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An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Martin Luther King Jr was the most powerful and eloquent champion
of the poor and oppressed in US history, and at the height of his
fame in the mid-sixties seemed to offer the real possibility of a
new and radical beginning for liberal politics in the USA. In 1968,
he was assassinated; the movement for social and economic change
has never recovered.The conviction of James Earl Ray for his murder
has never looked even remotely safe, and when William Pepper began
to investigate the case it was the start of a twenty-five year
campaign for justice. At a civil trial in 1999, supported by the
King family, seventy witnesses under oath set out the details of
the conspiracy Pepper had unearthed: the jury took just one hour to
find that Ray was not responsible for the assassination, that a
wide-ranging conspiracy existed, and that government agents were
involved.An Act of State lays out the extraordinary facts of the
King story - of the huge groundswell of optimism engendered by his
charismatic radicalism, of how plans for his execution were laid at
the very heart of government and the military, of the
disinformation and media cover-ups that followed every attempt to
search out the truth. As shocking as it is tragic, An Act of State
remains the most compelling and authoritative account of how King's
challenge to the US establishment led inexorably to his murder.
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