[itsahoot]

You might also recall that a lone teenager with no source of income stalked George Wallace until an opportunity to shoot him arose. George announced his run for President in Texas.

[libstripper]

Interesting point. The DemonRats certainly had good reason to want to see Wallace dead or incapacitated. The thing about Ray that always struck me is that, viewing the matter logically, racist or not, he was about the last person to want to kill MLK and, indeed, the last person to have any use for a $300 hunting rifle. After all, the only practical criminal use for such a weapon is assassinating somebody. A petty criminal on the run, like Ray, needs functional pistol so he can knock over gas stations and convenience stores. Such a man also needs to keep a low profile, the very thing that wouldn't happen if he murdered the nation's foremost civil rights leader.

The only logical conclusion, therefore, is that somebody hired Ray as a hit man, equipped him, provided him false identification, and financed his international flight. Then the same somebody provided him with an attorney, the Texan Percy Foreman, who deliberately punted the case and got Ray locked up and silenced for the rest of his life. All of that points inexorably to LBJ, especially because the MSM never found any Klan or other conspiracy.