Lane, Mark and Gregory, Dick. Murder in Memphis: The FBI and the Assassination of Martin Luther King. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993. 310 pages.

This book is an updated and expanded edition of "Code Name Zorro," published in 1977 by Prentice-Hall. The eight chapters by Dick Gregory concern the life and times of Martin Luther King, and the remaining 21 chapters by Mark Lane present evidence that King's assassination was the work of a conspiracy involving federal and local officials.

Some of the territory covered by Lane includes: 1) the FBI's many efforts to discredit King; 2) the pressures placed on James Earl Ray by his attorney, Percy Foreman, to plead guilty; 3) the lack of physical evidence connecting Ray to the assassination (the rifle has not been positively matched to the bullet, for example); 4) the story of eyewitness Grace Stephens, who said Ray wasn't the person she saw and was immediately taken by police to a mental institution; 5) the suspicious events which caused King to transfer to the Lorraine Motel; 6) the removal of police protection on the day of the assassination, including the transfer of two black firemen from the station across from the Lorraine; and 7) the curious experience of detective Ed Redditt, who was pulled off the protection detail two hours before the assassination under circumstances which suggested the involvement of several federal intelligence agencies.
ISBN 1-56025-056-9

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