After leaving Los Angeles, Ray drove toward Atlanta, making several stops before going back to Birmingham, where he had stayed briefly after his escape from a Missouri prison that caged him for seven years for robbing a grocery store. While in Birmingham, Ray purchased the rifle he used to kill Marin Luther King, Jr.
How Hoover’s FBI Murdered Martin Luther King Jr.
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Who REALLY Killed Martin Luther King Jr.? can be summarized thusly:
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Under the authority of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, with the acquiescence and active support of Lyndon B. Johnson, the highest-level officials of the FBI – with help from select other federal, state and local entities – carried out the plan to murder Dr. King in Memphis. Then, employing three famed novelists (William Bradford Huie, Gerold Frank and George McMillan, in that order) to construct the cover-up, they placed the blame for the entire plot, and murder, on the programmed “patsy” James Earl Ray, an unwitting man who made a brief appearance at the scene of the crime – but who was already on his way out of town minutes after the time King was shot.