The Conspiracy to Kill Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.

His parents were Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King.
His birth name was Michael.

He was an American Baptist minister and activist.

He became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

He was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Thursday, April 4, 1968, King was staying in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

King had gone out onto the balcony when he was struck at 6:01 p.m. by a single .30-06 bullet fired from a Remington Model 760 rifle.

The bullet entered through King's right cheek.

It broke his jaw and several vertebrae as it traveled down his spinal cord. It severed his jugular vein and major arteries in the process, before lodging in his shoulder.

King fell violently backward onto the balcony, unconscious.

Witnesses saw a man, later believed to be James Earl Ray, fleeing from a rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel.

Police found a package dumped close to the the motel.

It included a rifle and binoculars, both with Ray's fingerprints.

James Earl Ray plead guilty.

Three days later, he recanted and said he was framed by a man named Raul.

Ray's lawyer, Willam Pepper, claimed that Ray was used as a scapegoat and was being framed by the government.

King's son Dexter, met with Ray and says he is innocent.
Some people say that Ray was never known to have fired a weapon.
He was in the army during World War II, so i'm sure he fired a weapon.

If you look at the picture of the people pointing at were the shooter was, it is the opposite direction of where Ray was suppose to have shot him from.

The weapon that had Ray's fingerprints on it, was ruled out as the weapon that killed King.

The shot came from the fire house.

A Local bar owner, Loyd Jowers, claims that a Memphis drug dealer, Frank Liberto, gave him $100,000 to hire a hitman to kill King.

The hitman was not Ray.

Hoover had put King under F.B.I. surveillance, because he thought he was a huge threat.

Wire tapping and threatening King among some of the "surveillance."

In 1999 King's family won a civil suit against the bar owner and others, including government agencies guilty of the murderer.

Files concerning his death are sealed until 2025.

What do you think happened?

i think the vice president was one of the ones responsible for having him killed, like he did with JFK.