“Martin King was killed because he had become intolerable. It was not just that he opposed the war and was going to the bottom line of a number of the major corporations of the United States, those forces that essentially rule the world at this point in time - the transnational entities.
But more
importantly, I think the reason is because he was going to bring a mass of
people to Washington in the spring of '68 and that was very
troubling."- Author
"King crossed some Democrats and labor leaders when he turned against the Vietnam War in 1967, after his unparalleled Riverside Church speech. He knew the war was not only wrong, but was making Johnson’s alleged “War on Poverty” fiscally impossible.- Joan Walsh, Salon.com, January 20, 2014
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today for his fearlessness in battling the endemic racist Jim Crow laws in the 1950s, 60s. His assassination is also important because it was as vile as JFK's and puts the spotlight on the same forces, culprits. Philip Nelson's masterful
'Who Really Killed Martin Luther King Jr.: The Case Against Lyndon B.
Johnson And J. Edgar Hoover'.
Puts the focus on the actual
culprits and why. On p. 82, we learn of Hoover's "planning list" in
which he had listed three sets of initials:
JFK
RFK
MLK
The
significance? This was the core of the liberal cognoscenti that had
to be eliminated to make way for LBJ’s plans including expanding the war in
Vietnam and finally attaining the presidency. As Nelson wrote:
"Nothing in the way of planning on the remaining subjects
could be started until the first priority was complete: The assassination of
John F. Kennedy. Only when that was done could the remaining actions be
put into the gristmill of street-level planning. After the first
target was eliminated in November, 1963, the next two were moved up to the top
of the list, and the two men (LBJ and Hoover) whose cooperation in
many hidden areas had been underway for two decades, reached a common
goal.
Johnson and Hoover
undoubtedly agreed that the next subjects would be planned jointly and
simultaneously, because they both knew that time was limited and the plans for
each would require long lead times. "
The basis for the above
was exposed based on research by author William Pepper, tracking down Hoover's
communication of his hit list - conveyed to partner Clyde Tolson then to big
mouth Sen. Joseph McCarthy (instigator of the commie witch hunt hysteria in the
1950s) - who was to confidentially convey it Russel Adkins. Clearly,
McCarthy was the weak link in the chain in terms of secrecy.
Beyond that, Nelson shows
clearly how Johnson and Hoover worked in concert to nail the other two targets
after they took out JFK. The key thing with Martin Luther King was to get
him to come to Memphis where a SOG hit team could take him out at the Lorraine
Motel. To this end Clyde Tolson was instructed to "make it happen in Memphis". So it was decided to enlist the help of Memphis
mayor Henry Loeb III to "use
the city's garbage workers as a catalyst."
Further (p. 83):
"It had to be carefully designed to ensure the target
was exactly where they wanted him to be, at the point where the plans and
logistics - the men and their equipment - would all be in place. Every
contingency would have to be anticipated down to the point of having the patsy
- James Earl Ray - on site and ready to be shot and killed, but with a backup
plan in place if he wasn't."
Given the scenario worked
- but not entirely as planned (Ray wasn't killed but escaped, only arrested
later) so it was clear Hoover and Johnson recognized the need for a patsy
in every hit they’d undertake. The Rev.
Martin Luther King’s dream lives on today and with better focus and passing
years we now know exactly why he was assassinated: because he became a primary
opponent of the Vietnam War leading Johnson to feel he was “betrayed” – also that
this powerful voice had to be snuffed out.
William Pepper's 1995 book, Orders to Kill) that an Alpha 184 unit had been in Memphis
and the purpose was not at all benign sheds the most light. They were to serve
as backup to a hired contract killer (via New Orleans' crime boss, Carlos
Marcello) Doubters can
avail themselves of Nelson’s image of the attached orders issued to the 20th
AFG Alpha 184 team members. Let me note before moving on, that such
orders could not have come from any old government lackey or
official, not even J. Edgar Hoover. No, they could only have come from the top
dog himself, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
For those who've been involved in deep
politics research, and especially got their "baptism" with the
Kennedy assassination, it's abundantly clear the lone nut assassin in the King
case is another cover story. In fact, all the evidence - including from
LBJ's role in the Kennedy assassination - masterminding the plan from Big D-
we know he is the one who also engineered the King assassination. And
why not? He'd already gotten away with the first assassination via the cover
fraud "investigation" known as the Warren Commission.
William Pepper's findings from the 2003 speech he gave:
See Also:
9 facts about King that may surprise you
And:
by Peter Dreier | January 17, 2023 - 7:05am | permalink
Excerpt:
In his absorbing profile of the writer Alex Haley (author of "Roots" and "The Autobiography of Malcolm X") in the New York Times Book Review a year ago, Michael Patrick Hearn made a familiar mistake. He wrote: "Politically [Haley] he was a moderate, philosophically more Martin than Malcolm."
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was no moderate. Today, he is viewed as something of an American saint. His name adorns schools and street signs. His birthday—January 15, 1929—is observed as a national holiday on the third Monday of January each year. This year as in years past, Americans from across the political spectrum invoke King's name to justify their beliefs and actions.
But in his day, King was considered a dangerous troublemaker. Both Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson worried that King was being influenced by Communists. King was harassed by the FBI and vilified in the media.
And:
And:
by Tom H. Hastings | January 16, 2023 - 7:54am | permalink
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