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garyrevel CNN Once Again Tries To Convict James Earl Ray Of MLK Jr. Assassination
Commentary by Gary Revel
On April 3, 2008 a CNN Special presented by Soledad O'brien on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. tried in vain to convince us that James Earl Ray singularly escaped from Missouri State Prison and tracked MLK from coast to coast before finally miraculously having MLK come out on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel at just the exact moment that Ray was in the bathroom window taking aim to shoot and kill him.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(GaryRevel.com/news2.xml) – April 3, 2008 – The CNN special on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. who was gunned down on April 4, 1968 as he stood on the 2nd floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee fell flat and short of establishing that James Earl Ray was the killer.
The arguments used were old and unbelievable as they have all been discussed to death and never rang true to begin with.
For example:
The totally false claim that James Earl Ray hated blacks and wanted to kill Martin Luther King Jr. (There has never been any proof that Jimmy Ray was a racist or hater of African-Americans.)
The totally false claim that James Earl Ray threw down a bundle with the murder weapon and hid in the doorway of the Canipe Amusement Company until a policeman turned and went back the other direction. (The so-called murder weapon to this day has not been matched with the bullet taken from MLK and the 2 black customers inside the business said that the man who dropped the bundle in the doorway walked quickly past after the drop. He did not linger in or stop in the doorway at all.)
The totally false claim that no one has come forward to suggest that the US Government or Mafia had any part in the killing. (The CIA and FBI themselves have released documents that when taken on the face of them in relation to the events of the day clearly show motive and intent that they played a part in the murder. CIA Operative Marrell McCollough was the first to approach and touch the body of MLK as he lay dying immediately after the shooting. Memphis Mafia Boss Frank Liberto was heard giving the order to shoot King on the balcony just before the shot rang out.)
The totally false claim that James Earl Ray was the man in the bathroom from where the shot was supposedly fired. (The composit drawing of the man who left the bathroom as described by Grace Walden, a roominghouse tenant who occupied room 6-B, does not look like James Earl Ray but rather now deceased CIA Operative E. Howard Hunt. Charles Quitman Stephens, a roominghouse tenant who occupied room 6-B, said that James Earl Ray was not the man he had identified as the man in the bathroom when the shot was fired. James Earl Ray was seen sitting in his car for several minutes during the time that witnesses said the man who left the bathroom after the shot was fired had locked himself inside. If Jimmy Ray had been in the car then he could not have been the man in the bathroom.)
The totally false claim that no one has come forward to say they saw James Earl Ray at the service station where he said he was when the shot was fired. (Willie Green, who worked at the station, said that he saw James Earl Ray at his station at the time when King was killed several blocks away.)
The totally false claim that the death wound was only consistent with a shot fired from the bathroom window when in fact if MLK had been leaning over, looking down and speaking to someone in the parking lot as indicated by those present, then the shot would have most probably come from the backyard of Jim's Bar and Grill.
The totally false claim that James Earl Ray gave more than one description of his one and only handler and criminal associate 'Raoul'. (James Earl Ray told this investigator and the HSCA attorneys that there were several 'Raoul' type individuals that he met with during the time from his first meeting with 'Raoul' and leading up to the King killing.)
Other obvious self-serving distortions in the program were:
1. The James Earl Ray statements read by someone with a Southern Accent. James Earl Ray was not born and raised in the South and did not have a Southern Accent.
2. That the mysterious Raoul could not exist because no one had come forward to testify that he had been seen with Jimmy Ray. (In fact many a crime has been committed where the individual participants of the crime were not publicly seen together before or after the crime.)
3. That almost anyone could have hit MLK on the balcony with one shot from the bathroom window of the rooming house because it was only a couple of hundred feet in distance. (The stress and urgency of such a killing would definitley make such an endeavor extremely difficult for most people. Even those with remarkable shooting skills would find the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. a very difficult if not impossible task even at that distance.)
There are others but I'll leave it here for now and remind you that the City of Memphis detroyed any chance of a valid investigation when it cleared the backyard of the rooming house overnight and made sure that any credible evidence that pointed to anyone but James Earl Ray was destroyed. -
Original Black Buddha For the Black Buddhist perspective on CNN's series on Black America check out my blog:
http://originalblackbuddha.blogspot.com/2008/07/special-reports-black-in-america.html
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