968, James Earl Ray had purchased a Remington 30.06 rifle from
the Aeromarine Supply Store in Birmingham and had traveled with it to Memphis in
a white Mustang. Here he checked into Bessie Brewer's boarding house in the 400
block of South Main Street on the afternoon of April 4th. Directly behind it was
the Lorraine Motel on Mulberry Street. At 6:00 p.m. Martin L. King stepped out
of room 306 and was joined by a group of followers with whom he had been in a
meeting all afternoon. He was gunned down only a minute later by a single shot
from the rear bathroom window across the street. Not one witness saw the actual
firing of the shot or claimed it had come from the window. Most believed it had
come from the bushes on the slope, fifty feet closer.
Still according to the official story, Ray allegedly ran out of the bathroom and
down the hall to his room. Here he stuffed the rifle back into its box and
included it with a bundle containing his clothes, binoculars, ammunition, a beer
can with his fingerprints; and perhaps the most incriminating of all, a portable
radio with his inmate number from the Missouri State Penitentiary engraved in
the back side. He ran down the stairs and out onto the street where he then
dumped the bundle in the doorway of Canipe's Amusement Company next door to the
rooming house. He then zoomed away in the soon-to-be-infamous white Mustang. He
stayed a few days in Atlanta before moving on to Canada.
James Earl's Version - In 1987, after being imprisoned for 19 years, Ray told
his side of the story in Tennessee Waltz, a book that went out of print and was
later published under the title of Who Killed Martin Luther King? (The biggest
loss here was original publisher Tupper Saussy's brilliant epilogue, "The
Politics of Witchcraft," which exposed certain secrets that the establishment
publishers preferred not to discuss. Under the new title the epilogue was
eliminated.) However, he appeared to be avoiding "the whole truth and nothing
but the truth" in certain areas, apparently out of fear of self-incrimination -
not necessarily for the murder but for some lesser crimes. It also appears that
James became aware too late that he had indeed been unwittingly involved in the
conspiracy to assassinate Martin Luther King.
Ray tells of his prison escape via a bread truck in April of 1967. After laying
low in East St. Louis for a couple of months, he made it to Chicago where he
looked up some old contacts that enabled him to purchase an old Chrysler for
$100. From there he went to Detroit and crossed the border into Canada. In July,
he met a man he knew only as "Raoul," who quickly began to give James money in
exchange for his help with importing some kind of contraband. James said he
never knew if this was guns, drugs, or what, as he never actually participated
in anything more than trial runs. Raoul always seemed to remain in the
"planning" stages of a smuggling operation.
Ray had a contact phone number in the Area Code of "504," where he had phoned
his contact, "Raoul," many times over the months prior to the murder. However,
when he tried to dial this New Orleans number on the day after the
assassination, it was already disconnected. Through Raoul, James was kept
supplied with money to go to Mexico to wait for instructions and to Los Angeles
to see a plastic surgeon for a "nose job," effectuating a change in his
appearance. He never worked at a job in any of this time frame prior to the
assassination and was obviously under the financial control of Raoul. James was
traveling in a 1966 pale yellow Mustang (not white as were the others),
purchased with $2,000 supplied by Raoul.
James always claimed he had acquired the names of his aliases at random from a
Toronto phone book. He bought the gun in Birmingham under the name of "Harvey
Lowmeyer," checked into the Memphis flophouse as "John Willard," acquired an
Alabama driver's license as "Eric S. Galt," and traveled to Europe on a passport
as Ramon George Sneyd. However, all four, for which he [or someone] had created
I.D., looked very much like Ray. The odds of these being a random choice were
just short of impossible. It also is likely that the Los Angeles plastic surgery
rounding out his previously pointed nose was designed to make him look more like
these men, none of whom knew they were being impersonated.
In February of 1968, Raoul sent travel funds to James in Los Angeles and ordered
him back to New Orleans. From there the two drove together to Atlanta. In late
March, James says that Raoul was making plans for them to drive to Miami but
these plans abruptly changed around March 29th. They were now going to Memphis.
It was on or about this date that MLK had cancelled a planned speaking
engagement in Miami in order to fly to Memphis and tend to the problems with the
garbage strike. It now seems that Raoul had this information before anyone else.
En route they spent the first night in Birmingham. After checking into a motel,
Raoul gave James a wad of money and sent him to the Aeromarine Supply Store to
purchase a "deer rifle for your brother-in-law." Having little knowledge of
weaponry, James bought what he thought was appropriate and returned with a .243
caliber Winchester. Raoulimmediately decided he didn't like it and sent James
back to the store the next morning to exchange it for another with a "larger
bore."
The salesman told James, "Tell your brother-in-law that this gun will bring down
any deer in Alabama!" But he did agree to exchange it for the higher priced
Remington 30.06. After his incarceration, James was always certain that real
purpose of this instructed return to the gun store was simply another part of
the "set-up" to make sure that the salesman would not forget him. In Memphis on
April 4th, the afternoon of the murder, Raoul had suggested that James go to a
movie, but James declined. After several tries at getting rid of James for
awhile, Raoul finally sent him on an errand only minutes before King was shot.
James said that he was going to get the worn tires changed on the Mustang but
that the man at the tire store was too busy and could not get to it that day.
When James returned to the flophouse/Lorraine Motel location, it was surrounded
by police cars with flashing lights, and he decided it would be prudent to leave
the area, as it certainly was not a place for an escaped con to hanging
around.
Ray was very vague about this time frame, and it may be assumed, again, that he
did not want to admit to having backed out of a planned armed robbery, which
appears below. To do so might have led to too many questions about his
foreknowledge of the murder about to take place and exposed his (assumed) role -
that of getaway driver. We must remember that while in prison, Ray was extremely
vulnerable. It was while he was driving south on U.S. Highway 61 into
Mississippi that James heard the news on the radio that Martin Luther King had
been shot. He then turned east and headed back to Atlanta. James was always
vague about the details of his return trip to Canada and the contacts he made
there prior to his flight to Europe - often appearing to be protecting others.
In Tennessee Waltz, Ray told a chilling story of harassment and torture,
describing his treatment in the Shelby County Jail, which sounded as if he were
relating experiences from the Soviet Union rather than America. He was kept
under floodlights 24 hours a day for eight solid months prior to his guilty
plea, never knowing if it was day or night outside. His cell was "bugged," and
two deputies were monitoring and recording every conversation - even those
purported sacrosanct exchanges between client and attorney. Tired and weakened
by the strain, Ray was finally coerced into a guilty plea by his attorney, to
whom he referred for the rest of his life as "Percy Foreflusher."
New Pieces To The Puzzle - Over the years Jim Green's Federal Intelligence
connections have become legendary in his hometown of Caruthersville, Missouri.
"He's untouchable," or "He can't be arrested, the feds just walk him out of
jail, everybody knows that." But now one must assume that the Untouchable is
fast becoming anathema to his former handlers. Jim has had an attack of
conscience and is talking! "I hope to change a lie in history to the truth
about that day in Memphis," says Green, 54, a reformed "bad boy" who spent the
first half of his life as a teenage runaway, moonshine runner, and car thief.
The last half was spent in law enforcement, raising children, teaching school,
and coaching football - along with occasional undercover work. His only source
of income today is a social security disability check. Since coming forward
with his story, he has refused all offers of any work involving government
covert action, for fear of being "set up" and/or killed.
On December 3, 1998, he spent six hours with MLK's son Dexter King, Rev. James
Lawson, and William Pepper (Ray's attorney and author of Orders to Kill, a
semi-accurate compilation of facts and conjecture describing the government's
involvement in the King assassination). "At this meeting, I cleared my soul
telling Dexter of my involvement on the day of his father's death," says Green.
"I knew there would be many more questions to come, and that's when I decided to
put my story in writing." He calls his book, Blood and Dishonor on a Badge of
Honor, and when he put it up on the internet two years ago, it caught the
attention of Lyndon Barsten on Minneapolis. Barsten decided to check Green's
story against the known facts as well as the suppressed information uncovered by
him and others over the years. He was astounded. Everything fit. Green knew
details that could only have been known by someone who was there, and the FBI
documentation acquired by Barsten substantiated his story. Some of these papers
show that the FBI had been constantly tracking James Earl Ray and had knowledge
of his whereabouts during most of the year he was an escaped convict. Both Green
and Barston believe that the FBI was instrumental in Ray's "escape" from the
Missouri State Penitentiary in April of 1967 for the sole purpose of setting him
up as a "patsy" when the time came.
"Why else would these reports be in the record?" says Green, "And why would they
have any files on an escaped con from a state prison?" Indeed. And something
even more suspicious, why did the FBI not contact the Missouri authorities and
have Ray picked up? He was under their thumb for some ten months. Later
investigation showed that the fingerprints sent out by JeffCity for "escaped
prisoner James Earl Ray" were not really his, ensuring his release if he
happened to be captured as an escaped felon.
CIA/Peace Corps - Jim Green was student at Caruthersville High when he decided
that the Peace Corps would be an exciting way to see the world. At the tender
age of 16, he had no way of knowing that this was a major feeding ground of the
Central Intelligence Agency (he assumes that his school counselor who helped him
fill out the forms did not either), but this was where the initial contact was
made. He was contacted by FBI personnel and given a thorough background check.
Then a series of interesting and mysterious events began after he was accepted
and was under the government's control. In a short time this led to the Missouri
State Pen where he knew James Earl Ray in 1966. "I have a good memory, but
there are two weeks from this time at Jeff City that I can only remember a few
hours of," Jim reflects.
Lyndon Barsten says, "The contacts and methods utilized in the murder of Dr.
King bear the signature of the CIA, including the probable use of MK-Ultra mind
control techniques. Parallel psychiatric irregularities at the Missouri prison
system are described by James Earl Ray and Jim Green, including the shocking
drugging of inmates which could render the indication of hypnosis easier or
otherwise enhance its usefulness. It seems highly likely that Jim was subjected
to psychological assessment and manipulation, the results of which directed back
to Federal Intelligence Agencies."
A further series of events led to Jim's early release (effectuated by "Paul,"
the FBI Agent who became his handler) and a reunion back in Caruthersville with
Butch Collier, his former partner from the moonshine running days. For the next
year and a half, Jim and Butch and others ran moonshine and delivered hot cars
from St. Louis to New Orleans. Both operations were under the direction of Paul,
who would later show his credentials to Jim and identify himself as a FBI Agent.
At first Green was concerned about this ("I had never known the feds to be
crooked!"), but he was assured by others whom he trusted that Paul had the power
to isolate them from any investigation. "Paul's boss is at the top," he was
told. Jim took this implication to mean none other than J. Edgar Hoover.
This complicated, sometimes hard-to-follow sequence of activities in Green's
life is made plainer (especially to those unfamiliar with the facts of the MLK
murder case) by the frequent interjection of Lyndon Barsten's clarification of
facts. But at this point, Green and his older (by six years) friend, Butch
Collier, resumed their lives of crime. Not only would they hot wire and snatch
individual autos from parking lots and drive them to Memphis, but they were also
paid $5,000 on occasion to drive an 18-wheeler load of several cars from
St.Louis to New Orleans for delivery to the Carlos Marcello mob. Green says that
this was done with full knowledge and protection of the FBI.
("At this time of my life, the only thing that made me nervous was Paul. His
being an agent of the FBI didn't fit into my little world at the time. Also, I
didn't like it because it seemed like Paul was running the show and he was an
outsider! I guess, at that young age, I just did what I was told. This must be
why eighteen-year-olds are chosen to fight wars. Most men with experience will
ask `Why are we here,' and most teenagers will just follow orders.")
April 4, 1968 - Jim Green's story fills in more blanks with logical answers to
the previously unanswered questions. His assignment, for which he was to be paid
$10,000, was to kill James Earl Ray. "On the night of April 3rd," Green says,
"Paul met us in our room. He had a small package which he laid on the bed, he
told us "there's $5,000 in that package for you and five more when the job is
done, once James Earl Ray is killed on the fourth." Indicative of the
compartmentalization of each participant in this textbook CIA assassination,
Green says that he was not even aware of the total operation of which he had
been a part until he was back home in Caruthersville watching the Ten O'clock
News with his father. He would only be following orders and believes that he was
chosen for this segment because he had spent time at Jeff City with Ray and knew
what he looked like.
Jim and his partner, Butch Collier, stalked Ray in the early afternoon after
they found him at Jim's Cafe - exactly where they had been told they would find
him. Later Jim climbed to his assigned rooftop position of a dilapidated three
story office building in the next block south of Bessie Brewer's rooming house
on Main Street at around 3:30 p.m., armed with a .357 caliber rifle. His
instructions were to shoot James Earl Ray "after five o'clock" and only in the
event that John Talley, a Memphis Police Detective, failed. The planners did
not want to face another Oswald- Tippet-type snafu as in Dallas. James Earl Ray
was in the rooming house, and Green observed him come and go three or four times
during the next two hours. On one of these occasions, Ray came outside and stood
by the Mustang for several minutes before going back upstairs.
This coincides with Ray's story that Raoul kept attempting to get James away
from the area. It also telegraphs again that Ray was purposefully not telling
the whole story, apparently being careful not to jeopardize his position of
"innocent and framed" by admitting planned criminal activity. Green's next
segment shows us the real plan already in motion to set up Ray. The man that
Green knew as Paul, the FBI Special Agent, was the same person Ray knew as
Raoul, who had kept him on a leash for eight months - from Montreal to Memphis.
When Ray left the flophouse the final time, at a few minutes before six (King
would be shot at 6:01), Green knew the instructions from Paul/Raoul had been for
Ray to first rob Jim's Grill at gunpoint and hurry south on Main Street to the
Arcade Restaurant. The phony ploy was that they were getting ready to travel and
would need some quick cash. However, James must have become suspicious. When he
came out on the street, he did not commit the armed robbery nor continue walking
down the sidewalk as instructed but climbed into the Mustang (James' car was not
white, as reported by police and the news media, but a pale yellow) and calmly
drove north away from the scene. He never returned. By this time Butch Collier
was stationed in the bushes in back of the boarding house and directly across
the street from the Lorraine Motel.
It was a fortuitous intuition on the part of Ray. Lingering in the next block
was Memphis Police Detective John Talley, whose assignment was to kill Ray. He
was carrying the standard police issue .357 Magnum revolver. Jim Green was on
the roof of the building across the street and armed with the.357 rifle in the
event Talley missed or was killed by Ray. Green was the backup in case anything
went wrong. The caliber would match.
Remember Dallas in 1963 Re.Oswald and Officer Tippett. Again this is straight
from the textbook of "Assassinations 101." After the patsy is dead, anything can
be leaked to the press to demonize him, as it was in both these cases, even
while each was still alive. But when Ray was "spooked" and drove away in the
pale yellow Mustang, it threw a monkey wrench into the conspirator's plans.
However, there was a second Mustang that still remained parked on Main Street.
This one was white and belonged to Joe R. Tipton but was brought to Memphis by
Jim Green and Butch Collier. They had also brought several rifles, which were
still in the trunk. Green's instructions were to stay on the rooftop until
Collier arrived in the parking area at the rear to pick him up. At 6:01 p.m., he
heard the shot, and only moments later saw Paul and Butch emerge one behind the
other from the stairway of the flophouse onto the street. He saw Paul dump the
bundle of evidence into the doorway of Canipe's Amusement Company, while Butch
was jumping into the driver's seat of the white Mustang, and watched as they
sped north on Main Street. Paul/Raoul and the Memphis Police utilized a third
Mustang, also white, as a diversion.
Suddenly the FBI's folly of the utter stupidity of the alleged assassin (Ray)
dumping his own incriminating evidence on the street begins to take shape. Paul
intended to drop it in the back seat of the pale yellow Mustang - Ray's -
thinking that James Earl had followed instructions and was down the street
getting killed. Then the FBI would have had its open and shut case. (Ray is dead
and here is the "murder" weapon found in his car.) But when Paul/Raoul is
suddenly confronted with the current situation of no Ray car available, he
frustratingly drops the bundle in the first handy place, and he and Butch
hightail it up the street in the white Mustang. Jim Green watched all this
unfold from his secluded rooftop position.
Butch Collier had just killed Martin Luther King with one shot from the bushes
on the slope across the street from the Lorraine Motel. He then ran up the rear
stairs to the second floor and back down the front stairs to Main Street. By
this time, Paul had run down the hall from the upstairs bathroom (where he had
watched the shooting) carrying the "plant" rifle purchased in Birmingham by Ray
in hand. (Paul was seen by other tenants who later said this person was not
Ray.) He then stuffed it in the bag with the other "evidence" and was down the
front stairwell only seconds behind Collier.
Jim Green watched as Butch drove two blocks up the street before pausing to drop
off Paul at a parked Memphis Police Department squad car. A couple of minutes
later, Butch was tooting the horn of the Mustang in the parking lot behind Jim's
three-story perch. Jim came down to join his confederate, stashed his rifle in
the trunk with the others, and the two men headed for the Mississippi River
Bridge toward Arkansas. Jim tells of hauling several guns to Memphis in the
trunk of the Mustang on April 2nd, following the instructions of Paul. Butch had
removed the one of his choice for the King murder earlier the next day, but the
other weapons were still in the trunk. In Collier's haste to escape the murder
scene, he had not bothered to open the trunk but had quickly thrown the murder
weapon onto the floor behind the front seat as he and Paul jumped into the
Mustang.
When Collier and Green crossed the river into Arkansas, they took an immediate
turn onto the frontage road and headed back down to the riverside. They
hurriedly opened the trunk and dumped the cache of weapons into the water.
Headed up U. S. 61 and halfway home an hour later, Jim peered into the back seat
and noticed the rifle on the floor. When he called his partner's attention to
it, Butch realized that they had failed to dump the most important evidence of
all. "Well !@#$," said Collier, we can't drop it here on the side of the
highway. What do we do with it?'
Jim pondered a moment and said, "Never mind. I know a friend who will take care
of it with no questions asked." Green delivered the rifle the next morning to
his trusted but unnamed friend in Caruthersville, who kept it for 29 years. When
he decided to write his book, Green retrieved it and has had it stashed in a
safe place in another state ever since. The rifle has now been tested for
ballistics and the results are pending. While James Earl Ray was running from
the FBI in April, May, and June, he had no way of knowing that he was also being
pursued by Jim Green and Butch Collier as well - although he may have suspected
it. On April 6th, the shooters were called together for a meeting at the Climax
Bar in Caruthersville with Paul some others. Jim Green describes the situation:
We were told we had "some serious problems" to deal with. "First you have to
find Ray and kill him, in order that nothing can lead back to the government or
us," Paul said. "We're all in this together, and if one of us goes down, we all
go down." He told us that his orders came from the top. "Roachie will kill us
before he or his boss will get involved." Paul seemed more serious than ever.
Later, I figured out who Roachie was: Cartha Deloach, the number three man [in
the FBI] behind Hoover and Tolson. . . Butch and I told them what we did with
the rifles but forgot to mention the 30.06 that I have to this day. . .
Everybody in that room that day is dead except for Paul and me.
(In those days Green and Collier always used as their "life insurance policy"
the bluff that they had the rifle and various tapes and records that would go
public if anything happened to them. It wasn't true, but it worked. Collier died
about ten years ago of cancer.)
For the next few weeks Green and Collier went to several places, toting
unregistered Rossi .38 pistols made in Brazil, in their quest to kill Ray. Paul
always seemed to have a line on Ray's whereabouts, and the two hunters came
closest to their prey in Toronto. Paul had sent them to a hotel where they
learned that James Earl had checked out only two hours earlier. They searched
several other places for two other aliases under which Paul knew Ray to be
traveling and hiding, but they could not locate him. Green says that it was
obvious to Butch and him at the time that Paul had ongoing intelligence being
fed to him by either the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Toronto City
Police. "Ramon George Sneyd" soon acquired his passport and made his way to
Europe, never knowing how close he came to being murdered on the run-ironically
by the same faction that had murdered Martin Luther King and pinned the crime on
Ray.
Green subsequently served a short time in jail for some previous infractions but
had his very early release aided by Paul. Two years later, Green met with
Missouri Attorney General John Danforth and about a half dozen others, including
Paul, at a Sikeston, Missouri motel. It was a secret investigation in an attempt
to oust the county sheriff and expose his corruption - which eventually
succeeded. But Green's performance, with the correct double-talk, exposed
nothing, and for this he was later rewarded with a deputy's job in the new
administration. He later moved on to federal undercover work in Memphis.
During one seven-month period in the mid-70s, the Memphis group got 265
convictions and failed only once when a mistrial was declared. Green says, "I
know first-hand that the police will testify in whatever way they have to in
order to get a conviction or further their careers." For now exposing the
corruption of the courts and the FBI, Jim Green is certain that he will be
called a liar. "But the same people," he is quick to point out, "who will
attempt to discredit me today will have to be the same ones who in the 1970s
said that I was the most honest, reliable, and trustworthy witness. If I am a
liar, then all the cases I testified at should be appealed and thrown out and
the records set straight."
Conclusion - As mentioned, Jim Green's revelations fit too many pieces
(confirmed with the FBI's own documents) to have been contrived from his
imagination. He had told it to one official long before James Earl Ray told his
story in Tennessee Waltz, which Green did not read until 1998, after he had
begun his own book. Jim Green had attempted to "clear his soul" as far back as
1973, when he told journalist Kay Black of the Memphis Press Scimiter the same
story printed here with only slightly fewer details. It was never published but
frightened Ms. Black enough for her to report it to law enforcement authorities.
This led to Green's appearance in front of the HSCA in 1976. There his testimony
was obliterated from the record and never made public. So much for government
inquiries.
One of James Earl Ray's brothers has now come forward with information
corroborating the FBI's cooperation in James' escape as well as the Chicago
mob's participation in the assassination, under the direction of Sam Giancano.
John Ray admits that it was he who picked up his brother after his 1967 "escape"
in the bread truck and drove him to a safe house in East St. Louis. Lyndon
Barston's detailed research shows powerful evidence implicating the FBI with
complicity in a CIA plot. In late 1964, the FBI had tried to get Dr. King to
commit suicide prior to his departing to Europe to claim his Nobel Peace Prize.
This was accomplished by sending an alleged surveillance tape of Dr. King in an
extra-marital sexual relation to the SCLC with a letter warning that all would
become public if Dr. King didn't kill himself prior to his collecting his Nobel
Prize.
2] Lab work relating to the murder of Dr. King at FBI Headquarters was
dreadfully inadequate. The Remington 30.06 rifle purchased by Ray in Birmingham
and deposited at the scene of the crime was not even swabbed to see if it had
been fired! Today it still remains as the "official" murder weapon of the MURKIN
case. Yet, for some reason, this test was run on even the rifle James Earl Ray
had returned to Aeromarine Supply in Birmingham in exchange for the Remington
prior to the murder!
3] Atlanta FBI informant, J. C. Hardin, is documented in the MURKIN file as
contacting James Earl Ray in Los Angeles just prior to Ray's packing up and
heading east to Atlanta and Memphis.
4] On the 29th of March, the FBI, through its "friendly" press contacts, placed
Dr. King in the open and insecure Lorraine Motel by criticizing him in the press
for patronizing "white owned Hotels."
5] Journalist Louis Lomax who later died in a mysterious car crash, was
investigating Dr. King's death when visited by two FBI men who instructed him to
abruptly end the series of fruitful articles he was producing for the N. A. N.
A. Louis Lomax, described as being "no good" in an FBI memo (HQ 44-38861-3196);
was a highly respected journalist. It was Lomax who uncovered the deception of
the false fingerprints sent out by JeffCity for escaped prisoner James Earl Ray.
This strongly suggests the duplicity of both state and federal agencies in the
ploy. The Intelligence Community's relationship with the mob and union
racketeers, as described by Jim Green, is highly documented in the post-World
War II era. Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana often described the CIA and his
organization as "two sides of the same coin." Blood and Dishonor on a Badge of
Honor will be published later this year. Limited copies of Tennessee Waltz by
James Earl Ray are still available from Pastoral Business, POB 3252, Santa
Monica, Calif. 90408.
------------------------------------------------------------------THE ON-GOING
COVER-UP - March 24, 1998: CBS News' 48 HOURS broadcasts "Orders To Kill," a
scathing attack on Dr. William F. Pepper, for eighteen years the attorney of
James Earl Ray. In 1995, Pepper had released his book by that name, and it is
his assertion that his client, James Earl Ray, was a patsy, manipulated to
cover-up the real events surrounding Dr. King's death. A hit team, Pepper
claims, murdered Dr. King at the request of the Intelligence Agencies of the
Federal government. On camera, in his Memphis hotel room only days before, Dr.
Pepper is notified of the arrest of his new witness.
(The witness, James Cooper Green, was actually a participant on that bloody day
thirty years before. As with most domestic Intelligence operations Jim's job, to
murder James Earl Ray after 5:00 p.m. on April 4th, was to be performed on a
"need to know" basis. Jim Green was not to be privy to the day's full
operations, only his part. He would not learn that Dr. King was killed until he
watched the news at ten o' clock that night.)
Jim Green never talks to the 48 HOURS team. After arriving in Memphis in March
of 1998 for the specific purpose of going on camera, he is arrested under
suspicious circumstances by the DEA and held for ten days on flimsy charges that
would later be dropped, long after the CBS team has left town. The DEA report of
Jim's arrest describes Task Force surveillance of a room near his in the Memphis
Holiday Inn Express. A "possible methamphetamine lab" is operating out of room
165. Seemingly without reason, the DEA runs a check on the Florida plates of the
truck owned by the guests in room 163, James and Linda Green. The investigation
report states "registration on the Florida plate came back James (redacted)
Green". As with nearly all of the Federal Government's involvement in this case,
a seemingly routine document is a lie. The Green's truck was registered to Linda
Green, Jim's wife, and was in her name only. The only way the feds could have
known Jim was in that car would be if he were under surveillance for another
reason.
The same incestuous Memphis power structure that had prevented James Earl Ray
from getting a real trial also makes certain Jim Green remains in a cell until
the 48 HOURS team leaves town. A routine $5,000 bond set by Judge Joe Brown
would be increased tenfold within hours after the arrest. Within the 48 HOURS
presentation, Dan Rather reports that on the fourth of April in 1968 Jim Green
was "in Federal prison." However, that too is a lie. His own records show that
he was not sentenced until three months later, and his official record was
expunged in 1988. Therefore, any existing records of Jim's imprisonment in April
'68 are a recent fabrication and of dubious origin.
There was far more reason to believe that the real purpose for the arrest was
that the Federal Agents were looking for physical evidence Jim had preserved
since April 4, 1968. They suspected he would be bringing some of it to Memphis
for the filming of the TV show. The most important and damning evidence Jim has
protected is one of two 30:06 rifles left in one of the duplicate Ray Mustangs,
a rifle that has a high likelihood of being linked through ballistics to the
slug that took Martin Luther King's life. However, the instigators of this
surreptitious kidnapping, while succeeding in preventing Jim's story from being
aired, came up empty in a search for evidence. He did not bring the rifle with
him.
For nearly a quarter of a century Jim Green has remained silent about his
participation in government assassination and abuse. His only breaking of this
code was his 1977 testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
When that testimony is made public in 2029, it will reveal that Black
Congressman Louis Stokes of Ohio badgered Jim into silence at those hearings.
Even Linda Green, Jim's wife, was protected from the truth until the their
children were grown. In 1998, to provide documentation of what he was to reveal,
Jim handed Linda a copy of James Earl Ray's autobiography. In Tennessee Waltz
(pg. 73-74) Ray weaves a vividly detailed description of two strangers trailing
him in Memphis hours before the King murder. Jim pointed to the description of a
thirty-ish man in a navy peacoat and questioned, "Who's that, Linda?"
"Butch Collier", was Linda's response. There was no doubt from Ray's vivid
recollections that she recognized one of the men trailing James Earl Ray. For
the past quarter century she had been married to the other. Later, documents
within the FBI's own investigative file would validate what Jim was claiming:
that forces within the Federal Government directed the murder of Dr. King
through racketeering union-associated-operatives who, in turn, hired locals in
Jim's home town of Caruthersville, Missouri. Jim's amazing memory for details
would prove invaluable. Phone call conversations written up in the FBI's own
MURKIN (FBI acronym for Murder of King case) investigation files suddenly begin
to make sense. Jim's description of two fake James Earl Ray Ford Mustangs finds
credibility in the FBI's own documents. In addition, the long-held suspicion
that Ray was allowed to escape from prison in 1967 gains validity when FOIA
requests by researcher Lyndon Barsten show that the FBI was tracking Ray for
eleven months prior to the King assassination in Memphis.
http://www.4bypass.com/archives/may-01.htm
Jack Frost
Topic Cop
> I think we all know that Ray did not kill Dr.King.It was a government plot.
Thomas Joseph
danny burstein
[snip]
>I'm convinced, I'm convinced. Please turn off the bright lights.
of screenfuls just to add a one line comment at the end?
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Kenny McCormack
>In <dfbaeeb0-5ee8-464f...@googlegroups.com> Thomas Joseph
><jazee...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>[snip]
>
>>I'm convinced, I'm convinced. Please turn off the bright lights.
>
>Did you really, really, need to repost dozens and dozens
>of screenfuls just to add a one line comment at the end?
I get the impression that a lot of posters who are using, er, sub-optimal
newsreader/poster software (I'm looking at you, Google, and others) and/or, er,
sub-optimal computer skills, don't really know how to do things like
editing thread titles and/or editing body text. It is the limit of their
skills to just be able to add something at all.
I'm not defending or justifying anything. They should get sharper on
either or both accounts described above. I'm just explaining...
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It is always the side that sucks that insists on saying "Well, you suck, too".