This is a quagmire of lies and stale clues.
Unraveling the actual conspiracy, which seems to have some basis in fact, won't be easy, and is not made any easier by ridiculous claims.
Here lie dragons...
-Chip
----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 6:40 PM Subject: King Assassination conspiracy
> How strong is the evidence for Pepper's claim that Lyndon Johnson himself
> must have approved the assassination?
>
> Dexter King appears to accept Pepper's position on all other points.
>
> Chris Burford
>
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>
> Civil trial jury finds
> conspiracy in King
> assassination
>
>
>
> MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) -- A jury
> hearing a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the
> Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s family found
> Wednesday that the civil rights leader was the
> victim of a vast murder conspiracy, not a lone
> assassin.
>
> The family had sued Loyd Jowers, a retired
> Memphis businessman who claimed six years ago that he paid someone
> other than James Earl Ray to kill King. The family's lawyer claimed that
> the government, the Mafia and the military were involved.
>
> After three hours of deliberations, the jury of six blacks and six whites
> awarded the Kings just $100 in damages.
>
> The family had asked for a token amount because what they wanted most
> was for the jury to find evidence of a conspiracy and lend support to their
> call for a new investigation into the killing.
>
> "I'm just so happy to see that the people have spoken," King's son Dexter
> said. "This is what we've always asked for."
>
> Ray confessed to killing King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He
> spent the rest of his life claiming to be innocent and trying to get a
> trial. He died from liver disease last year.
>
> Ray's guilty plea was upheld eight times by state and federal courts. A
> congressional committee concluded in 1978 that Ray was the killer but he
> may have had help before or after the assassination. The committee did not
> find any government involvement in the murder.
>
> William Pepper, the Kings' lawyer, told the jury that Jowers, 73, was part
> of a conspiracy involving the Mafia and agents of the
> federal government to kill King because of his opposition
> to the Vietnam War and plans for a huge
> march on Washington.
>