THE (CHARACTER) ASSASSINATION OF DR. KING Final Edition

THE family of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been much maligned of late for its aggressive copyright control of King's works. It has raised eyebrows further with its wrongful death suit against Loyd Jowers, an otherwise obscure Memphis cafe owner who once boasted that he played a role in a shad...

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Main Author John McMillian John McMillian, a writer for the History News Service, has interned at the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Memphis, Tenn Gannett Media Corp 26.11.1999
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Hoover, J Edgar (1895-1972)
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Summary:THE family of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been much maligned of late for its aggressive copyright control of King's works. It has raised eyebrows further with its wrongful death suit against Loyd Jowers, an otherwise obscure Memphis cafe owner who once boasted that he played a role in a shadowy plot to murder King. The family has at various times implicated the CIA, the FBI, U.S. Army intelligence and even President Lyndon Johnson in an elaborate conspiracy to murder King. To anyone familiar with the massive wealth of evidence against King's convicted assassin, James Earl Ray, these theories are hard to stomach. But instead of simply condemning the King family for being dupes, we could ask how we reached this state of affairs. How has a fairly straightforward case such as the King assassination become complicated with such stale, predictable theories that the government secretly orchestrated King's death?
ISSN:0745-4856