Maybe Hoover was wise enough to understand that if he wanted to sniff out a whole network, he shouldn’t pull its pieces down impetuously.
Yet it remains that MLK was assassinated. Did that get some “help” somehow that went through government?
As these files trickle out, maybe there will be some indication, or not. James Earl Ray could have been framed, anything is possible. But the CR movement continued, without King, albeit slower than before.
The day that he is murdered -those who surrounded King assumed it was an irate husband or boyfriend of one of King’s girlfriends. Likewise, he was playing so many of them, one of King’s jealous girlfriends would have had motivation to shoot him.