Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was welcomed by Dr Isaac Newton Farris, Jr., Senior Fellow of the MLK Center, and the nephew of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. nephew; and Hon. Consular General of India, Swati Kulkarni.
Consulate General of India in Atlanta in collaboration with Gandhi Foundation of USA (GFUSA) celebrated the 153rd birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in front of the resplendent Gandhi statue in the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site on Sunday, October 2.
Savannah Feed the Hungry (a local charitable organization) is hosting various events to celebrate the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.
overruled. and judge brown ruled in 1997 that they could retest the weapon. ballistics experts fired ray s weapon 18 times to see if they could get a match. the results were inconclusive. but farris says one of those experts privately told him something else. it was said to me that while no conclusions could be made, if they were pressed for a conclusion, they would err on the side of it not being the gun. ray never got a new trial. william pepper turned to the king family one last time. they filed a civil case against lloyd jowers and other unknown co-conspirators. all the evidence from the beginning to the end how martin king was killed and why he was killed and who coordinated the killing came out under oath. in less than an hour, the jury ruled that lloyd jowers, not james earl ray, was involved in the murder. a verdict embraced by all those
actually brought him to meet my family where we dialogued. isaac farris, dr. king s nephew and the head of the king center, says that book and that dialogue persuaded the king family to get involved. i feel that my family, mr. ray and the american people have been unjustly denied the due process that is the birthright of every citizen. we came very close to getting a real trial for james, because there was a black judge called joe brown. i would object to the entire line of questioning. we re trying to get the facts. we ve got dr. king dead, in his grave, a national hero, a world hero of national holiday named after him and i m not going to allow the vicissitudes of somebody s artful cross-examination to keep me as a trier of fact from getting to the bottom of this.