MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses
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Transcript
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Okay, we're going to jump right into this. If you guys would repost the space, I'd appreciate it. I'm going to start with just the background of what was going on and why MLK was in Memphis to begin with, because I think it sets the context for the transcript. So basically, he was in there because he was visiting because
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The city of Memphis, Tennessee was in the middle of a sanitation workers strike. They were striking for better wages, safer working conditions, and the recognition of an actual union. You know, all of the things that the Democrats say they're all for. So in the irony of covering this topic at this particular time is
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They were just complaining about Trump saying government workers should have limited union rights. And of course, it's the Democrats that are screaming while in 1968, they didn't want to have anything to do with the union of employees of the city of Memphis. So the irony is just, again, striking.
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Basically, just to give you the setting, in 1968, Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike was about labor and civil rights. There was about 1,300 predominantly African American workers employed by the city's public works department. The mayor at the time, Loeb, L-O-E-B, was adamantly against.
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the unionization of the workers. And he had held positions in the city over that department. So he was actually responsible for a lot of the really bad conditions in that particular department. He took the mayor's position at the beginning of 1968. And in the immediate aftermath of that,
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two workers were killed and basically sucked into the back of a garbage truck and crushed. And that generated the strike. So the two workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were the two men killed. So the strikers adopted a slogan, I am.
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a man to demand dignity and respect for the job. Their demands specifically was for recognition of a union, a higher wage, and to repair the equipment that had caused the accident. On March 28th, 1968, MLK led a march of about 6,000 people and it turned into
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A disaster. The police under the mayor was unleashed on the peaceful marchers. They didn't fight back. It resulted in at least one death, numerous injuries, and multiple arrests. And they put the city under a curfew. King returned on April 3rd to plan another march where he delivered his I've been to the mountaintop speech.
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That happened on April 3rd. He was assassinated on April 4th. So that kind of gives you the background for what was going on. Ironically enough, two weeks later, after his assassination, the city agreed to the unionization, gave them a small raise, and began repairing the equipment.
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So at the end of the day, they gave them everything they wanted, not the actual wage that they were asking for, but it was a successful, peaceful, on their part, on the workers' part, protest that was met with brute force and an assassination on the part of the government. So with that, I'm going to begin to read the transcript.
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This is not the actual, because there wasn't really a trial at all, of the actual assassination. This is a trial that happened much later at the request of the MLK's family about the conspiracy and all of the other pieces that were never allowed to be known to the public.
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about the conditions surrounding the assassination because of a lack of a trial. So having said that, I'm going to start where the prosecution says this. The media is very quick and prompt to say and yell out.
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that such and such is hearsay, secondhand accounts, thirdhand accounts, but the media is unable to tell you, of course, what the law is with respect to hearsay evidence. They think because something is hearsay, a person is saying what another person has said. That is not to be regarded and it is to be dismissed. In actual fact, ladies and gentlemen, if a witness is giving you hearsay,
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but the hearsay statement is from a person who is speaking against his own interest, saying something that could put him in jail in the case of a defendant here that could have him indicted, then that is to be taken very seriously. It is admissible because of that exception. There are a range of other exceptions why you can consider hearsay. Now it is my job, my role here this morning to summarize the plaintiff's case.
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It is a case that is divided really into nine sections. In the course of presenting that case to you, we've taken witnesses out of order simply because they came from various parts of the country and the world. We've had problems with schedules. So at one time, you would hear a witness talking to you about a rifle, a murder weapon in evidence. Then another time you'd hear from a witness talking about the crime scene. And we've already gone over that.
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So it's difficult for you sometimes perhaps to put all those pieces together in an orderly fashion. That's what I have to do. I have to try to do that. I have to set it out so that you can see how the case folds together. I'm going to try to work with you on that this morning and try to help you understand as best I can. The plaintiff's case began with a section that dealt with the background.
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The background of all of this, why you were here, why Martin Luther King was assassinated, why he came to Memphis before he was assassinated. So it dealt with the background. Then we moved with a second area concerned, which was the local conspiracy, we called it, that was happening here in Memphis. What events were going on that constituted conspiracy, legally civil conspiracy under the law?
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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 the murder weapon. We discussed the murder weapon and asked you to consider all of the evidence with respect to the murder weapon. We then moved to a shadowy figure called Raul, R-A-U-L. Who is this man?
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who was claimed to have been James Earl Ray's controller and the role that he played in this case. Then we move beyond that to what we have called a broader conspiracy beyond Memphis that reached into higher levels of government of the United States and some of its agents and officials. We moved you through that. We went beyond that then into really what amounts to a cover-up.
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What was the cover-up activity and why is it important? And why have these events been shielded from public view so that only you, you 12, here today, day after day, and his honor alone, perhaps in this broad land, have heard this evidence? How could that be? A case this important, how could that be? But it has been the case. Then we considered the defendant's admissions. The defendant.
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The name defended in this case, his actual admissions against his own interest and what is in evidence with respect to that. We move lastly to an area of damages. And there was a fair amount of testimony on damages from the members of the family with respect to what they had been looking for and what their perspective was in terms of any kind of remuneration for the loss that they have suffered. So that's the outline.
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Now, let's look at each of these sections. First, the background. Martin Luther King, as you know, for many years was a Baptist preacher in the southern part of this country. He was thrust into leadership of the civil rights movement at a historic moment in the civil rights movement and social change movement in this part of the country. That's where he was. That's where he had been locked in time, locked in the media image.
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looked at as an icon in the brains of people of this country. But Martin Luther King had moved well beyond that. When he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he became, in the mid-1960s, an international figure, a person of serious stature whose voice, his opinions on other issues than just the plight of black people in the South became very significant worldwide. He commanded worldwide attention, as few had done before him.
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as a successor, if you will, to Mahatma Gandhi in terms of a movement for social change through civil disobedience. So that's where he was moving. Then in 1967, on April 4th, one year to the day before he was killed, he delivered the momentous speech at Riverside Church in New York, where he opposed the war. Now he thought carefully about this war.
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He's talking about the Vietnam War. He had been inclined to oppose it for quite a long time. Prior to that, one, two, three years prior to that, he had an uneasy feeling. I remember vividly, I was a journalist in Vietnam. When I came back, he asked to meet with me. And when I opened my files to him, which were devastating in terms of the effects upon civilian population of that country, he unashamedly wept.
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I knew at that point, really, that the die was cast. This was in February 1967. He was definitely going to oppose that war with every strength, every fiber of his body. And he did so. He opposed it. And from the date of the Riverside speech to the date he was killed, he never wavered in that opposition. Now, what does that matter? Is he an enemy of the state?
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The state regarded him as an enemy because he opposed it. But what does that really mean, his opposition? I put it to you that his opposition to the war had little to do with ideology, with capitalism, with democracy. It had to do with money. It had to do with the huge amounts of money that that war was generating to large multinational corporations that were based in the United States.
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When Martin Luther King opposed the war, when he rallied people to oppose the war, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest defense contractors in this country. This was about money. When he threatened to bring the war to a close through a massive popular opposition, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest construction companies, one of which was in the state of Texas, that patronized the president of Lyndon B. Johnson.
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and had the major construction contracts in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. This is what Martin Luther King was challenging. He was challenging the weapons industry, the hardware, the armament industry, that all would lose as a result of the war. Forget about democracy, forget about ideology. This opposition to Martin Luther King was growing, and it was based on money and the loss of money. The second aspect of his work that also dealt with money,
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that caused a great deal of consternation in circles of power in this land had to do with his commitment to a massive group of people to, excuse me, commitment to take a massive group of people to Washington and encamp them in the shadow of the Washington Memorial for as long as it took. For as long as it took, they would make daily trips to the halls of Congress and they would try to compel Congress to act.
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as they had previously acted in terms of civil rights legislation, now to act in terms of social legislation. Now, he began to talk about redistribution of wealth in this, the wealthiest country in the world that had such a large group of poor people, of people living then and now, by the way, in poverty. The problem had to be addressed, and it wasn't a black-white issue.
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This was a problem that dealt with Hispanics, poor whites, and blacks. That is what he was taking on. That's what he was challenging. The powers in this land believed that he would not be successful. Why did they believe that? They believed that because they knew that the decision-making processes in the U.S. had by this point, and today it is much worse in my view, but by that point in time,
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had so consolidated power that they were representatives, the foot soldiers of the economic and very economic interest who were going to suffer as a result of these times of change. So the very powerful lobby forces that put their people in the halls of Congress and indeed in the White House itself and controlled them, paid and bought them and controlled them, were certainly not going to agree.
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to the type of social legislation that Martin Luther King and his mass of humanity was going to require. So there was a fear. What happens when they are frustrated? What happens when they don't get any satisfaction? What would happen? They feared, the military feared, that there would be a violent rebellion in the nation's capital. And they didn't have the troops that could contain half a million angry, poor, alienated.
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They didn't have the troops. Westmoreland wanted another 200,000 in Vietnam. They didn't have them to give them. They didn't have them. They were afraid the mob would overrun the Capitol. They were afraid that what Mr. Jefferson had urged many, many times, that the body politic can only be cleansed by a revolution every 20 years. They were afraid that Mr. Jefferson would be listened to and that the revolution would take place.
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Because of that, those factors, Martin Luther King was not going to be allowed, not going to be allowed to bring that group of people to Washington. So that's the reason for the hostility. He saw Memphis as a part and parcel of the overall problem, a microcosm. He saw the plight of garbage workers here as being symptomatic of a pervasive sickness of the American society. So he said, if he turned our back on these,
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ones how can we go on behalf of the broad national interest these ones need us now let's start with the poor people campaign here which is what he did so he came to memphis and he was here on the 17th and 18th of march and he spoke and then he returned again on the 28th of march and the march turned nasty indications are there were there that there were provocateurs
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that it was broken up deliberately, that he was discredited because of that, and he had to then return. So he did plan to come back. There was opposition within his own organization, but he said, no, we're going to do this and we're going to lead a peaceful march. And this is the way we're going to launch this campaign. And so he came back to Memphis. After the 28th, he came back on the 3rd of April.
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Now we move to the local conspiracy that related to the death of Martin Luther King. You've heard evidence of a very reputable 40-year business store owner sit up there and tell you that he always bought every Thursday. He went to Frank Liberto's warehouse. That was his last stop before he went back to Somerville.
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On that Thursday, April 4th, he heard the owner of the place take the telephone and scream in it, shoot that son of a bitch when he comes on the balcony, amongst other things. That is the first indication of the involvement of Mr. Frank Liberto, which information was given to the police and the FBI and forgotten about. Then you heard two other independent witnesses testify at different ends of the trial.
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One called a witness by the defense, Ms. Levada Addison, who had a conversation with Mr. Liberto. In her cafe, when Liberto leaned over the table at a time when the select committee hearings were on, apparently something came on the television and whispered to her, I arranged to have Martin Luther King killed. She jumped back and was shocked by this. So Liberto put himself.
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in it against his own interest, mind you. He has said that. You are entitled to believe that. Then comes Mrs. Levada Addison's son, Nathan, who confronts Liberto, and Liberto again confirms the same thing to him. So we see now that Mr. Frank Liberto's involvement in the whole scenario. Then we have the defendant himself in sessions that are before you.
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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 called Rayol. He would first receive some money, be visited by a man called Rayol. He would pass the money to Rayol. He would receive a gun.
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and that he was asked to participate in this endeavor and he should not worry about there would be no police around. The police would not be there. We've heard him say, in fact, he did these things and that he received the gun after the shooting. He said he received the gun right at his back door. That's as far as he went in his admissions. Of course, he also said he didn't know what was going on.
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Neither Ambassador Young nor Mr. King believed him in that respect, that he didn't know what was going on. Now, why would anybody say that? Is this something new? No. You've heard testimony from witnesses who indicated that Mr. Jowers had said this to them years ago, as much as 20 years ago. He had said that he knew how Martin Luther King was killed.
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He had indicated to them that he didn't do it, but he knew how it was done. And in one case, he actually told the same story way back then that he's telling now. So this is not some afterthought from Mr. Jowers to make a movie or become notorious or something like that. This is a consistent story that has been around for a long time and other witnesses from previous times have confirmed it.
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So other indications of the local conspiracy, what are they? You've heard about the removal of Detective Redditt, who was a police officer on surveillance duty that afternoon. He was removed within an hour of the killing and told there was a threat on his life. He was sent home to arrive at his home at the time of the assassination, never to hear about this threat again. It was a phony threat. I think it became very clear.
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They didn't trust him because when, I don't know what, that's a typo, Ben, a community relations officer that had been seconded into intelligence and at the last minute had to pull him off. He might've seen something, done something that was untrustworthy. He was pulled off. The other officer remained making notes of what he saw. There were two black firemen.
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The only two black firemen, Floyd Newsom and Norville Wallace, in the entire fire station. They were removed. They were given orders the night before not to report for duty, but to go to another fire station in each case where they were surplus to requirements. Why were they removed? Why were the two black firemen removed, the only two black firemen, the night before?
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You heard that Jerry Williams, Captain Williams, testified that he had always formed an elite black homicide group of detectives as a bodyguard when Dr. Martin Luther King visited. The last visit, he was not asked to form the bodyguard. This was the only time he was not asked to form the bodyguard. He didn't know why.
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He was not asked to form that bodyguard, and that troubled him. He heard that the police were at one point around the Lorraine Motel, which is the name of the hotel where he was shot, and then they were removed, or they just disappeared. They disappeared within a half hour, 45 minutes of the killing. Why did they disappear? Where did they go? You saw evidence that the invaders, a local community organizing group,
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that had been willing to work with Dr. Martin Luther King toward the end and were there for the purpose of helping him produce a peaceful march. At 10 minutes to 6, 11 minutes before the actual shooting, they left the hotel. They were ordered to leave the hotel. They were told their bills were no longer going to be paid and they had to leave the hotel, so they emptied out. They might have reacted violently and caused some sort of...
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confrontation at the hotel, but they didn't. They just left. You heard about the removal of the emergency TAC forces. This is the emergency TAC forces. In this case, it was TAC 10, which was usually a group of four or five police officers, cars from the sheriff's department. They were around Lorraine Hotel until the afternoon before the killing.
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The afternoon of the 3rd, they were ordered to pull back to the fire station, which was on the peripheral. When Inspector Evans was asked who gave the instructions to pull him back, he said it was a request from Dr. MLK's group. But when he was asked who, you may recall, he said, oh yes, I think it was Reverend Kiles that gave me that instruction. But the attack forces were pulled back.
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The defendants on the day of the killing ordered a witness whom you heard who was working as a waitress for him, ordered Bobby Balfour not to take any food upstairs to Grace Stevens, who was ill and who had been receiving food on a daily basis. But that day, because the second floor of the rooming house was being used as a staging ground, no one was allowed up there. And he told her not to go up there. So she didn't go.
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Then you heard Olivia Catling, who had never been spoken to by anyone. Olivia Catling took the stand and told you about a man coming from an alley that was connected to a building that was attached to the rooming house. She saw this man coming through the alley shortly after the killing, some minutes after the killing, and getting into a 1965 green Chevrolet that was parked on Hollings Street and then speeding away north.
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on Mulberry Street, right in front of the police, burning rubber, he went, with no interference from the police at all. All of these things, all of these events I submit to you profoundly are strong evidence of the existence of a conspiracy, just at the local level, not even mentioning the fact that the defendant has also indicated the planning sessions took place in his grill prior to the assassination. So I think it is important to see the total picture of evidence you have.
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There should be no doubt that all of these things are indicative overwhelmingly of a conspiracy. Now, are we conspiracy buffs because we find all of this evidence insurmountable? I think not. But you have heard it. The masses of Americans have not. The media has never put it to them. And I submit to you, they will probably never will. That's why your presence is so important.
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The crime scene, what about the crime scene? We submit that the crime scene, of course, was the back area of the rooming house. It was terribly overgrown with bushes. The bushes were thick and they were difficult to penetrate and they provided an excellent sniper's lair. That's where the crime took place. Any number of witnesses and evidence in the record indicates that a person or persons
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was seen in those bushes at the time of the shooting. These are different accounts that we put into the record separate and apart. There is other evidence, again, separate independent evidence that a person was seen jumping from the wall, jumping over the wall and running up Mulberry Street. As a result of this, we concluded some while ago and have tried to provide enough impetus.
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for you to conclude that the shot came from those bushes and not from the bathroom window. The bathroom window in the rooming house bathroom has been officially the scene of the crime forever. The state had evidence long ago that that was not the case, that the dent in the windowsill was not made from a rifle, even though they maintained that in the case. The bathroom was seen open.
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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 back to this country from England. From England. That was the basis of the proof that brought him back.
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Do you know what confidence the state had in their own chief witness? They didn't even call him at the time of the guilty plea hearing. He didn't even testify. Now the murder weapon itself, Judge Joe Brown heard testimony and evidence this case for about four years. He paid particular attention to the weapon. He has had a lifetime experience and developed knowledge about weapons and about rifles in particular.
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We qualified the judge as an expert. He came before you and he sat there. Anyone who heard Judge Brown's testimony with respect to the weapon should have no, and weapons in general should have no doubt whatsoever that he's in fact a witness. The media will point to his lack of technical training or courses having been taken with respect to learning about rifles. The other areas for developing expertise happens to be experience.
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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 sighted in because it was never sighted in. If you use that scope, you couldn't hit the broad side of the barn. Remember that expression because it was firing to the left and below the target.
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because it was never sighted in. He also said the scope couldn't have been altered by having it dropped in a bundle. You can't alter a scope to that extent, its accuracy by doing that. He said also that the death slug did not have the same metal composition as existed in the lead of the other evidence bullets that were found in the bundle.
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The state has always said it was one of a number of bullets the defendant had, and you can see them as a package, if you will. Judge Brown said, no, the death slug was a different metal composition than the bullets that were there. Beyond this, there is evidence that you've heard that is clearly couldn't have been the murder weapon because the defendant told a taxi driver, James McCall.
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to get rid of the murder weapon, and he did. McCraw, being a close friend of Jowers, a confidant of Jowers, took the actual murder weapon and threw it off the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge. So it is laying at the bottom of the Mississippi River for over 31 years. The real murder weapon is at the bottom of the river. Now, Bill Hablin, no reason to lie, said McCraw would only tell him,
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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 Earl Ray's first lawyer along with his father. And he testified that in the course of their early on-scene investigation, they talked to Guy Knipe.
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who owned an amusement shop in front of where the bundle was found and that it contained, among other things, the rifle, a rifle. He said Knipe told him very early on before anyone else apparently had done any kind of tampering with him, told him very early on that that bundle was dropped some minutes before the actual shooting. Imagine that.
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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 beginning as someone who controlled him. You have a number of independent people, not even knowing each other, who have identified this man in a spread of photographs that they have seen.
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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 who identified Rayol from a spread of pictures.
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Before Ambassador Young and Mr. King, and of course, James Earl Ray, all identified him. If that's not enough, we have the British film producer, Jack Saltman, going to the door of Raoul's house, showing him a photograph and having his daughter admit that it was her father. Her words to the effect that anyone can get that picture or that photograph of her father. It is in the immigration and nationalism.
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naturalization data file. She had identified him as her father. Under subpoena and reluctantly, a Portuguese journalist took the stand. She had conducted an interview with a family member. The member of that family had told her that this was a horror, a nightmare for them and for the whole family. But the one comfort they had was that the government was helping them.
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that the government had sent people to their home approximately three times and that the government was monitoring their phone calls and the government was providing them guidance. The government was trying to give them comfort and advice. Can you imagine if anything like that happened to, if any charges were laid against any of us in those circumstances, do you think the government would come around and help us monitor our phones?
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That act alone indicates the importance and significance of this man, Raul. So it is essential that be put clearly in context. Now, as I understand it, the defense invited Raul to appear here. He is outside this jurisdiction, so a subpoena would be futile. But he was asked to appear. In earlier proceedings, there were attempts to depose him. He resisted.
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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 bushes who gets away with killing Martin Luther King. It goes from him to Mr. Jowers, who is involved in facilitating, and it goes back to Mr. Liberto, whom we've heard was clearly part of it.
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but it goes beyond Mr. Liberto in terms of the mob side. Because you've heard from witnesses like Nathan Whitlock that he used to push a fruit cart in New Orleans with Mr. Carlos Marcello, the same guy we're reading about in the mafia, CIA and George Bush, that Carlos Marcello. And that he then...
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has this relationship and awareness of Marcello and his activities. Carlos Marcello had been a mob kingpin, was the mob leader in this part of the country for a long, long time. So any contact, any mob contract on Martin Luther King's life would come from Marcello through Liberto into the local infrastructure that Marcello had here in Memphis. Marcello himself was involved in gun running.
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Part of the evidence in terms of the military involvement is contained in a lengthy article that we put into evidence that appeared in March of 1993 in Commercial Appeal by Steve Tompkins. And that article indicates that there was a high-ranking general who had been charged and imprisoned for aiding and abetting the trading in stolen weapons.
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The article was called Army Feared King Secretly Watched Him. That deal meant that he was involved in was the theft of weapons from arsenals, armories, and camps like Camp Shelby in Mississippi.
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The theft of weapons from these places that went to were trucked to Marsalo's property in New Orleans. And then from his property in New Orleans were shipped to the coast of Houston, Texas, where they were taken off. That is where Rayol and his crowd came into the receipt of these weapons before they went into Latin and South America.
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So that's one prong of a broader conspiracy, the mob. But you see already there is a relationship between organized crime and the military in the receipt of those weapons and the ongoing sale of them. Then we move directly to the government of the United States and their agents. We learned that the 111 Military Intelligence Group based at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia.
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were here. They were here in Memphis. They had Martin Luther King under surveillance. That was open, quote, open surveillance, eye-to-eye surveillance. They had him under surveillance. Eli Arkins of the Memphis Police Department Intelligence Bureau, Intelligence Division, said they were in his office. He has admitted they were in his office. They were here.
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There was another section here that was involved in a covert surveillance of Martin Luther King. Covert means bugging, wiretapping, that type of activity. That was done at the Rivermont when he was here on the 18th. You heard a witness say he was one of the three people who effectively was in the surveillance team.
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Martin Luther King's suite bugged every room of it, including the balcony. If he wanted to speak privately and went out on the back balcony, they could pick it up on a relay from the roof. That covert, that type of covert surveillance was carried out by another agency, which usually was the Army Security Agency. But there we have those two agencies involved very clearly.
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Then you have photographers. Remember those photographers that Captain Whedon talked about? They were on the roof of the fire station. He put them there. Who were they? They were a psychological operations team and they were there and they photographed everything throughout the entire day. That means, ladies and gentlemen, that there's film.
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of everything that happened, photographs of everything that happened buried somewhere. We tried long and hard to unearth it unsuccessfully, but it is there and it is hidden. As it was hidden from this jury, it is hidden from the American people. Maybe the media one day will let you know that it exists, but it's there. They took the photographs.
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They were what is known as psychological operations team, and they know who the two members of the team were. In William Pepper's 2003 book, An Act of State, The Execution of Martin Luther King, he writes on page 129, quote, in his testimony, Professor Clay Carson read in the record portions of the document which I provided to the King's paper project, which he directs at Stanford University. Well, that's odd.
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One of the documents was a report from Steve Tompkins after a meeting at the Hyatt Hotel in Chicago with one of the photographers. Amongst other details was the photographer's confirmation that the assassination was caught on film and that it was not James Earl Ray, unquote. So there is this very strong presence now, which is primarily surveillance. It is intelligence gathering. It is visual.
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It is audio and is going on. And Martin Luther King and his group were the subjects of it. But then there's another group that's even more sinister. They're not more sinister because of what they did, but they didn't really do anything. But they know they had a presence. And that was a special eight-man sniper unit that was here in Memphis.
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from the 20th Special Forces Group. They were here and they were assigned and they were trained for an operation, for a mission in Memphis. They heard testimony by a man who himself was a National Security Council operative who was very involved in Iran-Contra activities, who had been a longstanding operative, if you will, of the government in the U.S.
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and whose best friend was a member of that sniper team. There's no reason in the world for his best friend, other than in a moment of whatever anguish or burden, decided to relieve himself and talk about this. This mission that he was on, which he was assigned to in Memphis, which was aborted, but he was assigned to it.
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With a Q&A approach, you heard documents of working papers that were used to get information from another source who lives south of the border and who fled the country in the 70s out of fear, who was also a part of this unit. So they were there, and there are three separate sources that confirm their presence, but they did not.
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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 that there was a setup man. There was a patsy lined up to take the blame. There was another area of comfort that the defendant could have.
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Now we move to the cover-up aspect. This is in many ways is the most sad in a representative democracy to have had this kind of cover-up be successful for so long. It is a shame, a tragedy. The cover-up activities in this case, ladies and gentlemen, range from murder to press manipulation and distortion with bribery in between.
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Murder, unfortunately, in our view, and from the evidence that you have heard here, credible sources, is the taxi driver Paul Butler, who pulled into the Lorraine Motel maybe six minutes before the killing. Shortly before the killing, a yellow cab taxi driver who pulled into the drive, and he was standing at the rear of his car, loading the trunk of the car with the baggage of someone who was leaving.
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Unfortunately for him, immediately after the shooting, he saw the shooting and then turned to look at the other side of the road and saw a man come down out of the bushes, run up the street, get into the waiting Memphis police car and sped away. When he reported this to his dispatcher, he thought the police had the assassin because he was in the police car going away.
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was questioned by the police a couple of times that week. He was to give a statement the next day. He didn't give a statement, did he? No, his body was found off the Memphis, Arkansas bridge, supposedly thrown out of a speeding car. Now, when we tried to find the death certificate for this man, we couldn't, neither in Arkansas or Tennessee. There's literally no death certificate. We found his phone number.
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With that of his wife listed in 1967-66, Betty and Paul Butler, that's all the evidence. The Polk directory pages are there for you to look at. In 1968, it was Betty, bracelets, widow, Paul, Betty, widow. So she was there and then listed as a widow. Paul Butler was her deceased husband.
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He was, for him, in the wrong place at the wrong time. That is, in some ways, the worst of it because is there anything really worse than losing your life just because you're in the wrong place at the wrong time? The next aspect of the cover-up is the tampering, drastic alteration of the crime scene. What happened there? You've heard what happened. At 7 o'clock in the morning, Inspector Sam Evans called Maynard Stiles, who was a public works administrator.
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and ask him to get a crew out there to cut all of those bushes down where the assassin took the actual shot from. Now, normally, what one does to a crime scene, at least for quite a while, is to rope it off and keep people out of it so you can investigate it. You don't go and destroy the crime scene. You don't know what is there. You go and you deal with it.
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the way it was at the time of the crime. No, it was cut right down to the ground. And however long it took them to do it, they did a good job because it was not possible for a sniper to be in that area once it was cut down to the ground because he'd obviously be visible. So the image of a flat barren area is what was relayed and reinforced. And it also reinforced the bathroom window story.
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There was no house-to-house investigation, ladies and gentlemen. Do you remember Judge Brown on the stand saying that there was the most deficient investigation, criminal investigation that he had ever seen as a criminal court judge? He is talking about all those kinds of things. Imagine no house-to-house investigation. What that means is that no policeman going knocking on doors to all the local residents and asked them what they saw. Did they hear anything?
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Because surely if they had, they would have knocked on Olivia Catling's door, wouldn't they? She just lived down the street. She would have told them what she saw, but they didn't. They didn't do that. Why did they suppress two alibi statements, a statement from Ray Hendricks and William Reed, who left Jim's Grill at 35 minutes past the hour of five, 40 minutes past the hour of five.
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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 blocks and were about to cross, one pulled the other back when he saw the same white Mustang.
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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 given to the FBI in their 302s kept from the defense, withheld from the guilty plea jury, suppressed.
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What else was suppressed? What was suppressed was the fact that they had a scientific report from the FBI that the dent in the window seal could not sufficiently be tied to the rifle. They had that. They had that almost a year prior to the actual guilty plea hearing. And yet they went before the guilty plea jury and said that scientific evidence would establish that the murder weapon made that dent. What about the death slug?
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That could not be matched. You know, the media and the state have turned the burden in this case of matching the bullet to the rifle the other way around. They're saying because you can't exclude it, it may be the murder weapon. That's not the way it works. In any other case, that's not the way it works. This is not a good rifle in evidence when you cannot match the death slug to it. And it was a death slug capable of being matched.
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You have evidence that the bullet was capable of being matched if it could. There were enough striations, enough independent markings that they could have matched it. So the guilty plea hearing heard none of this. I talked to members of the guilty plea jury years later. They heard none of the evidence. This was all kept quiet. They certainly would have questioned the plea had they had it.
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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 either. They certainly were not told those kinds of pressures that descended on him at the last minute to cop a plea deal, which I'm afraid people do all the time in desperation.
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What about Captain Whedon? The captain of the fire station never interviewed by local police. The man who ran the installation, who was there at the time, never interviewed by authorities, forgetting about knocking on people's door. Here is an official. He's a senior executive officer of the police station. They didn't even talk to him. They didn't interview him. They didn't ask him what was going on there that afternoon.
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They were afraid that he would have been told about the photographers on his roof. Because if he had, then they wouldn't have been unnoticed, would they? It wouldn't have been unnoticed that there were photographs of what went on. And they would have then had to request the photographs. So if you don't talk to Captain Whedon, you don't have to know about them, then you don't have to ask for them. You heard Bill Snap.
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on the stand for a long time talking about the media distortion and use of the media for propaganda. He gave you a history of how it developed, particularly over the 20th century in America. But Snap took you painfully through the history down to the present time when he dealt with the way the media handled MLK, how they handled his opposition to the war in Vietnam, how he was attacked because of that opposition. Then he moved on.
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There were similar comparable attacks on the King family since they had decided they wanted the truth out in this case. They decided that James Earl Ray was entitled to another trial. Similar media treatment happened to them that happened to MLK. Loss of contributions and money for the work, everything. Bill Snapp led you through that. There was a couple of instances where he returned to the huge network of ownership and control of the media.
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over the world by the CIA. It is a matter of public record. It has appeared in congressional hearings, Senate hearings, which most people don't read. They don't know anything about it. Of course, the media only covers in sparse fashion because it is contrary to their interest to show the great number of newspaper radio stations, television stations may in fact.
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all be owned by the CIA in this country. He talked about the numbers of actual agents who work for media companies who are placed in positions in network television companies, in newspaper companies, and newspaper editorial boards. If you see the history of how the national security cases are covered, and this is one, you will be amazed that some of the most liberal columnists, writers, respected journalists, Pulitzer Prize winners, who have
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All the liberal credentials, when it comes to this kind of case, they all of a sudden are totally with the government because the national security cases are different. Ambassador Young ran into one at one point in an airport. And he said to him, how can you do this, Tony, about this case? You have great credentials in every way. What is it about this case? His response, you'll be happy to know.
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My wife agrees with you, but that was it. He just responded, you'll be happy to know my wife agrees with you. The point is on these cases, there is a special type of treatment that is given. It is important to understand that across the board, that explains a lot of what we're talking about. And then he gives some examples of the New York Times, November, the article is here where it talks about.
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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 completely made up.
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The problem was that the article said that the Times had conducted a special investigation that paralleled that of the House Select Committee and that of the FBI. And all three investigations indicated this was the case. Case closed. That's where Ray got his money. The problem is they never talked to the chief of police in Alton, Illinois. They never talked to the president of the bank. There was no investigation. And when those people were talked to by myself or Jerry Ray.
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who went down there to turn himself in. You think I did this. I'm prepared to turn myself in. The guy said, go away. You've never been a suspect. Isn't that amazing? You heard Earl Codwell say that he was sent to Memphis by his national editor, New York Times national editor, Claude Sitton. At the time, he was told to go to Memphis and his words were, nail Dr. King.
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That is what he said. That's what his mission for the New York Times was. Now, Bill Snapp told you the impact of that out of 31 years is very devastating, is very hard to hear this for 31 years and have somebody come along and say, no, you've been told the wrong thing. And here are a whole set of facts that are incontrovertible. And this is why you've been told the wrong thing.
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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, ABC, gave him a lie detector test. And they told him at the end of that lie detector test that he had failed. Why was he doing this?
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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 heard their conversation. His ears perked up when he heard Jower's name because he heard them, the guy in the front, the examiner, say, I couldn't get him to waiver. I couldn't get him to waiver.
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They were commenting on how much he remembered in so much detail and how he remembered so much. So they lied about it. There is no question they couldn't get the defendant to lie. And yet the program was broadcast, was put out to the masses in this country to believe to this day that he lied. Now you heard we're still on cover up. You heard about the two efforts to bribe James Earl Ray. I don't know of.
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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 William Bradford Huey, who was a writer. If Ray would confess that he did it and did it alone, and he would give him this money and he would get him a pardon.
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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 conversation, Huey made the same offer to Jerry Ray. His problem then was that conversation was recorded. Jerry Ray testified and you have
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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 pardon, if he would tell that story. It didn't work. James, of course, was not interested in anything of that sort.
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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 Brushy Mountain with six others. No sooner did his feet hit the ground and they were up in the woods. If you know that area, it's pretty rural.
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He was in the woods and no sooner did he get in the woods, but there was a FBI SWAT team waiting for him. How'd that happen? Who asked for them? It is a state prison escape, a state prisoner. The state is handling it. Nope, here comes the SWAT team. They have snipers with sniper rifles. What are they doing with sniper rifles?
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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, but he was there. Stokes calls Blanton and says that you better get over to Brushy Mountain. If you don't, you're going to lose my most famous witness and your most famous prisoner because the FBI are going to kill him.
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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 there, save James Earl Ray because they're going to kill him. And if you don't do it, I'm going to put you in the cell with him. The second attempt was in April of 1978.
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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 was asked to put out a contract on James Earl Ray and he decided not to do it. One, he thought he was being set up because the person who called him left a number and when he called that number back.
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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 to him from a fellow called Arthur Wayne Baldwin, who was a mob figure in Memphis, who was also involved in a federal...
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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 defendant has admitted how he was approached by Mr. Liberto and how he was told that he would receive a package.
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which he did and the money and eventually a rifle to hold. And he was told about the planning sessions in his cafe. And he was told about a rifle from the shooter, taking the rifle from the shooter, one that was still smoking. He said, take it to the back door. He named the shooter as a Memphis Police Department Lieutenant Earl Clark, who is deceased. He's a sharpshooter who he said was a hunting companion of his and a friend.
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and a friend of Roberto's as well, and who never had any contact with him again after that day. Now, Mrs. Clark, the first wife who testified gave her husband an alibi. It is only fair that you consider what she said. When I first interviewed here in 1992, she referred to that interview. In fact, her son was there. He was not 22. He was born later. He was about 16.
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Her daughter was born in 70. It was the son who was present. She told essentially the same story. There are serious questions with this story, and they have to do with whether or not, in fact, Lieutenant Clark had a radio at all at that point in time, and whether or not Dent Cleaners was open later than 6, because by her accounts, she got there sometime between 6.30 and 6.40 to pick up a uniform. But in any event,
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You have to consider all of that. Lastly, in respect to the defendant's situation, we have placed a woman's, placed a woman, aspects of a woman's testimony into record, Levada Addison, so that you can review it. And she was a witness to who, who had been a lover of the defendants during the previous year. She was very reluctant in 1992 to give a statement that,
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really had to be worked out of her. She didn't want to tell the story, even because she was afraid of her former lover and boss, Mr. Jowers, was the killer. He was the only one she saw out there. She was afraid that he was the killer. She described him as running, white-faced as a sheep, looking like a wild man with all the mud on his knees, as though he had been kneeling in the bush area.
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has been to some extent discredited because there have been people have descended upon her for various reasons. She was a statement of hers was taken and a lot of things that she said, but she subsequently said in another sworn statement that she didn't even read what they had her sign. So that's basically the gist of it.
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And just so that you guys know, this lawsuit was not filed for monetary damages. The King family asked for $100. This was not about money. This was about the truth. Now, I wanna let you guys know something. This Raul character, he's supposedly of Portuguese descent. Why does that matter to us? Well, there's actually,
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If you do a search on Grok and ask for people that were associated with Operation Gladio in Europe at the time, and remember that Portugal was a genter press, they had a Gladio unit there. And there was a guy whose name, it's like a four name name, like a lot of Spanish names are, or European names in that area. And one of his four names was Rayol.
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I don't know that that's him, but it's possible that it is. And I'm interested in hearing from you guys, having went through that transcript, what parts of that stick out to you as, I mean, it's almost an identical scenario of what was set up in Dallas. The fact that, remember I've told you that there was at least two OAS.
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assassins in Dallas from France's Gladio program and that one of them was driven away from the scene in a police car down to the Mexican border. There's so much of this story from a Gladio perspective that mirrors the JFK assassination. It's actually striking when you read through this transcript just how similar.
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Those two situations are. And it's the first time I've ever even heard about the military being there. And what does that look like? That looks exactly like Waco. They had that sniper team from Fort Hood. That there was military intelligence there. That's just literally crazy, but not unprecedented as we know. And the fact that they recorded it, but no one's allowed to see it.
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Yeah. And so I bring with the evidence after fact, nothing to see there, right? So they have a police station that if you look at the layout and there is a map of that on the internet, the police station gives you wide open view of the entire scene and they call off or call out the two black police fire station.
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um guys tell them to go report for duty somewhere else where they're not even needed on the day this is going to happen and then they ferry up the photographers to the top roof of the fire department so they can get all of it filmed and then and of course they use that for blackmail um you know you will own the president at that point because
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No one's not going to believe that there was a hit done on MLK who's criticizing LBJ's Vietnam War and forever then you own LBJ because you do the hit, you've got the video of it, and it is blackmail material from that point forward. And the fact that all of this is being observed by military intelligence.
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It's just literally shocking. That is crazy. I mean, I guess the reason why they're watching is to make sure that everything goes exactly to plan. Well, the military was the backup plan. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah. I mean, that's what they say. They were option B. They had an assassin there. And I would be willing to bet money that assassin is a Gladio asset.
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And I know they talk about the mob, but the mob and the CIA are inseparable. And that you don't do all of this stuff without the involvement or knowledge of the FBI because the FBI is going to be the ones that's covering it up. They're the ones that don't go and talk to the fire chief. They're the ones that don't go and interview the people and do the door-to-door as well.
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All of those pieces. And if you get an investigation like that, and let's just say you want to leave it in the local area, the FBI is still going to review it. They have the ability for someone of a national figure to take the case over. So it's complicity at every level. Anyway, did anybody want to ask any questions? I'm interested in you guys' opinion on how you think it fits with what we've learned about Operation Gladio.
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I know All Along wants to say something. Can they just not? It may be glitchy today. I've been sending mics out, and the first bass didn't have any problem. I don't know. Yeah, that's weird. Let me look over here on Rumble. I don't know if any of them are on Rumble. Maybe we're not allowed to talk about this. Wouldn't surprise me. Wouldn't be the first time. Oh, there's Renee. She came up. Go ahead, Renee.
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Hey, good evening, everybody. I didn't really have any comments yet, but I would like to ask you, please, can you spell Raul's name in the operation Gladio in Portugal you found? I'll post it after we're done. Okay. And the next question, please. I'm going to post. Let me see if I can post in the comments the website that I'm on.
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Okay, great. Okay, there you go. Okay, great. I did that. And then also remember there were in, I forget which book it was, but remember there were a lot of, there was like P1, P2, P3. The Masonic Lodges. Yeah. The Masonic Lodges. Do you recall what P as in Portugal was the P Lodge in Portugal? I do not. Okay. Do you remember the book that was in?
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It's not on a book. I found it on a website and I have not been able to find that website again. And I have looked everywhere. Yeah. It might be in one of my books out there. I'll look tomorrow. But the article that I was reading that listed like 10 of them was on the internet. It was not in a book. Okay. Got it.
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And I asked Rock and I asked that other AI, not chat GPT, because I don't even go on there. And they were not able to find it either. I don't know. Maybe they took it down. Yeah, it's possible. I had a really great link a while ago. And lo and behold, I can't find it anymore. And it's totally wiped. So that, I think, is Pumble. Well, so speaking of that.
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When we first started this, I had all of the old newspaper articles that I had researched the footnotes of some of these books with, and I had them in files on my, Bridget, your mic's on. I had them in folders on my archive.org account. And when archive.org, like a year or a year and a half ago, crashed,
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and was down for a couple of days. When it came back up, I didn't even have my account. I had to create a new account. All of my shit was gone. And some of the articles that I know I had because I had printed them out are not there now. All along. Go ahead. Hi, Colonel. I just wanted to speculate here, but I posted about this in a few places and it seems like, I don't know.
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I've seen something like 25 listeners tonight. It just seems kind of low given that, I mean, I, I guess you announced this sort of late. So that's one possible variable, but I posted about it a few places and it's just like, I wonder what's going on here. These have been your algorithm, which, you know, we already know they're messing with traditionally, but this is just like weird. The other thing I just wanted to say is, you know, there's so much here. It's,
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But I think it's essential, you know, to point out that the Poor People's Campaign was suggested by New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy to MLK. And there's no question MLK was backing the 1968 RFK campaign. You know, and, you know, you've heard me a billion times about Walter Reuther being the most racially integrated union leader.
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in terms of large national unions. And he pulls out of the CIA completely dominated and complicit AFL-CIO because George Meany was based, he had made AFL-CIO into basically a branch office of CIA from Vietnam to Western Europe to especially South America. You've mentioned that many, many times. And it's just like these,
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things are separated in the media. They're, you know, they're in reality, they overlap, but they completely separated in the media, you know, and in turn, what happens in academia is social history, which is like the unions, right. And other stuff is like separated from political history in academia. And so just at the, at the.
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You know, the major fork in the road for the Democratic Party that in terms of like the way I look at it is, you know, to some extent, this is the continuity of the Henry Wallace aspect of the New Deal running through JFK because it was frozen out in the 50s. And then it was like, you know, kind of having a like Prague Spring, if you will, here in especially well in the JFK administration up through the 68 RFK campaign.
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with those three leaders. And, you know, this is kind of matches the, the CIOs like muscling up and challenging, uh, George Meany's CIA dominance of AFL-CIO. And, um, that was that labor aspect and the extent to which like social history is actually going to, you're actually getting voters a chance to vote for something that actually is going to, you know,
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Huge change, you know, compared to all other elections in U.S. history, just about. I mean, there's a civil war that made big changes, but it wasn't brought about through elections. And you're talking about a labor based coalition. It was, you know, Vietnam was a working class war. Duh. It was 20 percent middle class, 80 percent working class, multiracial. And now you're talking about with 600,000 troops in South Vietnam, that kind of a labor coalition and the U.S.
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quote-unquote left, not a fucking word. We are in a completely rigged system that is just beyond belief. The fake left doing that, without that, the CIA doesn't become 100% slotkin CIA. You can't have it. Because our real left would be pointing out, and if they had to, they would say, you know, what the fuck are these elections?
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The biggest one, the ones about to produce the most change for the most people. And you have it ends in three assassinations. Yeah. Delegitimates the entire elections, which the fake leftists say they're fake anyway, but they avoid the biggest. Right. They avoid the evidence that makes it clear for every potentially, potentially for every high school kid from Los Angeles to New York.
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Right. Yeah. And the point that this happened in close proximity to RFK's assassination points to an even greater conspiracy than was laid out here. So I wanted to get back to Renee's comment. So when I was looking for rails, I don't find the Portugal one, but I will find that. But listen to these two.
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Jose Rayol Verona Gonzalez, a Cuban exile and intelligence officer for Brigade 2506. You know, Felix Rodriguez's hangout. He was part of the ultra-secretive Operation 40, a CIA counterintelligence unit of exiles tasked with assassinations.
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purges of Castro supporters in establishing post-revolution government. So there's one Raul who was known to operate and was trained by the CIA in Florida and Guatemala. The next one is Jose Raul Martinez, a Cuban pilot recruited as a CIA intelligence asset shortly after the 1959 revolution.
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informed by his CIA handler that he was given the assignment to fly Raul Castro back from Prague. CIA headquarters approved a plot offering Martinez money to sabotage the flight and cause a fatal accident. He later got cold feet and withdrew from that mission, but carried out many other missions on behalf of the CIA.
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It's quite possible there really was a Raul and it's quite possible Raul was controlled by the CIA because there's two contenders right there. All along. Go ahead. Yeah. On the on the Raul phenomena, I think it's noteworthy. And Emerson, who wrote of the book Deep State.
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the deep state assassination of Martin Luther King, and John Avery Emerson. I think we should possibly have him on the show if we can, but he does an amazing job in looking at the MLK trial and how, as in the RFK case, the primal strategy was replace the defense team with the new CIA-controlled.
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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 Earl Ray were within a one mile radius of a suburb of Toronto, Canada. And he shows very, very strong evidence that
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that James Angleton of CIA counterintelligence, and you know how much we've been hearing about him on the Israel angle. Yeah. Which is, all right. Well, check out that, where Emerson points out to the four aliases within a one mile radius of Toronto. And it's, you know, you're talking about, it's a CIA could have done that through.
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There are linkages with the Royal Mounted Police up in Canada. Oh, yeah. There's a lot of these operations that go into Canada. You know, the whole drug operation is to come in through the northern border and for Canada. There's a lot of CIA activity up there. Yeah. Anyway, check out that book by.
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It's called The Deep State Assassination of Martin Luther King by John Avery Emerson. Okay. Thank you. I jotted that down. Stellar. Hello. As you're going through the book and talking about like this stuff, there's so much other stuff that's going on. And I know that you guys don't want to hear about it, but I don't know. There's just so many shady stuff going on.
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You know, the trials from Martin Luther King, the there's just there's still so many ongoing operations that are happening right now with one PSYOP after another. You've got people fighting with each other, you know, because everyone wants to be proven right. And when you sit back, you know, and even if, you know, even if the whole thing is all just a big PSYOP and stuff, it's just, you know.
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Just some some similarities, if that makes. I don't know. I don't I don't I've been following this fucking Candace Owens shit. I'm sorry. OK, we're not going to talk about Candace Owens. Well, no, no, no, no. I understand that. But, you know, like when you guys talk about like these like the French and, you know, all these different operators from the past and everything from the 80s, the 70s, the 90s and stuff.
1:27:53
And what is happening now, even though it's just all BS, it's the same freaking style. But Stellar, that's the whole thing. We don't know what's BS and what's not. All we can do is take the past things that we can validate and project them forward. Is it possible that there's a French assassin team? Absolutely. We've talked about probably a hundred of them.
1:28:23
they've operated all over the world. So is it possible as opposed, is it plausible? You just have to be able to look at everything that's going on today because we don't have the ability to independently verify any of it like we can history and use that discernment.
1:28:50
as you watch this unfold. Because what we're watching is, I mean, it could be as simple as, as I said on Redacted, a strategy of tension. They are all operators and they are all trying to divide us to get us to be put in camps of pro this or pro that. And the division mechanism that they use is this exact type of chaos.
1:29:19
So I don't participate in it, I watch it. I watch all of it. And my sense is that that's exactly what it is. It's a psyops to get us all divided, just like what we just talked about with MLK. Anytime that you have a movement such as magnet or MAGA,
1:29:41
You are going to have an operation, just as they did with the Tea Party and everything else, to divide those camps and create chaos among them. You will never be able to tell in real time, unless you had their bank statements, of who the chaos people are. But the people in the administration today has access to that kind of thing. And they know. They know exactly who it is and they know who's
1:30:11
Behind it. And which ones are legitimate. And which ones aren't. So we just have to be able to sit back. Rise above it. And not participate in it. And that's exactly what. I didn't mean like this whole. It's just.
1:30:28
What I was trying to, I guess what I'm trying to say is, yeah, I'm not participating in any of it, but I'm just watching it and my eyes are on. And I see it as a psyop of a psyop because, you know, the Operation Gladio stuff, all this, you know, these things are starting to come out more so like how, you know, you've been talking about and, you know, enlightening us, you know, about all these little things. And it just seems like there's just like a psyop over a psyop over a psyop. It just seems like there's multiple ones playing on top of each other. There are.
1:30:57
There absolutely are. And that's because MAGA is a threat to them. They wouldn't even bother if it wasn't. Yeah. So it does seem like the Truman Show and life is just total fiction. Just seriously, that's how I'm looking at everything. I'm just looking back and I'm like, is anything real? Okay, well, the water that came out of my shower was real. Let's see the food. Well, the food's probably not real, but you know what I'm trying to say. Yeah. Yeah, I do.
1:31:35
Oh, here it is. I did find it. Sorry about that. Renee, here's the guy's name. Hugo Raul Miore. And I don't even know what his last name is. Can you spell Hugo Raul? Can you spell the third and fourth word? Yeah, the third one is M-I-O-R-I. And the last one is P-E-R-E-I-R-A.
1:32:05
He was an intelligence guy in the bad Argentine army that the CIA sponsored. He was part of a paramilitary group that went into Bolivia during the 1979 cocaine coup.
1:32:29
He was recruited by Delachey, the Agenter Press co-founder. Awesome. I'm going to have my husband help me with this because he's Brazilian, speaks Portuguese. So we'll search in some Portuguese stuff a little later, see if we come up with this guy. Yeah. And there was another guy who, let's see.
1:33:01
And around those same time, he spelled his name, but he was a general. Not that that doesn't mean anything because these guys went out on these missions. He spelled his name a little different than they spell this Raul's name. It's R-A-O-U-L Salon, S-A-L-A-N. He was the founder of the OAS. He's the guy that was actually in charge of dispatching these units.
1:33:32
He worked with Otto Skorzeny. He was in the plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. So, yeah. Lots of possible links there. A lot of Raoul options. Yeah. That all have ties to Gladio. All along, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, so...
1:34:11
You're just mentioning in terms of, you know, potential challenges to the deep state formerly known as national security state. And I think that the 1968 RFK campaign was kind of like a unique challenge in the following sense. They've always, you know, it's been since, you know, for hundreds of years.
1:34:40
The ruling class has used racial division, especially in the working class, you know, manipulated from on high. You know, just like today, you see, you know, the Democrats like will use Jasmine Crockett to who is from Dallas, Texas, elected by big money in Dallas, where the CIA assassinated.
1:35:09
And today the Democrats are 100 percent CIA. You know, there's led by Slotkin and company and they will. Yet, by contrast, you know, MLK had who was uniting with RFK and it had a labor base, as you point out, with the sanitation strike. Yeah. With the labor base of the United Farm Workers, with the labor base of.
1:35:38
the UAW that was actually, you know, break, breaking the color line at the level of labor that throughout us history has been impossible to do. Right. Right. And yet that's exactly what was happening because too many, but one reason being that you had too many coffins ending up in people's living rooms from the Vietnam war. Right. And so under that extreme duress,
1:36:09
It was happening, and look what happens. It ends with three assassinations, and the fake left is literally not allowed to say a single word about it. I mean, I have tried for 20 years, at least massively on time, trying to get them to talk about it, and you get blocked by the leading left gatekeepers. It's unbelievable. And MLK had explicitly in the...
1:36:38
In the Selma speech, he himself had referred to this tremendous book called The Strange Career of Jim Crow by the American historian C. Van Woodward. It's like a classic. What happened to him? Your mic shut off all along. Sorry. Yeah. So MLK was in the middle of the Selma speech. He just freelance riffs C. Van Woodward's on how.
1:37:09
the elites of both parties, Democrats and Republicans, had combined to smash the third party challenger of the Populist Party in the 1880s and 1890s. And he's just utterly spelling it out right there in the middle of the Selma speech, which is never, ever, ever, ever, ever mentioned anywhere. And how Democrats and Republicans were working together.
1:37:34
to end the third party precisely because it was uniting the poor black and the poor white farmers. Weird that that is never mentioned. What a coinkydinky that that's never mentioned today in the era of, you know, the Democrats. Well, you know, we see what they're doing. I think we have media Jim Crow on our hands. Media Jim Crow. And yeah, so this combination of the MLK assassination.
1:38:04
in the RFK assassination that he has assassinated. And then UAW president Walter Reuther dies in his second plane crash after pulling UAW out of AFL-CIO, which was licking the CIA and wanted to continue the Vietnam War. And our McLeftists are not allowed to say a word about it because it would work. Right. Right. And that's kind of the
1:38:33
interesting dynamic that goes through all of this is the very thing that they try to ride their horse on is the thing that was working but it was working too well for them because they didn't really want it they just wanted to be able to say it and they thwarted any attempt both here and internationally um to do it and that's kind of the tell
1:39:01
is that every effort around the world to unite workers and general populations across all demographics have been thwarted every single time. That is definitely a common theme that goes through all of this. But I think that's kind of, and that's why I use the modern day analogy as well. That's what was happening with MAGA.
1:39:30
I don't know why I keep mispronouncing that. But you did have the blacks, the Hispanics, and the whites all coalescing around getting rid of the deep state, the international syndicate. And that's why you have all of the chaos agents thrown in the mix. That's why you have an attempted assassination. That's why you have the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
1:39:58
We are watching that play out in real life. And just as you just articulated in the past, no one is talking about the one entity that is implicated across all timelines, and that's the CIA. No one talks about it. You have all of these people coming up with all of this salacious garbage.
1:40:26
And no one, except for our small group, is talking about the one common denominator across all of them. And that's why I find it difficult to take any of them seriously. Illini, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. Well, I mean, you have the alternative media. I mean, you do have – I mean, there's us, there's Tucker Carlson, there's some others out there.
1:40:52
One thing that I saw recently that I think is fascinating was the grand jury investigation of Letitia James. One of the witnesses came out and reported that she had been scheduled to testify to the grand jury. Number one, the Department of Justice excluded her from testimony in Virginia. And the second thing is that they sat her down and they started asking her what she had told the other investigators and who was working on it.
1:41:22
So it seems like there is this clean up, you know, crew that kind of operates inside of the Department of Justice. Yep. And it looks like the battle hasn't necessarily been won yet. Nope. I'm hopefully we're winning the war. I don't know. But it's it's kind of it's an interesting connection here in terms of.
1:41:52
of how the Department of Justice, the FBI, is in on it too. Yes. There are elements of all of them that is still very corrupt. Very corrupt. Renee, go ahead. Okay, here's another interesting kind of twister. In the transcript, I was scrolling, you know, visually looking over it, and I saw Nobel Peace Prize, and then shortly after that,
1:42:25
It speaks of MLK having a famous speech at the Riverside Church. Yeah. Okay, so coincidentally today when I was listening to the Committee of 300, there was a huge section where they list all banks, organizations, everything connected to this group. And Riverside, it was noted,
1:42:55
Because I was listening to an audio. I remember hearing Riverside. And so I just looked it up in that archive.org. And what it listed was the Riverside Church Disarmament Program. And I was like, huh, I wonder if that is connected to the Riverside Church. Well, it actually is. So I posted in the purple pill.
1:43:26
The connection is a woman by the name of Cora Weiss. I connected her kind of bio and resume, whatever you want to call it, in the Purple Pill. Very interesting stuff. A short read. You guys will see. And then I also posted the Wikipedia of the Riverside Church.
1:43:52
Interesting. Super interesting. Connected to the Rockefellers down the street from Columbia University. Yada, yada, yada. Interesting stuff. So anyway, I just thought that was a weird little nugget. Maybe we can all dig a little more on that. But this Dora Weiss person scrolling down, she has connections to Obama.
1:44:20
She's been there, a player, since like, let's see, 59. Yeah, let me just read this. This is very interesting. Her father was Samuel Rubin, whose vast fortune with Fabergé Corporation.
1:44:38
Weiss went on to become an activist who devoted her entire adult life to anti-war rights, feminist movement. She became the president of the Samuel Rubin Foundation, which I find in several funding what most people would consider far left movements, even today. Says she,
1:45:06
played a key role in Samuel Rubin's foundation decision to create the Institute for Policy Studies. Her husband, Peter Weiss, served as the first chairman, and the Weisses selected Richard Barnett and Marcus Raskin, who is Jamie Raskin's dad, to be the initial co-directors. During the Vietnam, she was a leader for the Women's Strike for Peace.
1:45:35
You got to wonder if she's not one of those double agents. Totally. Did you scroll down and see where it says the Vietnam's in there? And then where is it? Yeah, she was a member of the Communist Party. Yeah. And then there's also Cold War. But there was also something. Dang it. Where is it?
1:46:05
I mean, towards the bottom, there's a list of other people, including Gloria Steinem. Hello, feminist CIA women's lib propaganda. Well, here's the interesting part. Weiss was executive director of the African-American Students Foundation, whose mission it was to raise money to help African students go to college. That's the program that Mendon...
1:46:32
Dommy's dad came over and Barack Obama senior's dad came over on. There you go. Yeah. So, and that was 100% CIA front, just FYI. So that's very interesting. Thank you for pointing that out. And he gave his speech in that church in New York, exactly one year.
1:47:07
to the day before, one year before, to the day that he was assassinated. I found it. During her decade-long tenure at Riverside, Weiss regularly received Cuban intelligence agents, KGB agents, and Sandinista friends. Yeah. So, and she probably did that for herself being an intelligence asset. So, all very interesting.
1:47:43
Lots of connections there. And that's why I thought it would be worth highlighting this because it shows you so much of what we've learned, how it applies when you go back in history and you relook at things and you start seeing all of these connections. It's a lot easier to see it with your Gladio glasses on. Okay.
1:48:09
We've been out this for a while. I want to respect you guys' time and thank you for being here. We've got it on the record. My assessment is it was definitely one of those domestic assassinations orchestrated by the CIA. That's my overall assessment. And all of the elements are there. The mafia, all of them.
1:48:37
The anti-war viewed as a threat to the oligarchs, all of that stuff. The military was involved. I still can't get over that part. That's just dumbfounding to me. But it's like Bridget says, or I said, and we all say now, our rice bowl is going to get peed in if you stay in the Gladio network very long.
1:49:04
everybody's institution that you kind of thought was the one exception turns out not to be an exception at all. Okay, that's it. So thank you guys for sharing your time with us. I will be back on Monday. You guys have a wonderful weekend. I appreciate you being here.
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Claims made here
Martin Luther King Jr. carried_out_attack
Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike host_asserted
▶ 0:27
“The city of Memphis, Tennessee was in the middle of a sanitation workers strike. They were striking for better wages, safer working conditions, and the recognition of an actual union. You know, all of…”
Henry Loeb headed
Memphis host_asserted
▶ 1:27
“Basically, just to give you the setting, in 1968, Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike was about labor and civil rights. There was about 1,300 predominantly African American workers employed by the city'…”
Echol Cole assassinated
Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike host_asserted
▶ 2:28
“two workers were killed and basically sucked into the back of a garbage truck and crushed. And that generated the strike. So the two workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were the two men killed. So …”
Robert Walker assassinated
Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike host_asserted
▶ 2:28
“two workers were killed and basically sucked into the back of a garbage truck and crushed. And that generated the strike. So the two workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were the two men killed. So …”
Martin Luther King Jr. carried_out_attack
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted
▶ 4:04
“That happened on April 3rd. He was assassinated on April 4th. So that kind of gives you the background for what was going on. Ironically enough, two weeks later, after his assassination, the city agre…”
Martin Luther King Jr. succeeded
Mahatma Gandhi host_asserted
▶ 11:23
“as a successor, if you will, to Mahatma Gandhi in terms of a movement for social change through civil disobedience. So that's where he was moving. Then in 1967, on April 4th, one year to the day befor…”
Martin Luther King Jr. targeted_for_regime_change
Vietnam War host_asserted
▶ 11:23
“as a successor, if you will, to Mahatma Gandhi in terms of a movement for social change through civil disobedience. So that's where he was moving. Then in 1967, on April 4th, one year to the day befor…”
Lyndon B. Johnson funded
Cam Ranh Bay host_asserted
▶ 13:17
“When Martin Luther King opposed the war, when he rallied people to oppose the war, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest defense contractors in this country. This was about money.…”
William Westmoreland targeted_for_regime_change
Vietnam War host_asserted
▶ 16:37
“They didn't have the troops. Westmoreland wanted another 200,000 in Vietnam. They didn't have them to give them. They didn't have them. They were afraid the mob would overrun the Capitol. They were af…”
Frank Liberto ordered_assassination_of
Martin Luther King Jr. book_quoted
▶ 19:29
“One called a witness by the defense, Ms. Levada Addison, who had a conversation with Mr. Liberto. In her cafe, when Liberto leaned over the table at a time when the select committee hearings were on, …”
Frank Liberto recruited
James Jowers book_quoted
▶ 20:27
“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…”
James Jowers carried_out_attack
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. book_quoted
▶ 20:56
“and that he was asked to participate in this endeavor and he should not worry about there would be no police around. The police would not be there. We've heard him say, in fact, he did these things an…”
Detective Redditt removed_from_power
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. book_quoted
▶ 22:18
“So other indications of the local conspiracy, what are they? You've heard about the removal of Detective Redditt, who was a police officer on surveillance duty that afternoon. He was removed within an…”
Floyd Newsom removed_from_power
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. book_quoted
▶ 23:15
“The only two black firemen, Floyd Newsom and Norville Wallace, in the entire fire station. They were removed. They were given orders the night before not to report for duty, but to go to another fire …”
Norville Wallace removed_from_power
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. book_quoted
▶ 23:15
“The only two black firemen, Floyd Newsom and Norville Wallace, in the entire fire station. They were removed. They were given orders the night before not to report for duty, but to go to another fire …”
Jerry Williams removed_from_power
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. book_quoted
▶ 23:45
“You heard that Jerry Williams, Captain Williams, testified that he had always formed an elite black homicide group of detectives as a bodyguard when Dr. Martin Luther King visited. The last visit, he …”
The Invaders removed_from_power
Lorraine Motel book_quoted
▶ 24:40
“that had been willing to work with Dr. Martin Luther King toward the end and were there for the purpose of helping him produce a peaceful march. At 10 minutes to 6, 11 minutes before the actual shooti…”
TAC 10 removed_from_power
Lorraine Motel book_quoted
▶ 25:37
“The afternoon of the 3rd, they were ordered to pull back to the fire station, which was on the peripheral. When Inspector Evans was asked who gave the instructions to pull him back, he said it was a r…”
Reverend Kiles ordered_assassination_of
TAC 10 book_quoted
▶ 25:37
“The afternoon of the 3rd, they were ordered to pull back to the fire station, which was on the peripheral. When Inspector Evans was asked who gave the instructions to pull him back, he said it was a r…”
James Jowers ordered_assassination_of
Bobby Balfour book_quoted
▶ 26:05
“The defendants on the day of the killing ordered a witness whom you heard who was working as a waitress for him, ordered Bobby Balfour not to take any food upstairs to Grace Stevens, who was ill and w…”
Olivia Catling spied_on
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. book_quoted
▶ 26:35
“Then you heard Olivia Catling, who had never been spoken to by anyone. Olivia Catling took the stand and told you about a man coming from an alley that was connected to a building that was attached to…”
Captain Tommy Stevens spied_on
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. book_quoted
▶ 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…”
Captain Tommy Stevens framed
James Earl Ray book_quoted
▶ 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…”
Judge Joe Brown covered_up
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. book_quoted
▶ 29:58
“Do you know what confidence the state had in their own chief witness? They didn't even call him at the time of the guilty plea hearing. He didn't even testify. Now the murder weapon itself, Judge Joe …”
Judge Joe Brown exposed
James Earl Ray host_asserted
▶ 30:58
“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 sai…”
James McCall carried_out_attack
Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted
▶ 32:25
“to get rid of the murder weapon, and he did. McCraw, being a close friend of Jowers, a confidant of Jowers, took the actual murder weapon and threw it off the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge. So it is laying …”
Raoul ordered_assassination_of
Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted
▶ 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 …”
Carlos Marcello funded
Raoul host_asserted
▶ 37:44
“has this relationship and awareness of Marcello and his activities. Carlos Marcello had been a mob kingpin, was the mob leader in this part of the country for a long, long time. So any contact, any mo…”
Carlos Marcello trafficked
Raoul host_asserted
▶ 39:04
“The theft of weapons from these places that went to were trucked to Marsalo's property in New Orleans. And then from his property in New Orleans were shipped to the coast of Houston, Texas, where they…”
111th Military Intelligence Group spied_on
Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted
▶ 40:01
“were here. They were here in Memphis. They had Martin Luther King under surveillance. That was open, quote, open surveillance, eye-to-eye surveillance. They had him under surveillance. Eli Arkins of t…”
Army Security Agency spied_on
Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted
▶ 40:58
“Martin Luther King's suite bugged every room of it, including the balcony. If he wanted to speak privately and went out on the back balcony, they could pick it up on a relay from the roof. That covert…”
William Perry exposed
Raoul book_quoted
▶ 42:52
“One of the documents was a report from Steve Tompkins after a meeting at the Hyatt Hotel in Chicago with one of the photographers. Amongst other details was the photographer's confirmation that the as…”
Sam Evans covered_up
Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted
▶ 48:31
“and ask him to get a crew out there to cut all of those bushes down where the assassin took the actual shot from. Now, normally, what one does to a crime scene, at least for quite a while, is to rope …”
The New York Times framed
James Earl Ray host_asserted
▶ 57:20
“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 t…”
Claude Sitton ordered_assassination_of
Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted
▶ 58:13
“who went down there to turn himself in. You think I did this. I'm prepared to turn myself in. The guy said, go away. You've never been a suspect. Isn't that amazing? You heard Earl Codwell say that he…”
William Bradford Huey offered_money_for_pardon
James Earl Ray host_asserted
▶ 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 …”
William Bradford Huey offered_money_for_pardon
Jerry Ray host_asserted
▶ 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…”
FBI attempted_assassination_of
James Earl Ray host_asserted
▶ 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 w…”
Arthur Wayne Baldwin ordered_assassination_of
James Earl Ray host_asserted
▶ 1:04:45
“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 …”
Roberto Liberto supplied_arms_to
Earl Clark host_asserted
▶ 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…”
Earl Clark carried_out_attack
Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted
▶ 1:05:40
“which he did and the money and eventually a rifle to hold. And he was told about the planning sessions in his cafe. And he was told about a rifle from the shooter, taking the rifle from the shooter, o…”
Levada Addison identified_as_suspect
William Louis Jowers host_asserted
▶ 1:07:35
“really had to be worked out of her. She didn't want to tell the story, even because she was afraid of her former lover and boss, Mr. Jowers, was the killer. He was the only one she saw out there. She …”
José Raúl Verona González member_of
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
▶ 1:22:30
“Jose Rayol Verona Gonzalez, a Cuban exile and intelligence officer for Brigade 2506. You know, Felix Rodriguez's hangout. He was part of the ultra-secretive Operation 40, a CIA counterintelligence uni…”
James Jesus Angleton created_aliases_for
James Earl Ray book_quoted
▶ 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…”
Yves Guérin-Sérac recruited
Hugo Raúl Miore Pereira host_asserted
▶ 1:32:29
“He was recruited by Delachey, the Agenter Press co-founder. Awesome. I'm going to have my husband help me with this because he's Brazilian, speaks Portuguese. So we'll search in some Portuguese stuff …”
Otto Skorzeny member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
▶ 1:33:32
“He worked with Otto Skorzeny. He was in the plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. So, yeah. Lots of possible links there. A lot of Raoul options. Yeah. That all have ties to Gladio. All along, go ahe…”
Otto Skorzeny attempted_assassination_of
Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
▶ 1:33:32
“He worked with Otto Skorzeny. He was in the plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. So, yeah. Lots of possible links there. A lot of Raoul options. Yeah. That all have ties to Gladio. All along, go ahe…”
C. Vann Woodward founded
The Strange Career of Jim Crow host_asserted
▶ 1:36:38
“In the Selma speech, he himself had referred to this tremendous book called The Strange Career of Jim Crow by the American historian C. Van Woodward. It's like a classic. What happened to him? Your mi…”
Cora Weiss headed
Samuel Rubin Foundation guest_asserted
▶ 1:44:38
“Weiss went on to become an activist who devoted her entire adult life to anti-war rights, feminist movement. She became the president of the Samuel Rubin Foundation, which I find in several funding wh…”
Cora Weiss member_of
Women's Strike for Peace guest_asserted
▶ 1:45:06
“played a key role in Samuel Rubin's foundation decision to create the Institute for Policy Studies. Her husband, Peter Weiss, served as the first chairman, and the Weisses selected Richard Barnett and…”
Cora Weiss appointed
Marcus Raskin guest_asserted
▶ 1:45:06
“played a key role in Samuel Rubin's foundation decision to create the Institute for Policy Studies. Her husband, Peter Weiss, served as the first chairman, and the Weisses selected Richard Barnett and…”
Samuel Rubin Foundation funded
Institute for Policy Studies guest_asserted
▶ 1:45:06
“played a key role in Samuel Rubin's foundation decision to create the Institute for Policy Studies. Her husband, Peter Weiss, served as the first chairman, and the Weisses selected Richard Barnett and…”
Peter Weiss headed
Institute for Policy Studies guest_asserted
▶ 1:45:06
“played a key role in Samuel Rubin's foundation decision to create the Institute for Policy Studies. Her husband, Peter Weiss, served as the first chairman, and the Weisses selected Richard Barnett and…”
Cora Weiss appointed
Richard Barnett guest_asserted
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“played a key role in Samuel Rubin's foundation decision to create the Institute for Policy Studies. Her husband, Peter Weiss, served as the first chairman, and the Weisses selected Richard Barnett and…”
Cora Weiss member_of
Salvadoran Communist Party guest_asserted
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“You got to wonder if she's not one of those double agents. Totally. Did you scroll down and see where it says the Vietnam's in there? And then where is it? Yeah, she was a member of the Communist Part…”
Cora Weiss headed
African-American Students Foundation guest_asserted
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“I mean, towards the bottom, there's a list of other people, including Gloria Steinem. Hello, feminist CIA women's lib propaganda. Well, here's the interesting part. Weiss was executive director of the…”
Cora Weiss spied_on
Sandinistas guest_asserted
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“to the day before, one year before, to the day that he was assassinated. I found it. During her decade-long tenure at Riverside, Weiss regularly received Cuban intelligence agents, KGB agents, and San…”