#986 – William Pepper

 

  • Part A: William Pepper
  • Book: The Plot to Kill King by Bill Pepper: PaperbackHardcoverKindleAudiobook
  • People have largely forgotten the murder of Dr. King
  • The media does not cover the real facts of the assassination
  • Jesse Jackson became very popular after the assassination of Dr. King
  • He played a very important role in the changing of the room allotted to Dr. King
  • Dr. King couldn’t have been killed if he were in the original room
  • FREE Borrowable EbookJFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass
  • There is no mention of April 4th in American history
  • The MSM gave more coverage to the death of Joseph Lowery
  • He was one of the subsequent leaders of the SCLC after MLK was killed
  • The duffel bag found before the assassination
  • The bullet did not kill MLK
  • The head of neurology at St. Josephs Hospital put a pillow over Dr. King and suffocated him
  • They did not want Dr. King to leave Memphis and start the Poor People’s Campaign
  • MLK was pushing to end the Vietnam War
  • “A republic. If you can keep it” – Benjamin Franklin
  • Increasing inequality
  • Dr. King was moving well beyond civil rights
  • “History is written by the victors” – Winston Churchill
  • Article: The Children of Vietnam by William F. Pepper: Download PDFRead Online (html)
  • Dr. Martin Luther King’s Beyond Vietnam Speech, April 4, 1967 at the Riverside Church, New York: AudioText
  • Video: William Pepper on the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination
  • Video: William Pepper – The Execution of Martin Luther King
  • Videos: Postscript 1968Episode 1Episode 2Episode 3Episode 4Episode 9
  • Part B: William Pepper; beginning at 22:08
  • Re-run of Episode 674a from 2014
  • April 4th is the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King
  • Corporate media perpetuates the old story, lone gunman James Earl Ray
  • In 1999 a jury found that the U.S. was a major conspirator in the assassination
  • MLK was going to bring half a million people to Washington DC
  • Orders to Kill (Pepper 1995), An Act of State (Pepper 2003)
  • The dissenter dies, official stories continue to adorn the text books
  • A 1999 civil action brought by the King family against Loyd Jowers
  • The major responsibility for the death was laid at the doorstep of the United States
  • William knew Martin during the last year of his life
  • Rich and the poor, an effort to cut back continually on social programs
  • Money is equated with free speech, corporations are treated as human beings
  • Hoover was a clever manipulator, he perpetuated great evil in this republic
  • Ray was profiled when he was in prison, his escape was arranged
  • Memphis was chosen, because LA had already been chosen for the death of RFK
  • Sirhan was always in front of the Senator, RFK was hit from the rear
  • William is trying to get an evidentiary hearing in this case
  • The woman in the polka-dot dress, several leads, she is still alive
  • Judge Joe Brown, running for DA, in a position to re-open the MLK case
  • May Canada remain independant, not annexed, to the empire to the south
  • Access Len’s audio production of William Pepper’s poetry