* An interview with a high-ranking ex-CIA agent that confirms, for the first time, how the agency targeted Dr. King.
* How the courrier who brought James Earl Ray his escape money after the assassination was tracked and confronted
* How the mysterious Ray lookalike (questioned as a suspect at the assassination scene) was tracked down and interviewed
Philip H. Melanson, Ph.D., is one of the nation's leading experts on the history of American political violence. He found much lacking in the "official" explanation of the King assassination, so he conducted an independent investigation into the murder of King and discovered astonishing flaws in the government's conclusions.
Questioning the "official" findings, he went on to uncover vast amounts of new data that has never been considered in the case and that leads to unavoidable re-evaluations. In addition to the CIA connection, Dr, Melanson's book details how:
* On the morning of the assassination, King's Memphis police tactical surveillance was mysteriously withdrawn
* James Earl Ray was framed by evidence manufactured and planted at the crime scene
* The FBI kept the King family under surveillance and attempted to propagandize the lone-assassination conclusions (revealed in an FBI document)
The Martin Luther King Assassination concludes that the plot was hatched by elements of the intelligence community - probably CIA. Renegade agents of the government's security apperatus decided to eliminate Dr. King because he represented an otherwise unassailable national security threat due to his views on the Vietnam War.
