“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
"In 1999, our family filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit in Shelby County, Tennessee. The jury unanimously concluded that our father was the victim of a conspiracy involving Loyd Jowers and unnamed co-conspirators, including government agencies as a part of a wider scheme." - Part of King family statement
The Anti-DEI Trump administration yesterday released nearly a quarter million files pertaining to the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, this in defiance of the King family, e.g.
Trump defies King family, releases decades of FBI files on MLK’s life and assassination
So pardon me if I am suspicious about Trump's motives, given this is the same character who ordered his anti-DEI squad to remove Jackie Robinson's name and history from one gallery even as he gave short shrift to anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman. To me, it is easier to believe he's done this simply as another distraction to take some heat off him re: the Epstein files firestorm. Besides, we know the majority of the released files are from the Hoover FBI stash which aimed to paint MLK as a commie tool and undermine the civil rights movement. As the King family observes in its statement on the release:
"During our father’s lifetime, he was relentlessly targeted by an invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign orchestrated by J. Edgar Hoover through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The intent of the government’s COINTELPRO campaign was not only to monitor, but to discredit, dismantle and destroy Dr. King’s reputation and the broader American Civil Rights Movement. These actions were not only invasions of privacy, but intentional assaults on the truth – undermining the dignity and freedoms of private citizens who fought for justice, designed to neutralize those who dared to challenge the status quo."
Nonetheless the assassination is important given it was as vile as that of JFK and puts the spotlight on the same forces and culprits. Namely LBJ and Hoover.
Philip Nelson's masterful 'Who Really Killed Martin Luther King Jr.: The Case Against Lyndon B. Johnson And J. Edgar Hoover'.
Reveals key details, none of which I warrant will be uncovered in the just released files. After all, anything pointing unambiguously to the actual perps would have either met a woodchipper or incinerator by now, like any critical JFK files. On p. 82, for example, 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 subsequent communication of his hit list. This was first conveyed to partner Clyde Tolson then to big mouth Sen. Joseph McCarthy (instigator of the commie witch hunt hysteria in the 1950s) . The latter misfit 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 tandem to nail the other two targets after they took out JFK. The key trick 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:
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As MAGA world focuses on Epstein, Trump seeks focus on anything else
And:
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When the walls start closing in, Donald Trump doesn’t lawyer up: he doubles down. With Epstein’s ghost rattling through the headlines and the threat of explosive disclosures looming, Team Trump has rolled out its most cynical, racially-charged distraction yet: accuse Barack Obama of treason.
It’s not about justice. It’s not about truth. It’s a deliberate psyop meant to hijack the news cycle, enrage the MAGA base, and erase Epstein’s name from every chyron in America.
Which is why it appears that the Trump White House is closing in on the conclusion that the only story that could be “big enough” to blow Epstein off the front pages will be “Obama Committed Treason!”
They’re busily assigning investigators, FBI agents, lawyers, and others in the Justice Department to find everything they can that might implicate our first Black president in having committed High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
— from Robert Reich's Substack
Friends,
Here are the two contradictions lying at the heart of the contretemps over Trump and Jeffrey Epstein:
1. As early as May, Trump knew his name was in the Epstein files. Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy informed Trump at a meeting in the White House that his name appeared “multiple times.”
But on July 15, when a journalist asked Trump, “Did [Bondi] tell you at all that your name appeared in the files?” Trump responded, “No, no.”
2. Bondi said in February that Epstein’s client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review.”
