Jesse's Bloody Shirt

March 5th, 2002 | Edited by Sabertooth

[Sabertooth]

The bathroom window at the South Main rooming house afforded a clear view of the Lorraine Motel and the balcony on which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was standing when assassinated.
(Photograph by Robert Williams, The Commercial Appeal)

Patrolman Louis E. McKay (right), a member of the police Emergency Squad, was among the first officers to arrive in the area after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 1968. He was ordered to guard a bundle discovered near a doorway at 424 South Main. The bundle contained a 30.06 Remington rifle, which officials said later was the weapon that killed Dr. King.
(Photograph by Sam Melhorn / copyright, The Commercial Appeal)

[Rebelbase]

I only scanned the whole post, bump for later, but tell me if you know, where does the good Reverend Jesse's Ordination come from? He did not attend divinity school or Bible college did he?

[Sabertooth]

(((ping))))

[uncbob]

His message was that blacks already had freedom and merely had to excercise it. A far cry from the "crawl to the government and beg for your freedom" message that was being touted by King and later Jackson.

You have that right

King was very socialistic leaning

[uncbob]

My memory is there was violence at every town he spoke in. I know there was violence in Evansville, IN. A curfew had to be imposed after his speech. Does anyone else have the same memories that I have?

Your memory is correct

[billbears]

bump

[aShepard]

It is my belief that the only black leader of that era with any integrity was Malcom X, a Muslim

Of course there were those friends of hillary, the black panthers, at about the same era.

[Grenada]

Did he draw Dr. King outside? I know that sounds outlandish, but.....

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for all the information!

[Rebelbase]

Hillary did not defend the Panthers at their trial. She attended as a student who was monitoring the trial for the ACLU.

There is an urban legend email that claims she was the defence attorney for the Panthers...not true.

[Rebelbase]

defence=defense

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks, Saber. . .

[MeekOneGOP]

actually either is correct, depending on which side of the Pond you're standing on. . .
:O)

[Jim Scott]

Excellent material that needs to be known.

It shows - clearly - that the 'Reverend' Jesse Jackson is a total fraud and an crass opportunist who climbed to national fame on the dead body of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, even stooping to the depths of using the slain leader's blood as a prop to aggrandize himself. Beyond disgusting.

This is the man who 'speaks' for Black America?

I don't believe Jackson had anything to do with King's murder but it's obvious that Jesse was a determined opportunist all along and King had realized it. While King's friends and associates were shocked and stunned immediately after the killing of Dr. King, Jesse recovered instantly and seized the opportunity he must have felt he was being handed on a platter.

America should know the real 'Jesse Jackson Story' but I'll bet even Bill O'Reilly won't go there. Too offensive and - like Teddy Kennedy's fatality-producing auto accident in '69 - too far in the past and irrelevant to most Americans to care about. The NAACP would howl 'racism' (they would call the sun 'racist' if it didn't shine on them one cloudy day) and Jesse would probably cry foul as most of the witnesses to the King murder and Jesse's physical position at the time (not kneeling over King) are now dead. Too bad.

[Brian Allen]

A, "Thanks, 'Tooth," Bump!

[Indeed, it is as you say: "To know him is to love him"]

[Demidog]

I was simply pointing out the facts. Draw whatever conclusions you wish.

[Demidog]

Not that outlandish:

Dr. King, an open-faced, genial man, leaned over a green iron railing to chat with an associate, Jesse Jackson, standing just below him in a courtyard parking lot:

[mrustow]

Thanks for the ping. Great anthology, Sabe!

[TopQuark]

By the way. It is my belief that the only black leader of that era with any integrity was Malcom X, a Muslim. As always, The semidog is using the reverse logic: a Muslim has integrity by definition. THe fact that Malcom X advocated killing whites does not violate the "integrity" --- just like killing Americans and Jews anywhere in the world, simply because they are Americans or Jews, is completely within the morality of the Arab world.

Thank G-d for this free country, we even have them as neighbors. They even post of FR, as you can see, Cachelot.