James Earl Ray person
also: Colonel James Steele, Colonel Steele, James, James O'Rey, James Steele, Mr. King, Mr. Ray, Raul, Ray, Rayol, Steele, the defendant
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Claims (27)
James Earl Ray worked_for
House of Rothschilds documented
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“James approved of May: he was “a good little chap ... clever and a Frankfurt Jew. I always have a great deal of confidence in such people.”…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWO The Era of Mobility (1849-1858)
James Earl Ray met_with
Louis Philippe I documented
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“I went to the king and pointed out to him that my whole fortune and family were in France and, consequently, I would not dream of misleading him and lulling him into believing that the foreign powers wanted peace when, in truth, they were p…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. NINE The Chains of Peace (1830-1833)
James Earl Ray met_with
Nathan Addison documented
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““Périer,” he assured Nathan, “is a stroke of luck from God, as he will maintain peace, or at least I hope he will.”…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. NINE The Chains of Peace (1830-1833)
James Earl Ray met_with
Neil Salonen documented
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“Five days later he “urgently begged” Salomon to continue “pestering” Metternich “as to the importance of strengthening the ministry here and . . . maintain[ing] peace, which is so necessary to Europe, the Prince alone having the power to ma…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. NINE The Chains of Peace (1830-1833)
James Earl Ray met_with
Klemens von Metternich documented
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“Five days later he “urgently begged” Salomon to continue “pestering” Metternich “as to the importance of strengthening the ministry here and . . . maintain[ing] peace, which is so necessary to Europe, the Prince alone having the power to ma…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. NINE The Chains of Peace (1830-1833)
James Earl Ray lived_in
France documented
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“I went to the king and pointed out to him that my whole fortune and family were in France and, consequently, I would not dream of misleading him and lulling him into believing that the foreign powers wanted peace when, in truth, they were p…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. NINE The Chains of Peace (1830-1833)
James Earl Ray operated_in
Paris documented
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“The Paris house was even smaller (and cheaper): at around the same time, James estimated that he spent 34,000 francs a year (£1,700) on eight clerks, a porter, a messenger, two servants and a coachman.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. TEN The World’s Bankers
James Earl Ray moved_to
Zohar Lahab documented
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“Already he and James had sent their wives and children to Le Havre to take the next ship to England.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. SIXTEEN 1848
James Earl Ray relationship_with
Nathan Addison documented
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““I noticed that Gasser [the St Petersburg agent] has no interest at all in our business affairs,” James wrote to Nathan in 1829 on hearing of a large consignment of silver bound for Russia:…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. TEN The World’s Bankers
James Earl Ray escaped_from
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary documented
“James had always only wanted from three days after his conviction, he wanted a trial. Then there was a number of attempts to kill James Earl Ray. These attempts varied. One time he escaped from Brushy Mountain in 1977. He escaped from Brush…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 1:02:32
Raoul controlled
James Earl Ray host_asserted
“that the bundle, the murder weapon, the rifle in evidence, was dropped minutes before the actual shooting. Now we have Raul, this shadowy figure who the defendant has mentioned and who James Earl Ray has talked about right from the beginnin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 34:12
Judge Joe Brown exposed
James Earl Ray host_asserted
“self-knowledge, development, which is what Judge Brown has. Judge Brown sat in that chair and gave you a sample technical scientific reasons why the weapon in evidence is not the murder weapon. He said, first of all, the scope was never sig…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 30:58
William Bradford Huey offered_pardon_to
James Earl Ray host_asserted
“you have the transcript of the recording, he was offered $220,000 for a pardon, with a guarantee of a pardon. And the best story, of course, that Huey wanted was the story why I killed Martin Luther King. So they were offering him money, a …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 1:02:03
The New York Times framed
James Earl Ray host_asserted
“a bank robbery with Wendell Rose Jr. The Times wrote this whole piece fabricated out of whole cloth that the Ray brothers robbed a bank in Illinois and that's where James got his money and therefore there was no Rayol at all. It was complet…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 57:20
William Bradford Huey offered_money_for_pardon
James Earl Ray host_asserted
“any others, but you heard two in particular. One from a lawyer, Jack Kershaw, who told you about a meeting in Nelson Book Publishing Company. And he was offered a sum of money if Ray would admit that he did it. He was offered this money by …”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 1:00:46
James Earl Ray supplied_arms_to
Democratic Force of Nicaragua host_asserted
“and intervened several times when Dutton's people were locked out of the airfield. Still allowed Felix Rodriguez access to the encryption machines provided him a military car and advisory group identification. He also made him a deputy in n…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 58:59
James Earl Ray funded
Democratic Force of Nicaragua host_asserted
“and intervened several times when Dutton's people were locked out of the airfield. Still allowed Felix Rodriguez access to the encryption machines provided him a military car and advisory group identification. He also made him a deputy in n…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 58:59
James Earl Ray moved_to
England documented
“He was intoxicated. He couldn't identify anyone. Captain Tommy Stevens said he couldn't identify anyone, much less stand up. Yet it was the affidavit of Stevens that brought James Earl Ray back to this country from England. From England. Th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 29:51
James Earl Ray ordered_assassination_of
Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted
“So he has not attempted to come forward at all and tell his side of the story to defend himself. As we move into the next area, we're concerned now about a broader conspiracy. On one hand, the broader conspiracy goes beyond a shooter in the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 37:04
Arthur Wayne Baldwin ordered_assassination_of
James Earl Ray host_asserted
“And he had to call the number back. When he called back, he was calling the executive suite hotel that he knew the prisoner knew was being used by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI. He thought he was being set up. The phone call came t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 1:05:04
Arthur Wayne Baldwin ordered_assassination_of
James Earl Ray host_asserted
“And he had to call the number back. When he called back, he was calling the executive suite hotel that he knew, the prisoner knew, was being used by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI. He thought he was being set up. The phone call came…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 1:04:45
James Jesus Angleton created_aliases_for
James Earl Ray book_quoted
“defense team. And it's abundantly clear that this was a CIA controlled defense team. Emerson makes that bountifully clear. But he also just, you know, sorry for rambling on here, but he makes it clear that the four aliases used by James Ear…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 1:24:56
FBI attempted_assassination_of
James Earl Ray host_asserted
“Louis Stokes was chairman of the Select Committee on Assassinations. He calls Ray Blanton, who was the governor of the state at the time. Reverend Frotroy was a part of that conversation and said he was the one who encouraged Stokes to call…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 1:03:12
FBI attempted_assassination_of
James Earl Ray host_asserted
“Louis Stokes was chairman of the Select Committee on Assassinations. He calls Ray Blanton, who was the governor of the state at the time. Reverend Frotroy was a part of that conversation and said he was the one who encouraged Stokes to call…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 1:03:31
Captain Tommy Stevens framed
James Earl Ray book_quoted
“The state's main witness was drunk at the time. He was intoxicated. He couldn't identify anyone. Captain Tommy Stevens said he couldn't identify anyone, much less stand up. Yet it was the affidavit of Stevens that brought James Earl Ray bac…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 29:28
James Earl Ray supplied_arms_to
Democratic Force of Nicaragua host_asserted
“Colonel Steele agreed to put through a secure call to Vincent Shields, the Honduras' cheapest station. Ultimately, they had to scrub the airdrop and scramble to inform the affected Contra units. Another attempt took place on April 9th with …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 37:43
James Jowers did_business_with
James Earl Ray guest_asserted
“And you've heard testimony from Ambassador Young and Mr. King about how he was approached and he was asked to assist or become involved in this assassination, again by Mr. Liberto, and how he was told that he would be visited by a man calle…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 20:46
Mentions (29)
▶ 8:27
That's really what we're asking you to find, that there was a conspiracy. Thirdly, we dealt with the crime scene. What was this crime scene all about? Where was the crime scene? What happened there? Fourth, we went into the rifle. This is t…
▶ 29:28
The state's main witness was drunk at the time. He was intoxicated. He couldn't identify anyone. Captain Tommy Stevens said he couldn't identify anyone, much less stand up. Yet it was the affidavit of Stevens that brought James Earl Ray bac…
▶ 32:54
this when he got drunk. And he told him this over a period of 15 years. This is not something McCraw made up one day. It was over a period of 15 years. He'd tell the same story. Judge Arthur Haynes testified that he was, of course, James Ea…
▶ 33:52
that the bundle, the murder weapon, the rifle in evidence, was dropped minutes before the actual shooting. Now we have Raul, this shadowy figure who the defendant has mentioned and who James Earl Ray has talked about right from the beginnin…
▶ 34:21
They range from an English merchant seaman who we had deposed by telephone at some length, who ran into the same Rayol at the same bar James did in Montreal, Canada. They range from him to the Grabaus, Royce Wilbur, to the defendant himself…
▶ 45:14
It was not necessary for them to do anything. The mission was aborted because the mob contract was successful in killing MLK and framing James Earl Ray. Remember, one of the things that Liberto also told the defendant, Lloyd Jowers, was tha…
▶ 50:31
right around there, maybe even, well, right around that time. They left Jim's Grill, saw James Earl Ray's Mustang parked in front of Jim's Grill, started to walk up the street, and a couple of minutes later, when they went up a couple of bl…
▶ 50:55
They thought it came around the corner driving away as James Earl Ray had said he done. He always said he left the scene of the crime around that time to try to go have a spare tire changed. Here are two alibi witnesses with statements give…
▶ 52:52
They certainly didn't know that his lawyer had agreed in writing to pay $500 if he would plea guilty and not cause any problems. And that $500 could be used to hire another lawyer to help overturn the plea. They certainly were not told that…
▶ 59:15
The reaction is still, oh yes, that's interesting. But the next day you still believe it because it's been implanted neurologically into your brain from media propaganda. Mr. Jowers here, the defendant, is a victim of that. They gave him, A…
▶ 59:42
He was looking for money. He had failed the lie detector test. You heard the cab driver, James Adams, who has nothing to gain by this, take the stand and say, yeah, he drove those ABC people to the airport, took them to the airport, and he …
▶ 1:00:46
any others, but you heard two in particular. One from a lawyer, Jack Kershaw, who told you about a meeting in Nelson Book Publishing Company. And he was offered a sum of money if Ray would admit that he did it. He was offered this money by …
▶ 1:01:16
that he could go on his nice life. Mr. Kershaw went over to the prison, as you heard, asked Mr. Ray, if you want to take up this wonderful offer, Ray of course said no and sent him packing. Some while later, a telephone, a telephone convers…
▶ 1:01:43
you have the transcript of the recording, he was offered $220,000 for a pardon, with a guarantee of a pardon. And the best story, of course, that Huey wanted was the story why I killed Martin Luther King. So they were offering him money, a …
▶ 1:02:13
James had always only wanted from three days after his conviction, he wanted a trial. Then there was a number of attempts to kill James Earl Ray. These attempts varied. One time he escaped from Brushy Mountain in 1977. He escaped from Brush…
▶ 1:03:12
Louis Stokes was chairman of the Select Committee on Assassinations. He calls Ray Blanton, who was the governor of the state at the time. Reverend Frotroy was a part of that conversation and said he was the one who encouraged Stokes to call…
▶ 1:03:42
Blanton goes over there in a helicopter and had to chase the FBI away. They didn't want to go at first. He told them he would put them in the same cell with James Earl Ray if they did it. The telephone call to the sheriff, like get out ther…
▶ 1:04:15
You heard April Ferguson, a public defender counsel, tell you how that worked. She went out, interviewed a prisoner who had called their office in April and Mark Lane were representing James back at that time. He was offered a contract. He …
▶ 1:05:13
and was a federal informant used by the government. So he gave the statement of how this contract was put out by Baldwin on James Earl Ray's life. Ms. Ferguson testified to it in her affidavit. You've heard a good deal of it, how the defend…
▶ 1:24:56
defense team. And it's abundantly clear that this was a CIA controlled defense team. Emerson makes that bountifully clear. But he also just, you know, sorry for rambling on here, but he makes it clear that the four aliases used by James Ear…
▶ 1:23:10
But I just wanted to expand on that a little bit. Chelsea Manning got triggered by the death squads that Dick Cheney and Rummy and their little friend James Steele were running. He figured it out. He was an analyst. And he just lost it. He …
▶ 1:18:13
Floor manager in 1960 at Los Angeles was the governor of Tennessee. And boy, did LBJ and CIA work very well with that particular state government to manipulate the MLK trial and manipulate and conclude the framing of James Earl Ray for not …
▶ 1:19:02
And I think I wrote you about it earlier, but it's basically written by a sixth generation Tennessean. And if you want to see the CIA go right from federal government to state government, you know, in a way that you've never seen before, th…
▶ 37:13
General Secord concluded that Atkins, as well as the agency station chief in El Salvador, were openly, quote-unquote, hostile to this operation. Sure. The next day at El Pango came a meeting among Owen Felix Rodriguez, Rafael Quintero, and …
▶ 37:43
Colonel Steele agreed to put through a secure call to Vincent Shields, the Honduras' cheapest station. Ultimately, they had to scrub the airdrop and scramble to inform the affected Contra units. Another attempt took place on April 9th with …
▶ 38:12
The plane could not find the Contras on the ground. Colonel Steele was frustrated. When Secord wanted to try again, Steele insisted no mission be flown unless radio contact could be made. Secord observed, this is asinine. No black ops ever …
▶ 57:36
The enemy intention to limit flights over Nicaragua to third-party nationals had to be abandoned by mid-June. The British crews had a pilot who had previously flown only helicopters. Moreover, the crew's escapades in San Salvador drew unwan…
▶ 58:34
Bill Cooper, Calero, Quintero, and Rodriguez also had no security clearances. But they were all using this classified encryption machine without authorization. Beyond the use of secret encoding devices, there was many ways in which the U.S.…
▶ 39:31
Technicians came in and cut them open. James went on to describe carrying body after body into the building where the men in white coats performed grisly tasks. The doctor took certain organs and placed them in jars. They labeled them and t…