Excerpted from Monumental Myths
I was about 2½ months old when it happened. On April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) was assassinated. The official story is that a single “lone nut” bumbling petty crook, James Earl Ray, was staying at a rooming house located at 422 South Main Street. In the back of this rooming house was a shared bathroom with a window that looked out onto the swimming pool of the Lorraine Motel.
Since the window in the bathroom was over his head, Ray stood on a bathtub and fired the shot that killed MLK. He then ran from the bathroom into the bedroom, bundled up the rifle and a bizarre collection of personal belongings into a blanket (ensuring that the rifle and belongings but not the bathroom door or the bedroom door had his fingerprints on them), ran the length of the rooming house (down a flight of stairs), dumped the bundle in the street, walked calmly to his waiting Mustang and drove away within the 90 seconds it took uniformed officers to reach the same location.
He drove off in his white Mustang and single handedly evaded a police dragnet in Memphis, drove a conspicuous white Mustang all the way to Atlanta, then left the country and journeyed as far as Portugal before finally being apprehended in London’s Heathrow Airport on June 8, 1968 and charged with the assassination of MLK.
Or so the “official story” goes…
But there were many anomalies in the “official story.”
Did you know…
Within minutes after the shooting of MLK, a local police officer discovered a Remington 30-06 rifle, several unused bullets, and other effects that belonged to James Earl Ray, wrapped inside a blanket, outside Canipe’s Amusement store. The owner of the store recalled someone dropping the package at his door before the time of the assassination.
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Judge Joe Brown, who presided over two years of hearings on the rifle, testified that “…67% of the bullets from my tests did not match the Ray rifle.” He added that the unfired bullets found wrapped with it in a blanket were metallurgically different from the bullet taken from MLK’s body, and therefore were from a different lot of ammunition. And because the rifle’s scope had not been sited, Brown said, “this weapon literally could not have hit the broadside of a barn.” Holding up the Remington 30-06 rifle, Judge Brown told the jury, “It is my opinion that this is not the murder weapon.”
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There was never a police investigation of the MLK assassination. No house-to-house investigation. Neighbors as late as two weeks later stated “they never knocked on my door.” In thirty years, they never talked to the Captain who ran the fire station across the street.
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Solomon Jones was MLK’s chauffeur in Memphis. The FBI document, dated April 13, 1968, says that after MLK was shot, when Jones looked across Mulberry Street into the brushy area, “he got a quick glimpse of a person with his back toward Mulberry Street. … This person was moving rather fast, and he recalls that he believed he was wearing some sort of light-colored jacket with some sort of a hood or parka.” When he was interviewed by the police at 11:30 PM on the day of the murder, Jones provided the same basic information concerning a person leaving the brushy area in a hurry.
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Earl Caldwell was a New York Times reporter in his room at the Lorraine Motel the evening of the assassination. In videotaped testimony, Caldwell said he heard what he thought was a bomb blast at 6:00 PM. When he ran to the door and looked out, he saw a man crouched in the heavy part of the bushes across the street. The man was looking over at the Lorraine’s balcony. Caldwell wrote an article about the figure in the bushes but was never questioned about what he had seen by any authorities.
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Within hours of the assassination, the crime scene (bushes and brushy area that Solomon Jones, Earl Caldwell, and several others were identifying to the Memphis police as a cover for the shooter) had been “sanitized” by orders of the police. In a 1993 affidavit from former SCLC official James Orange that was read into the court record, Orange said that he “… noticed, quite early the next morning around 8 or 9 o’clock, that all of the bushes and brush on the hill were cut down and cleaned up. It was as though the entire area of the bushes from behind the rooming house had been cleared.”
Maynard Stiles, who in 1968 was a senior official in the Memphis Sanitation Department, confirmed that the bushes near the rooming house were cut down. At about 7:00 AM on April 5th, the day after the assassination, Stiles told the jury that he received a call from Memphis Police Department Inspector Sam Evans “requesting assistance in clearing brush and debris from a vacant lot in the vicinity of the assassination. … They went to that site, and under the direction of the police department, whoever was in charge there, proceeded with the clean-up in a slow, methodical, meticulous manner.” It seems that Memphis Police Department was more concerned with cleaning up an alleged crime scene than investigating the murder. Hmmmmm….
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Just two hours before the assassination the Memphis Police Department’s patrolling “TAC Units” (each comprising three cars) were pulled back five blocks from the vicinity of the Lorraine Motel. Police chief Holloman claimed that he did not know of that decision until afterwards. Furthermore, immediately after the shooting, no “All Points Bulletin” was issued. This would have ensured that the major escape routes out of Memphis were sealed. So, despite the official story, there was no “police dragnet in Memphis” on that day.
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The only person to ever identify James Earl Ray as having been at the rooming house (never mind shooting) at the time of the murder was Charlie Stephens, a man so drunk a cab driver even refused to take him anywhere that day. Imagine how drunk you’d have to be for a cab driver to refuse service!
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Charlie Stephens was the government’s “star witness” in a trial that resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of James Earl Ray in March 1969? Oh yes, did I mention that Stephens couldn’t identify Ray when he was later shown a photograph?
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William Hamblin told the court a story he was told many times by his friend James McCraw, now deceased. McCraw was the taxi driver who arrived at the motel to pick up Charlie Stephens shortly before 6:00 PM on the day of the shooting. In a deposition read earlier to the jury, McCraw said he found Stephens in his room lying on his bed too drunk to get up, so he turned out the light and left without him. Amazingly, only a few minutes later (according the “official story”), Stephens identified Ray as he was passing down the hall from the bathroom. McCraw also said the bathroom door next to Stephen’s room was standing wide open, and there was no one in the bathroom. Why is this important? Because that was the bathroom where James Earl Ray was supposedly balancing on the tub as he was preparing to squeeze the trigger and kill MLK.
At the trial, Hamblin told the jury that he and McCraw were close friends for about 25 years. Hamblin said he probably heard McCraw tell the same rifle story 50 times, but only when McCraw had been drinking and had his defenses down. In that story, McCraw said that Loyd Jowers (the owner of Jim’s Grill in Memphis) had given him the rifle right after the shooting. According to Hamblin, “Jowers told him to get the [rifle] and get it out of here now. (McCraw) said that he grabbed his beer and snatched it out. He had the rifle rolled up in an oil cloth, and he leapt out the door and did away with it.” McCraw told Hamblin that he threw the rifle off a bridge into the Mississippi River.
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In 1993, Lloyd Jowers told his story to Sam Donaldson on Prime Time Live. He said he had been asked to help in the murder of MLK and was told there would be a decoy (Ray) in the plot. He was also told that the police “wouldn’t be there that night.” Jowers said the man who asked him to help in the murder was a Mafia-connected produce dealer named Frank Liberto (now deceased) who had a courier deliver $100,000 for Jowers to hold at his restaurant (Jim’s Grill), the back door of which opened onto the dense bushes across from the Lorraine Motel. Jowers said he was visited the day before the murder by a man named Raul, who brought a rifle in a box.
Other witnesses also testified to their knowledge of Liberto’s involvement in MLK’s murder.
Store-owner John McFerren said he arrived around 5:15 pm, April 4, 1968, for a produce pick-up at Frank Liberto’s warehouse in Memphis. When he approached the warehouse office, McFerren overheard Liberto on the phone inside saying, “Shoot the son-of-a-bitch on the balcony.” Café-owner, Lavada Addison, a friend of Liberto’s in the late 1970s, testified that Liberto had told her he “had Martin Luther King killed.” Addison’s son, Nathan Whitlock, when he learned of this conversation, asked Liberto point-blank if he had killed MLK. According to Whitlock, “(Liberto) said, ‘I didn’t kill the n****r but I had it done.’ I said, ‘What about that other son-of-a-bitch taking credit for it?’ He says, ‘Ahh, he wasn’t nothing but a troublemaker from Missouri. He was a front man … a setup man.’”
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In 1999, in Shelby County, Tennessee, Lloyd Jowers was tried before a jury of his peers (made up equally of white and black citizens, if it matters) on the charge of conspiring to kill MLK. The jury heard testimony for a full month. On the last day of the trial, the attorney for the MLK family (which brought suit against Lloyd Jowers) concluded by saying: “We’re dealing in conspiracy with agents of the City of Memphis and the governments of the State of Tennessee and the United States of America. We ask you to find that conspiracy existed.”
It took the jury only 2½ hours to reach the verdict: Jowers and “others, including governmental agencies, were parties to this conspiracy.”
Of course, with a few minor exceptions, the 1999 trial was not covered by the mainstream media. As a matter of fact, you’ve probably never even heard of it. But there was a narrow window of about 12 hours where there was some minor reporting. And then it just all went away and has never been heard of again. Except wherever it was raised, critics would start attacking, even though none of them had actually been there at the trial. In typical fashion, the critics attacked the judge. They attacked the defense counsel. They attacked the jury. They attacked the King family. They name-called. They mocked. They buried the story.
Perhaps the lesson of the MLK assassination is that our government understands the power of nonviolence better than we do, or better than we want to. In the spring of 1968, when MLK was marching, he was determined that massive, nonviolent civil disobedience would end the domination of democracy by corporate and military power. The “powers that be” took MLK seriously. They dealt with him in Memphis.
In Summary
Based on the 1999 court decision, the following is a factual statement (according to U.S. Civil Law): The U.S. government was found guilty of being a part of the conspiracy to assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the time of his death, MLK was considered to be the leading figure of the Civil Rights Movement, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and widely recognized as one of the world’s greatest speakers for what it means to be human. So why would the government want him dead? The King family’s conclusion as to motive was to prevent MLK from ending the Vietnam War because the government wanted to continue its ongoing covert and overt military operations to control foreign governments and their resources.
By the way, Jim Douglass was one of only two reporters who attended the 1999 trial in Memphis from start to finish. Writing in the spring of 2000, he stated, “Thirty-two years after Memphis, we know that the government that now honors Dr. King with a national holiday also killed him.”
Thank you so much for this article! It couldn’t have been said any clearer! I did not have all the facts as to the later trials etc. after as clearly and I appreciate you filling in the gaps. Everyone with God, kindness, greatness, and any solution to our societal problems will be put down if they stand loud enough & strong enough!! Case in point…our government “allowed for” MLK and some of his values until he went too far for them! They could not allow one man to make so many changes or influence so many people! He knew the risks but would not be silenced! His words are out their for all of us to hear! As much as they tried to silence him they cannot erase him!!
HE WILL NOT BE ERASED & GOD’S JUDGEMENT DAY WILL TELL ALL PEOPLE ALL THE TRUTH!
An incredible article about MLK’s assassination. It’s very sad as well as horrifying, that those in office would cheat about such a horrendous act, especially towards such an incredible being. Today we have Trump and his cohorts to deal with. May impeachment be successful and he not be allowed to run for office. Thank you for the article; I did not know all the facts and I’m 85 years old, so I definitely remember it.
Peace and Love,
Sarah Tiers
The mixed confusion with Trump is that God allowed him to be our president and he’s actually doing a good job of getting our country back and running, despite his personality issues.
Agreed. I believe God placed Trump in the White House. He’s exposing much of the corruption in Washington DC which is why so many in Congress hate him. He’s interfering with their ability to cash in, using their government positions to exchange money for influence. It’s rampant in both parties.
Sarah P. Tiers, I hope and pray that you would keep an open heart & mind and that your eyes would be opened, about President Trump. There are many,many,many of our past leaders and officials whom we trusted, that have betrayed us. This has been going on for decades and we the people never knew, because it was kept from us. It also, includes a small handful of the wealthiest families, and many,many famous people and celebrities, whom we all loved. The Holy Bible says ” the love of money is the root of all evil”. What happens is the LOVE of money, produces GREED and DESIRE to get more, and the more you get, the more POWERFUL you become, thus thinking you are in control and above the law. You will soon see some very disheartening things come to pass about many ,many of those who have betrayed America and it’s people, as they WILL be held accountable for their evil doings and crimes against humanity. GOD BLESS YOU AT THIS TIME IN HISTORY, AS GOD IS REVEALING MANY, MANY THINGS TO US. WE NEED TO REALIZE THAT WE ARE IN A SPIRITUAL WARFARE, BETWEEN GOOD/LIFE (GOD) AND EVIL/ DEATH (satan). I PRAY YOU CHOOSE LIFE !! Love in Christ, Sue
Great comment Sue, but feel it is needed to point out that your comment about the Scripture, ‘The Holy Bible says ” the love of money is the root of all evil”. ‘ is incorrect. The Bible says that “The love of money is a root to all sorts of evil.” Money is a thing, so isn’t evil or good. It can be used for either, but I do not want to take away from the rest of your comment, as you are correct for the most part. 🙂
In Christ,
Gloria
Her quote is correct using the KJV of the Bible.
Truth with set us free from the evil. The clock is ticking in Gods time!
Same page sister in Christ
I never knew any of this .Thank-you for posting it.
Hi Ty and Charlene,
. . and Happy Birthday Ty . . . glad you were born. Love the work and your mission . . . Blessings to all involved!
If you really want to see the depth of the kool aide, and have some time to watch . . . check this out someday . . . 14 hours of documentation . . . . sigh . . :
https://archive.org/details/EUROPATheLastBattle/EUROPA+-+The+Last+Battle+-+Part+1.mp4
Very informative. Excellent documentary.
Thank you for sharing this information.
Great article! I was aware of this information. I’m very happy that not only are you aware of the lies as they relate to the pharmaceutical industry profiting from cancer & other treatments, but you’re also aware of the government’s complicity in murder.
Thank you for having the courage to share this information with your readers.
Thank you Ty Bollinger for all you & your family are doing the bring forth truth & expose evil!
THAT WAS GREAT TO READTHANK YOU FOR SHARING
Thanks you’ll for your service!
I heard the assassination news on radio even as it was happening. Two things reported live but not heard since:
1. While Ray was driving South out of Memphis in a white Mustang, a police-radio bulletin went out urging cars to pursue him North out of the city.
2. When Ray was arrested, he was carrying $60,000 in cash & had a fake Canadian passport.
Ty – reading this I felt like I was watching Kevin Costner’s movie JFK – well done!
thank you for being a crusader of truth, and for the fact finding article as wll as revealing the truth about cancer
This is all very interesting, and I do not doubt usgov involvement (Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma City, Sept. 11, HAARP ….), but from what I have read, there is even more involved in the Martin Luther King Jr. story… concerns about plagiarism (including his doctoral thesis), close associations with anti-liberty groups and people, and serious moral issues. A year or two ago, I read that there were some recordings that were about to be declassified after the required number of years of secrecy, that might shed some light on some of the goings-on. I don’t know if we will ever know the truth about who he really was, but I remain suspicious and doubtful.
Deane you must be a Southerner? I lived in the US for eleven years and spent a good bit of that in the South. Its interesting the comments you make re Martin Luther King Jr. That’s a typical stance by someone who probably has no higher education and hence has no idea what a person has to do to attempt a PhD. Its not a matter of submitting a single paper but rather several years of research and coming to conclusions from what you have discovered and learnt. This is then commited to paper but at all stages you have a supervisor that ensures that you have completed the research and study and written about it as it happens. Black people are every bit as clever as whites and I was raised in Africa!!
Thank you for the very interesting article. I am very sad that a good man like MLK was killed to silence him and stop his way of bringing democracy to the world.
Ty, Thanks for posting this. I knew very little about this when it happened and when the MLK Jr family sued, I knew something like this probably happened. I was just getting my eyes opened on the November 1963 Coup d’état after reading Mark Lane’s documentary book ‘Rush to Judgement. Then I learned more about the Pearl Harbor attack and the governments hidden knowledge in Gary Allen’s book ‘None Dare Call it Conspiracy. Finally, the second half of G. Edward Griffin’s book ‘World Without Cancer’ (The Politics of Cancer Therapy) started me putting together what is and has been happening behind the scenes in government. Thank you for your research in and presenting the facts to those who want to have their eyes open. God Bless you and your family. – Roy Mathis
Thank you, Roy! We certainly have a lot more to learn and the information is rarely easily found. G. Edward Griffin is a close friend of ours and we are so grateful for all of his work. Search our website for videos of a few of his TTAC Live 2017 presentations 🙂 Enjoy.
THANKS TY N HAPPY BELATED DB GOD IS WATCHING ON THOSE WHO DID IT.JUDGEMENT IS WAITING.
I really appreciate this information. The fact that, your truths about the happenings in our daily lives, gives us value. I pray for your continuous wisdom to enlighten the world daily in all relevant subjects. Thank You.
God Bless
you are a person with values. thank you for your article on dr, king, May his thoughts and actions we a shinning example of who we can become as a nation with values
Very impressive information. Kudos to all of you. I feel the truth of what you are showing.
I was 16 when MLK was assassinated. The media coverup was obviously in full force, The government conspiracy was unknown to all — who would believe this could happen in the USA?
Now it is over 53 years later and I am 69. The evidence against the country I love, the country I served, the country that is supposed to represent “truth, justice and the American way” is horribly compromised. Please understand, I still love and support my country and the Constitution. However, I am ashamed of our so-called “leaders” who subverted and perverted American ideals.
I am angry it took all this time for me to become “educated”, but I should have known better considering other blunders by our government. I simply never thought about the MLK angle.
I hope the final line of your piece will resonate with all Americans: “Thirty-two years after Memphis, we know that the government that now honors Dr. King with a national holiday also killed him.”
Thank you so much for this article. I had no idea how bad that was. I will never forget how much MLK did for our country. Bless you, Ty & Charlene for all the work you do to bring forth the truth.
I was trained in remote viewing with Dr. David Morehouse 20 years ago. David spoked about the assassination of MLK during the training. He told us that the defence for James Earl Ray petitioned the judge to allow as evidence the results of remote viewing of the assassination to be entered as testimony. The judge allowed it. He said the MLK assassinaton has been remote viewed many times and a high percentage of viewers produce results that James Earl Ray was not the shooter, but rather it was government agents just as claimed in this article. For your consideration.
Although pastor MLK is a model of nonviolent activism, his theology was liberal. He did not believe that we need to take the Bible literally. According to sources from Wikipedia he went to two schools which were liberal. So if he was truly born again we don’t know.
Thank you for sharing this article
God bless you richly
Freddy Heynssens
Maybe he wasn’t assassinated! Some think the man Don King has an uncanny resemblance to MLK. The way we have been lied to in this world, I don’t discount the possibility.
Thank you so much for blessing us with very detailed article and truth the same as you do with The Truth About Cancer! We live in a sad reality. The same government who rules our nation is the same government that will go to whatever means necessary to silence the voice of the people from speaking their truth. God will repay evildoers with His own vengeance. Meanwhile, keep doing what you do. The light you share isn’t in vain. Thank you