The King family has said for decades that Ray did not do the crime, that it was an act of state. Dexter King met with Ray in prison and accepted his declaration of innocence. Ray never had a trial, he was pressured into making a guilty verdict (to avoid the electric chair) and immediately realized he had made a mistake. The King family asked their close friend William Pepper to help with their investigations and later, Pepper represented Ray in his unsuccessful effort to get a trial before Ray died in prison. In 1999, the King family filed a lawsuit in Memphis against one of the minor conspirators, Lloyd Jowers, and the three weeks of testimony in the trial is compelling. It's also twenty seven hundred pages in the transcript. I read most of them years ago and found it very convincing. Not a "theory." After MLK was killed, Ray managed to use aliases in Canada of people who superficially resembled him, which would have required access to government databases. Ray was a small time criminal, and holding up liquor stores would not give him this ability. MLK was martyred because he was connecting the dots between civil rights, the war on Vietnam, imperialism and economic injustice.
I agree totally! I posted this on face book on the national holiday honoring ML King: Today is the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King felled by an assassin’s bullet in 1968, a man who stood for peace and unity. Was King killed by a conspiracy or a lone assassin? Then examine the following facts: The accused and convicted assassin James Earl Ray was an escaped convict on the run having escaped from a penitentiary supposedly in a food truck delivering to that prison. But the warden of that prison became richer from $20,000.00 deposit to his back account from unknown means. How did Ray get the financial means to travel throughout the USA and even Canada ending up in Montreal where he claimed he met a man named Raul who gave him money and transportation means for vague and unclear purpose. How did he end up in a rooming house conveniently located adjacent to the Hotel where King was staying in Memphis Tennessee, where he (King) was there to mediate a sanitation strike? And that rooming house, where Ray was at street level basically to the left of the upper balcony where King had stepped out to smoke a cigarette, while those who were with King, pointed to the upper right to a slight hill elevation where they heard the shot came from. Why was there a bathtub under the window where supposedly Ray fired the fatal shot? And also a tree blocking the view that was mysteriously cut down before that day ended and James Earl Ray even left evidence in a package including the rifle and even hair samples. Also how did a functionally illiterate grade school dropout, career petty criminal, have the means to fly to Portugal, live there for two months, and end up in London where alert police agents arrested him at Heathrow Airport with a fake Canadian passport, under the name of Eric Gault, who resembled James Earl Ray, a Canadian intelligence agent, with papers to emigrate the Rhodesia, where the USA did not have diplomatic relations because of that government’s racial apartheid policies and where extradition was a funny American word. Why was papers found on his person linked to a bank account in Switzerland and the financial amount in that mysterious account never even alluded to? How was he convinced to plead guilty, avoiding a trail, where he then recanted his story saying that the mysterious Raul set him up to take the blame. Why did King’s widow and his surviving children say that they believed his story? Then he mysteriously die of cancer. Was ML King killed by a lone assassin or a conspiracy, make up your own mind. RIP Dr. King RIP ………………
@@andrewellisonlee lol great answer. Not. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. "Look it up" is not evidence. You're just being a lazy conspiracy theorist
A career criminal like Ray spins a lot of time tracking King and planning his killing and executing his plan without someone paying him money. That has never been logical to me.
Ever. There was a mock trial performed with a real judge and law students on this in the late 90's. The court came to the conclusion there was no way he could have done it. The man just escaped from Prison. HOW MANY ESCAPED CONS ARE GONNA TAKE TIME TO PERFORM ONE OF THE GREATEST ASSASSINATIONS IN THE 20TH CENTURY!?!?!!
What exactly, if anything is logical? Woman driving pickup trucks? Of coarse that one is logical. Theyre easier to drive, handle better, are more convenient for groceries. Easier to maneuver in parking lots. Hell pick-ups even safely fit more children in them.
@@slimmyhendrix4067 so did sixty million other people. Con on the run ain't taking time to do that. And sure as hell ain't gonna know someone like Kings itinerary.
@@jasonkeighin9401 I was on the run for 9 yrs before slipping up. You'd be surprised how comfortable u get after getting an ID with your pic n someone else's info. Especially outta town
It actually does. To him MLK wasn't special. He was just another person from race he hated. It seems as though what he is saying is something like "Why would I hate one more than another when I hate them all equally?"
@Ken Caisse Simon didn't miss that point. He knew the significance, and that's why he knew he could make the 50k for assissinating him. At least to me it seemed like Simon was saying he didn't hate MLK more than any other black person, but was aware that due to his importance he could make money killing him. Being a racist makes it easier to pull the trigger and feel nothing.
What is it with assassins in the 1960's buying guns at stores, keeping the receipts, and then just throwing the gun away where it could be easily found? Same thing happened to Lee Harvey Oswald.
The FBI doesn't really need to put much effort in making their falsified evidence look real, because they're a branch of government that can steer the investigation. Although I don't really think JFK was assassinated by the FBI; MLK's entire family, the city of Memphis, and pretty much everyone who's read more on his assassination as well as Fred Hampton's seriously believe he was assassinated in a conspiracy orchestrated by the FBI.
@@Ah_Yote Yep. Eisenhower's warning, then JFK, MLK, RFK. This country is just a big scam now. This is why the founders warned us to never allow the federal government to become powerful, or for there to be a federal standing army.
Me too, because I don't believe it. There is way too much evidence to the contrary. The King family won their civil suit using that evidence and that's enough proof for me to believe our government was involved.
If that were true then all we'd need to do to alleviate violence is share knowledge. That obviously doesn't happen. I suspect violence is typically more about competition for resources.
For those who don't know, an army marksmanship badge is the lowest you can get and still qualify. That's 23-29 hits out of a possible 40, the same ranking as Lee Harvey Oswald, on his last qualification in the USMC( though the Marine scoring is different, the awards are the same) ie marksman, sharpshooter and expert. He was far from a good shot. Not contributing to any conspiracy theories, just sharing information.
I saw the range from his area to the motel balcony where MLK walked out and stood. For one, I can't believe he not only made the shot, but was able to assess the target AS MLK. There was a large crew and they were all dress in a similar way. He also had access to money to get to Canada, and then Europe, and keep travelling. If he hadn't gone back to England he'd probably not been even caught.
@@thedwightguy I heard someone say that about how was he to know who mlk was.. and the shooter was told mlk is the only one wearing a tie out on the balcony . And if you look at photos of his assassination. Sure enough he's the only one with a tie
@@low-keyrighteous9575 thanks; it still was a hell of a shot and dependent on a LOT of outright luck, both from where he was shooting, a boarding residence, AND a public motel with all sorts of goings on.
King's family didn't believe Ray was guilty, rather he was the patsy. The owner of the restaurant below Ray's room, Loyd Jowers, claimed he'd been part of the conspiracy. A civil court agreed, awarding a nominal sum to King's estate. King's family attended Ray's funeral
@@josephmass3052 Yeah i did a little digging and found some info pointing to trained snipers from the marine corps... the mis/disinformation on these kinda subjects is so complex.. makes you wonder how we're ever expected to get ahead of all the bull
Two Kennedy brothers (of four; the first dying in war). Don't forget the fourth, the one who left a woman to drown. I'm still convinced Teddy killed his brothers thinking he would become President. The woman was just to see if he could do it.
You are right and you might think about Onassis who wound up with Jackie Kennedy was a known mafia figure. Could he have wanted the Kennedy Liquor franchise and made a deal with old Joe Kennedy. Except that old Joe Kennedy double crossed him and that is what got John Kennedy killed.
"In honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.’s memory we also acknowledge non-violence as a truly powerful weapon to achieve equality and liberation--in fact, the only weapon that Christians who struggle for social change can claim as their own...Examine history. Who gets killed in the case of violent revolution? The poor, the workers. The people of the land are the ones who give their bodies and don’t really gain that much for it. We believe it is too big a price to pay for not getting anything. Those who espouse violence exploit people. To call men to arms with many promises, to ask them to give up their lives for a cause and then not produce for them afterwards, is the most vicious type of oppression" *---Cesar Chavez, He Showed Us The Way*
I think you should have lead that closing statement with something about how it's only sources that claim the FBI has evidence of Dr. King's alleged misconduct. Instead of presenting that as factually certain.
Even the people closest to mlk at the time said he was involved in that stuff. Why would the people closest to him make that up. Plus they have tapes audio recorded of him doing nefarious stuff.
You want me to believe that a guy who FELL OUT the getaway car while driving away from a robbery masterminded the killing of MLK? I like the story of the 3 bears better
So it wasn't a Memphis Police sharp shooter firing from the bushes besides Jim's Bar and Grill? (Bushes that were cut down and completely removed without a trace remaining by the next morning.) According to the Judge in the King Civil lawsuit of 1999, the rifling on the bullet does not match that of the rifle show cased in the MLK museum. King was alive in the emergency room before being smothered with a pillow by Dr. Breen Bland. *It's Dr. Pepper's time!*
Eric Harris - genius level IQ caught red handed going through stolen items on side of road. Unabomber- genius level IQ, caught by releasing his own manifesto with statements that he was well known to use. Ted bundy- high IQ, caught because he used his real name and car in all attempted murders. Nooo falling out of a car during a high stress robbery completely exonerated him 😂 how could he pull a trigger if he made one mistake in his life? 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Thank you, Simon _et al,_ for this informative and useful video. - I can just add that James Earl Ray learned one useful thing in his entire life: he had a degree in mixing drinks and could work as a bartender.
@@EnderBOT122 Imagine if you hadn't have killed him. The country would have been far less divided and segregated today and could potentially have joined the advanced nations of the world. Alas, it remains a remnant of archaic principles that evolved around theft and the governing of plantations.
When it comes to infamous assassins, now Simon needs to cover Charles J. Guiteau, the guy who assassinated James A. Garfield, and Leon Czolgosz, the guy who assassinated William McKinley.
@MartyrX The only people who "celebrate" gangsters are a minority of snivelling cretins - and the only people who *are* gangsters are unpleasant morons. So does any of this really matter?
just saying, martin were guilty of assault of that woman he were beat for. and that in that time the witness had a good camera to film it all . were a miracle. so rare to own a camera
@@ultimate.phoenix Can you read? When did I say I have a white son? I didn't. I do have a mixed race son but again, I never even mentioned him. How does your foot taste? Do you always make a fool out of yourself?
@@ultimate.phoenix only an ignorant fool would see a theory based around the idea of examining the historic racial discrimination throughout a nation's history and what lessons we can learn from such tragic events and think it's somehow a referendum on all of white society. It's just examining how our forefathers actions created injustice and how we can right those wrongs today. The point of progress to improve over the previous generations, your saying that attempting identify those flaws and correct them is somehow un American.
@@eadweard. well YCJ claimed the family didn’t think it was JER, and you asked how would they know so I gave you information about a court case they won that had proven some kind of government involvement. So the idea of there may have been another person taking the shot but JER took the fall has a sprinkle of legitimacy to someone just reading about it or watching the video without more research. Although it’s a stretch to say an agent pulled the trigger or helped supply the gun or ammo, etc.
@@themadmonarchist They will just award money to practicly anyone who bitches enough. OJ was found not guilty and still had to pay money from a lawsuit.
you said “witnesses pointed the police to a building across the street” but truthfully, only one witness did, the lead witness who was a local alcoholic. How ever many other witnesses even mlk’s attorney who was looking right at mlk states “the gunshot came from a nearby bush right of the balcony” some witnesses were even reported to have screamed and shouted at the police to follow a man who ran from the bush, but they were ignored by the police as they went over to investigate the other building. Just sharing some fun facts.
but im not sure he can do that it would mean he stops glorifying fascist, i dont think hes educated enough to defend a leftist cuz it would hurt his grift checks from the cia
Might I suggest a video on the Baseline Killer? 9 murders in ten months and completely paralyzed Phoenix AZ. I was a teenager at the time and the fear that gripped my hometown during that year was worse than the months after 9/11. You could not watch the news without hearing “Phoenix, lock your doors and do not go outside.” Hell, my dad taught me how to shoot and my classes pretty much had weekly discussions on how to stay safe because of him.
@@princemwamba5230 I would have to say a good chunk of them didn’t. I don’t know if it was just in the south where most of these civil rights stuff was going on or if there were northerners who weren’t the biggest fans
FYI: Jeff City is the common abbreviated version of Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri, not the Missouri State Penitentiary located in Jeff City (at the time)
"Jeff City" is the shortening of Jefferson City, Capital of Missouri. It's not the name of a prison itself, but where the Missouri State Pen was at the time.
I can’t say for certain what happened to King, nor do I trust the FBI in this case, but I do think this is a very good example of cognitive bias. It’s simply too hard for us to believe that such a big event could have such a simple explanation.
Yes, I do not accept that James Earl Ray shot MLK from a flop house in 1968. This had to be a sniper or a sharp shooter who took out MLK with one shot. Perhaps the F.B.I or mafia make more sense because they can find snipers.
@@kazumahazeuzumaki it's the opposite for me. If the FBI had all that dirt on MLK, there's no way they would've chosen to martyr him over destroying his reputation.
@@AC8X FBI has never been one for the soft touch. 1985 MOVE bombing, Ruby Ridge, Rainbow Farm, Waco, COINTELPRO, Invasion of Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, and Chile from the 50s through the 80s, letting Whitey Bulger run wild as an informant. So much more. The FBI is a dirty organization that is not operating in the interests of the American people. So, the idea they helped or perpetrated the murder of MLK is pretty on brand, I say.
I've wondered from when he was arrested in the UK, how he got the money to travel from Memphis to Canada then on to the UK? Never heard it raised or explained.
The mystery is where did he get all this money to travel to Canada and Fly to London? He had a poor IQ and there is nothing mentioned about his income, but air transport was not cheap at this time. I always thought he was part of something bigger.
So it wasn't a Memphis Police sharp shooter firing from the bushes besides Jim's Bar and Grill? (Bushes that were cut down and completely removed without a trace remaining by the next morning.) According to the Judge in the King Civil lawsuit of 1999, the rifling on the bullet does not match that of the rifle show cased in the MLK museum. King was alive in the emergency room before being smothered with a pillow by Dr. Breen Bland. *It's Dr. Pepper's time!*
No, we really do not. Dr. King had haters in probably a hundred or more fringe and not-so-fringe groups; as someone alive and aware at the time, I remember hearing so many stories and have read many others since. The KKK absolutely loathed him, and that's just one white supremacist group among numerous others. But perhaps you should apply to the FBI academy since you know this so well! Good luck.
@@josi4251 yes actually we do. King family won the court case against the United States on December 8th 1999 stating for a fact that the government was involved in the conspiracy in his death
There was a tree right in front of the bathroom he supposedly took the shot from, the police had it cut down after the shooting happened to "help the investigation" and he would have had to stand on the bathtub to achieve the angle needed for the shot. Another guest looked in the bathroom on the way to their room seconds before he heard a shot and nobody was in the bathroom
The only trial was a private trial that the King family brought against a minor participant in the crime in 1999. Ray never had a trial. It took a few years but the King family came out in favor of Ray getting a trial, which the state and feds were able to resist.
He died of being denied a kidney operation by the warden, so instead of suing Ray, the King Family sued the owner of Jim's Bar and grill in a civil court in 1999. Ray was exonerated and FBI culpability was proven. So it was a Memphis Police sharp shooter firing from the bushes besides Jim's Bar and Grill? (Bushes that were cut down and completely removed without a trace remaining by the next morning.) According to the Judge in the King Civil lawsuit of 1999, the rifling on the bullet does not match that of the rifle show cased in the MLK museum. King was alive in the emergency room before being smothered with a pillow by Dr. Breen Bland. *It's Dr. Pepper's time!*
So just to clarify, the Missouri State Penitentiary was known far more widely as "The Walls". It was the oldest operating state prison west of the Mississippi until its closing. It's a museum today.
That's curious. There has never been any evidence that the fbi wanted him dead. I bet you believe the world is flat, 9/11 was an inside job, and chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Having Dr King dead would only create more problems than solutions for the government. Use some someone sense,use your head
@@human_bot_ Uh, when did 9/11 and fat earth come in. Also, USA has a long history of politically charged assassinations. Look at John H. Wood, Jr., Huey Long, Abraham Lincoln, John W. Stephens. Martin L. K is just another name in the long list You folks have a history of organised factions, planning and killing someone who disagrees. Muh freedom. This also ignores the amount of domestic terrorism jackasses perform in your homeland. I can see why the 2nd amendment was made, i'll buy my APC equipped with ERA and APS next time i visit here.
Even in 1968 your Canadian "travel agent'?!! doesn't waltz over to the Feds. and get a Passport. You need to present some real paperwork. Even a legitimate name off a tombstone in Canada but with no references and no work history? No federal tax records? Then the say that guys at the prison a decade earlier are mouthing his interest in Canada? Uh, right. Sure.
Even in 1968 your Canadian "travel agent'?!! doesn't waltz over to the Feds. and get a Passport. You need to present some real paperwork. Even a legitimate name off a tombstone in Canada but with no references and no work history? No federal tax records? Then the say that guys at the prison a decade earlier are mouthing his interest in Canada? Uh, right. Sure.
Ray died of being denied a kidney operation by the warden before he could testify, so instead of suing Ray, the King Family sued the owner of Jim's Bar and grill in a civil court in 1999. Ray was exonerated and FBI culpability was proven. So it was a Memphis Police sharp shooter firing from the bushes besides Jim's Bar and Grill? (Bushes that were cut down and completely removed without a trace remaining by the next morning.) According to the Judge in the King Civil lawsuit of 1999, the rifling on the bullet does not match that of the rifle show cased in the MLK museum. King was alive in the emergency room before being smothered with a pillow by Dr. Breen Bland. *It's Dr. Pepper's time!*
been waiting on this wretched tale. So of all the messed up shit that was going on in the sixties, my pops told me that this was the one that just blew him out
Hoover had a real HARD ON (literally and figuratively) for those that EARNED their power position, respect, and achievements through ability. Even as a kid in junior high I wondered why every Federal change over would keep him on, while appointing all new people. Hoover targeted, and used Federal people and powers, to monitor even folk artists like Bob Seeger. Wish the Kenendys' would have had the balls to get rid of him, no matter what he "had" on them. Take the political hit and move on.
Because jfk couldn't keep it in his pants! He had a relationship during ww2 with a woman who allegedly had ties to the nazi as she was on the fbi radar with the suspicion that she was a spy getting information from jfk during their time together.
I find it strange on how it's just a perfect view right to where they gave Kind a Room.And how he as a petty criminal was able to afford Plastic Surgery A car pass ports even if fake and money for places to stay in Europe plus money for hotel rooms.
for all kings faults and we all have them......content of characater and not skin color cannot be argued with....if here were alive today what would he think ??
Idk if its just me but the constant speed you say things at never changes and it makes it hard for me to stay focused on the story.. guess it makes sense though the story is long. Good video
In their eyes YES the bullet was needed. Even after they threatened to leak all of his dirt, his wife and followers stayed by his side because they knew they were fighting for something bigger and worth more than gossip no matter how true it was.
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My dad’s office is across from the Missouri State Penitentiary
The King family has said for decades that Ray did not do the crime, that it was an act of state. Dexter King met with Ray in prison and accepted his declaration of innocence. Ray never had a trial, he was pressured into making a guilty verdict (to avoid the electric chair) and immediately realized he had made a mistake. The King family asked their close friend William Pepper to help with their investigations and later, Pepper represented Ray in his unsuccessful effort to get a trial before Ray died in prison. In 1999, the King family filed a lawsuit in Memphis against one of the minor conspirators, Lloyd Jowers, and the three weeks of testimony in the trial is compelling. It's also twenty seven hundred pages in the transcript. I read most of them years ago and found it very convincing. Not a "theory." After MLK was killed, Ray managed to use aliases in Canada of people who superficially resembled him, which would have required access to government databases. Ray was a small time criminal, and holding up liquor stores would not give him this ability. MLK was martyred because he was connecting the dots between civil rights, the war on Vietnam, imperialism and economic injustice.
I agree totally! I posted this on face book on the national holiday honoring ML King: Today is the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King felled by an assassin’s bullet in 1968, a man who stood for peace and unity. Was King killed by a conspiracy or a lone assassin? Then examine the following facts:
The accused and convicted assassin James Earl Ray was an escaped convict on the run having escaped from a penitentiary supposedly in a food truck delivering to that prison. But the warden of that prison became richer from $20,000.00 deposit to his back account from unknown means.
How did Ray get the financial means to travel throughout the USA and even Canada ending up in Montreal where he claimed he met a man named Raul who gave him money and transportation means for vague and unclear purpose.
How did he end up in a rooming house conveniently located adjacent to the Hotel where King was staying in Memphis Tennessee, where he (King) was there to mediate a sanitation strike? And that rooming house, where Ray was at street level basically to the left of the upper balcony where King had stepped out to smoke a cigarette, while those who were with King, pointed to the upper right to a slight hill elevation where they heard the shot came from.
Why was there a bathtub under the window where supposedly Ray fired the fatal shot? And also a tree blocking the view that was mysteriously cut down before that day ended and James Earl Ray even left evidence in a package including the rifle and even hair samples.
Also how did a functionally illiterate grade school dropout, career petty criminal, have the means to fly to Portugal, live there for two months, and end up in London where alert police agents arrested him at Heathrow Airport with a fake Canadian passport, under the name of Eric Gault, who resembled James Earl Ray, a Canadian intelligence agent, with papers to emigrate the Rhodesia, where the USA did not have diplomatic relations because of that government’s racial apartheid policies and where extradition was a funny American word. Why was papers found on his person linked to a bank account in Switzerland and the financial amount in that mysterious account never even alluded to?
How was he convinced to plead guilty, avoiding a trail, where he then recanted his story saying that the mysterious Raul set him up to take the blame.
Why did King’s widow and his surviving children say that they believed his story? Then he mysteriously die of cancer.
Was ML King killed by a lone assassin or a conspiracy, make up your own mind.
RIP Dr. King RIP ………………
Id be interested to see debates, arguments and counter arguments on this theory
@@snakey934Snakeybakey it's not a theory, it's fact look it up.
@@andrewellisonlee lol great answer. Not. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. "Look it up" is not evidence. You're just being a lazy conspiracy theorist
Why the VERY specific clause in his confession about firing the fatal shot? That just doesn't smell right to me.
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Fr. His baldness looks badass
He shaves his head….
@@timeland8343 he can pull it off.
if you're balding shave your head like simon, nothing worse than balding guys who grow out their hair in the few places they can
James Earl Ray is about the weirdest way I've ever seen somebody spell CIA in my life.
He did Not kill MLK jr.....
Bahahahahahaha
*gasps * it rhymes
@Dz Nutz No he didnt...
@@vraimothra lol...yes it does😅😄🤣
A career criminal like Ray spins a lot of time tracking King and planning his killing and executing his plan without someone paying him money. That has never been logical to me.
Ever. There was a mock trial performed with a real judge and law students on this in the late 90's. The court came to the conclusion there was no way he could have done it. The man just escaped from Prison. HOW MANY ESCAPED CONS ARE GONNA TAKE TIME TO PERFORM ONE OF THE GREATEST ASSASSINATIONS IN THE 20TH CENTURY!?!?!!
What exactly, if anything is logical?
Woman driving pickup trucks?
Of coarse that one is logical.
Theyre easier to drive, handle better, are more convenient for groceries. Easier to maneuver in parking lots. Hell pick-ups even safely fit more children in them.
Ray talked about killing King Jr for at least 6-7 yrs prior
@@slimmyhendrix4067 so did sixty million other people. Con on the run ain't taking time to do that. And sure as hell ain't gonna know someone like Kings itinerary.
@@jasonkeighin9401 I was on the run for 9 yrs before slipping up. You'd be surprised how comfortable u get after getting an ID with your pic n someone else's info. Especially outta town
"He never expressed hatred for MLK, he simply disliked all African-Americans"
Right, that makes a lot of sense.
It actually does. To him MLK wasn't special. He was just another person from race he hated. It seems as though what he is saying is something like "Why would I hate one more than another when I hate them all equally?"
It was not personal. Not good rationale, but at least not personally hating the man.
Petty thief and loser makes the jump to political assassin? Not buying it.
@Ken Caisse Simon didn't miss that point. He knew the significance, and that's why he knew he could make the 50k for assissinating him. At least to me it seemed like Simon was saying he didn't hate MLK more than any other black person, but was aware that due to his importance he could make money killing him. Being a racist makes it easier to pull the trigger and feel nothing.
@@hongkongeatsandadventures5497 Dr King's son didn't buy it either.
What is it with assassins in the 1960's buying guns at stores, keeping the receipts, and then just throwing the gun away where it could be easily found? Same thing happened to Lee Harvey Oswald.
Perhaps so people don't start to really look for who did it. Wasn't Lee "just a patsy"?
The FBI doesn't really need to put much effort in making their falsified evidence look real, because they're a branch of government that can steer the investigation.
Although I don't really think JFK was assassinated by the FBI; MLK's entire family, the city of Memphis, and pretty much everyone who's read more on his assassination as well as Fred Hampton's seriously believe he was assassinated in a conspiracy orchestrated by the FBI.
Patsies.
Because Ray was a fall guy and it was proven the bullet didn't come from his gun.
because... CIA
I wish my government was trustworthy enough to be able to believe this story.
You kno that will NEVER happen
It is not true
If really look into the facts surrounding/involving Ray it’s clear he didn’t pull that trigger,
@@Ah_Yote Yep.
Eisenhower's warning, then JFK, MLK, RFK.
This country is just a big scam now.
This is why the founders warned us to never allow the federal government to become powerful, or for there to be a federal standing army.
Me too, because I don't believe it. There is way too much evidence to the contrary. The King family won their civil suit using that evidence and that's enough proof for me to believe our government was involved.
“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. This is the equation.”
- Ibn Rushd
"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate... leads to suffering"
- Yoda
If that were true then all we'd need to do to alleviate violence is share knowledge. That obviously doesn't happen. I suspect violence is typically more about competition for resources.
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I've spent years around people I don't want to see again (not a particular race, just a-holes).
@@daniel-zh9nj6yn6y Me and you both brother!
For those who don't know, an army marksmanship badge is the lowest you can get and still qualify. That's 23-29 hits out of a possible 40, the same ranking as Lee Harvey Oswald, on his last qualification in the USMC( though the Marine scoring is different, the awards are the same) ie marksman, sharpshooter and expert. He was far from a good shot. Not contributing to any conspiracy theories, just sharing information.
You're correct and thanks for pointing this out.
I saw the range from his area to the motel balcony where MLK walked out and stood. For one, I can't believe he not only made the shot, but was able to assess the target AS MLK. There was a large crew and they were all dress in a similar way. He also had access to money to get to Canada, and then Europe, and keep travelling. If he hadn't gone back to England he'd probably not been even caught.
@@thedwightguy I heard someone say that about how was he to know who mlk was.. and the shooter was told mlk is the only one wearing a tie out on the balcony . And if you look at photos of his assassination. Sure enough he's the only one with a tie
It was already proven it was off duty Memphis PD
@@low-keyrighteous9575 thanks; it still was a hell of a shot and dependent on a LOT of outright luck, both from where he was shooting, a boarding residence, AND a public motel with all sorts of goings on.
His beard is becoming very powerful
thats what he uses the free keeps bottles for
And thats not even its final form.
I heard his beard is going to start it’s own UA-cam channel
@@MikeJones-qn1gz knowing who we are talking about it's already made 3 and just don't know about it.
His waving hands are taking all the energy from his hair growth
King's family didn't believe Ray was guilty, rather he was the patsy. The owner of the restaurant below Ray's room, Loyd Jowers, claimed he'd been part of the conspiracy. A civil court agreed, awarding a nominal sum to King's estate. King's family attended Ray's funeral
A nominal sum of $100
The FBI killed MLK, if I commit suicide tomorrow, I did not.
They were lied to by that shyster conspiracy theorist lawyer Bill Pepper!
Who else wanted King besides Ray?
@@jeromewade2254 You are to tell me Ray is the only person in the entire world who wants to kill MLK?
The amount of content this man and his team pump out is incredible
The problem, however, is that the information is not even close to being accurate.
@@josephmass3052 I know right, didnt trained snipers take mlk out?
@@conor6444 two teams were there and ready to take the shot, but the actual assassin was a local operative.
@@josephmass3052 Yeah i did a little digging and found some info pointing to trained snipers from the marine corps... the mis/disinformation on these kinda subjects is so complex.. makes you wonder how we're ever expected to get ahead of all the bull
@@josephmass3052
Enlighten us with correct info please.
My dad was a nurse at Tennessee State Prison and took care of James Ray Earl. He came home and told me he'd meet him. This was in the 1990s.
This last weekend I took a tour of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary where he was housed. Interesting place.
did he ever ask him about the assassination ?
1:40 - Chapter 1 - Manhunt (1)
5:05 - Chapter 2 - Bad influences
6:45 - Chapter 3 - Private ray
7:50 - Chapter 4 - Occupation , Lover
9:30 - Chapter 5 - Time in jeff city
11:30 - Chapter 6 - The road to memphis
14:45 - Chapter 7 - Manhunt(2)
16:30 - Chapter 8 - After the arrest
Thank you so much 🥱
Under J.Edgar Hoover, we lost both Kennedy brothers and MLK Jr. Extremely shady.
Two Kennedy brothers (of four; the first dying in war). Don't forget the fourth, the one who left a woman to drown. I'm still convinced Teddy killed his brothers thinking he would become President. The woman was just to see if he could do it.
Don't 4get Malcolm X either.
Malcolm X, Medgar Evers
You are right and you might think about Onassis who wound up with Jackie Kennedy was a known mafia figure.
Could he have wanted the Kennedy
Liquor franchise and made a deal with old Joe Kennedy. Except that old Joe Kennedy double crossed him and that is what got John Kennedy killed.
Simon didn't actually lose any hair at all it just migrated to his beard
We're still waiting on that episode of George Carlin!
Serio.
Ditto
Why ?
“Jame Earl Ray: The Man Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr for the FBI”*
And for the powers that be. 😡
@@deee5520 yams
Except Ray didn't actually kill MLK. The FBI used him as a patsy, but he wasn't the shooter.
No.
@@TJDious I asked a question, Theo?
"In honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.’s memory we also acknowledge non-violence as a truly powerful weapon to achieve equality and liberation--in fact, the only weapon that Christians who struggle for social change can claim as their own...Examine history. Who gets killed in the case of violent revolution? The poor, the workers. The people of the land are the ones who give their bodies and don’t really gain that much for it. We believe it is too big a price to pay for not getting anything. Those who espouse violence exploit people. To call men to arms with many promises, to ask them to give up their lives for a cause and then not produce for them afterwards, is the most vicious type of oppression" *---Cesar Chavez, He Showed Us The Way*
Dude has 3 first names... Never trust a man with 3 first names.
Fan theory: Simon is actually Heisenberg
who's he?
@@theawesomeman9821 breaking bad
You’re god damn right.
@@theawesomeman9821 Give Breaking bad a shot
Doesn't everybody already know that
Seems unfair that its always Simon who had to pitch hair loss prevention products
In an alternate timeline James Earl Ray made it to Rhodesia only to be shot by Robert Mugabe
Too bad Mugabe wasn't killed in the 1960s and not MLK jr
@@tecumsehcristero too bad only one survived, if both had lived they could each done their part in ending white supremacy.
Or he shot Mugabe and saved Africa from falling into the third world nation it is today... 🤔🤣
I think you should have lead that closing statement with something about how it's only sources that claim the FBI has evidence of Dr. King's alleged misconduct. Instead of presenting that as factually certain.
Even the people closest to mlk at the time said he was involved in that stuff. Why would the people closest to him make that up. Plus they have tapes audio recorded of him doing nefarious stuff.
@joeselsbury543 what people...show your sources or stfu
No 👎 😊por el mensaje mi 😊😊para que no 👎 q lo haga con 😊😊
Por 😊
Por fin un toque 😊😊
I think an episode on Eamon De Valera or Boris Yeltsin would be interesting...
IDK who they are... If their lives are as interesting as their names though I'm sure I won't be disappointed!
boris yeltsin would probably be as funny as it is interesting.
Nah Michael collins
Éamonn and Boris 😁 Two fellas at the opposing ends of a very tipsy scale 😍
The same Da Valera that was the only world leader to offer his condolences to the German embassy on learning of the death of Hitler.
This is why I love this channel, I’ve literally been looking for a good doc on him for the past few weeks then boom!
you know the FBI had him killed right?
plz go watch the wendigoon video... I love Simon but this is BS
@@cheerfulsatanistwendigoon 😂😂😂😂😂
You want me to believe that a guy who FELL OUT the getaway car while driving away from a robbery masterminded the killing of MLK? I like the story of the 3 bears better
"Masterminded." He found out where MLK was staying, bought a rifle, and waited until he stepped outside. Doesn't take a genius to pull a trigger.
When you said sass, squat, and they thought you meant something else as you shamelessly polished off the remainder of your biscuit😎
So it wasn't a Memphis Police sharp shooter firing from the bushes besides Jim's Bar and Grill? (Bushes that were cut down and completely removed without a trace remaining by the next morning.) According to the Judge in the King Civil lawsuit of 1999, the rifling on the bullet does not match that of the rifle show cased in the MLK museum.
King was alive in the emergency room before being smothered with a pillow by Dr. Breen Bland.
*It's Dr. Pepper's time!*
Eric Harris - genius level IQ caught red handed going through stolen items on side of road.
Unabomber- genius level IQ, caught by releasing his own manifesto with statements that he was well known to use.
Ted bundy- high IQ, caught because he used his real name and car in all attempted murders.
Nooo falling out of a car during a high stress robbery completely exonerated him 😂 how could he pull a trigger if he made one mistake in his life? 😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@joshalderton2591 need to look into he never pled or was never found guilty
Now we need a John McAfee Biographics.
he already did one years ago lol
@@PhuckedUpPhilosophy we need an updated one now that he is dead.
Good to know! Thanks!
checking now
John McAfee didn't kill himself
If I can have a beard like that, I won't mind loosing my hair!
Simon, your look is iconic at this point. Having hair would ruin it
You should do one on Michael Collins that would be really interesting!
The Astronaut or the Irish revolutionary?
@@PaulRudd1941 I thought they mean the lad I went to school with?
@@TheToonMonkey sounds a little too obscure for me to remember that one I'll be honest.
.....you want a Brit.....to cover the life and times of the most recognized hero the IRA has???
@@salty_armorer4027
Yes.
WHY would a thoroughly experienced and travelled criminal leave evidence so foolishly?
Because it was a setup by the FBI
May I ask the meaning of Amy Shumer's AT?
@@jonhenson5450 no
@@amyschumersanaltumor1501 CIA*
Earl ray was a petty criminal, not experienced at all.
Thank you, Simon _et al,_ for this informative and useful video. - I can just add that James Earl Ray learned one useful thing in his entire life: he had a degree in mixing drinks and could work as a bartender.
He set the country back another 100 years.
mlk did yeah
Sad we had to deal with mlk, imagine how advanced our country would be if we didnt have to fund welfare and pay for spare bikes
@@EnderBOT122 hick
@@josephyoung6749 And?
@@EnderBOT122 Imagine if you hadn't have killed him. The country would have been far less divided and segregated today and could potentially have joined the advanced nations of the world. Alas, it remains a remnant of archaic principles that evolved around theft and the governing of plantations.
When it comes to infamous assassins, now Simon needs to cover Charles J. Guiteau, the guy who assassinated James A. Garfield, and Leon Czolgosz, the guy who assassinated William McKinley.
I really can’t believe Keeps sponsored this, genuinely hilarious, we love you Simon!
I’m till waiting for a doc on Charlie Bronson, the UK prisoner. I’m fascinated by his story
I heard he's a bit of a knobhead?
@K F there are a few on living people
@UCwoGvfMcgczdiZxcEz_Hepg you know why that is right racism. PC infecting every aspect of the island
@MartyrX The only people who "celebrate" gangsters are a minority of snivelling cretins - and the only people who *are* gangsters are unpleasant morons. So does any of this really matter?
"Alright, governer, we made the settlement, what should we name it?"
Jeff: "My name Jeff"
Here in Ireland my son was studying the dream speech. Still relevant regardless of time or location.
@@ultimate.phoenix Are you a frightened snowflake? Your comment indicates you are.
just saying, martin were guilty of assault of that woman he were beat for. and that in that time the witness had a good camera to film it all . were a miracle. so rare to own a camera
@@ultimate.phoenix Can you read? When did I say I have a white son? I didn't. I do have a mixed race son but again, I never even mentioned him. How does your foot taste? Do you always make a fool out of yourself?
@@ultimate.phoenix Good luck with being a frightened little white boy. You'll need it. And learn to read, you'll need that too.
@@ultimate.phoenix only an ignorant fool would see a theory based around the idea of examining the historic racial discrimination throughout a nation's history and what lessons we can learn from such tragic events and think it's somehow a referendum on all of white society. It's just examining how our forefathers actions created injustice and how we can right those wrongs today. The point of progress to improve over the previous generations, your saying that attempting identify those flaws and correct them is somehow un American.
FINALLY you put the sponsor ad at the beginning of the video. PLEASE keep doing that !
Even King's family said they didn't think it was J.E.R
How would they know?
@@eadweard. I’m pretty sure they won a court case in the 90’s saying that the fbi or government was involved in the murder.
@@themadmonarchist I can't really understand what you're saying or how it's pertinent
@@eadweard. well YCJ claimed the family didn’t think it was JER, and you asked how would they know so I gave you information about a court case they won that had proven some kind of government involvement. So the idea of there may have been another person taking the shot but JER took the fall has a sprinkle of legitimacy to someone just reading about it or watching the video without more research. Although it’s a stretch to say an agent pulled the trigger or helped supply the gun or ammo, etc.
@@themadmonarchist They will just award money to practicly anyone who bitches enough. OJ was found not guilty and still had to pay money from a lawsuit.
you said “witnesses pointed the police to a building across the street” but truthfully, only one witness did, the lead witness who was a local alcoholic. How ever many other witnesses even mlk’s attorney who was looking right at mlk states “the gunshot came from a nearby bush right of the balcony” some witnesses were even reported to have screamed and shouted at the police to follow a man who ran from the bush, but they were ignored by the police as they went over to investigate the other building. Just sharing some fun facts.
No you're just sharing BS you've read on the internet.
theres a photo of this exact description
Perhaps you would consider a video on the Holodomore? It would be a colossal undertaking but I'm sure it would be fascinating.
Can you do John Brown next? The America civil war era abolitionist?
but im not sure he can do that it would mean he stops glorifying fascist, i dont think hes educated enough to defend a leftist cuz it would hurt his grift checks from the cia
Did he do one on Grant?
@@sethvanpelt5707 yup
@@fkujakedmyname wat.
@@fkujakedmyname lolwut
Simon's bald doesn't get sunburned, sun gets simonburned
Great video bro 😎 really enjoyed it
Simon, love this channel, also I'm loving the podcast, have listened to them all keep it up
Now tell Simon to go fucking watch The Princess Bride right now! Lol
Might I suggest a video on the Baseline Killer? 9 murders in ten months and completely paralyzed Phoenix AZ. I was a teenager at the time and the fear that gripped my hometown during that year was worse than the months after 9/11. You could not watch the news without hearing “Phoenix, lock your doors and do not go outside.” Hell, my dad taught me how to shoot and my classes pretty much had weekly discussions on how to stay safe because of him.
Joining your research again. A topic from one channel appearing in another form or spinning off from on to another. Clever.
You’d think someone better known would have been more tightly protected while he was in town. Just one police officer keeping an eye out? Really?
Dide half those white people didnt like him anyway
@@princemwamba5230 I would have to say a good chunk of them didn’t. I don’t know if it was just in the south where most of these civil rights stuff was going on or if there were northerners who weren’t the biggest fans
@@reythejediladyviajakku6078 why would they protect him if they wanted him dead?
@@h1p.h0p because it’d be better to protect the man than risk the potential for rioting which is what happened right after MLK was killed
he was black, or didn't you get the memo lmao
FYI: Jeff City is the common abbreviated version of Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri, not the Missouri State Penitentiary located in Jeff City (at the time)
Panicked Onlooker: “Did you see the shooter?!?!?”
White Guy in Black Suit & Shades: “He went that way.”
It was a different time then
“White Guy in Black suit and shades...and smoking.....”
Rest in peace MLK Jr.
Keep going strong mate You're the best UA-cam commentator I've ever seen ✌
"Jeff City" is the shortening of Jefferson City, Capital of Missouri. It's not the name of a prison itself, but where the Missouri State Pen was at the time.
The prison was routinely called Jeff City.
I can’t say for certain what happened to King, nor do I trust the FBI in this case, but I do think this is a very good example of cognitive bias. It’s simply too hard for us to believe that such a big event could have such a simple explanation.
Yes, I do not accept that James Earl Ray shot MLK from a flop house in 1968. This had to be a sniper or a sharp shooter who took out MLK with one shot. Perhaps the F.B.I or mafia make more sense because they can find snipers.
There's far too many inconsistencies in the FBI's story. It literally doesn't make any sense
FBI had been after MLK for years. Hard to believe they had no hand in it.
@@kazumahazeuzumaki it's the opposite for me. If the FBI had all that dirt on MLK, there's no way they would've chosen to martyr him over destroying his reputation.
@@AC8X FBI has never been one for the soft touch. 1985 MOVE bombing, Ruby Ridge, Rainbow Farm, Waco, COINTELPRO, Invasion of Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, and Chile from the 50s through the 80s, letting Whitey Bulger run wild as an informant. So much more. The FBI is a dirty organization that is not operating in the interests of the American people. So, the idea they helped or perpetrated the murder of MLK is pretty on brand, I say.
Nobody gonna know this but Simon nice Rage Against The Machine reference there "And there came The Shot"
I've wondered from when he was arrested in the UK, how he got the money to travel from Memphis to Canada then on to the UK? Never heard it raised or explained.
Best guess is the guy was a repeat burglar so hard to imagine he didn’t commit more crimes in general around the time
Most likely KKK money.
Not sure if you’d be able to touch this one because of monetization or something, but the life of John Holmes is a wild story to tell!
James did not kill King!
The mystery is where did he get all this money to travel to Canada and Fly to London?
He had a poor IQ and there is nothing mentioned about his income, but air transport was not cheap at this time.
I always thought he was part of something bigger.
He was a successful bank robber and smuggler. He was a criminal doing criminal things to get money.
Definitely wouldn’t be surprised if a 3 letter government organization was in the mix as well
So it wasn't a Memphis Police sharp shooter firing from the bushes besides Jim's Bar and Grill? (Bushes that were cut down and completely removed without a trace remaining by the next morning.) According to the Judge in the King Civil lawsuit of 1999, the rifling on the bullet does not match that of the rifle show cased in the MLK museum.
King was alive in the emergency room before being smothered with a pillow by Dr. Breen Bland.
*It's Dr. Pepper's time!*
How is an above average iq poor
"Allegedly"
@Entropy93 >> you beat me to it !
Exactly
Didn't King's wife win a civil suit against the government, even?
RIP Mr.King only if u could see how far we’ve fallen now.
WTF are You talking about?
Dude your bold advertising hair saving stuff😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Biographics does a video on Martin Luther King and then the video after is about the guy who killed him. How appropriate.
Yea i love the "allegedly "....we know for sure the FBI did it
💯
No, we really do not. Dr. King had haters in probably a hundred or more fringe and not-so-fringe groups; as someone alive and aware at the time, I remember hearing so many stories and have read many others since. The KKK absolutely loathed him, and that's just one white supremacist group among numerous others. But perhaps you should apply to the FBI academy since you know this so well! Good luck.
@@josi4251 yes actually we do. King family won the court case against the United States on December 8th 1999 stating for a fact that the government was involved in the conspiracy in his death
I don’t know for sure but, who was the head of the FBI at the time. 😮. Doesn’t take a genius to figure some things out.
@@deee5520 Herbert Hoover
There was a tree right in front of the bathroom he supposedly took the shot from, the police had it cut down after the shooting happened to "help the investigation" and he would have had to stand on the bathtub to achieve the angle needed for the shot. Another guest looked in the bathroom on the way to their room seconds before he heard a shot and nobody was in the bathroom
No this is not true
I don't think there is a conspiracy here. he would've end up dead before the trial.
Mcafee style
I'm not sure you know how this works.
The only trial was a private trial that the King family brought against a minor participant in the crime in 1999. Ray never had a trial. It took a few years but the King family came out in favor of Ray getting a trial, which the state and feds were able to resist.
@@RankinMsP well in good old conspiracies, there are no loose ends. you always murder the shooter
He died of being denied a kidney operation by the warden, so instead of suing Ray, the King Family sued the owner of Jim's Bar and grill in a civil court in 1999. Ray was exonerated and FBI culpability was proven. So it was a Memphis Police sharp shooter firing from the bushes besides Jim's Bar and Grill? (Bushes that were cut down and completely removed without a trace remaining by the next morning.) According to the Judge in the King Civil lawsuit of 1999, the rifling on the bullet does not match that of the rifle show cased in the MLK museum.
King was alive in the emergency room before being smothered with a pillow by Dr. Breen Bland.
*It's Dr. Pepper's time!*
So just to clarify, the Missouri State Penitentiary was known far more widely as "The Walls". It was the oldest operating state prison west of the Mississippi until its closing. It's a museum today.
As a Missouri native, I'm impressed by the use of "Jeff" City, or Jefferson City. That's some slang I wouldn't expect from most, let alone a UK native
The FBI wanted him dead, they got their wish, though whether it was their doing or not, it's still an awful outcome...
Exactly true.
That's curious. There has never been any evidence that the fbi wanted him dead. I bet you believe the world is flat, 9/11 was an inside job, and chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Having Dr King dead would only create more problems than solutions for the government. Use some someone sense,use your head
@@human_bot_ Uh, when did 9/11 and fat earth come in. Also, USA has a long history of politically charged assassinations. Look at John H. Wood, Jr., Huey Long, Abraham Lincoln, John W. Stephens. Martin L. K is just another name in the long list
You folks have a history of organised factions, planning and killing someone who disagrees. Muh freedom. This also ignores the amount of domestic terrorism jackasses perform in your homeland.
I can see why the 2nd amendment was made, i'll buy my APC equipped with ERA and APS next time i visit here.
@@human_bot_ The FBI literally wrote a letter to MLK Jr telling him to kill himself...
@@wolf7el356 and? You don't have much comm sense or logic, do you?
Dang this case was basically wrapped with a bow on top for the fbi
Even in 1968 your Canadian "travel agent'?!! doesn't waltz over to the Feds. and get a Passport. You need to present some real paperwork. Even a legitimate name off a tombstone in Canada but with no references and no work history? No federal tax records? Then the say that guys at the prison a decade earlier are mouthing his interest in Canada? Uh, right. Sure.
Even in 1968 your Canadian "travel agent'?!! doesn't waltz over to the Feds. and get a Passport. You need to present some real paperwork. Even a legitimate name off a tombstone in Canada but with no references and no work history? No federal tax records? Then the say that guys at the prison a decade earlier are mouthing his interest in Canada? Uh, right. Sure.
Ray died of being denied a kidney operation by the warden before he could testify, so instead of suing Ray, the King Family sued the owner of Jim's Bar and grill in a civil court in 1999. Ray was exonerated and FBI culpability was proven. So it was a Memphis Police sharp shooter firing from the bushes besides Jim's Bar and Grill? (Bushes that were cut down and completely removed without a trace remaining by the next morning.) According to the Judge in the King Civil lawsuit of 1999, the rifling on the bullet does not match that of the rifle show cased in the MLK museum.
King was alive in the emergency room before being smothered with a pillow by Dr. Breen Bland.
*It's Dr. Pepper's time!*
I'd be interested in watching a biopic about this guy
Or the cats that tried to scratch Stuart Little 😂
Lucifer is gonna have a good time with that guy
been waiting on this wretched tale. So of all the messed up shit that was going on in the sixties, my pops told me that this was the one that just blew him out
I think Cassius Dio would be good. He's mentioned in almost ever reference about Rome
The man who killed MLK
J. Edgar Hoover: laughs in cointelpro
James Earl Ray. Hired by Hoover.
Hoover had a real HARD ON (literally and figuratively) for those that EARNED their power position, respect, and achievements through ability. Even as a kid in junior high I wondered why every Federal change over would keep him on, while appointing all new people. Hoover targeted, and used Federal people and powers, to monitor even folk artists like Bob Seeger. Wish the Kenendys' would have had the balls to get rid of him, no matter what he "had" on them. Take the political hit and move on.
Because jfk couldn't keep it in his pants! He had a relationship during ww2 with a woman who allegedly had ties to the nazi as she was on the fbi radar with the suspicion that she was a spy getting information from jfk during their time together.
Another typical day in America.
King Jr would still be seen as a radical today by many people in america if he was alive.
I find it strange on how it's just a perfect view right to where they gave Kind a Room.And how he as a petty criminal was able to afford Plastic Surgery A car pass ports even if fake and money for places to stay in Europe plus money for hotel rooms.
Im not sure this guy knew Africans came from Africa.
Black Americans doesn't come from Africa though.
@@pelleoh I mean that he didn't think black people lived in rhodesia and wanted to move to Angola. For a racist he really wanted to live in Africa 😅
@@jamesblake44 Yes, he wasn't the smartest out there. Would've loved seeing him living in Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
After your Martin luter King episode I've gone down this rabbit hole with out you
I love Martin Luther from my heart
Isnt it amazing how they knew even down to the window that oswald shot from, before he even dropped the rifle?
Harvey seems to be a common name in assasinations
Fun fact. Harvey is code name for assignations in the CIA
@@thanos7110 say whaaaaaaaaat😷😷😷
Judge Joe Brown didn't believe it either when he refused to relent they took him off the James Earl Ray appeal case proof enough for me.
Any chance of getting a Biographics on Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Need fewer episodes on boring Americans.
What’s the “context” tab? Is that provided by Google or did Biographics put that there?
oh wow, you guys are on it this month! Awesome awesome
Clyde Tolson was Hoover’s life partner.
Is that what you call friends, please provide proof that shows anything other than friends
@@tHEdANKcRUSADEROh there are entire books on the subject. And Hoover attend certain parties in a dress.
@@tHEdANKcRUSADER PS. Office colleagues don’t take annual holidays together holding hands.
They shared ass milk...
1:32 "And then came the shot"
Subtle reference to "Wake up" by Rage Against the Machine, who were talking about MLK when they said this line.
Would never have caught that
Was hoping I'd find this in the comments.
I had to process it before going. “Wait whaat?”
yea, this guy killed a great man, not a perfect one, but a great man none the less.
More unfortunately he contributed to the poisoning of the civil rights movement leading to the sorry state of race relations today.
No man is perfect so it’s weird that you’d feel the need to state that.
for all kings faults and we all have them......content of characater and not skin color cannot be argued with....if here were alive today what would he think ??
@@TJDious I just hope you know the death of mlk is the only reason for how people are today.
@MartyrX mlk admitted he messed up integrating black people in white society(threatening) if we were segregated still we would unified as black people
I respect you simply for sponsoring a hair growth product even though you can’t use it. Must use it for the beard lol.
“ was a bullet really needed “ WOW .. I hope you see the light WHOEVER ‼️
Idk if its just me but the constant speed you say things at never changes and it makes it hard for me to stay focused on the story.. guess it makes sense though the story is long. Good video
That's why I stopped watching these videos. I don't know why I watched this one.
In their eyes YES the bullet was needed. Even after they threatened to leak all of his dirt, his wife and followers stayed by his side because they knew they were fighting for something bigger and worth more than gossip no matter how true it was.
I thought it was well established that he wasnt the shooter. Wasnt that determined in court in the early 90's?
Yes it was. It was off duty Memphis PD
Exactly! Ask yourself: why is so much production value going into telling a story that was proven false in 1999?
Who else wanted King dead besides Ray?
@ 1:35 I thought I was trippin' and the vid skipped when I heart the That Chapter intro 😂🤣😂