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The MLK Tapes - "E1: Death of A King"

2022-01-17

According to the official story, on April 4th, 1968, a lone gunman assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. That man, James Earl Ray, pled guilty and for most people the case was closed. The MLK Tapes, a new true crime podcast from Tenderfoot TV, explores rare recordings of eye-witness testimony and new interviews with people who were there to reveal the true story of the plot to kill Dr. King. Available now on all podcast platforms.

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This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
This is done at all brightened president of tender for tv. On this occasion, I would like to introduce you to our new pot CAS called the milky takes as we celebrate the life in legacy of doktor king is important. we better understand the strain circumstances around his death, the email, Kate Explores who murdered doktor king and why, matches have emerged over the past fifty years. Others have been hiding in plain sight, for some, the assassination of doktor king is pure conspiracy, theory but the knight to ninety nine civil trial proved otherwise running there. Conspiracy not only to place a green unnamed government agencies, Doktor kinked, incredible life expands much further than what we ve been told in our history books you learn. More are checking episode one
from my heart, radio and tender for tv, this is theme ok takes in August of nineteen sixty three doktor Martin Luther King spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crown of more than two hundred and fifty thousand in one Didn t see saw even though we face the difficulty of today and tomorrow I still have a dream. His eye conic, I have a dream speech, is one of the most famous speeches in history and one you probably familiar with nearly six decades later. A few handpicked sentences from that speech have come to define him in the popular mind, but king was not afraid to travel more dangerous routes for years later at Riverside Church in New York. Martin Luther king would give a speech that wasn't about the fight.
Civil rights in America. It was about horrific war in Vietnam and it may have cost him his life. This vision is burning human beings with napalm. sending men home from dark and bloody battles. Failed physical, handicapped and psychological Irene can not be comes with wisdom, justice and King speech that nights the country many thought he crossed the line by speaking against the war. He was supposed to stick to civil rights. Life magazine called to speak demagogic, slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi, referring to the radio station and Communist North Vietnam, and for some king speech was an act treason a year later to the day. Martin Luther king,
just thirty nine years old would be dead. My name is built labour. I'm an author and researcher and most recently, Co. Creator of the earth K takes a pot cast about the assassination of Robert Kennedy. I was in law, school window, The king was shot. My first thought was a hidden forces, perhaps in our own government were likely the murder but then a man named James Earl RE was arrested. He played guilty to the crime and spent the rest of his life in prison. He was alone gunman. We were told, brought to murder by racial hatred and that spend the official narrative for over fifty years. It would be decades before I discovered the real story behind the murder of doktor king. It came to me in boxes cardboard boxes with dozens of audio tapes,
just as he got to the door a shot rang out, and somebody came out of the bushes and handed him a smoking rifle and he broke it down and wrapped it in a tablecloth and put it back in the store, open, what a hard shot when I saw him did. He had ever saw him, go dial now, no doubt but there was no question related mammals hit hard. He was hit hard, so immediately turn around and go that direction. It was like
what's a shot went off, it was ever known for his own. Every dog resume the voices on these tapes or from people who, with their people, who, in the passing years, have overcome their fear to speak about what they saw, what they her and, in some cases, what they did when Martin Luther king was killed. Welcome to the M o K, tapes Doktor kings assassination is a critical moment in american history. Let's go back to March nineteen sixty eight in a campaign to fight not only for civil rights but for economic growth
this. King had come to Memphis to support the sanitation workers in their quest to form a union striking workers peacefully carrying signs. It said I am a man was an image. They hope would penetrate the conscience of the nation. This hope was shattered when the peaceful March king had wanted to lead, was disrupted by riding riding that may have been set off by people sent in to start trouble and because of the awful images coming out of Memphis kings. Critics were now saying that he had lost. All of this movement that it could no longer led a peaceful protest. So we return to Memphis to support to sanitation workers, improve his doubters wrong.
Dr king on your mark here on Monday, has apparently been enjoying their with a federal injunction that that holds up. What are your plans we march or not? We do feel that it would be a basic denial of first amendment. Privilege is to have an injunction take effect that would prevent us from marching. We stand on the first amendment and I am the pass,
we on the basis of conscience, Reagan junctions, and that may very well happen in this situation. But breaking an injunction was not kings only worrying by returning to Memphis. He was also putting his life on the line and he knew it it's the evening of April. Third, as thunderstorms rage outside Martin Luther King speaks on behalf of the sanitation workers to several thousand followers in downtown Memphis. That's a question before you tonight not a fast start to have signed a patient work. What will happen to my job, the question is, if I do not stop at the sanitation work of what will happen to them, but it was, but there was something else that needed to be put into words. Kings plain into Memphis had been delayed by a bomb scare and threats on king himself were an increase.
In almost daily occurrence that I got into my face and some began to save a foot. A talk about what would happen to me from some of us. Sick wide problem is worse. That night were a chilling were telling of his own death about it. I would like to live a long life money whether has its place, but I'm not concerned about that. Now I just want to do. We'll and he's in love for the moment. And see the promise man king didn't look away. He could feel what was coming. I may not get back. what I want you to night
But we were promised happen a night, I'm not worried about it. Might have seen the next morning kings. Lieutenant Andrew Young went to court to challenge the injunction prohibiting the upcoming Protest March. Will king mostly state around the Lorraine Motel and met with people who came and went late in the day young returned to report that they had won. The march could go on. That was happy news because a soul, food dinner was waiting Reverend Billy Kyles House, and everyone could now relax and have a good time at six p dot m Martin Luther king stepped out of room three hundred and six onto the motel balcony on his way to the den,
as he waited for Ralph Abernathy, to join him. He watched below as the dominion to Andrew Young Shadow Box, with a Reverend James Orange, who was six foot for in your three hunt. Don't hurt him Andy. King shouted, then King spotted been branch, a musician who was the play at the party after dinner. He asked branch to be sure to play precious. Lord, take my hand. play. It real pretty said, king yeah. there was a sudden sound like a firecracker and doktor came collapsed. Abernathy ran out of the room and knelt beside the fallen king. He creates, this wounded head and saw ass. He put it the understanding train from his eyes.
The time young arrive blood was everywhere, oh god, wealthy so is over place of issued in all points bulletin for a world rushed young white man seen running from the sitting opposite, don't throw reportedly chased and fired on a radio. I put the car containing two white men. King was rushed to St Joseph's hospital where he died within the hour Meanwhile, out on main street, the police would find a rifle in a box near a mysterious bag in the bag were binoculars. Nine bullets, a transistor radio, a pair of pliers, a couple of beers and a copy of that day's newspaper. On this evidence, investigators would find the fingerprints of a man named James Array, a fugitive who escaped from prison the year before they also discovered that a man fitting raise description had written
the room at a boarding house near the rain and had access to a small bathroom with a line of sight to doktor kings position on the motel balcony. So the Memphis police now had a suspect, but where was an enormously wide police hunt, is now going on an unidentified. I thought you were old white man who was being reported to be driving a large, fast white sports company recklessly it took two months to find him, but finally, on June eighth,
Ray, was arrested at London Heathrow Airport with a fake canadian passport. The forty role petty criminal and escaped convict with brought back to Memphis adage arraignment re, was charged with the murder of Martin Luther king. He pleaded not guilty which of course, criminals commonly plead not guilty. So raise initial plea doesn't mean a thing. It was rumoured that Ray had killed king out of a vicious hatred, but no one knew for sure, because for the next eight months re was held incommunicado. The only person is allowed to see him were his attorney and his brother. So what most people didn't know and as a supposedly informed law student I didn't know, was that, while admit,
He wasn't Memphis that day. James array always said that he did not shoot. Martin Luther King re wanted to go trial, even though he knew that if he could not convince the jury, the penalty was likely to be the electric chair. He didn't care, he said he didn't do it and he wandered is chance to prove it. In court, race, famous criminals thence attorney. Percy foreman came on saying that race case would be the easiest one he ever argued, but his race trial data approached form and suddenly changed his tomb and pressure greater plead guilty which, They did lady, you I'll, get a move in the right way in this case, because you kill that Martin Luther King, under such circumstances, would make it legally guilty of murder. The way I'm alive explained to you by your lawyer,
His answer was barely audible on the recording system used by the court. What he said was quote yes legally guilty three days after a guilty plea, James Array, petition, Judge Preston Battle to change his plea to not guilty, often in the interests of justice. Such a petition is granted, and many observers expected judge battle to do that. But the day was to add battle was found.
Left overs desk dead from an apparent heart attack and James all re was led off the prison no trial years passed and the vast majority of Americans didn't give the case. Much thought king had been killed and re was in prison because he was the one who shot him. But if you lived in Memphis, you might have been aware of strange stories, an odd bits of evidence that didn't fit with the official count of the crime. People who heard things, people who saw things things that didn't fit with the story of alone drifter killing King also in nineteen seventy six. During congressional hearings, it came to light that the federal government had been wiretapping kings, office and home.
And bugging his every hotel room, why was the government so concerned with prevailing king? Was this in any way connected to his death? A man named William Pepper, thinks it was pepper, was a friend of doktor king and his many years gathering evidence that tells a very different story than the one we ve all been told evidence about who really killed Martin Luther King and why he was murdered. In April nineteen sixty three:
I travelled to New York City to join a massive anti war rally. There were more people marching than I had ever seen as we approach the United Nations Plaza. We were too far away to see doktor king, but we could hear his unmistakable voice let us save on national, stop the bombing and stop the wall. Cheering stage with Dr King was a journalist named bill, pepper pepper, have been a friend of Dr King and he had been an important influence on king's position. Guess the war in Vietnam, I because of my writings on the war had been asked to introduce more king, which I did It was a very significant movement, because Doktor King went against the advice of most of the civil rights
Those who believe that he was going to cost them a great deal of money on their movements with his anti war position. but that was was a nature of doktor. King is a matter of conscience. He spoke courageously on that day as well. Fifty years after that rally in New York, I would interview bill, pepper, well, working on the order of K, tapes, podcast, unwanted, is take on the Robert Kennedy murder and he a lot to say about that. But he had even more to say about the killing of Martin Luther king because he had spent the last forty years of his life investigating the murder of his friend There was more to tell the time would allow. So we agreed to meet again. And one more matter noon. And may I traveled a bill. Peppers poem in South, Harlem We were told me the remarkable story of how It come to know, Martin Luther King and the stunning things he had discovered about the assassination,
I got my credentials as a journalist I went to Vietnam in nineteen sixty six, saying whole villages razed unburned, burned children, badly injured by the Maid Palm and the white phosphorus sing total debt. station among the civilian population so was, where to me that war crimes committed by the Americans in massive amounts. I'd heard about single I never seen anything like that. In my life I took photographs as much as I could, pepper returned to the United States determined to tell about what he had seen, but as photographs were rejected by mainstream and progressive publications, he finally found a taker and Ramparts magazine say. The ramparts peace came out in January of nineteen sixty seven march. King noticed ass. He What's going on a trip to photograph, something called his attention.
Then he read the article and asked to meet with me I showed him one ever edition material, that I had at that time. talk to him about what is going on there and he wept So all of this horror that was being down by his government. He couldn't believe it an hour How I became involved will start your king and I became close to him. during the last year, but only the last year of his life, a article and photos help doctor can come to grips with a harsh connection between poverty, race and more men on April. Fourth, one thousand nine hundred and sixty seven king delivered his famous speech on Vietnam Riverside Church in New York when machines and computers, profit, motives and property rights are considered more important than people. The giant triplets of races.
stream, materialism and militarism iron capable of being conquer, oh you later Doktor king was dead and build pepper was devastated, but in the midst of the pain and heartbreak, his skills as a campaigner were still being courted, notably by Robert Kennedy, who had just recently announced he was right, for president we went from Memphis to Atlanta were buried, margin we asked me and others to come after US hotel to discuss his presidential campaign, and I no I'm through his politics after king was laid to rest bill. Pepper went to work on it. Station and, at the same time earned a law degree ten years after kings, murder, pepper was suing illegal career in New York City. One afternoon the phone rang it was Ralph Abernathy kings. Former number two
Abernathy asked me and ninety seventy eight to go up to the prison brush penitentiary and in turn James Array, nightfall Ralph I don't know anything about the case. I thought Angel ruin been guilty. and you're not gonna happen. Of investigation. So I would need some time in order to do that. In August of nineteen, seventy eight high interrogated dreams for five torture, hours, put him under enormous stress and remainders commas. He could be any answer to questions as best as he could For ten years, built pepper had thought that James Array had murdered his friend Morton King any entered his interview with Ray still believing that, but the Why understated stated re he met. Wasn't the man he expected to me
admitted that he had been in Memphis that day rendered a room, and does he brewers boarding house and had bought the rifle in Birmingham, but he also calmly insisted tat. He did not shoot doktor, king and didn't know the king was going to be shot. The men spent hours going over and over how it was he came to Memphis and what he was doing when king was killed each one of us in our everyday lives as our own ways of deciding whether a person is telling the truth. It may be how they meet our eyes were the sound of their force, but after five hours of questions and answers, both bill, pepper and Ralph Abernathy came away with the same judgment. We left the room believe he was not the shooter, but we didn't know what Rowley mine of play, but he raised enough questions so that
From that time. On nineteen, seventy a I began to go into Memphis and examine Specific issues related to the case, as you want deeper into the evidence, pepper, came to believe that James all re was not only not the shooter but was himself a victim of manipulation. Eventually, in an incredible twist of fate, ill pepper would become the attorney representing James Array, the man convicted of murdering his friend Martin King. Paper was determined to get Ray the trial he never had and in so doing revealed to the world the evidence he was uncovering I came to represent change. Nineteen. Eighty eight here, denied relief from the state court so. We followed a heavy proceeding. federal district court.
denial of the federal district, went to the six Circuit Court of Appeals Shorewood denied. Then we files rid of socio arrived with the Supreme Court when we lost our appeal decision final appeal to the Supreme Court, we thought that was thirty one. going to be the end of it Legal avenues were seemingly close to them. There one last recourse opened a bill, pepper and James Rural Ray the Court of public opinion.
I talk to a producer, my new age, real agreed, and so we worked on a plan to do in age. Rio special tonight in an effort to promote the mystery of doktor kings, death James or way will finally have his day and court. The defence team will be led by William Pepper and American lawyer who act, as is in London, pepper, has raise unpaid counsel for the past five years? Formal trial was a randomly selected jury from all of the country and impartial judge. They Take Ewing, who was a former Eu Us attorney, or the Memphis area,
and take meant if he would be led prosecutor, Hickman agreed, and so we tried the case. Ninety three, the trial was a fool. Knockdown drag our trial. Prosecution maintains that the young trot came from about about from the roominghouse defence suggests and approve the evidence indicates the shots came from the brush wishes down below from the back yard. Thirdly, on scripted, we got James to testify by camera and he was subject to cross examination. I won't sell you the charter, the inside of the roaming house. You went up the south stairs you. What's all MRS Brewer said,
What's wrong, it's a bad! Is it not? She showed you room aid. First. Did you not show me one room? First said it was a lighthouse people and you looked at that room and in your walk down over here she showed you that Rome, you said you'd, take five, be correct. Yes, I told him what is latent? Rumors This room right here, you can't see anything out of can can you must write, you could have had room, I or you could have have room five b and you chose room five b that right. Yes, it was to rooms there, not they go down unless the Age Butte trial gave bill pepper and opportunity to call into question every aspect of the official story. If there is no significance of the brush in the back of the roominghouse, why was it cut, which is the police find evidence? No advance suggest the brush was cut so that it could never be seen.
Does that there was enough brush there to conceal a sniper. Could change or re cause the scene of a crime to be tempered within this when Reverend Jose Williams, who was one of doktor kings, closest AIDS testified for the defence that Martens Hotel Room and the hotel itself the reservations itself where change could change will re arranged. This could change it all right. this we didn't know the verdict. They kept. The verdict secret, as I could de Jure took seven hours plus and eventually it aired on April. Fourth, one thousand nine hundred and ninety three, I guess- and we've shot up at the vet, the prison James was there hey man and his team were on the last June. I wrong on the right, The whole trial laid on HBO
The verdict of we, the jury, find the defendant, not guilty. Verdict came out, Hagman was startled. I've got a lot of her. even though it wasn't a real court. Proceeding. This mark trial demonstrated that the case against James Array didn't pass the test of reasonable doubt. A jury when presented with the evidence of pepper and others had uncovered decided that re was not guilty This should have been big news, but it got almost no mention in the american press, but it did shake the tree little and a few new people came forward with what they knew. At the same time, bill pepper, published his book orders to kill where he laid out the case for raise innocence and alleged that elements of the government may have been involved in Dhaka, kings assassination, but most outlets.
the mainstream media didn't review it. Considering the importance of the man who was murdered and the evidence out for the reader. The question is: why wasn't reviewed our times. Reviewer was told the pull. If this was the first time in two, the five years that he was told the poem premium and so is pretty clear. The storm is going to be very, but the book did reach the hands of an important person who had come forward and change the trajectory of the case in his years. Searching for the truth, bill pepper had carefully stayed away from the
family, feeling that they have suffered enough. But once his book orders to kill was published, his work was out there for anyone to see and one person who bought and read the book was Martin kings. Nephew Isaac, Ferris, recently sat down with us in ITALY. I knew the uncle may on maybe was a little different, because one thing, would notice at the Thanksgiving dinners debtors is dead. He would always be the last to get there and most he would do, no start out by taking a nap. You know I didn't older that, but I really didn't get a sense of of hooey was to laughter. He died in that started. The night he was assassinated. We were at home in the announcement came across the tv, It is based on my mother's reaction. I could tell something: was up? Ferris was just too
boy when his uncle M L as he was called, was murdered. He saw the pain and the devastation it wrong, but he also strengthen the family. the older generation, including its mother, innocent Coretta, dealt with their pain immersing themselves. In the creation the king Centre and working towards a national holiday honouring doktor came with doubts. They had they kept themselves, but the younger generation felt less constraint. I would constantly have conversations theoretical conversations with my cousins, particularly his kids, about what my If happen, he might have been involved to be taught. oh, that an escaped criminal follow my uncle across the country, never hit write to us a mean generally and escaped criminal is trying to keep a low profile and escape Krim
All is not following a high profile, individual around so higher profile that law enforcement is. Probably in the area, so Isaac Ferris bore a book on the murder of his uncle and he was stunned by what it contained but whose filled I personally did a little investigating about bill peppered the man, because at that point I did not realise that details, even a relationship between bill, However, in my uncle and the more and more. I look into the man in the more and more I read this story, things checked out, in January of ninety seven Ferris decided to call a meeting and put the story in front of the family Look we ve all known. Did you know this is not right
in all we have all said that we ve all admitted there, but we just kind of stop their use, an opportunity I think for us at least. If we don't find out every little detail, we can at least kind of put it together the next was bring bill pepper to Atlanta to meet every one and answer questions according to Ferris it was a tense first hour first, I guess we would in him on his personal integrity. Why you you could do in this watch. Your angle, here? What would your purpose? I mean you just trying to sell a best seller and, in a nutshell, we determine that deal with sincere, that that he felt a sense of responsibility for what happened to my uncle, because Bill do Marco's lifetime was one of the people around my uncle, who was actually trying to really push him to run for president. You know I think Bill felt like
you know whoever assassinated knew of his plans- and so he felt responsibility in and we accepted that saw once we You ve got caught with him the man personally then it was like. Ok will there's really look at your case in and what you're talking about, and how did you come to this in and what solid is based on real pepper, didn't mind the questions, his friendship with Doktor king had been real, and so was the work done on the case, a great personal cost to himself, and he understood that just being there, he was picking out a scab that covered a deep wound. I think it was a very traumatic and devastating for them to come to grips with the fact that just this good and peaceful man who Had the values not only his face but of a representative democracy was actually taken away.
them and from all of us. I governmental action to very dramatic the information to digest, but we Saturday night. Ok, now you know we need to take this to the world and how do we do that we agreed to, can I get it? God and help him and do whatever we could and as a result that we found out. First information. The families first effort was to a bill peppers attempt you re the trial he never had. There was an urgency now because just a few months earlier Ray. It almost died in the hospital from complications arising from cirrhosis of the liver. He had recovered from the crisis, but the clock was clearly ticking so in March, ninety seven in an effort to get a trial for Re Dextra King sat down with James,
ray with media present. The meeting lasted about a half an hour and a one point king asked Ray. The question: did kill my father. No, no, I didn't know I want you to know, I believe you and my family believes and we're going to do everything in our power to try and make sure that justice will prevail. I said Ferris also meant ray, but without the cameras I have met James Array. I want to be you're. A full house say this, but James Array is not the smartest cookie on block? Ok, in fact, every crime did he committed. He bunk me you just a bungler as a criminal appeal. Viewed lick, it is his
I mean he would get caught doing done things one time he d Rob to place an apparently he was bare footing something in and too high heels shoes from and he tried to run in high, you choose away from the cops, but I'll go back and forth. Whether that you know J new, ok, I'm part of the plan to kill doktor king or you know whether nod he Jesus? What is a person that was taken advantage, but his of of intelligence is possible. That he could have been duped is possible. He could In a part, it is never known that this is a plan to kill doktor king for awhile, seemed as though the effort to get re trial was going to bear fruit as bill pepper got the case in front of Judge Joe Brown, who appeared ready to let them present their evidence and measures. Joe brow was
criminal court judge, who is on the verge of giving us a trial, a new trial for James. Alright, we had made a strong presentation to Joe Brown He was very sceptical of the official sorry why It is an expert in ballistics had to determine for themselves that please I feel road, our rightful who had now I've been the murder weapon was not the murder weapon. He was on the verge of rolling foreign trial was shortly after that worry were simply removed from the case by the administrative Judge Day, new charges would be more compliant, on April twenty third. Ninety. Ninety eight time ran out for James Array,
James or re as we just heard, is dead and there are fears that the truth about Martin Luther King S, assocation may have died with him. Re died of kidney failure and complications of liver disease on Thursday with Ray gone. It may seem like the end, but it wasn't because, Bill. Pepper had one more idea. As new evidence emerged after the HBO trial, it has become clear that one man, my jars
play some role in the murder, the back door to his bar and grill opened under the brush covered yard, just opposite kings room at the low and a few people who work for showers had come forward with what they had seen. The day of the murder and showers himself had made would seem to be self incriminating statements. So pepper went back to the king family. What if they soon dismay and various unnamed government agencies for wrongful death, it would be a civil soon, not a criminal trial, but it would represent a novel, turning to get the evidence as it then existed, recorded under oath in a court of law. The downside was that it would open old wounds with a family be up for such an ordeal. Once we became comfortable in the family felt that they should share this with the world
because we knew, even if it was ignored it still there in history. So even fifty years from now, people have a different look on this and are prepared to accept. The facts is therefore and the family agreed that we would bring a civil action and since we had so much This man is man. Showers We would name him as a defended and his lawyer cooperative. his lawyer Louis Garrison, very good and solid decent man said his client was just how poor news by powerful forces as you know, a long trial. Thirty days showing seventy witnesses. Very very long trial. Where did you give us Virgil, rigour put forward one evidence that we had at that point in time.
For. Over thirty years, credits cocking had borne the grief of her husband's death with grace and dignity. She never expressed a doubt that James O re had pulled it, rigour, although she did sometimes wonder allowed if other hands had helped him do it, but for three weeks in November of ninety. Ninety nine, MRS King, went to a court room in downtown Memphis, took her seat and listened as witness after witness gave their testimony. On the final day, bill, pepper, rose and addressed the jury flows. people forget what has been said in this court. Remember what the verdict is true, because you have heard evidence that has never before been put on,
Some of them would have been put on MR raised trot. If he had ever been granted. No one is detailed evidence that you have behalf of the family of Martin Luther King Jr. We asked you to find lockpicks piercy existed once and for all.
justice was lies, say this nation areas, as is so often after bill pepper, set down. The judge gave his instructions and a jury retired to consider the case, but only a few hours later they returned with a verdict in favour of the king family. Finding that the murder of Doktor Martin Luther king in Memphis had been a plan d then, and that multiple people have been involved after the trial. Mrs king returned to Atlantic the following day she called a press conference. This is what she had to say. This verdict is not only a great
victory for my family, but also a great victory for America and a great victory for truth itself. The jury was clearly convinced that, in addition to Mr Jahr was a conspiracy of the mafia, local state and federal government agencies were deeply involved in the assassination. my husband. The jury also affirmed overwhelming evidence that identified some one else, not James O re as the shooter and Memphis, and that Mr Re was set up to take the blame. So what did Gretel skulking here in the courtroom that made this reserved, careful woman speak, and so definite fashion. That's what will be looking at and talking about in the next eleven episodes. The trial in its verdict should have been a huge story, but the American Press did not see
did you report on it in any meaningful way. We're came instead, where the opposite, just by men already invested in the official story attacking MRS King and her family for being dupes or in it for the money, as if there were any. I was discussed so why coverage and lack of coverage of the media. The king family was greatly abuse fact. There were some editorials that are related to them as aiding and abetting treason and terrorism and all of blood. the anger over how the king family was treated with still evident on bill pepper space, as he showed me, the photographs of MRS King,
bravely standing beside him in the courtroom and photos of him with the rest of the king family at a dinner they put on as a thank you for his efforts, and there was a lot the thank him for over the years each time, some one step forward with new information. It would sit them down and record what they had to say. In most cases, they were just common people who fondly overcame their fear, an answer, their conscience. In the end, they were dozens and dozens of audio tapes in boxes in different places and attic here, a closet there and some down at the King Centre in Atlanta many of the people on those tapes or dead, but their stories harm and you're going to hear them. It's not.
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