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Upon the Occasions
Originally published January 21, 2012
By Barry Kissin
In the late '90s, Coretta Scott King and her children filed a wrongful-death suit in the civil court system of
In my recent column upon the occasion of the 48th anniversary of the JFK assassination, I quoted Professor Gerald McKnight of Hood College as follows: "The conjunction of ... defense industry elites, Pentagon planners, and the heads of the intelligence community were the forces that led inexorably to Dallas ..." JFK was the last president to challenge the power and prerogatives of our military-industrial-intelligence complex.
Thus, Martin Luther King was assassinated by the same forces that assassinated JFK, and for related reasons. It was Martin Luther King's public opposition to the Vietnam War and his penetrating critique of racism, economic exploitation and militarism as systemically bound facets of American society that led the FBI to classify him as a "threat to national security."
His birthday is a national holiday. Our government recently christened a memorial to him on the
But he was gunned down by an operation involving the CIA, Army and FBI.
This should pose for most Americans a huge disconnect. Americans do not readily let go of their conceptions of our society. Most people build their lives around their conceptions of society. But the only way to avoid the disconnect is to reflexively reject the premise that forces within our own government assassinated MLK.
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