MLK Day: Who Killed Martin Luther King? The Cover-Up of the Century
NOVANEWS
By Asad Ismi
http://www.asadismi.ws/mlk.html
First published on January 19, 2016
“The United States government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.”- Martin Luther King
On December 8, 1999, a jury in Memphis, Tennessee, reached the verdict that Martin Luther King Jr. was killed as a result of a conspiracy involving the FBI, CIA, U.S. Army, Memphis police and the Mafia.
After a five week trial which presented 70 witnesses, the jury (made up of six blacks and six whites) rejected the official position that the civil rights titan was shot by a lone assassin, James Earl Ray, who was jailed for 99 years for the crime and died in 1998. The verdict concluded a wrongful death civil lawsuit brought by the King family against Loyd Jowers, owner of Jim‚s Grill...