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Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King

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Bill Pepper, a personel friend of Dr. King's later became James Earl Ray's defense lawyer. Upon hearing Ray's testimony the King family was also convinced of Ray's innocence. Pepper documents the tragic day of King's death, the HSCA hearings and Ray's TV trial. We're also introduced to the stories from Ray about the mysterious Raul, who hired Ray as a bag man for his smuggling operation. Ray implicates Raul in the assasination, however Raul vanishes. There is much more to the story and I'm conviced that Ray was a patsy, much in the same way that Lee Harvey Oswald was. I look forward to the second book "Act of State" that picks up where "Orders to Kill", leaves off.

Every American citizen should read this book. This book will teach you how the US security apparatus (CIA, FBI, military, state and local police) maintains the status quo at any cost and without regard to the law. It's happening today just like in MLK's day.

I bought this book back in '96 when it was new. It confirmed many things pointed out by the late Philip Melanson, the late Harold Weisberg, and other great assassinologists. William Pepper is one of the bravest Americans alive for bringing this story out of the dark shadows, and staying with it. While Ray was still alive, it was poignant to follow the details of this book, hoping he'd get his new day in court, but knowing he never would. Then ABC News came along and SAVAGED Pepper with questions about a few of the details in this book that were slightly off (but see "Act Of State" for corrections). They pulled such an effective character assassination of Pepper that when the REAL Trial Of The Century took place, with Loyd Jowers in Memphis in '99, that nobody knew and nobody was told. But that is how true and on target this book is...it shook up the dark shadows of the intel world very badly.
Get it, read it, then read "Act Of State" -- and you will have the answers to your questions.