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President Donald Trump's administration has released the administration's archives of the assassination of Martin Luther King (Jr.) this week, which provides new revelations for the demise of one of America's most famous citizens.
The press release includes 6,301 files and an audio file for an interview with the brothers James Earl Ray. This version has a total of 243,496 pages. These are the seven most important details.
Texas man claims early encounter with MLK's killer
Joseph Meyer, a Texas man, told investigators he could have seen the MLK killer in Mississippi two weeks before the killing.
His report on police comments said he met a man while fishing with his son and shot a rifle into a tree.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in April 1968. (Getty Image)
“He was fishing near Picayune when Sunday between 8:00 and 9:30 a.m. Sunday. When they noticed a man lying behind a light-colored Ford Mustang, shooting his rifle into a target on a 40-yard tree, they were approaching a small fishing lake on Ridge Road.” He and his son parked their cars on the nearby small lake and began fishing. The rifle he observed was a leverage action, a novice or very good care, and started talking to him. The man said he was witnessing the rifle, and he said his brother was there, but he had more experience with it because he was not inadequate about fishing and general attitude. area.
“The man was wearing canvas hunting clothes. He was about 5'10” to 11 inches tall, 175 pounds, with dark wavy hair neatly trimmed. Meyer observed photos of James Earl Ray, and he said that some of the photos certainly didn't look like the man he saw, but he recently saw one of his pictures on the appearance, he didn't see one of his pictures, he didn't see one of his pictures, he wasn't like him, he was in some ways, he said that he had played on the camera, which was part of him, he had seen it, he had seen it, and he had seen it, and he had seen it, and he had seen it, and he had seen it, and he had seen it, and he had seen it, and he had seen it, and he had seen it, and he had been part of him. Even if he sees him again, he can identify the person he sees. ” the report continued.
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“Meyer thought nothing before hearing about the Martin Luther King shooting. [where] The man was firing and could not find any cartridges. He looked at the tree that was shot and pointed out where the bullet hit indicated that the high-power cartridge was used. ”
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CIA monitors Cuba's response to MLK's death
The CIA has prepared a five-page report on Cuba's reaction to the MLK assassination, including reports from Cuba's independent and state-controlled media.
The report shows that Gramma, the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, emphasized the violence and riots that occurred after MLK's death.
MLK Assassin James Earl Ray swore in court. (Getty Image)
“Due to the battles that have been going on since the assassination of Martin Luther King, 27 people were killed in the United States. In Washington alone, 750 people were injured and 4,186 were arrested. The snipers continued to be active in different cities in the White House in the United States, with the captain under a huge back.”
The report also highlights Cuban broadcast media and others, amplifying calls for violence from some “black power” activists. One such message comes from Stokely Carmichael, who urged black Americans to “arm themselves with rifles and pistols and launch attacks on the streets of American cities.”
Broadcasting Freedom Group also highlighted Carmichael's predictions, namely “street executions.”
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The man who threatens to kill MLK sneaks into his press conference
The FBI report included in the press release said a man threatened to murder MLK while appearing in Wisconsin in May 1967.
The FBI said they received a call from an anonymous male to “pass the bullet through the king's head.” Investigators determined that the man was Theodore's adank, who local police said was a mental case that might be capable of committing violence.
“At the King's press conference held on May 12/67, the area was blocked by the police to ensure that only journalists were admitted,” the FBI reported. “Theodore Adank appeared in that journalist but was deported by local police.”
A few days after MLK's death, investigators returned to interview Adank, but they found there was no connection to the assassination.
“Adank was interviewed [special agents] Kenna and Walker were impressed by the interview of agents on April 8, 68, a spiritual case,” the report read. “Adank suggested that he had been in Wausau for the last 2 weeks, except that he went to Milwauke, Wisconsin to Milwauke, Wisconsin, in timber in Wisconsin, which was related to his medical fixed pension. ”
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FBI investigators zeroed in on killer pseudonym
The FBI is aware of several aliases used in the MLK murder case, Ray.
Documents show he used two different names when he purchased murder weapons from a gun store in Birmingham, Alabama on March 29 and 30. Ray identified himself as “Harvey Lowmeyer”, despite using the address and driving a vehicle associated with another alias “Eric Galt”.
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When the store clerk showed a photo of “galt”, FBI agents connected the two aliases and said he was the same as “Lowmeyer”.
“Galt's report reads.
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Ray's brother suggests he may have been paid for related to the assassination
Ray's younger brother, Jerry Ray, was interviewed by law enforcement after MLK's murder, and he suggested to them that his brother might have been paid by a third party to “use” in the attack.
He told law enforcement that he hadn't seen James in four years when he visited his brother in prison.
“I don't think he's involved. I think he's used as an A–but, he's used to use it. I think, because you know the money he spent and all that. I think his name was used because he couldn't turn it in because he had a lot of time in Missouri.
“Are you saying someone paying him to pretend to be the king's murderer?” asked the interviewer.
Jerry replied: “They had two Eric Starvo Galts in about two miles each other and every time he went somewhere, there was another person like him, which seemed strange.”
Jerry continued, he believed his brother thought it was “glorious” not to disclose whether others were involved in the king's murder. He then said that once Ray was detained by police, he planned to go to Memphis to talk to his brother.
Jerry predicted, “If he certainly didn’t do this, he would tell me, but he wouldn’t tell me other things, how he was used or what.” “But he would tell me if he did it, or if he didn’t, but he wouldn’t suggest anyone else.”
“So, Jerry, your whole theory is that Ray was given to himself?” the interviewer pressed.
“That's my theory,” he replied. “I think he's paid for using his name. As far as I think he's involved.”
Chinese propaganda urges opposition to “Yankee Imperialists” after the king's death
The omissions of the Chinese Communist Party collected by US intelligence companies called on Americans to start opposing the “Yankee Imperialist” uprising.
The booklet is both translated in Spanish and English and is titled “A statement by Mao Tse-Tung, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, to support American-American struggle against violent repression.”
The Communist Party of China published a Maoist message calling for an “uprising” after MLK's death. (AP)
The book, published about a week after MLK's death, “cited the black struggle in the United States, part of the world's struggle against the 'Yankee imperialists', and asserted that the world revolution had entered a new era and urged all to unite and eliminate this enemy.”
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CIA provides Dan with key points of conversation a few years after MLK's death
The document released this week included a CIA paper titled “Big Points of Talk with Dan Shote” dated October 29, 1975.
The proposed conversation begins with the key points: “The CIA will never participate in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.” “In addition, I want to once again explicitly deny the CIA, such as participating in the assassination of President Kennedy or Senator Robert Kennedy, or attempting to assassinate Governor Wallace.”
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The key points of the conversation document did not define what CIA officials expected. Instead, CBS posted an interview with then-CIA director William Colby on November 26, 1975. The interview focused on contacting Lee Harvey Oswald's CIA but did not resolve MLK's assassination in the broadcast section.
Instead, it was indeed published in late November 1975 about the death of MLK, but that section did not include any interviews with CIA officials.
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