Witnesses (for the most part) do not quibble on the number of shots fired, or from the originating area. In comparison to the earlier assassination of President Kennedy, the questions surrounding the murder of Dr. King to fire a shot with a scope-equipped high-powered rifle that would have dropped an elk at the same distance. Or it could be that a black-hating sociopath with delusions of grandeur managed to get himself close enough to Dr. It could be that he was an unwitting pawn in a plan that involved agents of the highest levels of government, up to and including the Johnson White House. Maybe he was in Memphis on April 4 but didn't fire the shot. Perhaps Ray was a patsy for a wide-reaching conspiracy. Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, and second, was the assassination the culmination of a conspiracy to silence the leader of America's non-violent civil rights and anti-war movement? There are a number of different possible answers. There are two issues here that need to be examined. Dexter King met with the man convicted of killing his father and later said he believed Ray was not the shooter. King's family believes that Martin was killed as the result of a conspiracy involving government officials. I think it's naïve to assume these institutions were not capable of doing the same thing at home or to say each of these deaths (King and the two Kennedys) was an isolated incident by 'a single assassin.' It was government policy."Įven Dr. It was during the period just before Allende's murder. "You have to remember this was a time when the politics of assassination was acceptable in this country. "I've always thought the FBI might be involved in some way," he said. Ambassador to the United Nations and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young believes the government was responsible for King's death, as well. Martin Luther King Jr.," he wrote in the forward to James Earl Ray's autobiography Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.? Former U.S. Jesse Jackson says it's a plot: "I have always believed that the government was part of a conspiracy, either directly or indirectly, to assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., kill the most influential civil rights leader of the era and evade an international manhunt for more than two months, only to be busted by Scotland Yard going through a customs checkpoint he wasn't supposed to be at. There is no way that James Earl Ray, the high-school dropout, Army throw-away, petty thief could stalk Dr. It's almost too perfect because nobody would be that stupid. Information about image downloads and licensing is available here.A racist petty criminal looking to make a name for himself stalks a well-protected black civil rights leader and finally slays him, then manages to make an almost-clean getaway - but not before dropping the murder weapon (with prints) and his personal radio with his prison ID engraved on it. To help improve this record, please email. Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. Made 1968 Medium Gelatin silver print Dimensions Image: 17.9 × 21.9 cm (7 1/16 × 8 5/8 in.) Paper: 20.5 × 22.5 cm (8 1/8 × 8 7/8 in.) Credit Line Purchased with funds provided by Artworkers Retirement Society Reference Number 2014.74 Extended information about this artwork Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. Status Currently Off View Department Photography and Media Title Window from which Shot was Fired at King Place Memphis (Object made in) Dateĭates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Unlike most newspaper images related to the event-including undoctored pictures of the immediate aftermath of the assassination, the mourning, and the riots that followed-this photograph has been heavily overpainted to produce an eerily dramatic image from the killer’s point of view. This press photograph was taken three days after the shooting, from the room in a boarding house where James Earl Ray aimed his gun at King as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, shocked the nation and was a defining event for the civil rights movement.
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