(A sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oval Office, Photo: Alex Brandon/AP)
Nefarious efforts by the US military, intelligence, and law enforcement machinery to harass, blackmail, and discredit Dr. King. Undeniable evidence connects these abuses of power to his assassination.
by Amber Yang
Originally Published: March 9, 2024
We celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a galvanizing moral force for equality and human rights. What is most fascinating and rarely discussed isn’t his stance on civil rights, but his willingness to speak out about the crimes and atrocities committed by covert elements within the US government.
Below, we discuss nefarious efforts by the US military, intelligence, and law enforcement machinery to harass, blackmail, discredit, and spy on Dr. King. We also reveal undeniable evidence connecting these abuses of power to his tragic assassination on April 4, 1968. Few people know about the 1999 King Family civil trial in Memphis, where it took a jury only one hour to determine that the US government was behind the assassination of King.
In sharing this important and little-known information, we draw upon the powerful words and experience of journalist and human rights lawyer Dr. William Pepper in his book The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Pepper was a personal friend to King and the attorney for the King Family. He also represented King’s alleged murderer James Earl Ray, and Sirhan Sirhan in the trial for the murder of Robert Kennedy.
While the information presented here is deeply unsettling, we honor the powerful vision and faith in human goodness that shaped King’s activism. Heavily influenced by the nonviolent teachings of Mahatma Gandhi who he saw as a “guiding light,” King believed that truth and peace are inseparable.
Truth is rooted in a refusal to do harm with our words and actions, and a personal readiness to suffer for it. He believed that death and destruction imposed on others, no matter who they are, was an injury to all other human beings. After grieving over photographs of slaughtered Vietnamese children and the destructive use of napalm and white phosphorus on innocent Vietnamese people, he resolved to call passionate attention to harmful US war agendas in every corner of America he visited.
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