The Assassination of MLK

 

The trial in Memphis not only established the ingredients of the government conspiracy to assassinate; it also exposed the clumsy, at times deadly workings of the government cover-up that followed. William F. Pepper, the attorney who represented the King family in the wrongful-death suit, detailed the conclusive evidence in a book titled "An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King."

 

The MLK and JFK assassinations were for the purpose of maintaining control. Control is also served by the mainstream media. The King family's wrongful-death suit has hardly ever been publicized. We certainly do not learn about it in our grade schools or universities. An additional dimension of control lies in the absence of any discussion about the trial in our observances of the national holiday.

 

This avoidance in our MLK observances is attributable to well-meaning and dedicated social activists acting in complicity with the forces of control. Part of this is unconscious, self-protective. Part of this comes from a determination to be upbeat.

 

And part of this is the result of a failure of analysis. There could be no more powerful fulfillment of MLK's vision than for American society to recognize and revolt against the institutional nature of his assassination.

 

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Writing from Frederick, Barry Kissin is a one-eyed undertaker who blows a futile horn.

 

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