Posted on 04/02/2018 10:39:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
Wow. That’s a powerful story. Thanks for posting it.
Something that horrible is hard on little kids. Wise mother. I wish this lady the very best......
I wanna know.
How did James Earl Ray know where MLK was gonna be and when he was gonna be there?
Lyrics
Precious Lord, take my hand
Lead me on, let me stand
I’m tired, I’m weak, I’m lone
Through the storm, through the night
Lead me on to the light
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home
When my way grows drear, precious Lord linger near
When my light is almost gone
Hear my cry, hear my call
Hold my hand lest I fall
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home
When the darkness appears and the night draws near
And the day is past and gone
At the river I stand
Guide my feet, hold my hand
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home
Precious Lord, take my hand
Lead me on, let me stand
I’m tired, I’m weak, I’m lone
Through the storm, through the night
Lead me on to the light
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home (lead me home)
Songwriters: Thomas A. Dorsey
He didn’t.
The FBI did....................
Wow. That is tough on kids that age. Hell, any age. Wow
Just what I was thinking.
The political conditions for the Democrats (and other DC elite) in 1968 were not terribly dissimilar from what exists today and why gun control was pushed then and now. There were serious divisions between the pro Vietnam War wing of the party (LBJ, Hubert Humphrey, and others) and the anti Vietnam war and more radical hippie left (RFK, the Chicago Seven, etc). Also, race riots plagued many cities like Detroit, Los Angeles, etc.
Nowadays, it is the BLM violence in places like Baltimore and elsewhere, the Democrats facing very serious public questions concerning illegal operations with the FBI and other government agencies with the Awan brothers and other activities, and also serious division between the more establishment type of Dems (Hillary, et al) versus the more progressive left members (Bernie Sanders). Gun control is simply the attempt to divert attention from these issues, as it was used to create the 1968 Gun Control Act.
Supposedly, James Earl Ray told the King family, just before he died, that he didn’t kill their father. He told them who, but they have not revealed who he pointed out. My guess is the FBI, under Hoover, and Ray was a patsy, set up to take the fall, and be killed ‘attempting to escape’....................
4/4/68...was just getting out of basic...
“My guess is the FBI, under Hoover”
Man, the KGB really scored big time when they made up those rumors about Hoover. People are ready to believe any evil of him.
Soviet lies: the gift that just won’t stop giving.
On the afternoon of April 4, Ray checked into a boardinghouse in Memphis, with a bar called Jim’s Grill on the first floor. He paid $8.50 for a week’s stay. The rear of the boardinghouse faced the Lorraine Motel across Mulberry Street.
According to the criminal justice system of the state of Tennessee, James Earl Ray fired the shot from the second-floor bathroom of the boardinghouse. He then grabbed some belongings in a blanket, stashed the rifle in it, left the building and dropped the bundle in the doorway of a nearby building.
He drove away in a white Ford Mustang before the area was barricaded, went to Atlanta and then to Canada and England before being arrested in July 1968.
See post 13. I meant to include you but forgot to. 8>)
Deep Moaning Blues--Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, with the Tub Jug Washboard Band (1928)
According to a story this weekend in the Atlanta newspaper, King was hit in the chin and his face destroyed by the bullet. The original intent was to have a closed casket funeral as a result but the leading black funeral home in Memphis worked all night to restore his face and they were able to open the casket for mourners to pass.
The KGB certainly had a motive to go after Hoover after the FBI nabbed a bunch of their agents and gelded the Communist Party. But for this, and for rolling up the Axis spy rings during WWII, he remains a hero to me.
The ‘secret’ is there were two children as witnesses in the parking lot of the Lorraine Motel that evening in
Memphis, scared to death and alone in their car........Until this story I did not know and apparently no one outside her family did either..............
That Ford mustang is owned by a collector of mustangs east of Atlanta. To my knowledge it has never been put on display.
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