{"id":182478,"date":"2019-01-21T06:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182478"},"modified":"2019-01-23T06:08:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:08:14","slug":"did-memphis-police-fbi-set-up-mlk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182478","title":{"rendered":"Did Memphis Police & FBI Set Up MLK?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henry Makow Ph.D. \u2013 henrymakow.com Jan 21, 2019<\/strong>
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated at approximately the same place. From left are Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, King and Ralph Abernathy. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Monday is Martin Luther King Day,<\/strong> ommemorating the civil rights leader who was assassinated April 4, 1968.<\/h5>\n
When I saw this picture, I wondered who had lured MLK on to the balcony where he was a sitting duck? Was it a photographer? A little investigation revealed that this picture of King surrounded by (l to r) Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Abernathy was taken April 3, the day before his murder.\u00a0\u00a0Also, this was not “a balcony” but the front entrance to the Lorraine Motel rooms.<\/h5>\n
King originally had a ground floor room.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>“I don’t know that it makes any difference now, but that room downstairs in the corner had originally been his room,” his associate Andrew Young recalled<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
“And the Memphis Police asked the hotel manager could they move him upstairs because they thought they could protect him better upstairs than on the ground floor. Nobody was complaining or anything, but he couldn’t have been shot in that downstairs room.”<\/strong><\/h5>\n
“The police were all over on the other street and they were running toward us with their guns drawn and we were saying, ‘The shot came from over there,'” Young recalled. “Instead of going to where the shot came from, they were coming to see about us.”<\/h5>\n
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Witnesses point to the direction of the gunfire that killed MLK. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

After the shooting, the police would not let anyone leave the Lorraine. Clara Ester,\u00a0the black girl in the foreground, was furious; they should be looking for whoever shot King, not quizzing them. “Why are y’all questioning us?” she demanded of one white officer<\/span>.<\/a> “We didn’t do it. Y’all did it!”<\/h5>\n
Unknown to her, Clara was photographed standing next to James Orange by Joseph Louw, who was doing a documentary on MLK for the precursor of PBS. The iconic picture of witnesses pointing in the direction of the shooter is sometimes attributed to\u00a0Ernest Withers, a prominent civil rights movement photographer.<\/h5>\n
Withers had been at his Beale Street studio when he heard King was shot. He ran to the Lorraine, where he met Louw and took him back to his darkroom to develop his film before returning to the Lorraine.<\/h5>\n
Over the next few days, rioting erupted in dozens of cities. Now, federal officials pressured the city of Memphis to settle the sanitation workers strike which had brought King to Memphis. On April 16, the strike ended with the recognition of the workers’ union and wage increases.<\/h5>\n

FBI INFORMANT<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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