Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4th, 1968. The official story finds a lone gunman, James Earl Ray, bears the entire responsibility for the death. However, a 1999 civil court ruling found that the death resulted from a conspiracy involving elements of the Memphis Police Department, the FBI, and the Mafia.
For the 50th anniversary of the assassination, James Corbett put together the following report which deconstructs the standard narrative which persists to this very day, and outlines the incontrovertible facts surrounding the murder, including the threat posed by King to the US Military industrial complex.
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