http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZC7sqImaM
All Righty then.........
The Iraqi War started on mi b'day back a while ago. In remembrance let's get the word out to all radio stations in the world to play this song at a certain time. (Some say it was 3/20/03) but mi thinks it was 3/19/03. ........anyways, or else we can all play the song up until my b'day and after forever, there really doesn't really need to be a reason other than the message the song sends out, ey? (is the second really redundant in this sentence???) Oh well, WTF! hee hee that stands for Wikileaks Task Force anyways, doesn't it???????? I think this would be a perfect b'day gift for me in advance as I remember the night the war started how very awful shitty it made me and I cried a whole big bunch off and on for many many many hours.
I'm the G'ma whose daughter was born on the day Martin Luther King died and whose son was born on the 13th anniversary of Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy's death. hmmmmmm
http://www.thekingcenter.com/KingCenter/Transcript_trial_info.aspx
http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/podcast-martin-luther-king-family-civil-trial-us-govt-assassinated-dr-king
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Podcast: Martin Luther King family civil trial: US govt assassinated Dr. King
- January 27th, 2011 9:56 pm ET
Dr. James Fetzer interviewed me on his radio show and podcast, The Real Deal, in discussion of the Martin King, Jr. family civil trial that found the US government guilty for Dr. King’s assassination. The article explaining the evidence (with video) is copied below. The interview is here (you can fast-forward through commercials and music that covers local program information).
Dr. Fetzer has published more than 100 articles and reviews, and is author to 20 books in the philosophy of science, the theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. He is a leading international expert in discovery and analysis of evidence to prove President Kennedy was assassinated with criminal complicity of elements within the highest levels of US government. His research is documented at Assassination Science.
Martin Luther King’s family and his attorney, William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty in the wrongful death of Martin Luther King. The 1999 trial, King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators, is the only trial ever conducted on the assassination of Dr. King. The King family’s attempts for a criminal trial were denied, as suspect James Ray’s recant of what he claimed was a false confession was denied.
For comparison, please consider the concentrated media coverage of O.J. Simpson’s trials.
The overwhelming evidence of government complicity introduced and agreed as comprehensively valid by the jury includes the 111th Military Intelligence Group were sent to Dr. King’s location, and that the usual police protection was pulled away just before the assassination. Military Intelligence set-up photographers on a roof of a fire station with a clear view to Dr. King’s balcony. 20th Special Forces Group had an 8-man sniper team at the assassination location on that day. Memphis police ordered the scene where multiple witnesses reported as the source of shooting cut down of their bushes that would have hid a sniper team. Along with sanitizing a crime scene, police abandoned investigative procedure to interview witnesses who lived by the scene of the shooting.
The King Center, managed by his family, provide the outline and partial transcript to the trial here. Closing statements are here. A transcript of a talk given by Mr. Pepper explaining the trial and his book with detailed documentation, An Act of State, is here (2-page summary here). I also recommend David Ratcliffe’s review of the book, Jim Douglass’ coverage of the trial, reviewing Edward Rynearson's resources, and watching Mr. Pepper’s talk on the subject here.
King’s family and Mr. Pepper allege that Dr. King’s speech calling upon America to end the Vietnam War, Beyond Vietnam: A time to break silence, and his plan for a 500,000 camp-in for Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1968 were a threat to dominant and fascist political factions within US government. The evidence for Robert Kennedy’s assassination is also conclusive of government complicity with likely motive to suppress war dissent.
Along with arranging for the assassination, CIA and military disclosure confirm that corporate media collude with political “leadership” to disinform the American public on strategic military, policy, and economic issues. This answers the question why corporate media have not covered the civil trial and verdict for MLK’s assassination.
For comprehensive facts that the US government’s wars today are not even close to lawful and all based on lies, read this.
For comprehensive facts that the US economy diverts trillions of taxpayer dollars every year to financial cartels, read this.
Martin Luther King’s family and his attorney, William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty in the wrongful death of Martin Luther King. The 1999 trial, King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators, is the only trial ever conducted on the assassination of Dr. King. The King family’s attempts for a criminal trial were denied, as suspect James Ray’s recant of what he claimed was a false confession was denied.
For comparison, please consider the concentrated media coverage of O.J. Simpson’s trials.
The overwhelming evidence of government complicity introduced and agreed as comprehensively valid by the jury includes the 111th Military Intelligence Group were sent to Dr. King’s location, and that the usual police protection was pulled away just before the assassination. Military Intelligence set-up photographers on a roof of a fire station with a clear view to Dr. King’s balcony. 20th Special Forces Group had an 8-man sniper team at the assassination location on that day. Memphis police ordered the scene where multiple witnesses reported as the source of shooting cut down of their bushes that would have hid a sniper team. Along with sanitizing a crime scene, police abandoned investigative procedure to interview witnesses who lived by the scene of the shooting.
The King Center, managed by his family, provide the outline and partial transcript to the trial here. Closing statements are here. A transcript of a talk given by Mr. Pepper explaining the trial and his book with detailed documentation, An Act of State, is here (2-page summary here). I also recommend David Ratcliffe’s review of the book, Jim Douglass’ coverage of the trial, reviewing Edward Rynearson's resources, and watching Mr. Pepper’s talk on the subject here.
King’s family and Mr. Pepper allege that Dr. King’s speech calling upon America to end the Vietnam War, Beyond Vietnam: A time to break silence, and his plan for a 500,000 camp-in for Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1968 were a threat to dominant and fascist political factions within US government. The evidence for Robert Kennedy’s assassination is also conclusive of government complicity with likely motive to suppress war dissent.
Along with arranging for the assassination, CIA and military disclosure confirm that corporate media collude with political “leadership” to disinform the American public on strategic military, policy, and economic issues. This answers the question why corporate media have not covered the civil trial and verdict for MLK’s assassination.
“For a quarter of a century, Bill Pepper conducted an independent investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He opened his files to our family, encouraged us to speak with the witnesses, and represented our family in the civil trial against the conspirators. The jury affirmed his findings, providing our family with a long-sought sense of closure and peace, which had been denied by official disinformation and cover-ups. Now the findings of his exhaustive investigation and additional revelations from the trial are presented in the pages of this important book. We recommend it highly to everyone who seeks the truth about Dr. King's assassination.” — Coretta Scott King, Dr. King's wife.Watch the above left 6-minute video for Barrie Zwicker to walk you through the evidence from the trial.
For comprehensive facts that the US government’s wars today are not even close to lawful and all based on lies, read this.
For comprehensive facts that the US economy diverts trillions of taxpayer dollars every year to financial cartels, read this.
Continue reading on Examiner.com: Podcast: Martin Luther King family civil trial: US govt assassinated Dr. King - National Nonpartisan | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/podcast-martin-luther-king-family-civil-trial-us-govt-assassinated-dr-king#ixzz1CYOU3aTP
http://www.american-buddha.com/martin.orderskill.20.htm
http://ionamiller.weebly.com/assassinations.html
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKconExp.html
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Loyd Jowers: When the frail, 73-year-old Jowers became ill after three days in court, Judge Swearengen excused him. Jowers did not testify and said through his attorney, Lewis Garrison, that he would plead the Fifth Amendment if subpoenaed. His discretion was too late. In 1993 against the advice of Garrison, Jowers had gone public. Prompted by William Pepper's progress as James Earl Ray's attorney in uncovering Jowers's role in the assassination, Jowers told his story to Sam Donaldson on Prime Time Live. He said he had been asked to help in the murder of King 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."
In that interview, the transcript of which was read to the jury in the Memphis courtroom, Jowers said the man who asked him to help in the murder was a Mafia-connected produce dealer named Frank Liberto. Liberto, now deceased, 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.
As Mike Vinson reported in the March-April Probe, other witnesses testified to their knowledge of Liberto's involvement in King's slaying. 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. (King would be shot at 6:0l pm.) When he approached the warehouse office, McFerren overheard Liberto on the phone inside saying, "Shoot the son-of-a-bitch on the balcony."
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Career highlights
- He was the lone reporter to witness the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in April 1968.
- As a New York Times reporter, he went coast-to-coast to cover the riots that swept black America in the summers of 1967 and 1968.
- He was a reporter on the streets of Chicago in 1968, covering the riots as the police challenged demonstrators during the Democratic National Convention.
- He covered the trial of Angela Davis, the controversial black scholar accused of a central role in the murder of a Marin County, California, judge during an escape attempt from San Quentin Prison.
- He spent months in Atlanta covering the child murders and the subsequent trial of convicted killer Wayne Williams.
- He traveled the campaign trail with the Rev. Jesse Jackson during his historic run for the presidency in 1984.
- In Africa, he covered the fall of the white regime and election of the first black government in Zimbabwe.
- In New York City, Caldwell broke a barrier in 1979 in becoming the first black journalist to write a regular column in a major daily newspaper Daily News. Three years before the Abner Louima incident, back in April 1994, he reported the story of six Haitian cab drivers (all men) who came forward after being raped and sodomized by a police officer. The officer used his service revolver, uniform, and the police van to carry out these despicable acts. The city did nothing, and to keep Earl Caldwell quiet, he was fired from the News, and essentially barred from large mainstream press.
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The Murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell
Segregationists Hire the Mob?
In a book published in 2008, Legacy of Secrecy, we finally learned about a 1968 Justice Department memorandum that got withheld from congressional investigators. Based on confidential information from informants, including a "well-placed protege of Carlos Marcello in New Orleans," the memo says, "the Cosa Nostra [Mafia] agreed to 'broker' or arrange the assassination [of King] for an amount somewhat in excess of three hundred thousand ($300,000) after they were contacted by representatives of 'Forever White,' an elite organization of wealthy segregationists [in the] southeastern states. The Mafia's interest was less the money than the investment-type opportunity presented; i.e., to get in a position to extract (or extort) governmental or other favors from some well-placed southern white persons, including the KKK and White Citizens' Councils."
MLK's balcony as seen from Ray's boarding house
bathroom window (Commercial Appeal/Landov)The memo was based on sources located by a journalist named William Sartor. The FBI didn't show much interest in going after his leads, but Sartor had uncovered information about a pre-assassination meeting between Ray and three of Marcello's associates in New Orleans—after which Ray left town with $2,500 cash and a promise of $12,000 more "for doing one last big job in two to three months." Turns out that journalist Sartor was in Texas in 1971, preparing to interview a nightclub owner linked to Marcello, when he was found murdered.
http://www.memphisflyer.com/backissues/issue546/cr546.htm
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In 1976, Gene Barksdale was elected sheriff, and Plunk was the first female that he hired as a fully commissioned officer. Things were going well for Plunk at the time. She married Joseph Gurley in 1979. Gurley was a lieutenant, but he was rising in the department and had political ties to Gilless. Plunk was also rising, making sergeant in 1983. Her personnel record during this period is virtually spotless.
During these years, Plunk says Gilless did not sexually harass her. She attributes this to the fact that he was assigned to a different area of the department.
Like any ambitious deputy, Plunk was an active fund-raiser for her sheriff. She knew how the system worked. Barksdale did not forget about her, even after he was defeated in 1986. Just before leaving office, Barksdale made an 11th-hour set of promotions, among which was Plunk's elevation to lieutenant. Plunk says Barksdale made it clear to her that he was rewarding her personal loyalty.
http://www.tn.gov/tsla/history/manuscripts/mguide19.htm
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MLK's balcony as seen from Ray's boarding housebathroom window (Commercial Appeal/Landov)The memo was based on sources located by a journalist named William Sartor. The FBI didn't show much interest in going after his leads, but Sartor had uncovered information about a pre-assassination meeting between Ray and three of Marcello's associates in New Orleans—after which Ray left town with $2,500 cash and a promise of $12,000 more "for doing one last big job in two to three months." Turns out that journalist Sartor was in Texas in 1971, preparing to interview a nightclub owner linked to Marcello, when he was found murdered.
http://www.memphisflyer.com/backissues/issue546/cr546.htm
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In 1976, Gene Barksdale was elected sheriff, and Plunk was the first female that he hired as a fully commissioned officer. Things were going well for Plunk at the time. She married Joseph Gurley in 1979. Gurley was a lieutenant, but he was rising in the department and had political ties to Gilless. Plunk was also rising, making sergeant in 1983. Her personnel record during this period is virtually spotless.
During these years, Plunk says Gilless did not sexually harass her. She attributes this to the fact that he was assigned to a different area of the department.
Like any ambitious deputy, Plunk was an active fund-raiser for her sheriff. She knew how the system worked. Barksdale did not forget about her, even after he was defeated in 1986. Just before leaving office, Barksdale made an 11th-hour set of promotions, among which was Plunk's elevation to lieutenant. Plunk says Barksdale made it clear to her that he was rewarding her personal loyalty.
http://www.tn.gov/tsla/history/manuscripts/mguide19.htm
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Mf. 1805 -- Frank Holloman Collection, 1937-1992. Memphis/Shelby County Public Library and Information Center. 10 reels. 16mm, 1 reel 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
Frank C. Holloman (1914-1997) joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Special Agent in 1937 and served in this organization for the next twenty-five years. During his service with the FBI, Holloman acted as Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta, Cincinnati, Jackson, Mississippi and Memphis offices and conducted security inspections of South American war production plants. He was the Inspector in charge of Director J. Edgar Hoover’s Washington office from 1949 to 1959.
Frank C. Holloman (1914-1997) joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Special Agent in 1937 and served in this organization for the next twenty-five years. During his service with the FBI, Holloman acted as Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta, Cincinnati, Jackson, Mississippi and Memphis offices and conducted security inspections of South American war production plants. He was the Inspector in charge of Director J. Edgar Hoover’s Washington office from 1949 to 1959.
Retiring from the FBI in 1964, Holloman was named Director of Development for Memphis State University and then Executive Director of the Mid-South Medical Center Council. In 1968, Holloman was appointed the first Fire and Police Director of Memphis. It was during this time period when important events such as the Sanitation Strike and Martin Luther King’s assassination took place.
Leaving the Memphis Police Department in October of 1970, Holloman became Coordinator of Security for the University of Missouri. He remained there in a full time capacity until 1972 and served as part time coordinator until 1978. Holloman returned to Memphis in 1972 to become the Executive Director of Future Memphis, Inc. until retirement in 1980.
The Frank Holloman Collection includes personal letters, photographs and official documents spanning the different phases of Holloman’s professional life.
http://www.american-buddha.com/martin.orderskill.PP.htm
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THE PRINCIPAL PLAYERS
The Memphis Police Department (MPD) in 1968
Frank C. Holloman former FBI agent and Director of Memphis Police and Fire Departments
J. C. MacDonald Chief of police
William O. Crumby Assistant Chief
Sam Evans Inspector-head of all Special Services including the emergency tactical units (TACT)
Don Smith Inspector in charge of Dr. King's personal security in Memphis in the 1960
N. E. Zachary Inspector-homicide
Eli H. Arkin operational head of the intelligence bureau
J. C. Davis detective in the intelligence bureau
Emmett Douglass driver of TACT 10 cruiser on afternoon of April 4, 1968
Joe B. Hodges patrolman/ dog officer
Barry Neal Linville homicide detective
Marrell McCollough undercover intelligence officer assigned to infiltrate the Invaders
Ed Redditt black detective seconded to intelligence bureau
Willie B. Richmond black intelligence bureau officer
Jim Smith officer assigned to Special Services and detailed to intelligence; later attorney general's investigator
Tommy Smith homicide detective
Jerry Williams black detective
The Memphis Fire Department in 1968
Carthel Weeden captain in charge of station 2
Lt. George Loenneke second in command station 2
William King fireman station 2
Floyd Newsom black fireman station 2
Norvell Wallace black fireman station 2
The Judges
Preston Battle, Jr. Shelby County Criminal Court trial judge in 1968
Joe Brown, Jr. Shelby County Criminal Court trial judge in 1994-95
The Prosecutors
Phil Canale Shelby County District Attorney General in 1968-69
John Pierotti Shelby County District Attorney General in 1993-95
James Earl Ray's Lawyers
Arthur Hanes Sr. & Arthur (now Judge) Hanes Jr. James Earl Ray's first lawyers
Percy Foreman James Earl Ray's second lawyer
Hugh Stanton Sr. court appointed defense co-counsel with Percy Foreman in 1968-69
James Lesar James Earl Ray's lawyer in the early 1970s
Jack Kershaw James Earl Ray's lawyer in the mid 1970s
Mark Lane James Earl Ray's lawyer from 1977 to the early 1980s
William F. Pepper (Author) chief counsel 1988 to present
Wayne Chastain Memphis attorney-defense associate counsel 1993 to present; Memphis Press Scimitar reporter in 1968
The U.S. Government
Executive Branch in 1967-68
Lyndon Baines Johnson President
Robert S. McNamara Secretary of Defense
The FBI in 1967-68
J. Edgar Hoover The director
Clyde Tolson associate director; close friend and heir of J. Edgar Hoover
Cartha DeLoach assistant Director
William C. Sullivan assistant director in charge of Domestic Intelligence Division and expansion of COINTELPRO (Counter-Intelligence Program) operations
Patrick D. Putnam special agent seconded to U.S. army Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence
Robert G. Jensen special agent in charge (SAC) Memphis field office
William Lawrence special agent in charge of intelligence for the Memphis field office
Joe Hester Memphis field office special agent in charge of coordinating the Memphis area investigation
Al Sentinella FBI special agent in the Atlanta field office who controlled SCLC informant James Harrison in 1967-68
Arthur Murtagh FBI agent assigned to the Atlanta field office in 1967-68
The CIA in 1967-68
Richard M. Helms Director
U.S. Army in 1967-68
OFFICE OF CHIEF OF STAFF
Gen. Harold Johnson Chief of Staff
ARMY INTELLIGENCE
Brigadier General William M. Blakefield Commanding officer United States Army Intelligence Command
Major General William P. Yarborough Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence ("ACSI")
Gardner (pseudonym) key aide of 902nd Military Intelligence Group
Col. F. E. van Tassell Commanding Officer, ACSI office security and Counter-Intelligence Analysis Board ("CIAB")
Gardner's aide (pseudonym) Gardner's aide-his number two
Herbert (pseudonym) staff officer ACSI's office, Pentagon
Col. Robert McBride Commanding officer 111th Military Intelligence Group, Ft. McPherson, Georgia
20TH SPECIAL FORCES GROUP (20TH SFG) IN 1967-68,
HEADQUARTERS, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
Co1. Henry M. Cobb, Jr. Commanding Officer
Major Bert E. Wride second in command
Capt. Billy Eidson (dec.) Alabama contingent
Second Lt. Robert Worley (dec.) Mississippi contingent
Staff Sgt. Murphy (pseudonym) Alabama contingent
Staff Sgt. Warren (pseudonym) Alabama contingent
Buck Sgt. J. D. Hill (dec.) Mississippi contingent
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSY OPS")
Reynolds (pseudonym) photographic surveillance officer
Norton (pseudonym) photographic surveillance officer
The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
Louis Stokes Chairman of the HSCA
Richard Sprague former Pennsylvania prosecutor and first HSCA chief counsel in 1976
Robert Blakey chief counsel of the HSCA 1977-79
Walter Fauntroy Chairman sub-committee on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1976-79
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Officials In 1967-68 Who Were Witnesses To Significant Events Or On The Scene
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. president
Rev. Dr. Ralph D. Abemathy vice president/treasurer
Rev. Andrew Young executive vice president
Rev. Hosea Williams chief field organizer
Rev. James Orange field organizer
Rev. James Lawson Memphis representative who invited Dr. King to Memphis
The Invaders in 1967-68
Charles Cabbage
Dr. Coby Smith
"Big" John Smith
Charles "Izzy" Harrington
Calvin Taylor
Other Significant Figures
Lavaca (Whitlock) Addison owner of a restaurant frequented by Frank C. Liberto in 1978
Willie Akins friend of Loyd Jowers
Amaro ("Armando") cousin of Raul
Walter Bailey owner/manager of the Lorraine Motel in 1968
Clifton Baird Louisville, Kentucky police officer in 1965
Arthur Baldwin Memphis topless club owner in the 1970s
Myron Billet occasional driver for Chicago mob leader Sam Giancana in the 1960s
Kay Black reporter for the Memphis Press Scimitar in 1968
Ray Blanton Governor of Tennessee in 1976 when Ray escaped from prison
Earl Caldwell New York Times reporter at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968
Carson (pseudonym) associate/friend of Sgt. J. D. Hill of 20th SFG
Sid Carthew British merchant seaman who visited the Neptune tavern in Montreal in 1967
Cheryl (pseudonym) acquaintance/associate of Amaro ____ and his cousin Raul ____ from 1962-1979
Joe "Zip" Chimento Marcello New Orleans associate and coordinator of Marcello weapons trading and gunrunning in 1967-68
Chuck (pseudonym) six year old boy in 1968, alledgedly sitting in parked car on Mulberry Street at the time of the shooting
Morris Davis FBI/DEA informant in 1968 and HSCA informant/researcher in 1977-78
Daniel Ellsberg former defense department specialist who released the Pentagon Papers
Hickman Ewing, Jr . former U .S. attorney and chief prosecuting counsel for the television trial of James Earl Ray
April Ferguson associate of Mark Lane in 1978 and defense co-counsel for the television trial of James Earl Ray
Marvin E. Frankel former U .S. federal District Court judge and judge for the television trial of James Earl Ray
Eric S. Galt employee in 1967-68 at Union Carbide Corporation's Toronto operation with U.S. government Top Secret security clearance; the identity used by James Earl Ray in 1967-68
Lewis Garrison Memphis attorney for Loyd Jowers
Memphis Godfather Carlos Marcello's principal associate in Memphis
James Harrison SCLC controller in 1967-68 and paid FBI informant
Ray Alvis Hendrix eyewitness who left Jim's Grill ten to fifteen minutes before the shooting on April 4, 1968
Kenneth Herman Memphis private investigator
O. D. Hester "Slim" friend of Ezell Smith
Frank Holt trucker's helper employed by M. E. Carter in 1968
Charles Hurley Memphis resident who picked up his wife in front of the rooming house on the afternoon of April 4, 1968
Solomon Jones Dr. King's driver in Memphis in 1968
Loyd Jowers owner of Jim's Grill on South Main Street in Memphis in 1968
Jim Kellum Memphis private investigator for the defense
(William) Tim Kirk inmate at Shelby County Jail 1978, and at Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in 1992-present
Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles Memphis minister
James Latch Vice president of Memphis LL&L Produce Company and partner of Liberto in 1968
Frank Camille Liberto President of LL&L Produce Company in Memphis in 1968
Phillip Manuel investigator for the Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations of the United States Senate in 1968
Carlos Marcello New Orleans, mafia leader in 1967-68
John W. ("Bill") McAfee Memphis photographer covering Dr. King on assignment from network television on April 4, 1968
James McCraw Yellow Cab driver in 1968, driving on the evening of April 4
John McFerren Somerville, Tennessee businessman and civil rights leader in 1968
Sheriff Bill Morris Shelby County Sheriff in 1967-68
Red Nix Marcello organization contract killer
Oliver Patterson FBI and HSCA informant in 1977-78
Paul ____ Yellow Cab driver in 1968, driving on the evening of April 4
Raul ____ shadowy figure whom James Earl Ray met in the Neptune Bar in Montreal in July 1967
James Earl Ray the alleged assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who has as of March 10, 1995 been in prison for 26 years
Jerry Ray youngest brother of James Earl Ray
John Ray younger brother of James Earl Ray
William Zenie Reed eyewitness who left Jim's Grill ten to fifteen minutes before the shooting on April 4, 1968
Randy Rosenson man whose name was on a business card found by James Earl Ray in the Mustang in 1967
Jack Saltman Thames Television producer of the Trial of James Earl Ray in 1993
William Sartor Time magazine stringer and investigative reporter, died mysteriously in 1971
Bobbi Smith waitress at Jim's Grill in 1967-68
Ezell Smith employee at a Liberto family business in Memphis in 1968
Betty Spates mistress of Loyd Jowers in 1967-68 and waitress at Jim's Grill
Dr. Benjamin Spock pediatrician, author, political activist and potential "ice president candidate on a proposed King-Spock ticket in 1968
Gene Stanley former U .S. Attorney and Knoxville lawyer for Randy Rosenson in the 1970s
Charles Quitman Stephens 422-1/2 South Main Street rooming house tenant in room 6-B and State's chief witness against James Earl Ray in 1968
Maynard Stiles deputy director of the Memphis Public Works department in 1968
Alexander Taylor senior Florida intelligence officer in 1968
Steve Tompkins Memphis Commercial Appeal reporter in 1993
Ross Vallone Houston associate of Carlos Marcello in 1967-68
Louie Ward Yellow Cab driver in 1968, driving on the evening of April 4
Nathan Whitlock son of Lavada (Whitlock) Addison who met Frank C. Liberto in 1978 in his mother's restaurant
John Willard alias used by James Earl Ray for renting a room at 422-1/2 South Main Street on April 4, 1968
Glenn Wright prosecution co-counsel in the television trial of James Earl Ray
Walter Alfred "Jack" Youngblood U .S. army Vietnam Special Operations Group operative, pilot, intelligence agent and mercenary
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/marcello/18.html
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http://www.american-buddha.com/martin.orderskill.PP.htm
Excerpt:
THE PRINCIPAL PLAYERS
The Memphis Police Department (MPD) in 1968
Frank C. Holloman former FBI agent and Director of Memphis Police and Fire Departments
J. C. MacDonald Chief of police
William O. Crumby Assistant Chief
Sam Evans Inspector-head of all Special Services including the emergency tactical units (TACT)
Don Smith Inspector in charge of Dr. King's personal security in Memphis in the 1960
N. E. Zachary Inspector-homicide
Eli H. Arkin operational head of the intelligence bureau
J. C. Davis detective in the intelligence bureau
Emmett Douglass driver of TACT 10 cruiser on afternoon of April 4, 1968
Joe B. Hodges patrolman/ dog officer
Barry Neal Linville homicide detective
Marrell McCollough undercover intelligence officer assigned to infiltrate the Invaders
Ed Redditt black detective seconded to intelligence bureau
Willie B. Richmond black intelligence bureau officer
Jim Smith officer assigned to Special Services and detailed to intelligence; later attorney general's investigator
Tommy Smith homicide detective
Jerry Williams black detective
The Memphis Fire Department in 1968
Carthel Weeden captain in charge of station 2
Lt. George Loenneke second in command station 2
William King fireman station 2
Floyd Newsom black fireman station 2
Norvell Wallace black fireman station 2
The Judges
Preston Battle, Jr. Shelby County Criminal Court trial judge in 1968
Joe Brown, Jr. Shelby County Criminal Court trial judge in 1994-95
The Prosecutors
Phil Canale Shelby County District Attorney General in 1968-69
John Pierotti Shelby County District Attorney General in 1993-95
James Earl Ray's Lawyers
Arthur Hanes Sr. & Arthur (now Judge) Hanes Jr. James Earl Ray's first lawyers
Percy Foreman James Earl Ray's second lawyer
Hugh Stanton Sr. court appointed defense co-counsel with Percy Foreman in 1968-69
James Lesar James Earl Ray's lawyer in the early 1970s
Jack Kershaw James Earl Ray's lawyer in the mid 1970s
Mark Lane James Earl Ray's lawyer from 1977 to the early 1980s
William F. Pepper (Author) chief counsel 1988 to present
Wayne Chastain Memphis attorney-defense associate counsel 1993 to present; Memphis Press Scimitar reporter in 1968
The U.S. Government
Executive Branch in 1967-68
Lyndon Baines Johnson President
Robert S. McNamara Secretary of Defense
The FBI in 1967-68
J. Edgar Hoover The director
Clyde Tolson associate director; close friend and heir of J. Edgar Hoover
Cartha DeLoach assistant Director
William C. Sullivan assistant director in charge of Domestic Intelligence Division and expansion of COINTELPRO (Counter-Intelligence Program) operations
Patrick D. Putnam special agent seconded to U.S. army Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence
Robert G. Jensen special agent in charge (SAC) Memphis field office
William Lawrence special agent in charge of intelligence for the Memphis field office
Joe Hester Memphis field office special agent in charge of coordinating the Memphis area investigation
Al Sentinella FBI special agent in the Atlanta field office who controlled SCLC informant James Harrison in 1967-68
Arthur Murtagh FBI agent assigned to the Atlanta field office in 1967-68
The CIA in 1967-68
Richard M. Helms Director
U.S. Army in 1967-68
OFFICE OF CHIEF OF STAFF
Gen. Harold Johnson Chief of Staff
ARMY INTELLIGENCE
Brigadier General William M. Blakefield Commanding officer United States Army Intelligence Command
Major General William P. Yarborough Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence ("ACSI")
Gardner (pseudonym) key aide of 902nd Military Intelligence Group
Col. F. E. van Tassell Commanding Officer, ACSI office security and Counter-Intelligence Analysis Board ("CIAB")
Gardner's aide (pseudonym) Gardner's aide-his number two
Herbert (pseudonym) staff officer ACSI's office, Pentagon
Col. Robert McBride Commanding officer 111th Military Intelligence Group, Ft. McPherson, Georgia
20TH SPECIAL FORCES GROUP (20TH SFG) IN 1967-68,
HEADQUARTERS, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
Co1. Henry M. Cobb, Jr. Commanding Officer
Major Bert E. Wride second in command
Capt. Billy Eidson (dec.) Alabama contingent
Second Lt. Robert Worley (dec.) Mississippi contingent
Staff Sgt. Murphy (pseudonym) Alabama contingent
Staff Sgt. Warren (pseudonym) Alabama contingent
Buck Sgt. J. D. Hill (dec.) Mississippi contingent
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSY OPS")
Reynolds (pseudonym) photographic surveillance officer
Norton (pseudonym) photographic surveillance officer
The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
Louis Stokes Chairman of the HSCA
Richard Sprague former Pennsylvania prosecutor and first HSCA chief counsel in 1976
Robert Blakey chief counsel of the HSCA 1977-79
Walter Fauntroy Chairman sub-committee on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1976-79
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Officials In 1967-68 Who Were Witnesses To Significant Events Or On The Scene
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. president
Rev. Dr. Ralph D. Abemathy vice president/treasurer
Rev. Andrew Young executive vice president
Rev. Hosea Williams chief field organizer
Rev. James Orange field organizer
Rev. James Lawson Memphis representative who invited Dr. King to Memphis
The Invaders in 1967-68
Charles Cabbage
Dr. Coby Smith
"Big" John Smith
Charles "Izzy" Harrington
Calvin Taylor
Other Significant Figures
Lavaca (Whitlock) Addison owner of a restaurant frequented by Frank C. Liberto in 1978
Willie Akins friend of Loyd Jowers
Amaro ("Armando") cousin of Raul
Walter Bailey owner/manager of the Lorraine Motel in 1968
Clifton Baird Louisville, Kentucky police officer in 1965
Arthur Baldwin Memphis topless club owner in the 1970s
Myron Billet occasional driver for Chicago mob leader Sam Giancana in the 1960s
Kay Black reporter for the Memphis Press Scimitar in 1968
Ray Blanton Governor of Tennessee in 1976 when Ray escaped from prison
Earl Caldwell New York Times reporter at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968
Carson (pseudonym) associate/friend of Sgt. J. D. Hill of 20th SFG
Sid Carthew British merchant seaman who visited the Neptune tavern in Montreal in 1967
Cheryl (pseudonym) acquaintance/associate of Amaro ____ and his cousin Raul ____ from 1962-1979
Joe "Zip" Chimento Marcello New Orleans associate and coordinator of Marcello weapons trading and gunrunning in 1967-68
Chuck (pseudonym) six year old boy in 1968, alledgedly sitting in parked car on Mulberry Street at the time of the shooting
Morris Davis FBI/DEA informant in 1968 and HSCA informant/researcher in 1977-78
Daniel Ellsberg former defense department specialist who released the Pentagon Papers
Hickman Ewing, Jr . former U .S. attorney and chief prosecuting counsel for the television trial of James Earl Ray
April Ferguson associate of Mark Lane in 1978 and defense co-counsel for the television trial of James Earl Ray
Marvin E. Frankel former U .S. federal District Court judge and judge for the television trial of James Earl Ray
Eric S. Galt employee in 1967-68 at Union Carbide Corporation's Toronto operation with U.S. government Top Secret security clearance; the identity used by James Earl Ray in 1967-68
Lewis Garrison Memphis attorney for Loyd Jowers
Memphis Godfather Carlos Marcello's principal associate in Memphis
James Harrison SCLC controller in 1967-68 and paid FBI informant
Ray Alvis Hendrix eyewitness who left Jim's Grill ten to fifteen minutes before the shooting on April 4, 1968
Kenneth Herman Memphis private investigator
O. D. Hester "Slim" friend of Ezell Smith
Frank Holt trucker's helper employed by M. E. Carter in 1968
Charles Hurley Memphis resident who picked up his wife in front of the rooming house on the afternoon of April 4, 1968
Solomon Jones Dr. King's driver in Memphis in 1968
Loyd Jowers owner of Jim's Grill on South Main Street in Memphis in 1968
Jim Kellum Memphis private investigator for the defense
(William) Tim Kirk inmate at Shelby County Jail 1978, and at Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in 1992-present
Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles Memphis minister
James Latch Vice president of Memphis LL&L Produce Company and partner of Liberto in 1968
Frank Camille Liberto President of LL&L Produce Company in Memphis in 1968
Phillip Manuel investigator for the Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations of the United States Senate in 1968
Carlos Marcello New Orleans, mafia leader in 1967-68
John W. ("Bill") McAfee Memphis photographer covering Dr. King on assignment from network television on April 4, 1968
James McCraw Yellow Cab driver in 1968, driving on the evening of April 4
John McFerren Somerville, Tennessee businessman and civil rights leader in 1968
Sheriff Bill Morris Shelby County Sheriff in 1967-68
Red Nix Marcello organization contract killer
Oliver Patterson FBI and HSCA informant in 1977-78
Paul ____ Yellow Cab driver in 1968, driving on the evening of April 4
Raul ____ shadowy figure whom James Earl Ray met in the Neptune Bar in Montreal in July 1967
James Earl Ray the alleged assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who has as of March 10, 1995 been in prison for 26 years
Jerry Ray youngest brother of James Earl Ray
John Ray younger brother of James Earl Ray
William Zenie Reed eyewitness who left Jim's Grill ten to fifteen minutes before the shooting on April 4, 1968
Randy Rosenson man whose name was on a business card found by James Earl Ray in the Mustang in 1967
Jack Saltman Thames Television producer of the Trial of James Earl Ray in 1993
William Sartor Time magazine stringer and investigative reporter, died mysteriously in 1971
Bobbi Smith waitress at Jim's Grill in 1967-68
Ezell Smith employee at a Liberto family business in Memphis in 1968
Betty Spates mistress of Loyd Jowers in 1967-68 and waitress at Jim's Grill
Dr. Benjamin Spock pediatrician, author, political activist and potential "ice president candidate on a proposed King-Spock ticket in 1968
Gene Stanley former U .S. Attorney and Knoxville lawyer for Randy Rosenson in the 1970s
Charles Quitman Stephens 422-1/2 South Main Street rooming house tenant in room 6-B and State's chief witness against James Earl Ray in 1968
Maynard Stiles deputy director of the Memphis Public Works department in 1968
Alexander Taylor senior Florida intelligence officer in 1968
Steve Tompkins Memphis Commercial Appeal reporter in 1993
Ross Vallone Houston associate of Carlos Marcello in 1967-68
Louie Ward Yellow Cab driver in 1968, driving on the evening of April 4
Nathan Whitlock son of Lavada (Whitlock) Addison who met Frank C. Liberto in 1978 in his mother's restaurant
John Willard alias used by James Earl Ray for renting a room at 422-1/2 South Main Street on April 4, 1968
Glenn Wright prosecution co-counsel in the television trial of James Earl Ray
Walter Alfred "Jack" Youngblood U .S. army Vietnam Special Operations Group operative, pilot, intelligence agent and mercenary
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