April 4, 1968 - The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Location	Memphis, Tennessee
Date	April 4, 1968 6:01 p.m. (Central Time)
Target	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Weapon(s)	Remington 760 Gamemaster
Death(s)	1 (King)
Injured	None
Perpetrator(s)	James Earl Ray

Martin Luther King, Jr., a prominent American leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. On June 10, 1968, James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested in London at Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States, and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, Ray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee state penitentiary.^[1] Ray later made many attempts to withdraw his guilty plea and be tried by a jury, but was unsuccessful; he died in prison on April 23, 1998, at the age of 70.^[2]...[Full Article]

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Father of MLK bomb suspect: Son didn’t plant bomb, is a racist

Raw Story

The father of man suspected of planting a bomb at a Spokane, Washington Martin Luther King Day parade believes that there is no way his son could have committed the crime.

After a raid on his home, Kevin Harpham was arrested last Wednesday on charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and of possessing an improvised explosive device (IED) that was not registered to him.

Cecil Harpham, Kevin's father, told KXLY that his son was taking care of him at his home near Kettle Falls on the day the bomb was planted. Cecil suffered a stroke in November and requires daily assistance.

"I know he didn't go plant it because he was with me," he said. "He helped me dress, he cooked my meals, he did my chores, he brought my firewood in and he just lived right here with me."

Cecil speculated that even though Kevin couldn't have planted the bomb, he could have helped make it.

"Maybe he might of helped them build a bomb, he might have, might have helped them build a bomb," he told KXLY's Sally Showman...

...Cecil explained that his son identifies himself as a racist but doesn't know how to hate.

"Picture that if you had a son and he said I hate Negroes, but you go with him somewhere and he meets, he goes to a cashier to pay for his gas and you see him being very polite to this Negro and courteous and you stand back and you say jeepers, for a hater, he don't know how to hate," Cecil said...[Full Article]

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I have a dream…to go to war?!”

Veterans Today

January 16, 2011 posted by Michael Leon

The Pentagon sank to a new low this week in their attempt to sell the Afghanistan War to the American people. At their Martin Luther King, Jr., Day observance, a Pentagon official actually claimed that if King were alive today, he might support the war.

This is simply not true. As shown in our new video, Dr. King could not have been more clear in his 1967 speech denouncing the Vietnam War:

A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just. …A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

More than 10,000 people died in the Afghanistan War last year alone. This year, the government plans to spend $107 billion on the war. We believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would repeat his admonition to U.S. policymakers on their responsibility:

“I speak as one who loves America…The great initiative in this war is ours; the initiative to stop it must be ours.”

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a national hero who called on us to have the moral courage to stop another war that wasn’t making us safer and that wasn’t worth the cost. Help us fight the Pentagon lies. Spread the truth by sharing this video with your family and friends.

Sincerely,

Derrick Crowe, Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Foundation team

P.S. If you haven’t done so already, please join Rethink Afghanistan on Facebook and Twitter.

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