What reflections do you have on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination?
My reflection is, why do Americans keep falling for the same old cut & paste formula of an ‘angry lone nut’ shooting someone who is a perceived threat to the US Establishment order?How many more patsies and dubious narratives do Americans need before they finally stop and think that there’s something a bit odd or at least too coincidental going on?Even Sam Giancana said he’s surprised the American people haven’t caught onto the scam yet.A team of freelance marksmen was assembled by FBI Division Five and sent to do the job. Alias ‘Frenchy Raul,’ the operative who framed James Earl Ray, was not only part of the team that assassinated JFK but was also arrested at Watergate.The guy in the trench coat bending over King and checking for life signs was an FBI man alias ‘McCulloch’.There is no conspiracy, no theory, nor any conspiracy theory in this post. What I have stated is either true or false.The King family took the US government to court and, in a civil case, the government was found guilty of the murder of Martin Luther King.Why didn’t mainstream media tell you about this?
What is left out of history books about Martin Luther King, Jr.?
In the last year of his life, Dr. King was attacked from all sides. Some called him too radical, and some called him an Uncle Tom. I suspect that by the time he was killed, he was just worn out.As Dr. Carroll points out, Dr. King was far more radical than the conventional story would have us believe. He was committed to a “social gospel” and in his last year he bitterly opposed the Vietnam War. At the Riverside Church in NYC on April 4, 1967 he gave a speech declaring that the USA was “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today” and denouncing the triple evils of racism, militarism, and poverty. After this he was attacked by the major US newspapers, by the NAACP, and he saw many of the donors to his organizations withdraw their support.The US news media were glad to celebrate the 50th anniversary in 2013 of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. The subtext to all this self-congratulatory celebration was “Hey, we have a half-black President now. Ain’t we wonderful! Dr. King’s dream has been achieved!” Tell it to Black Lives Matter.Dexter King, Dr. King’s son, decried consigning his father to what Dexter called “I Have a Dream-land”. It will be very interesting to see whether the news media cover the 50th anniversary of the Riverside speech and the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s murder (one year to the day after that speech) with any rigor. Maybe Amy Goodman will.At the time of his murder, Dr. King was organizing an effort to Occupy DC with 500,000 poor whites, blacks, latinos, and asians. Members of the Poor People’s Campaign would live in tents on the mall and lobby Congress until they agreed to address economic justice. Bobby Kennedy agreed to be involved.Dr. King was killed, and the Poor People’s Campaign flopped. It could have changed America.
Also because he turned against the Vietnam war and was building a party to run for President.
Contention of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech?
the extract is from web page (below) which presents: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. summary: Martin Luther King, Jr. became the predominant leader in the Civil Rights Movement to end racial segregation and discrimination in America during the 1950s and 1960s and a leading spokesperson for nonviolent methods of achieving social change. His eloquence as a speaker and his personal charisma, combined with a deeply rooted determination to establish equality among all races despite personal risk won him a world-wide following. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 1964 and was selected by Time magazine as its Man of the Year. His "I Have a Dream" speech, which is now considered to be among the great speeches of American history, is frequently quoted. His success in galvanizing the drive for civil rights, however, made him the target of conservative segregationists who believed firmly in the superiority of the white race and feared social change. He was arrested over 20 times and his home was bombed. Ultimately, he was assassinated on April 4, 1968, on the balcony of a motel where he was staying in Memphis. A monument to Dr. King was unveiled in the national capital in 2012.
Did John F. Kennedy dream a nightmare before he was assassinated?
I read it a long time ago (but I'm not sure where) that, like Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy dreamed of being at his own funeral and that someone told him when he asked who had died, responded "That was the president" (or something to that effect) causing him to see himself lying in a funeral. Can anyone confirm this to any degree? I'm talking about JFK, not his brother RFK or JFK Jr. .