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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther Kingby William F. Pepper
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:William Pepper was a young journalist, just back from Vietnam, when he first met Martin Luther King Jr. His photographs and first-hand accounts of the war prompted King's unflinching commitment to oppose it. On April 15, 1967, Pepper proposed an alternative to the re-election of Lyndon Johnson to a cheering New York crowd. Dr. Benjamin Spock was to be King's running mate highlighting an anti-poverty and antiwar agenda. A year later Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. The movement for social and economic change in the US has never been substantially, successfully revived. Doubts raised from an initial ten- year investigation and hours of interrogations of James Earl Ray prompted Pepper to take up his case. The King family, persuaded by the growing evidence, joined his struggle in 1996. At the 1999 trial seventy witnesses under oath set out the details of the conspiracy and the jury took an hour to find for the King family. It was ruled that a wide-running conspiracy existed and that government agents were involved. The story was effectively buried. An Act of State lays out, in hair-raising detail, the facts of the case as it evolved. These tell a tragic story of King's powerful and significant radicalism, government plans for his execution that involved the military and the FBI, media cover-ups, and the corporate forces that were already claiming their hold on the nation's polity. Review:By far the most thorough critique...should be carefully read by every serious student of King's life and his tragic death. (Professor Clayborne Carson, Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University) Review:No one has done more ... to keep alive the quest for the truth concerning the violent death of Martin Luther King. (Attorney General Ramsey Clark) Review:Provid[es] our family with a long-sought sense of closure and peace, which had been denied by official disinformation and cover-ups. (Coretta Scott King) Synopsis:'An Act of State' lays out, in hair-raising detail, the facts of the case as it evolved. These tell a tragic story of King's powerful and significant radicalism, government plans for his execution that involved the military and the FBI and the media cover-ups. Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-324) and index.
Synopsis:In this controversial book, a journalist-turned-lawyer tells the tragic story of Martin Luther King, Jr.Us, powerful and significant radicalism and the government plans for his execution that involved the military and the FBI. About the AuthorWilliam F. Pepper is an English barrister and an American lawyer. He convenes a seminar on International Human Rights at Oxford University and maintains practices in the US and the UK. He is the author of three other books and numerous articles. Table of Contents
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