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The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Paperback – January 16, 2018

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Bestselling author, James Earl Ray’s defense attorney, and, later, lawyer for the King family William Pepper reveals who actually killed MLK.

William Pepper was James Earl Ray’s lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., and even after Ray’s conviction and death, Pepper continues to adamantly argue Ray’s innocence. This myth-shattering exposé is a revised, updated, and heavily expanded volume of Pepper’s original bestselling and critically acclaimed book Orders to Kill, with twenty-six years of additional research included.

The result reveals dramatic new details of the night of the murder, the trial, and why Ray was chosen to take the fall for an evil conspiracy—a government-sanctioned assassination of our nation’s greatest leader. The plan, according to Pepper, was for a team of United States Army Special Forces snipers to kill King, but just as they were taking aim, a backup civilian assassin pulled the trigger. The table of contents include:

Chapter 1: The Road to Memphis
Chapter 2: Deathly Support
Chapter 3: The Patsy Ritual
Chapter 4: Questions Abound
Chapter 5: The Prison Interview
Chapter 6: The Deepening Plot
Chapter 7: Showtime—Investigative Hearings
Chapter 8: The Unscripted Television Trial
Chapter 9: Doors Begin to Open
Chapter 10: Roots of the Civil Trial
Chapter 11: Discovery
Chapter 12: A Darker, Deeper Scene Emerges
Chapter 13: A Patsy’s Death
Chapter 14: A Key Player Begins to Talk
Chapter 15: The Civil Trial
Chapter 16: Raul Coelho (“Raul”)
Chapter 17: The Verdict and the Media Silence
Chapter 18: A Courageous Witness Comes Forward
Chapter 19: The Meeting
Chapter 20: More Flesh on the Bones
Chapter 21: The Ultimate Assassin

In The Plot to Kill King, Pepper shares the evidence and testimonies that prove that Ray was a fall guy chosen by those who viewed King as a dangerous revolutionary. His findings make the book one of the most important of our time—the uncensored story of the murder of an American hero that contains disturbing revelations about the obscure inner-workings of our government and how it continues, even today, to obscure the truth.
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"Dr. Pepper has waged a 37-year struggle for truth and justice on behalf of another scapegoat, James Earl Ray--the alleged assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.--and the King family. This book is the culmination of that effort and reveals the truth about that assassination."--Sirhan Sirhan

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"Dr. Pepper has waged a 37-year struggle for truth and justice on behalf of another scapegoat, James Earl Ray--the alleged assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.--and the King family. This book is the culmination of that effort and reveals the truth about that assassination."--Sirhan Sirhan

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skyhorse; Reprint edition (January 16, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 772 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1510729623
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1510729629
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.86 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.8 x 9 inches
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Andrew E. Belshaw
5.0 out of 5 stars The Who, How & Why of the MLK Assassination
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2017
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William Pepper has given us an excellent look inside his investigation of Who killed MLK How they did it and Why--he even names the shooter who most likely pulled the trigger (page 226). The author also cites many examples of media complicity throughout the book (so you won't be seeing Pepper on the sycophantic US media conglomerates such as NYT, WaPo, msnbc, CNN, CBS, PBS, etc.). The main text and epilogue are about 315 pages--with an additional 450 pages (or so) of Appendices which include transcripts from legal depositions, photos and background material.

Before reading the book, I highly recommend watching the documentary EVIDENCE OF REVISION (Part 6) --it will help you understand Exactly what new revelations the book contains. The film explains the political environment of the USA in the early to mid-20th Century; then presents a wealth of evidence in direct confrontation with the MLK assassination as presented to the public by the US government and media conglomerates. (2 hour 8 minute version of the documentary is available for Free on Youtube)

William Pepper's dedication to peace and human rights brought him into contact with MLK during the last year or two of MLK's life. In 1966, Pepper had gone to Vietnam to investigate and document what was really happening across the Pacific--the results were published in a special edition of RAMPARTS magazine "The Children of Vietnam" (which is reprinted in Appendix B). Pepper's estimate at the time was 1 million Vietnamese children killed, wounded or burned by napalm--a country which also had very little healthcare, even the most basic food and medicine often in short supply due to the war.

MLK (and many others) were shocked by the report and the photos which clearly showed the immense damage the richest nation on earth was doing to children. The years of 1966 to 1968 were intense--peace activists were threatening the profits of WAR, INC. (USA). We now know how closely (and illegally) federal agencies worked to disrupt civil rights leaders, peace activists, writers, musicians, journalists--even Senators were spied upon by the NSA (at the request of FBI and CIA). Source: Foreign Policy "NSA Spies on Senators" Sept. 2014

MLK delivered his "Beyond Vietnam" speech on April 4, 1967--exactly one year before his death. In the Fall of 1967, MLK became a bigger threat to the Establishment with his plans for a Poor Peoples March on Washington DC, an occupy-style mass protest to be held in the summer of 1968. If MLK hadn't been assassinated, very likely his march may have attracted a wide spectrum of people to protest the war in Vietnam, which would have been a direct threat to the cash flow over at WAR, INC (USA).

File Under: MLK, Civil Rights, U.S. History, African-American History, Corporatism, Truth, Peace, Human Rights, Militarism, Politics, Crime, Non-Fiction, Legal, Murder Investigation, Criminology, Vietnam War, Intelligence, Espionage, U.S. Military.
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michael egan
5.0 out of 5 stars often at great cost to them personally
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2018
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I have read many books on the JFK, RFK assasinations, the CIA , FBI involvements in U.S. covert actions, to name a few: Douglas Valentine, Gary Webb, Peter Janney, William Turmer, David Talbott, James Douglass. Another group who I would describe as whistle blowers have also risked their careers, family security and their lives to give an account of what they experienced and witnessed: Celestino Castillo, Terry Reed, Edward Snowden, William Binney, Thomas Drake, Coleen Rowley. These peope are/were courageous, highly skilled journalists, former military, police, intelligence officers and writers who have acquired the skills and tools of investigative experts to identify and pursue the truth, often at great cost to them personally. William Pepper deserves to be among those whose heroic actions give readers information which can change our perspective and then challenge us to act.
Pepper's book starts slow, I began the first 50 pages somewhat impatient, plodding through the background information, at times, I considered putting the book down because it seemed too rambling, a bit thin skinned, mentioning the author's bad feelings toward a more recent book which came out on Martin Luther King Jr. which the author had not included, consulted with, or recognized his work. My reaction initially was: "ok, let it go, get on with your book!" Fortunately for me, I endured.
Pepper's saga spans many decades-- not just years, but decades-- including hundreds of face to face interviews and confrontations with key people who he alleges were important in providing information as witnesses or members of the networks which were involved in the asassination of King. By the middle of his book I had a hard time putting it down.
His account helped me to step back and look at a number of important key concepts that apply to each person in our daily lives as well as our communities and our respective political constructs-- our countries. The core concept is about power: how I impact my world, how I react, dance with,cooperate with, disagree with, compromise with, fight, submit, to those around me. If I understand this concept I can grasp the impulses and the nature of gangs and families-- my own family, street gangs, military, community fraternities, college fraternities, professional networks-- and develop a more sophisticated understanding of how they evolve/devolve as we move through time. Ultimately, Pepper's is a narrative of a recent chapter of the deterioration of the U.S. empire. His insights and his courage are truly remarkable. The question for me is what will I do with it?
I highly recommend this book.
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David J. Guilliams
5.0 out of 5 stars Who is running the show!
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2023
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Great information on tragedy
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2021
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John Duddy
5.0 out of 5 stars It's amazing. How could we not know that a jury ...
Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2018
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This is the most important book available today in Canada.
Let's put it in Canadian university classrooms and on the desk of every Canadian MP and senator in Ottawa.
Our government has forces of RCMP and CSIS at hand to research this monumental book to help us decide how to be neighbour to the murderous Deep State located to the south of us.
It's possible Canada is also under the control of similar organized criminals. Why else would Canada remain silent when this information is available?
Until I discovered the struggles of Dr. William Pepper to expose the truth about the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I had believed the official reports.
Now I know we cannot put any faith in mainstream media. They have been covering up the crime since 1968. (Several other crimes as well).
It's amazing.
How could we not know that a jury found forces within FBI and US military guilty of the MLK murder? We don't know because media covered it up.
How could the name of Lee Harvey Oswald on-screen murderer Jack Ruby show up in the MLK murder plot? Media don't want us to know; that's why.
Why did Rev. Jesse Jackson not sue Dr. Pepper when accused by Dr. William Pepper of setting up Dr. King for the murder by having MLK move to a suite that was an easy target?
Unbelievable:-Dr. King did not die of a gun-shot wound. No, he survived the shooting; he was dispatched in hospital to ensure he did not return to the streets.
Unbelievable:- J Edgar Hoover sent a large suitcase of cash to the warden of the jail to pay for the "escape" of James Earl Ray to set up a "patsy" for the murder of MLK.
All planned to stop MLK from leading a protest sit-in at the White House in Washington DC. designed to stop the war in Vietnam.
The Deep State military industrial complex wanted to prolong the war for drugs and profit.
Oh, by the way, I found an error in the book. There is no "Maize" prison in Northern Ireland. The place is called the Maze Prison.

This book is a must, get your copy, absorb the material, then demand your MP and senator bring this up in the House.
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Dennis Dvernychuk
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on June 20, 2018
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mrs.susan boyle
5.0 out of 5 stars a good read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2018
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An eye opener.
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Scriptwriter
3.0 out of 5 stars Extensive but poorly organised
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2019
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This rather large book, The Plot to Kill King by former attorney for the King family, Dr William F. Pepper, is a detailed look at the circumstances surrounding the public assassination of famed civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr, which happened on 4th April, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. According to author Pepper, the convicted assassin, James Earl Ray, was not the archetypal angry lone (racist) nut but rather the victim of both legal incompetence and a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy involving senior members of the United States political, military and intelligence establishment.

I wrote that this book is large: the hardback is 728 pages (including the index). However, the actual body of the book is 313 pages; the remainder is taken up with the appendices which include extensive depositions and transcripts of interviews.

Yet despite that the book contains a vast amount of material (or perhaps because of), it is sorely in need of a thorough (re)editing: spelling mistakes in names abound – including at one point, one of the central “characters, Loyd Jowers – but above that the book is simply chaotically written for the first two thirds. Simply put, it’s all over the place. This is pretty serious given that the evidence put forth is potentially confusing to someone unfamiliar with the case – despite all of the material contained therein, the book doesn’t even contain a map of the key area around the motel and how it is situated compared to Jim’s Grill, the bushes, rooming house and nearby streets.

A logical way to rearrange the text would have been to build it steadily around the civil case that the King family brought, at author Pepper’s instigation. In this way, evidence could be introduced to the reader, its context and relevance clearly explained. Instead, Pepper jumps us in at the deep end and only the most persistent of readers will make it through to the end. In this way, he has done himself and the extensive research he has undertaken, absolutely no favours. Author Mark Lane wrote an excellent book on the JFK assassination (Plausible Denial) based around a courtroom case where he was the lawyer. This book was superbly well written, easy to read, engrossing and spent careful time with both the evidence and the characters involved. In comparison, The Plot to Kill King comes off as quite inferior and disorganised.

The final third of the main body of the book really does bring the case together with some neat if repetitive summaries. It also briefly looks at Gerald Posner’s writing on the King murder. If only the first two thirds of the book were written and organised as well.

I would like to recommend Bill Pepper’s book much more. It’s clear that The Plot to Kill King contains the near totality of decades of research. Perhaps the author was overwhelmed with the volume of material he had amassed and simply wanted to get it all down on the page. If this is the case, then the editor of this book bears some responsibility for the final product. However, when compared to other similarly themed books that take on massive and complex subjects yet manage to present the evidence in a much more compelling way (Mark Lane’s above-mentioned book and also his Rush to Judgement, Anthony Summers’ Kennedy Conspiracy), The Plot to Kill King comes off as the disorganised poor relation.
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