Murkin was the code name chosen by the FBI for their
investigation into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., in 1968. Today, 20 years after the fatal shooting of the civil
rights leader, Philip H. Melanson, a renowned authority on American
political assassinations, unveils his own investigation into the
murder. Melanson . . . has done an exhaustively thorough job on the
still-mysterious King assassination. After following Melanson's
meticulous pursuit of seemingly every lead in the case--including
interviews with the men whose names were used as aliases for
alleged killer James Earl Ray--there can be little doubt in the
reader's mind that neither of the two official versions of what
happened could have been the whole truth. The first was the
ever-popular notion of the lone killer: Ray. The second, propounded
by a clearly inept congressional investigation a decade after the
1969 shooting, was that an ill-defined racist conspiracy was behind
the assassination. What seems unarguable is that Ray, a petty
criminal, could not have killed King unaided. There are too many
improbabilities--the source of his carefully chosen Canadian
aliases, the identity of the fat man' who brought him a letter' in
Toronto during his escape, the odd setup at the rooming house from
which the shot was fired. It is Melanson's thesis that there was
high-level intelligence involvement, probably by the CIA, which was
violently alarmed by King's anti-Vietnam stance. "Publisher's
Weekly"
Murkin was the code name chosen by the FBI for the investigation
into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968.
Today, twenty years after the fatal shooting of the civil rights
leader, Philip H. Melanson, a renowned authority on American
political assassinations, unveils his own investigation into the
murder. Through extensive interviews, research, and Freedom of
Information Act requests, Melanson analyzes the official
investigations, the evidence, the performance of law enforcement
officials, the role of James Earl Ray, and the questions of
conspiracy. Much of the data presented has never before been
published. Based on his detailed investigation, Melanson offers a
revisionist interpretation of the King case, demonstrating that it
remains unsolved.
Melanson argues persuasively that both the FBI's conclusion that
Ray acted alone and the later 1978 House Select Committee on
Assassinations decision that Ray was backed by a conspiracy of St.
Louis-based white supremacists are not supported by the evidence.
Although Melanson concludes that Ray did not, in fact, act alone,
he contends that the official investigations were so flawed that
the conspirators behind him are still unidentified. His own
conclusions regarding the probable source of the conspiracy offer a
sobering indictment of the ways in which powerful interests, left
unchecked, can wreak havoc on American democratic processes.
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