President Trump signed an executive order on January 23^rd to declassify the documents into the government’s findings on the John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King assassinations. These are documents the CIA and FBI have been hiding from us for decades. So called experts maintain there will be not much new that is not already known.

While there have been numerous books and opinions written over these assassinations, the civil rights leader King killing is perhaps shrouded in the most mystery and reeks of government cover-up.

King was fatally shot at the Loraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4^th, 1968. The supposed gunman was James Earl Ray, a forty year old career criminal who had escaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1967, where he was serving a twenty-year sentence for armed robbery and repeated offenses. 

The “official” record is that Ray rented a room in a boarding house across from the second-floor motel room that King and Ralph Abernathy often stayed. While standing in a bathtub and looking out the window Ray shot King when King stepped out on to the balcony. He was seen bolting from his room with his Remington rifle, which authorities auspiciously found next door to the boarding house, along with binoculars, that contained Ray’s fingerprints. Ray had bought the gun only six days earlier. They traced the prints back to an apartment Ray rented in Atlanta Georgia.

Ray was finally caught at Heathrow Airport in June of the same year but not before picking up his belongings in Atlanta and fleeing to Canada. The passport was issued under the name of Ramon Sneyed and from Toronto he spent a month in England. When he was apprehended at Heathrow, he had been to Portugal, then came back to London and was on his way to Brussels, with plans of going to South Africa.

Once caught he was sent back to Tennessee and charged with King’s murder. He pleaded guilty, but recanted just three days later, blaming the assassination on his brother Johnny and a man named Raoul from Montreal. He was sentenced to 99 years and later had a year added for an attempted prison break. He worked the rest of his life trying to prove his innocence but never got the chance, dying in prison in 1998. King’s son, Dexter had met with Ray and believed Ray was not the murderer.

MLK was a popular civil rights activist and Nobel Peace laureate known for his nonviolent stance. He detested the Vietnam War, angering the Johnson Administration. King’s family believes there was a plot involving the government, the mafia, and Memphis police and that Ray was merely a scapegoat.

King had been in Atlanta on April 4^th, planning to fly to Memphis to support striking Black sanitation workers, who were paid less than white workers. Incredibly, his flight was delayed due to a bomb threat.

While on the balcony, he was speaking to Jesse Jackson, whom King did not care for, when the shot came. Pictures show Abernathy and Andrew Young on the balcony pointing in the direction of which they thought the shots came, but they were not on the balcony at the time.

The FBI was assigned to probe King’s murder. That would be the FBI under the sinister creep, J. Edgar Hoover, about as trustful as the gas station sushi, who had been spying on King. Hoover told Johnson he would attempt to find the culprits, which certainly explains the shroud of mystery over the assassination. Our government decided to label the findings classified and remain secret until 2027. 

A man named Lloyd Jowers had come forth in 1993, claiming on ABC’s Prime Time Live he was involved with King’s murder along with the government and the mafia. When the King family sued Jowers civilly, facts came out in court that convinced the jury to side with the King family. They awarded the King’s their requested amount – $100. One fact that came out is that Jowers claimed he hired Lt. Earl Clark of the Memphis Police Department to shoot King.

So, the questions are, where does a convicted escaped felon redneck get the money, passports, and contacts to fly all over the world? What information did he take to the grave with him?  If Ray was the lone assassin, why did the government seal the records for six decades?

Dad may have called me a suspicious b*****d, but I know a conspiracy when I see it.  There is much our government has been hiding from us and President Trump has made great strides to get to the bottom of it.