THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Episode 204 | Historical Events — Mysterious Events
In this Mystery episode we focus on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. — the official conviction of James Earl Ray, the physical evidence questions that have never been fully resolved, and the 1999 civil trial in which a Memphis jury found that a conspiracy involving government agencies was responsible for King's death. A verdict almost no one remembers.
We trace the documented FBI campaign against King — illegal wiretaps, infiltration, the 1964 letter urging him to commit suicide — and why the King family came to believe Ray was a…
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