At 6:01 pm on April 4; 1968 in Memphis; while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel; Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by a single bullet fired from an elevated and concealed position. Unanswered questions surround the circumstances of his demise; and many still wonder whether justice was served. After all; only one man; an escaped convict from Missouri named James Earl Ray; was punished for the crime. On the surface; Ray did not fit the caricature of a hangdog racist thirsty for blood. Media coverage has often portrayed him as hapless and apolitical; someone who must have been paid by clandestine forces. It's a narrative that Ray himself put in motion upon his June 1968 arrest in London; then continued from jail until his death in 1998. In 1999; Dr. King's own family declared Ray an innocent man. After his arrest; Ray forged a publishing partnership with two very strange bedfellows: a slick Klan lawyer named Arthur J. Hanes; the de facto "Klonsel" for the United Klans of America; and checkbook journalist William Bradford Huie; the darling of Look magazine and a longtime menace of the KKK. Despite polar opposite views on race; Hanes and Huie found common cause in the world of conspiracy. Together; they thought they could make Memphis the new Dallas. Relying on novel primary source discoveries gathered over an eight-year period; including a trove of newly released documents and dusty files; Klandestine takes readers deep inside Ray's Memphis jail cell and Alabama's violent Klaverns. Told through Hanes and Huie's key perspectives; it shows how a legacy of unpunished racial killings provided the perfect exigency to sell a lucrative conspiracy to a suspicious and outraged nation.
#1989862 in Books 2015-08-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .50 x 6.00l; .0 #File Name: 1611861683134 pages
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