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  Tessy at 04/04/2008 5:37:18 AM
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  FROM THE BEGINING OF CREATION BLACKS HAS SUFFERED A LOT.OPPRESION,DEGRATION.BUT ONE THING FOR SURE IS THAT BLACKS WILL RULE THE WORLD.
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  truthseeker at 04/01/2008 6:26:09 PM
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  "It pains all of us to think that a saint such as King perished at the hand of a two bit punk. A historic figure like him deserved a more glorious ending. But wishful thinking can not change the facts about James Earl Ray's complicity in slaying the dreamer. Pinning the murder on the government is a delusion and a lie." - Jack White
  
  Despite the fact that I agree with you on most of your points the fact remains that the FBI followed King 24/7 so they should have known if someone was following him. They may not have done the deed but they may have help or shut their eyes to some activities around King. Second the way you article was written is very offensive to the families and supporters of Dr. King vision.
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  Robert Hinton at 04/01/2008 6:06:43 PM
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  When he was captured, The New York Times reported that James Earl Ray had on his person three valid Canadian passports belonging to three real Canadians, who all bore a close physical resemblance to James Earl Ray. How would a "two-bit" redneck criminal get such documents without assistance?
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  bgilmore62 at 04/01/2008 11:26:15 AM
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  I hate go lawyer on Jack White (full disclosure: I am a lawyer), but you said he received assistance before and after the killing from segregationist groups. That would be what we call a conspiracy. This challenges the whole premise of the editorial. If he was receiving assistance, he was working in concert with others who might have other ideas about how to take KIng out.
  
  How about this: the segregationist groups looked at Ray and laughed and decided to let him go forward but then they will arrange for King to be killed and Ray will become the fall guy? That still supports everything Mr. White says here and also adds a more plausible conclusion to all of this. While Mr. White compares King's killing to the killing of Medgar Evers, they are different. King was wanted dead by market forces for trying to start a quasi-socialist movement in America. Evers was simply a lynching over local racial matters. In other words, King was killed for the same reasons that Salvador Allende was assasinated in Chile in 1973. These type of killings usually involve some state action or at least state facilitation. I simply don't buy the notion that the killing of King was some petty murder. Most of the big ones in history are killed by their own people. It is how the Mafia works. And we all know, the government is the mob (that is a pun, of course).
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  DC Fem at 04/01/2008 10:21:29 AM
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  It is time to let go of this and other (JFK) conspiracy theories. I know it is hard to believe that such an insignificant, unimportant, hateful little man killed Dr. King, but that is the truth. The government is only complicit in that they sanctioned the Jim Crow policies that King protested against and riled the anger of racists like J.E. Ray.
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  ubstu34 at 04/01/2008 9:44:47 AM
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  With all we know about the government's attempt--presided over by J Edgar Hoover--to prevent the rise of a "black messiah" during the 1960s and the long involvement of the government in harassing and persecuting black leaders from Marcus Garvey to Malcolm X, it is hard to completely dismiss the possibility of a conspiracy in which the government was involved. Time Magazine and other major media outlets have been trying to squelch discussion of this possibility for years. In ten years, if Jack White is still alive, he will be trotted out to give us another "case closed" interpretation of King's murder. Why does White ignore the fact that William Pepper produced evidence which stood up in a court of law that indicated there was a conspiracy and that James Earl Ray was not involved? Why does he ignore the fact that Pepper's efforts to bring a wrongful death suit against individuals involved in the assassination on behalf of the King family were successful? I would advise any one interested in King's murder to read Pepper's book which recounts his journey in bringing about the wrongful death suit, An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King.
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  ch555x at 04/01/2008 9:20:52 AM
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  Too many coincidences for me to conclude that King's and others' murders during the '60's were not conspiracies. Especially not after learning of the fed's roles in taking out certain groups of that era with mob help...
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  point.two.eight at 04/01/2008 2:51:17 AM
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  Wow, Hinckley was a lone nutjob? Son of an oil tycoon with close ties to then-VP George Herbert Walker Bush? Right, that's coincidence. Jodie Foster was the real reason.
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  blessinggirl at 03/31/2008 11:59:06 PM
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  Mr. White, I agree with your threshold premise that the Klan or a similar organization facilitated Dr. King's murder. And yet. . . weren't the murders of Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy--two months apart--awfully convenient? Dr. King's opposition to the Vietnam War and his poor people's campaign, and Bobby Kennedy's ascent to the Democratic presidential nomination on a platform of ending the war and wholesale redress of minority poverty were indeed threatening in their similarity and grassroots support to thugs controlling the military industrial complex. And don't you find it awfully ironic and reptitive that lone gunmen all killed JFK, MLK and RFK? I do not claim your analytical expertise, nor do I find any comfort in conspiracy theories so as to hate "the system." What I disagree with is your assumption that conspiracies need to be sophisticated.