Melanson,P. The Murkin Conspiracy. 1989
Melanson, Philip H. The Murkin Conspiracy: An Investigation into the
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Praeger Publishers,
1989. 203 pages. (An expanded and updated edition was published in 1991 under
the title "The Martin Luther King Assassination" by Shapolsky Publishers.)
Although Philip Melanson is better known for his work on the Robert
Kennedy assassination, he is also acquainted with the MLK assassination.
Other MLK researchers include Harold Weisberg, Mark Lane, and William Pepper.
In 1978 a House committee concluded that King was assassinated by a
conspiracy, but that it didn't involve the FBI. Their circumstantial evidence
pointed to right-wing individuals based in St. Louis. But Melanson points
out that in Toronto, James Earl Ray used as aliases the names of four men who
lived there. Even though he had never been to Toronto before 1968, the names
used by Ray looked like him, and two had left a paper trail with officials
in the same southern U.S. states where Ray had traveled. Melanson doubts
that the unsophisticated Ray could have chosen these aliases by himself.
(At the end of 1993 a Memphis businessman, Loyd Jowers, confessed to
involvement in the MLK conspiracy, and implicated organized crime and the
FBI. Jowers said Ray was a patsy. As of this writing in January 1994, the
Memphis district attorney has opened a new investigation, but has refused
to grant immunity to Jowers as a condition for further information.)
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