The MLK Assassination Revisited Part One – Episode #56

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// THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE — WE JUST CAN’T AGREE ON IT
CASE OPEN

CASE FILE No. 56  //  THE MLK ASSASSINATION REVISITED

The MLK Assassination Revisited Part One

filed: jan 15, 2024  //  runtime: 61:48  //  hosts: jorge, sean, eric
// THE SHORT VERSION

Episode 56 opens a three part series on the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a sober look at his life and rise as a civil rights leader. The guys trace his 1929 birth in Atlanta, Georgia, his education at Morehouse College and Crozer Theological Seminary, and his 1954 appointment as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, before covering his leadership of the 1955 to 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott and his 1957 election as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

From there the episode covers King’s broader activism, including his becoming the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, his decision to donate the prize money to the civil rights movement, and his later public opposition to the Vietnam War and focus on poverty across racial lines. It also notes the criticism he faced from younger activists who favored more assertive tactics than his commitment to nonviolence, and it sets up his final trip to Memphis, Tennessee, in the spring of 1968, where he supported striking sanitation workers.

The episode closes with a detailed, minute by minute account of April 4, 1968, ending with Dr. King’s shooting on the balcony outside Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel and his death at St. Joseph’s Hospital. The guys treat the subject with respect throughout and frame the rest of the series, starting with the manhunt for James Earl Ray, as the focus of upcoming episodes.

“He did so much good. The guy was awesome, an absolute legend.”

— the guys, on the record
// THE EVIDENCE
  • Dr. King was born January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, and became pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954
  • He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott starting in December 1955, a 382 day protest that ended after the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional in December 1956
  • He was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 and became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, donating the roughly 2 million dollar prize to the civil rights movement
  • According to the episode, King had survived an earlier assassination attempt about ten years before his death
  • On April 3, 1968, King delivered what became known as his final speech at Mason Temple Church in Memphis, in which he spoke of having been to the mountaintop
  • King was shot at 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony outside Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, and was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Hospital at 7:05 p.m.
// CASE QUESTIONS
When was Martin Luther King Jr. born?
According to the episode, Dr. King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended segregated public schools, graduated high school at 15, and went on to Morehouse College before his theological studies and doctoral work in Boston.
What was Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech?
The episode covers his address at Mason Temple Church in Memphis on the night of April 3, 1968, in which he spoke of having been to the mountaintop and seen the promised land. It was the last speech he gave before he was shot the following evening.
Where was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
Dr. King was shot on the balcony outside Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, at 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, while in the city to support a sanitation workers strike. He was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Hospital just over an hour later.
Did the FBI investigate or surveil Martin Luther King Jr. before his death?
The episode itself focuses on King’s biography and does not detail this, but it is well established, documented history that the FBI under Director J. Edgar Hoover, who the guys reference in a later part of the series, monitored and worked to discredit King in the years before his assassination through its COINTELPRO program. This remains a separate, unresolved point of controversy from the official investigation into his death.
// THE FULL TRANSCRIPT
Read the full transcript

Hey everybody, welcome back to The Conspiracy Podcast. C, your boys are here, we’re back again. Uh, we hope you had a good New Year. You know, we’re here, it’s almost MLK Day, so yeah, we’re coming up. And so, well, by the time you hear this it will be, by the time you hear it, it is MLK. That’s right, that’s right, that’s right. So, uh, do you guys know a lot about this Martin Luther? Weird, weirdly I don’t. I thought, I think I should, should. Yeah, about the conspiracies and all that. It’s strange, isn’t it? It’s strange that not everybody knows. I think maybe, maybe they did such a good job, like, sweeping it on the rug, covering it up, and they, like, nothing to see here, nothing to see here.

That’s what we’re here for, trying to bring this to you guys. Question everything. Okay, so we’re going to kick off 2024 with a good one. I mean, we’re technically not kicking off because we did release Lochness. True, true. Yeah, so we’re going to, like, yeah. Well, I mean, Martin Luther King Jr, um, he is a staple in Legend. Yeah, he’s, he’s, I mean he’s the guy, right? I, holid, so I mean he’s the guy, and the thing, like, we might, I might save this for the conspiracy portion, but I will do a little drop here now. Have, have you ever, obviously there’s MLK in every city, MLK Street.

Oh yeah, why is it always the shittiest neighborhood? Dude, it’s the [bleep] where I live. Now, MLK is, I won’t drive on it, it’s that sketch. Why is that? And when I lived in Cincinnati, both MLK streets they had were the worst. If you go down here to St Pete, same [bleep], dude. It’s, I don’t know why, that’s like, I feel like it’s a slight. They’re like, why not, they won’t make it a prominent inner, but it’s got to be like the hood, like3 is the [bleep] trap. Well, being that this has a lot to do with racism, I’m going to let you guys, uh, talk about this the most.

Thank you, because, you know, I mean, you know, they want to get canceled. It’s hard being a white guy these days. Piece of [bleep], [bleep] supremacist. Okay, so, uh, this is a big one too. This is in the top, uh, you know, cat atories ofp conspiracies and stories, and, and major turning points in America, cuz he was so, cuz I mean, because the guy [bleep] changed the game. Yeah, he a [bleep] game changer. Yeah, so hopefully we do it justice, uh, but here we go. Martin Luther King Jr, also known as Dr Martin Luther King Jr, was born January 15th, 1929. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and he was originally named Mike Luther King.

Oh, but later he changed his name to Martin. He was like, sounds better. Yeah, his family had a long Legacy as pastors of the ebenzer Baptist Church in Atlanta. His grandfather served from 1914 to 1931, and his father continued the role. Still, his, yeah, he attended segregated public schools in Georgia and graduated from high school at the age of 15. What, what a [bleep] chant, like, already starting off like a boss. In 1948, he earned his bachelor’s from morouse college, a distinguished institution where both his father and grandfather went. After theological studies at Crower seminary in Pennsylvania, he received a bachelor’s degree in 1951. So his Bachelor was in, like, theology, that’s right, okay.

Yeah, theology, the Theological Seminary. Okay, so it’s like, in essence, well, the theology is Theology of religion. Well, well, theology is, is in itself, like, a religious study, and it’s like, it was, what, what was it, Theology of the sermon, Seminary, Theological Seminary. Yeah, so theological sem, the Seminary is, is the priesthood, or, like, the pastor being a pries or Pastor. So it’s, like, in essence, the study of God and religion for a priest or a pastor. Yeah, that’s right, that’s right. So he continued his Graduate Studies at Boston University, and he completed his residence for a doctorate in 1953. Where do you do your residence, if you’re, like, a pastor, like, at a church?

I, I’m assuming so. Yeah, and you’re, like, you’re, like, an underling, and they’re like, watch me, watch me, [bleep] bless this, [bleep], I’m bless [bleep] out of this dude right now. Of which, of which he received his degree and became a doctor in 1955. I mean, that’s a, that’s awesome. This, it’s like a, it is, it’s a PhD, so it’s a philosopical, I mean, he’s not doing surgery. Or is he? Surgery on your soul. That’s right, yeah, that’s right. So, in Boston, he met and married ketta Scott. MH. And ketta Scott would become his wife, and she’s an intellectual woman, she was very artistic, uh, and the couple had two sons and two daughters.

Killing it. Y. In 1954, Martin Luther King became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was an active civil rights worker, serving on the executive committee of the NAACP. In December of 55, he led the first significant negro nonviolent demonstration in the United States, okay, and that was the bus boycott. Yeah, and it’s pretty famous, actually, and which lasted 382 days. Damn, that was [bleep] VAP killing. What was that boycot, like, just not have to sit in the back of the bus? Well, they, yeah, they weren’t riding the buses because they weren’t getting treated, like, you know, fairly. Yeah, yeah, but, but, oh, okay, just, be not be treated fairly because they had to, in the back, there was a separate section in the back for, for, for the blacks, and so, therefore, they’re like, okay, we just stop paying you.

Yeah, yeah. By the way, can we, C, the error, am I allowed to say negro? Yeah, for sure, 100%. Yeah, yeah, I mean, for, let me bless you, okay, let me just bless you with, I’m allowing you to say, like, you’re allowing me to say, it’s, it’s not bad, you’re not saying a bad word. Well, isn’t a negative term? No, no, no, it’s a [bleep], it’s an actual term. So if I walked on the street and I said, what’s up, negro? No, don’t do that. I mean, that’s, no, it, obviously, when you’re talking, we’re going, talking about history, we’re going, history, and this kind of thing, that’s, the, like, that’s, that’s fine, that’s what they said, like, but, like, obviously you don’t, it’s not like in normal, like, conversational terms, you’re like, well, here’s Sean, he’s a negro.

That’s, say, I’m just trying to clear the air, you know? No, obviously, in the terms of what we’re talking, it’s totally fine, like, you’re not, you’re not saying in a derogatory way, you’re actually explaining history. Yeah. Age. I agree. Okay, good. On December 21st, 1956, the Supreme Court declared segregation laws on buses to be unconstitutional. Good, nice. So black, white people were able to ride the bus together. Like, I’m in the FR [bleep] now. During the boycott, King faced all sorts of adversity, I guess you would call it. He was arrested, his home was bombed, personal abuse. Bombed, yeah. Desite this, these challenges, he emerged as a prominent leader in the the black community.

Oh, for sure, they’re like, this guy’s not afraid of [bleep]. In 1957, he was elected president of the Southern Christian leadership conference, which aimed to provide new leadership for the civil rights movement, and he drew inspiration from Christianity and operational techniques from Gandhi. So peace. Yeah, peace, like, uh, resolution through peace and nonviolence. Yeah, meaning it’s not, you know, nowadays where it’s, yeah, burn all the stores down. It’s, yo, we’re going to, like, get our point across, but we’re going to do it in a good way. Yeah, because I think, especially at that time, you know, I think african-Americans were looked at upon, you know, their animals, and they [bleep], their lesser beings, or whatever.

It’s like, it’s almost like saying, you’re not better than us, you know, we’re, we’re just as, like, civilized people as you are. Yeah, I mean, it’s pretty, pretty obvious that there was Major rights issues. Oh, 100%. Oh, for sure, like, even, even as a, even as a white person looking back, and you see the, the colored only water fountain, oh my God, you know, or, the, do you know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of [bleep], uh, hidden figures, cuz, like, I never saw that. I love that movie. I never saw that. It’s so good. Really, and literally, there’s a point where Kevin Cosner, CU, it’s like about NASA, so Kevin, Kevin CER goes, and, like, um, uh, taji P Hansen plays one of the, one of the chicks, and, like, she comes in, she’s like, it’s like, f, she’s like soaking wet and late, and Kevin Ker’s like, oh, well, if you’re not going to be on time, he’s like, bitching at her, like, you know, we’re trying to do good stuff here, and she’s like, and she goes [bleep] off, and she’s cool.

I have to [bleep] walk in my heels a a mile and a half to the bathroom, the colored bathroom, and, and dude, and so literally, they come in, like, next scenes, Kevin C’s got a crowbar, and he literally crowbars the, like, the colored only, like, the, the wh’s only sign off the thing, and he’s like, he’s like, just [bleep] be on time, like, like, [bleep] it, I don’t give a [bleep]. Yeah, it’s wild, actually. What, what, what it was, I mean, weird, I even, strange, do you think there are things like that now? [bleep] no, are you kidding me. Segregation type, not segregation, but something like at that time, I’m sure most people thought it was normal, and it was just part of everyday life.

But do you think there are things that exist that are, I don’t want to use the word racist, but that are demeaning to others, just on the way that we operate, you know? I mean, I think that there, there are times, there, there are times, I’m not saying, just, just with black people. No, no, I’m saying, I don’t know, women. No, as an, as an example, like, remember when 911 happened? Yes, dude, great Point. Arab people were treated like [bleep] dog [bleep], just everyone was like, [bleep] you, like, get out of here, like, you p, and just like, you… Know, there’s only, there only billion Muslim people, like, like, and, you know, uh, and I’m going to be honest, when 9/11 happened I kind of felt that.

Dude, me too, I’m not going to lie. True, you know what I mean, that, that’s the, you know, that crowd mentality, cuz that’s what you saw in the news, and, and then it just starts going and going. I know, you’re like, Amer, America, the guy’s like, so am I, bro, and like, shut up, Muslim. So yeah, it was a little [bleep] up, and no offense to them, but if I got on a plane in October of 2001, oh yeah dude, and there was somebody that, I was, an Arabic, an Arabic maning up, I would, I would have been very racist about it. Or I don’t know if it’s racism or, or, or, I think at that time it is stotal stereotypical, I think it is probably considered racism because it’s against, like, an, an actual, like, sect of people, and it’s a large sector of, like, right now there’s a, a big thing going on with migration.

Oh yeah, for sure, and they’re all coming in actually through my old hometown, e pass, it’s, it’s a small little town on the border, dude. Yeah, so it’s crazy to hear that. But, um, do you feel like that exists with, with, I mean, I don’t, I haven’t personally felt it myself, but yeah, I do, I, I’ve heard others tell me about it, probably in that area too, I would presume. Exactly, I say in Texas I still have a lot of family back there, and then they just passed a law that now the police can stop anybody that they feel, um, suspiciously, supicious, and so ask them for papers and this and that.

But then you, you get into the whole racial profile, like, you can stop somebody like me, it’s like, I’m driving a tundra, bro, what are you talking about, like, where’d you get that steal from somebody, like, you can’t be driving, why is your hair so perfect. It’s also, it’s also very, like, you know, give me your papers, it’s, do you have your papers, Nazis, little, little deep state, or controlling state. Yeah, fascism, exactly. H, anyways. Well, and if people don’t know, uh, because you haven’t seen videos or whatever of us, Jorge, is what’s your descent, I guess, Mexican. He’s Mexican, yeah, is that what you mean, like, yeah, yeah.

I was born in Mexico, you know, grew up, but, you know, grew up over here. US, US citizen for the clarification. Scout usen for most of your life, for of your life, how I get treated by people, like, Eric, around here, have you ever been on a plane, Eric’s [bleep]. Oh, I remember that tone. De, yeah. Uh, and then Sean, h, Sean, go ahead on yours. I’m, uh, I’m Weir, 50% African-American, I’m also 50% German. Yeah, there you go, right there you go. Uh, and then I’m, I’m 114% white. So I’m just trying to give a background of, of where you’re from, and what, you know, perspective.

The perspective, exactly. So, okay, moving right along, but if you do, but if you guys do want to see us, then go follow us on social media, cuz we’re trying to put up some stuff over there. Yeah, exactly, trying to think, better angles of myself. Look like [bleep] must have. Okay, so over the years, Dr King traveled extensively, and he spoke over 2500 times. Really, that’s a lot of [bleep] times, 2500 times. He spoke at different events, speeches, rallies, protests, Etc. So he, he got out and he did the work. Oh dude, I mean, that’s like, I mean, 2500 times, that’s a guy that’s like, he was working.

He, he eventually did, and everybody knows the I Have a Dream speech. Yeah, that was in the, uh, at the, me and Eric actually ate. Oh, me, uh, no, you, or wasn’t there? No, no, it was me and Eric, we ate sandwiches on the, on the, on the steps, and, like, overlooking, it was awesome, one of my favorite moments, dude. It was awesome, and we had, what was it, Pot Bellies, yeah, it was delicious. I loved it, I loved it, absolutely loved it. He also met with President Kennedy, President Johnson. King was arrested over 20 times. Jesus. And he was assaulted four different times. He received five honorary degrees and was named Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 1963.

Oh wow, that’s cool, at the age of 35, jeez, he’s done so much more than me. He became the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and he dedicated all the money that goes with the Nobel Peace Prize, it’s like $2 million, to the Civil Rights Movement. Yeah, that’s a lot of money, especially back in those days. Oh dude, he was like rich. But he was like, no. In later years of his life, Dr King encountered increasing criticism from young African-Americans, because what he favored was a, a peaceful approach, a protest through peace, of which at that time you also had the Black Panther Party.

Oh yeah, they were, they a little more violent. Yeah, you also had Malcolm X, you had his, his, uh, he was still part of black p. Yeah, and it was, his was more an assertive, we need to take our rights. Oh yeah, for sure, like, [bleep], show them, who, through whatever means necessary we take their rights. But Dr King constantly was like, that is not how we do it, we do it through peace. You know, cuz I think he also believed too that, like, everyone’s equal, white people are also equal. Yeah, like, we’re all equal, why do the same violence that we’ve been getting, that doesn’t make sense, like.

Yeah, and I think he also recognized that there were allies in the white community. Oh, there were, there’s actually, so it’s not everybody who just shoot every, or, you know, there, no, there’s a video of them when they’re walking, they’re marching down the bridge, and, like, they’re doing the whole thing, and there is, um, and there is actually quite a few, there’s quite a few white people that are marching, holding [bleep] hand in hand and [bleep]. Yeah, that’s right. So yeah, like, there weren’t, not every, and that’s why, that’s the thing that I, I personally don’t like, about how kind of things are now, where it’s, when a white people are being kind of villainized.

Yeah, you know, my dad’s [bleep] white, he’s a great guy, I [bleep] love that guy, he’s amazing, like, you know, like, he’s not a piece of [bleep]. Why, why should he, why is every, you know, anyway, I’m going, get another conspiracy going, to get into that. But well, that’s being pushed now, where it’s like, kind of like, like a taste of your own medicine type thing, right, so they’re being, it’s your. Well, sometimes I kind of feel that racism is, is very, uh, generalized, meaning, for sure. Meaning, you know, not everybody is that way, or just because of that, is the, in my, my view, the, the core problem of racism is that once you lump everybody together based on their skin, or based on whatever, that’s racism, of course it is, rather than, rather than, like, that guy’s a [bleep], that guy’s cool, yeah, that guy’s a [bleep], that guy’s cool, you know, in your specific, 100%.

And, and the fact that you can’t be, people being blamed for the, the mistakes of their ancestors, I’m like, that’s the, the most, there’s a singular most insane con. Talk, you talking about rep, reparations? Well, I mean, that’s, that’s a thing about it too, but I’m saying, like, the whole lumping people in the categories, well, all white people are piece of [bleep] because 200 years ago, you know, whatever, like, they, they own plantations, like, how could you, sorry for being born, how, like, how, how do, like, I don’t know, what, I’m 50% German, I mean, my [bleep] anest could have been, rude pie of [bleep], could super now, and we’re, you know, there’s not so many people that are, you know, only white, only black, like, there’s so much melting.

Know, now it’s going to, it’s going, the problem is going to be like, you ain’t mixed, piece of [bleep]. No, Sean’s goingon to, Sean’s going to receive reparations for his black Heritage, but then he’s going to pay reparations for his German Heritage to the Jewish community. Get Z, I’m actually, like, bre, even after tax, I’m, like, down, what the [bleep], it’s so complicated. I do think, real quick, before we continue, reparations is the stupidest thing in the world. Yeah, it’s like, cool, let’s, we’re going to print money and pay people who didn’t go through the thing. It’d be different if there was reparations in the time, if it happened at the time, sure, cuz you went, you went through it, you deserve it, like, okay, great, but, like, doing it after the fact for people who haven’t, right, didn’t go through slavery, they weren’t a slave.

Yeah, a little insane, I’m sorry, I, they think it’s a little crazy. Obviously, if it was at the time, and the, the slaves were freed, and they’re like, hey, we’re going to hit you up, this wasn’t, okay, perfect, beautiful, love it. But now, I’m sorry, you don’t deserve free money for something that didn’t have, you, you weren’t a [bleep] slave, do, I’m sorry, you weren’t. SE, Chappelle skin, yes, so great, like, the new richest man in the world, Tron, I don’t think I saw that one. To see that, he’s like a, he’s like this, baby I bought kwis, no, no, the guy’s, although it was a bit dated, no, the guy’s like the Ashy Larry, and he’s, he’s got, he’s driving like a, like a cool cigarette truck, and he’s like, the, the lady’s interview, he, like, sir, can you quit your job now as a truck driver, he’s like, truck driver, I’m a janitor, I just bought this truck.

Straight Cash, me and my, me and my family have enough cigarettes for the rest of our lives, I’m rich [bleep], I’m rich [bleep], so funny dude, it’s hilarious, it’s so stupid. Uh, uh, and then at the end of it, it’s just like, and the preparations were spent, all, it’s like, it’s gone, it’s all gone. So in response, so King, in response to the opposition and the… Uh, Black Panther Party, and the, you know, all the, that sort of thing, he endeavored to broaden his appeal beyond just the racial community and the racial issues. So he then took a public stance against the Vietnam War. Yeah, yeah, right, and this is very important for the story and the conspiracy theories that will come later.

So he took a public stance, and he publicly said, and he worked against the Vietnam War, right, and that war was [bleep], be honestly. So then, then he also worked about poverty, regardless of racial background, it was just poverty as a whole. So he was a, I mean, he was a humanitarian. Yeah, he was trying to better the United States, that’s why he was so awesome. Okay, so that is the recap of Martin Luther King Jr. You know, that’s the basic, just, most of you know this, but I just, I always like to touch back on it, like, what did he do. I feel like a lot of, a lot of the, a lot of, like, the, maybe some of our younger listeners, you know, they’re not probably not getting the, the same type, maybe education that we got, because it was closer to the time.

And, you know, right, he did, he did so much good, the guy was [bleep] awesome, absolute Legend. So, in the spring of 1968, as part of his commitment to social justice, King, along with other Southern Christian leadership, they were summoned to Memphis, Tennessee, and they were to lend support to a sanitation workers strike. Okay, so two people had died, uh, two, two black people had died under poor conditions, okay. Right, and they were given, you know, no, you know, nothing for their families, no, they were like, sorry, no workman comp, nothing, right, accidental death, in this, it was very small. White people get that, and white people got it, I think.

So yeah, yeah, and white people got it, and they got it like five times as much. So if, if, say, you know, you have an accident on the job, the black people would get two days off, while the white people would get 30. Oh wow, okay, holy [bleep], you know what I mean, and things like that. And so they became a sanitation worker strike, right. And on the night of April 3rd, 1968, King delivered a powerful speech at the Mason Temple Church in Memphis. Oh man, just, TI, it all ties together, baby. Now here’s what we’re going to do, we’re going to play a clip.

Okay, okay, this is the last speech that Dr King ever gave. Oh, we say to America, is be true to what you said on paper. If I lived in China, or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they haven’t committed themselves to that, over that. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest. Far right, so just as I say, we ar going to let any dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren’t going to let any injunction turn us around.

Well, I don’t know what will happen now, we’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. I don’t mind, like anybody, I would like to live a long life, longevity has its place, but I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will, and he’s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get that with you, but I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised [Laughter] land. So I’m happy tonight, I’m not worried about anything, I’m not fearing any man.

My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. God damn, Goosebumps. And that was the last speech that Dr King ever gave. He even says, like, I’m not worried about longevity, afraid of, I might not. Hey guys, it’s us again, you ever heard of Patreon, cuz we just started one, exclusive content, Discord, which I just still figing out, but, but you know, we get to talk, you can suggest new episodes, or just let us know something that we already talked about, and you want to get in on the conversation, we’re there for you. We’re also coming out with shirts and other merch.

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Is that crazy, we don’t, we will make it. We don’t have speakers like that anymore. No way. God, no, do have anybody that you were, imagine that. You, you know, imagine if MLK was alive today, like, running for president, it’d be like, he would get 150% of the votes, like a [bleep] landl, not wild. Yeah, like everybody from every other country be voting for him, I mean, it would be like he get 392 million vots, like, what. I love the, um, like that the, the aspect that he brings, of, like, that preacher. Oh yeah, so cool, but it’s, yeah, it’s also, like, the draw, like, he’ll, like, draw it out, and, like, it’s sucks you in more, and you’re like, oh, oh, [bleep], a remarkable speaker.

Just amazing, just remarkable. Yeah, I wish we had some, some speakers like that, it’s not like thatmore, dude, now it’s just, now it’s like just, it’s kind of just like, I feel like just like pedaling. Who do you think’s the last one to have that, like, like some sort of just motivational speaker type [bleep], and if you hear a politician it’s like, oh my God, sh yourself. Who do you think is the last one, the last great speaker? Dude, I don’t know, i’ have to think. I mean, Obama was pretty good, he’s a good speaker. That’s, that’s, that’s why, that’s why I threw that in there.

Ex, good speaker, but he’s a politician, so you don’t connect, like you connect, like, cuz, because, obviously, with him, like, he’s super charismatic, and obviously very likable, guistic, it’s different than connected, terior motives, like, it is, his motives are not really like MLK is, I don’t give a [bleep] what happen, me bro, [bleep], you feel purpose. Yeah, and Obama was like, you said, I mean, car Matic, he’s cool, every, that’s the word. Yeah, but the last one, like MLK, I don’t know, cuz Kennedy had that a little bit. Yeah, Ken did, we choose not to go to the moon because it’s hard, or whatever, all that, you know.

Yeah, and then he got nuked too. FDR had pretty good, RFK had pretty good, um, I think those, I think it’s, I think it’s whenever, whenever you can tell when they’re speaking, it’s not about self interest, it’s about, like, I, it, trying to actually do good. Yeah, I get it, and, like, that’s, you know, that’s why I think Reagan, I don’t know, I think he was just kind of, sh, pull down that wall, think he was kind of, I think he’s just too big of a dick, he was an actor, he should have been good, should have been really good. Damn it. All right, well, so that was the last speech that, that MLK ever gave, and, um, it seems like some people say that he foretold his own demise.

I mean, it’s kind of, kind of sounds like that, little, like that. Yeah, he says, I, I’ve seen the prom, imagine, like, the [bleep] threats he was getting on a daily basis, all the, his purpose, [bleep], it’s, he did survive an assassination attempt 10 years earlier. Oh, [bleep], and so it, it wasn’t like he didn’t know, experience this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s like I feel, know, man, yeah, exactly, he do God’s work. Okay, good. So the next day, at 6:00 p.m. on April 4th, King emerged from room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Downtown Memphis, as he was preparing to go to dinner at the home of Memphis Minister Samuel kyes.

Jesse Jackson, uh, Andrew Young, Ben Branch, they were in the parking lot of the motel waiting for King and Ralph abery, which he shared the room with. King bent over the railing to talk to Branch, a musician who was planning to play at the evening’s events. ky’s was on the balcony with King, and abery was still in his room. At 6:01, just, just as King was leaning over the railing, he was shot by a 30 odd 6 high-powered rifle. He fell backwards immediately. The bullet entered on the right side of his face and neck, he began bleeding profusely from the neck wound. Andrew Young was one of the first individuals to attend him, he initially thought King was dead, but he felt a pulse.

As king lay bleeding on the second floor balcony of the motel, his head was placed on a pillow, there’s a photo that you can actually see, and we’ll put it on our Patreon. As king lay bleeding on the second floor, the balcony, his head was placed on a pillow, his wound was covered with a towel, and a blanket was placed on his torso. He demonstrated some movement of his mouth, but he did not speak after the shooting, and he quickly went unconscious. 603, the shooting is radioed to Police Headquarters, so 2 minutes later. Okay, so that’s pretty fast response, I mean, I was like, it’s not like 40 minutes later, they’re like, yeah.

Oh yeah, but it only takes what, two, three minutes to bleed out. Oh dude, yeah, like I mean… Especially you get hit in a ma major artery, less you, you get like kateed artery. 30, 30 minutes. Yeah, 30 minutes. No, sorry, 30 seconds. Yeah, I was going to say, I didn’t mean 30 crar. You bleed out like instantly, you’re like dead. 608, the owner of canopy Amusement Company informs Police Headquarters that a white man had run through the alley and dropped a bundle of some kind, fleeing the scene in a white Ford Mustang. 609, barely alive, King is rushed to St Joseph’s Hospital, accompanied by abery, and escorted by several police on motorcycles.

610, the first police dispatch includes a description of a possible shooter as young white male, well-dressed, believed in late model white Mustang, going north on Main, from the scene of the shooting. So, 610. So, within 8 minutes, 8 minutes, the police dispatch did a description of possible shooter. And who, who did this, say, who the witness was, who saw this guy? The owner of canopy Amusement Company, which is nearby, saw through the alley. Okay, yeah, sure. King arrives at St Joseph’s Hospital at 616. Sus, super fast, super fast, think about it, he gets to the hospital at 6, so that he’s there within 14 minutes of the shooting.

That’s great, that’s actually a really great spons. Yeah, yeah, King arrives, he’s unconscious but he’s still alive. James R Ray, at this time, is stuck in traffic along the highway 78 heading towards Mississippi, he’s trying to go to State Line. Okay, 6:30 p.m., please find an abandoned bundle in front of canopy Amusement Company next to Bessie Brewer’s rooming house, which is where it’s believed the shot was fired. I’m sorry, I was going to say, like, man, they, the names back in the day were the great canopy [bleep] entertainment company in Bessie’s [bleep] Brewer house. Bessie, Bessie’s Brewer house, what the [bleep], I’m going, go get me a beer at the bety Brewer house.

B, Bessie’s, Bessie’s Brewers rooming house. Y, at 6:30, please find the abandoned bundle in front of the Amusement Company next to the Bessie Brewer rooming house, and the bundle contains a rifle, binoculars, clothing, the Commercial Appeal newspaper story that reveals King’s location at the hotel. That’s a little too convenient, it’s like, oh [bleep], his ID, yeah, like, like, home address, two beer cans, and a radio. So that’s what’s in the bundle, why would you just, it’s super sketch, why would you throw that on the floor? It’s so obvious, it’s like a little note, build MLK, it’s like a selfie with, isn’t that crazy? It’s so ridiculous, it’s like, okay, I’m going to bundle up every piece of evidence, and I’m going to drop it right here.

Yeah, right here, how stupid can you be. But the thing is, that he’s got the, he’s got the getaway car, he can just, like, throw it in the trunk of the getaway car. No, that’s stupid, why would I do that. Police investigate the rooming house and identify a John Willard in room 5B, who drives also a white Ford Mustang. M, by this time, which is 6:30 p.m., Ray is in Mississippi. 7:05 p.m., Dr King is pronounced dead at Jo St Joseph’s Hospital. 8:15 p.m., the bundle left behind by the as salent is handed over to the FBI. Oh great, but the exactly perfect hands you want that in.

Memphis Police broadcast their information, and the man hunt for the king’s assassin begins. Despite the proximity of Mississippi and Arkansas, the Memphis Police broadc C fail to alert these states as where the alleged assassin could be. Does that make sense, like, they’re L touching them, they’re like, yeah, you know, how close, they’re like, check the Carolinas. Yeah, I don’t know, I don’t know if you know how close is Memphis is to the state line. No, it, it’s literally it’s, it’s like an hour, 45 minutes, that’s right. Yeah, it’s like it’s really close, stupidly close. So they basically put out an alert for just Tennessee, but by this time he was already in Alabama.

Mississippi, Mississippi, if you look, so Memphis is down here, and it’s like, literally, it’s like, I’ve actually worked on for clients I have in that area, and they’ll commute there to go to [bleep] work. Yeah, yeah, okay. So, uh, by this time, now James Ray has traveled into Alabama, where he will empty the Mustang of his belongings, except for the bundle. He’s going to leave the bundle in the middle of the street, dumping his expensive film equipment and other things into a ditch by the side of the road. See, that’s okay, I’m sorry, like, look how, out, how ridiculous that is, I’m, I’m going to wait to dump my expensive film equipment and thing, but the murder weapon I’m going to dump at the scene, at the scene, what the [bleep], and like beer cans, sh, what the [bleep].

By this time, race riots break out across major neighborhoods in 110 cities. Oh dude, just across everywhere, right. Yeah, la riot psych, this, like [bleep] madness. Just over a 48 hour period, over a thousand people are injured, and 6,100 people are arrested across the United States. Dude, that’s wild. President Lyndon Johnson, at the time, declared a state of emergency, and 4,000 National Guardsmen move into Memphis to maintain order. Ramsey Clark of the justice department and several FBI agents then traveled to Memphis. The investigation will turn into the FBI’s largest ever at that time, costing 2 million, in more than 3500 investigators. Jesus. The FBI Trac the rifle they found in the bundle, in the bundle, on the doorstep of the [bleep] FL to aeromarine supply in Birmingham, Alabama, and finds the receipt signed by a harvey low.

Ray is still on the loose, just, he’s in Cali now, he’s just [bleep] homie. Drives to Atlanta on back roads and abandons his white Mustang after wiping it clear of all fingerprints. After retrieving a few things from his room at the Flop House on Peach Street Street, the Flop House, back to the names, picking up his clothes from pedmont laundry, Ray then boards a Greyhound bus to Detroit, Michigan. Wow, okay. April 6th, from Detroit, Ray takes a taxi across the Canadian border. This guy’s everywhere, godd damn. Okay, I mean, this guy’s like [bleep], what’s his, uh, what’s his face, who, looking the JFK, I know, he’s like, he in Russia.

Yeah, no, he’s way better than Lee Harvey. Le Harvey went to a movie theater and jerked off. Lee Harvey’s like, Lee Harvey went to the, went to CI head headquarters, I did it. Why aren’t you Consulting me on this? Jesus Christ, man. Uh, April 7th, movie theater, in, across me, Debbie Does Dallas Dallas, so [bleep] stupid, that’s so dumb. Uh, April 7th, president Lyndon Johnson decrees April 7th to be a day of mourning. King’s body is viewed by mourners at Spellman College in Atlanta. April 8th, King’s widow, Kida, uh, King, and dozens of national figures lead a peaceful Memorial March through downtown Memphis, and tribute to Dr King in support of the sanitation workers.

Oh, that’s right, the strike’s still going on. [bleep] yeah, exactly. Oh wow, yeah, it’s probably still going on now, they’re never going to give up. On April 8th, uh, Ry attempts to get a Canadian passport, and his goal was to fly to Ria, now Zimbabwe, a segregated country he sees as a place of Refuge, which will be protected and celebrated for his deed. Oh wow, so he’s going back to like [bleep], like, what, he’s going to Ria, what the [bleep]. April 9th, uh, Dr King’s funeral is held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 50,000 people attend in atanta, that’s a lot, 50,000. Yeah, wow. April 6th to April 10th, from the evidence left behind in the bundle, the FBI believed the killing was a conspiracy between three men, Eric G, Harvey L, and John Willard.

So at that time the FBI thought it was a conspiracy between three people, because remember how we defined a conspiracy, is, like, anything two or more, two or more people conspiring to, to commit a crime, literally, conspiracy. The FBI traces laundry tags on, on his shirt and shorts to the Home Service Laundry in LA, who tells them the name on the receipt is Eric G. They also trace a pair of pliers to ROM page Hardware [bleep] pliers, which are two blocks away from that laundry place. So, April 11th, they started investigating Eric GT, because, and the FBI finds a white Ford Mustang registered to Eric G in Atlanta parking lot.

Who is John G? Yeah, the FBI realized the car was serviced in La the previous February. So this is that place that they connected in an LA. Yeah, yeah, okay good, I love it’s like, back in, like, you, it’s before, like, technology, and you’re tracing down [bleep] receipts, like [bleep] paper receipts. Further investigation into Eric G takes investigators to Birmingham, Alabama, where neighbors reveal that GT took dancing lessons, and this information, when coupled with the fact that G’s Mustang was traced to La, LED investigators to a photograph of Eric G at a dance studio in La. Can’t trust him, just giving you all the, the data here.

Yeah, dancer, you can sala dance, you just can’t. Yeah, no, it’s like this guy’s Prim. April 12th, the FBI gets a photo of Eric G from the International School of bartending investigators, this guy’s like a [bleep], make a movie about this guy. Investigators examine all money orders recently purchased in LA, and finds one from G to the locksmithing Institute. The FBI discovers that Ray completed his first locksmithing lesson in Montreal, later in Atlanta, where the local address is listed. He went to the bartending school, an international bartending school, lock smithing Institute, professional Sals. So, searching G’s room, now in Atlanta, the FBI finds an Atlanta map with pencil marking, showing that he was stalking King’s movements.

Four places are circled on the map, Ebenezer Baptist Church, the headquarters of the, the Christian Movement, King’s home, and Capitol homes housing projects. The map also provided detectives with their first clear thumb print. M, the FBI, on a April 17th, the FBI issued a fugitive warrant for Eric G. They published the bartending photo of Eric G, announcing that the man is wanted in connection with the assassination. Investigators have begun to believe that the one man, using various aliases, committed the murder. So, instead of all these three different people, oh, was this one dude, with, one dude, just… Doing different names, I know, cuz, like, back in the day, it’s, you know, probably.

Yeah, it’s like people, like, sure, yes. Yeah, I would like a credit card with his name. Okay, so investigators, uh, believe that, and so what Hoover ordered, that fingerprint comparisons were done to all known fugitives in the country, which at the time was a collection of 53,000 prints. Oh my God, you know how long that must have take, there was no like codus. So the next day, the next day, FBI detectives began manually matching fingerprints, and that’s, oh dude, when they, they, when they got to the 700th fingerprint, they came across a match, James Earl Ray. How do you manually match a fingerprint, dude? There’s like a whole technique to it, it’s like a whole, it’s like the, the rides in the, it sounds like, gotta, like, look at it under a microscope and, like, [bleep] match it up and see.

I feel like that’s crazy, I feel like when you were doing, in my eye, like, there’s probably room for error, like, I’m going, I’m going, need, I’m going to need a computer to verify this [bleep]. 100%, need AI to take over. So the FBI immediately distributed Ray’s name and mug shot on posters around the, the country, and announced the fact that Eric G is actually James rol Reay. Okay, yeah, yeah. Investigators also included Mexico and Canada authorities in the case, but not Alabama, so the FBI had historical evidence showing that, that he did visit both countries, so then they put out the alert to those countries as well, those.

Yeah, yeah, so April 21st, the ABC show called The FBI, which is a rad show, it’s called The FBI, broadcast a short appeal for public assistance in the Fugitive investigation of James Earl Ray. Now I just want to re, some cash, at least, we’re at April 21st. M, do you guys remember when he died? Nth. Oh no, the 9th was his funeral, right, he died on April 4th. Yeah, yeah, so think about this, somebody killed MLK, and there was nobody, and we’re, we’re talking about the 19th and 21st, so it’s like, literally, like, two weeks, two weeks later. F, that’s fast. Two weeks later, no, no, not fast, there’s a fugitive on the loose.

No, my thing is, I’m just saying, like, this is C, back in the day, this is like, dude, this is like, no technology, like, no [bleep] cell phones. Yeah, that’s true, it’s, oh, there’s somebody post onst on Instagram and a Denny’s [bleep] Arkansas, like. Well, maybe you’ll change your tune after a little bit more of the story, okay sir. So the ABC show did it on April 21st, and they did a little blur before it. April 24th comes around, Ry obtains a passport from Canada under the name of George Sneed, and purchases a roundtrip ticket from Toronto to London. You imagine, get, you imagine getting a passport, like, my name is this, they’re like, what, checks out, yeah, issue it, no way to verify this, go ahead sir, let me stamp you.

May 6th, May 6th, okay, Ray flies to London, and then exchanges his return ticket to Canada for a new ticket to Portugal, his ultimate destination is Rhodesia, Africa, where he wants to be a mercenary. May 7th, Ray arrives in, be a mercenary Ray, May 7th, Ray arrives in Portugal and learns he had missed a boat to Africa by two days. Damn it. May 9th, the FBI trail has turned cold, and after more than a month of frustration they consider microphon Ray’s family, so his brothers and sisters. May 17th, Ray returns to London looking for a new way into Rhodesia, and he’s out of money, it was, it was like the only, the one boat in the lifetime that goes to R.

So what, what does he decide to do? He Robs a jewelry store in London, genius. This guy can’t miss, like, what, he don’t miss, don’t miss, he don’t miss. May 27th, Ray attempts to Rob Paddington jewelry store, and after encountering unexpected resistance from the owner, Ray takes off down the street. Without any, unexpected, like, give me the money, like, guys, like, [bleep] off, [bleep], [bleep]. June 1st, after looking at 170,000 passport applications, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police find a match between the photograph of Eric G and an application for George Sneed. Shout out for the Royal Canadian Mounted, I literally feel like they were looking through the passports on horseback.

Investigators tracked the information on the passport to 962 dunda Street, where Ray had used the Alias Paul Bridgman before he left the country. Sneed’s passport enabled investigators to then track Ray’s trail from Toronto to London to Portugal and back to London. The FBI releases Ray’s name and updated list of aliases to airports around the world, and he is put on the watch and detain list. I mean, he’s, this guy’s like Alias God, like, I don’t know, say, like, these names sound pretty leg. Know, I’d be like Smith, my name is Peter Piper. [bleep] damn it, literally, I would have be like the worst at making up these names.

June 4th, June 4th, Ray attempts to rob a bank in England. He’s like, I need to step my game, I got, I got, I got a little bit more resistance at the jewel store, going to go like next level. But the robbery is botched when the bank toer accidentally kicks metal box, and Ray thought it was a gunshot, so he ducked and he ran from the bank, only, only stealing 95 pounds, which at the time was $200. Got, I’m out, [bleep] this. June 8th, London Heathrow Airport, Ray attempts to buy a ticket on European Airways to Brussels. An immigration officer spots raised two passports, and concern, says H, and he finds that George Sneed was on the watch and detain list.

He’s quickly arrested, and the FBI immediately begins process for extradition. Yeah, how did he get so many passports, how is this [bleep]? B, the system was so laxed. Good question, they didn’t give a [bleep]. June 11th, Ray protest extradition, so June 27th, Ray attends his extradition Hearing in London, and preliminary evidence is laid out against him. The United States is then granted extradition on July 3rd. So from April to July, that’s when we got him, basically. Uh, July 8th, journalist William Bradford strikes a deal with Arthur Haynes, an Alabama defense attorney, in which Bradford provide the money for raises defense, in exchange for exclusive rights for a book.

Of course. God, there you go, of course. July 19th, he arrives to Memphis in a full bulletproof vest and, and safety, heavy Kevlar pants. Better, don’t shoot my legs. Yeah, yeah. November 10th, after R, many people wanted to [bleep] kill him, show up, every, every africanamerican is on Earth. So his, his original assigned attorney is named Haynes, and so on, November 10th, after Ry learned that Haynes believed that Ry faces no chance of winning, Ry fired his attorney. Yeah, two days later, in an interview for Look magazine, Ry alleges that a fellow con man named Raul was the perpetrator and actual Assassin of Dr King.

Ra, and Ray argues that he was the getaway driver. Oh, he was in, like, the, that’s very important for our next few episodes, or a couple, or episodes, he has this guy named Raul that he says was rul. Yeah, a Latina wouldn’t have done that. So February, I’m G tell you right now, is like, I am r, that is not how I went down. So February 11th, Ray hires Percy Foreman as his new attorney, and he’s a Texas lawyer who’s famous for defend fending 778 accused murders, a murderers, and successfully acquitting 705 of them. That’s an impressive R, like 90%, that’s amazing, record, holy [bleep].

Yeah, however, after listening to his client for 30 hours, Foreman tells Ry that his case is hopeless. You’re [bleep], you don’t, no, no, you don’t understand, let me tell you again, it was MLK, you idiot, like you’re [bleep]. So Ry agrees to plead guilty. Okay, okay, mhm. March 10th, the 69, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to killing Martin Luther King Jr, he’s sentenced to 99 years. Okay, March 13th, life, I mean, that’s pretty much life. March 13th, just say life. March 13th, 1969, 3 Days Later, Ry recants his plea, claims he was coerced into giving a guilty plea, and James R Ray will maintain his innocence for the rest of his life.

Okay, but, but, but, he was already convicted, or what? I, I, he, he said, he’s guilty, like, he, he entered, he ended, pleed guilty, and they gave him 99 years, it’s like, so they already had given him the 99 9 years, but then afterwards, after the fact, I was coerced, three days later he recants. April 17th, which is a month later, he files a petition for a new trial, was denied, of course he was, they were like, no, we’re not, like the Justice system’s like, we’re not going to open this can of worms, bro, you’re F. May 1971, he plants a dummy in his bunk bed, how did he get a dummy, Ray attempts to escape prison through a steam tunnel, he’s caught Midway.

How did he get a dummy, that’s the crazy, that’s a whole other Story, how they get anything in prison, a whole story, where’s the steam tunnel, how the [bleep] is going on right now, it’s like sh Shank Redemption. So that was May 71. February 72, Ray attempts to escape again when he’s caught cutting a hole through a ceiling near his work area, he gets caught again, this guy is [bleep]. Between 74 and 78, he appeals four different courts to have a, a trial, uh, he’s denied every time. Yeah, they’re like, [bleep] off, yeah, yeah, out of here. June 10th, 1977, Ray escapes from prison. No way, he actually got out, holy [bleep], successfully.

Holy [bleep], using a makeshift ladder to scale 14 High foot prison wall. 3 Days Later, he’s captured, and a year, just one year, is added to his sentence, making it a 100 years. I know, they’re like, we like, One Day More, [bleep] it. Godamn it. August 16th, why not life, come on. 1978, Ray testifies before the house select committee on assassinations. After careful review of the Evidence, the committee will conclude that Ry acted alone, despite circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy. Well, one quick thing on the Jorge’s point… Is like, you know, why didn’t they give him life, but, like, why do they give people, like, we give them three consecutive life sentences, I’m like, that’s so unne, like, why, it doesn’t, that’s the point of it, it doesn’t make any, it doesn’t, like, make it.

Yeah, got him. Yeah, why, I, when he, when he lives again. August 10th, August 10th, 1979, after a meeting with Ry and his new attorneys, Reverend Jesse Jackson and James Lawson, they announced they do not believe Ray was responsible for. Wait, Jackson? Yep, they don’t believe that, do, that he was respons for. Wow, okay, this is a, this is a huge turn here, we got Jesse Jackson, [bleep], got his back. 1979, James R Reay again escapes. Dude, this guy, wow, and he got a slap on the wrist, he escapes from prison, they took five years off of s. He being so [bleep] good at, know, like, amazing, he had escaped his, I don’t want to see, he escaped prison, he escaped his cell, and he was scaling the wall.

M, this guy, then he had to crawl along the base of the prison wall under a camouflage blanket when the guards caught him. I mean, this guy, you got to give, you got to give him style points, I mean, like, unbelievable. Yeah, December 1993, he’s like 70. J Lloyd Jowers, the owner of Jim’s grill that overlooks Lorraine Motel, states that he was part of conspiracy to kill Dr King, on ABC’s Prime Time Live. Jyrus claims Mobsters gave him 100 $1,000 to plan King’s assassination, and that someone other than Ry fired the shot that killed the Civil Rights leader. A subsequent investigation by the FBI ruled that Jar’s claims had no merit whatsoever.

Yeah, sure, FBI. December 96, debilitated by kidney and liver disease, Reay is hospitalized 15 times, and then slipped into a coma. Ah, [bleep], yeah, from all of his [bleep] escape attemp. Jesus Christ, some guys climbing mountains. Apparently he was stabbed multiple times times in prison, and James earol Reay, on April 23rd, 1998, died from kidney and liver disease at age 70, because he contracted epitus C from the blood transfusions. Oh wow, great, know that, the super hygiene [bleep]. So, in December of 1999, Loretta Scott King announced that she believes that Ray did not act alone. What, the, the K, the horn, ketta Scott King testified in trial, and it was a lawsuit that she, she brought forth, which is a wrongful death lawsuit against this guy who said that he was paid $100,000 to it, remember, the MERS were, of which the lawsuit ended with the claim being awarded to the family, of which was $100.

Wait, so Keda got 100 bones? Yeah, that’s all she was suing for. She was suing for the point, though, she was suing for the point of it, compared to the money, does that make sense? Sure, I mean, 100, it’s almost like, it’s like, it’s almost slap in the face. Yeah, 50 bucks. So, in June of 2000, us attorney general Janet Reno conducted the fourth investigation into raise appeal, but it was found no evidence of conspiracy, or any reason to reopen the case. I mean, I mean, okay, but to this day the King Family believes that he did not do it, in that, Andor, he was part of a big conspiracy to kill Luther King that he didn’t have anything to do with it, or that he wasn’t the one that pulled the trigger.

Wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger, or he’s just part of the, the whole conspiracy. Maybe he was the, the, the Wheelman, like he said. Yeah, yeah, you know, he did have the car registered in his fake name. Yeah, but if he was the Wheelman, I mean, does it sound like a, like a rule would do that, like, with, like, no, I’m just saying. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it sounds like, it sounds like, it sounds like a r would drop the murder weapon in the middle of [bleep] street, that sounds like a r thing to me, such a dumb Mo. Well, see, cuz, that, to me, that’s, that is the single thing that’s on, like, if that wasn’t happened, I might be like, it might be.

Yeah, yeah, his guys probably did it. Well, why is he running, and also, why is he going to Africa? He thinks he’s going to be, like, a god, in, like, the land of the black people, like, what the [bleep]. Yeah, you know, I’m going to give you a little bit of a teaser for next time, one thing that Eric said is that, wanted to go over there, he will be celebrated, no, he said, where he will be celebrated for his deed, so it’s like, what, they’re going to celebrate that he did that? It makes no sense. Maybe it’s like a thing of, like, there’s, like, n, and virgins waiting for you, like, in rodia.

No, I mean, I think the idea was, is that in that part of the world segregation was still a thing, yeah, and MLK was against it, so it was, you know, it still seems super RAC, super far. I know, it’s like, it’s pretty much, they might as well told, you’re going to go, trust me bro, you’re k k, and you’re going to go to [bleep], where’s, uh, where’s, where’s Thor from, [bleep] Asgard, go to [bleep] asard, go to valala, brother, they’re gonna [bleep] praise you. But, uh, so next episode we are going to do it, it’s a majority of it is on James Earl Ray, right, and just a little bit of a teaser on here.

Uh, and I didn’t bring it up in this episode, but at the time of Martin Luther King’s death, he had escaped from prison already, see, this guy is like [bleep], the time of his death. Okay, so he had, he was an escape, C, he’s escaped artist, like, when MLK died, he’s out of control, this James Earl Ray guy is out of control. I mean, I’m actually, it’s guy, I’m kind of impressed, [bleep] impressive, like, how are you able to escape that many, real life sha shank. I know, sha Shank Redemption guy. Anyways, that’s, uh, that’s, that’s episode one, MLK. All right, well, we’re, get into more, I, I don’t want to talk anymore.

I’ll, it was a lot of info too, like, all, all at once, but I wanted to tell the story, everybody knows, it was good to, to get these details, you know, a lot of this, it’s also fresh recap, you know, that’s fresh hot recap. Yeah, exactly, yeah, I think it’s good. Next episode we’re going to do all about James Earl Ray, and his trials, and, uh, you know, who he was, and, and also, do you remember when we did JFK episodes, the first two episodes were about the Warren Commission? Yeah, yeah, so the next episode is about, they have a similar thing, but it’s just shorter, the Earl Ray commission, the Earl Ray commission.

We promise it’s not going to be three episodes of the war, the Warr commission, like, be, it’s going to be half an episode, and it’s just about what they found in the investigation. Yeah, got it, you know, because then we can go from there and go, okay, what do we think happen, what’s going, what we, what’s, exactly, exactly. So there you go guys, well, thanks for tuning in, y’all, um, we’re happy to be back, hopefully you guys are happy to be hearing us again. I know, we’re going to have a nice steady flow of content now. Oh, thank God, that’s right. M, that’s right, and happy Martin Luther King Jr day.

Yeah, seriously, the man, the myth, the legend, like, regardless of anything, I think every human alive can be like, MLK was the [bleep], he was kind of an amazing guy. You know, a cool exercise is, uh, going, listening to his non-f famous speeches. I have not done that, I should, like, there’s, I have a dream, and, you know, everybody listens to that in school and all that stuff, but if you go listen to his other ones, they’re probably amazing, amazing, spacular, played, never listen to that one, seen the mountain top. I’m like, oh my God, they’re inspirational, they’re moving, they’re all the things. So, uh, you know, check it out, there you go, do your [bleep], get into history.

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