Why didn't you mention that they won an actual jury verdict in 1999 (in contrast to a 1993 TV poll based on six years of less evidence)?
Why use the headline and intro "conspiracy theories" when that was (we now know from declassified CIA records) a smear term that the CIA popularized in the press and academia in the 1960s to discredit researchers into the JFK assassination?
Are you aware that Robert Blakey [whom NPR quoted] replaced the original House Select Committee on Assassination top counsels, Richard Sprague and Robert Tanenbaum after they resigned in protest because they believed they did not have freedom to investigate murder leads?
The NPR report illustrated a longstanding pattern by news reporters of deferring to high officials and former officials. The problem has hurt reporting on many other civic issues, including the nation's two other most prominent 1960s assassinations.
Misinformation about the deaths of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1963 and his brother Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) in 1968 are largely beyond the scope of today's column. But lots of coverage of RFK's death can be expected during the week of its fiftieth anniversary on June 5. And many experts, all too few of them ever quoted by the mainstream media, believe that patsies were blamed for both killings. RFK's accused killer Sirhan Sirhan, a client of Pepper's, is still imprisoned.
MLK: A 'Black Life That Mattered'
Authorities have long pinned all blame for King's murder on the ill-educated petty thief James Earl Ray, who is shown here in a 1955 mug shot and who died in 1998. But a handler manipulated Ray's travels so that he would be at the scene in Memphis when a professional team undertook the hit.
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