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By Mark Lane/Dick Gregory Copyright C 1977 by Mark Lane and Dick Gregory 1 on the DEATH of GREAT MEN All Rights Reserved • PRENTiCE-HALL, INC. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632 Phone: 201-947-1000 RETURN REQUESTED YES ( X) No ( ) FROM: John Nelson TITLE: CODE NAME: "ZORRO" The Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. AUTHOR: Mark Lane & Dick Gregory PUBLICATION DATE: April 6, 1977 PRICE: $9.95 This uncorrected material is the zro,oerty of RIGHTS: PRENTICE-11,1U, I:C. It is for confidential use only -- not for circulation, distribution or publication. ,A11 rilts in this work are controlled by Prentico-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 07632, 9.87-IE1499 Contents Code Name "Zorro" The Murder of Martin Luther King. Jr. PART ONE / NINE YEARS AGO by Mark Lane/Dick Gregory Copyright C 1977 by Mark Lane and Dick Gregory 1 ON THE DEATH OF GREAT MEN All rights reserved. No part of this book may be by Mark Lane 3 reproduced in any form or by any means, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, 2 NINE YEARS AGO By Dick Gregory 5 without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America Prentice-Hall International, Inc., London PART TWO / MARTIN LUTHER KING AND HIS MISSION Prentice-Hall of Australia, Pty. Ltd., Sydney Prentice-Hall of Canada, Ltd., Toronto 3 MARTIN AND CORETTA KING By Dick Gregory 12 Prentice-Hall of India Private Ltd., New Delhi 4 KING AND KENNEDY CALL by Dick Gregory 20 Prentice-Hall of Japan, Inc., Tokyo Prentice-Hall of Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd., Singapore 5 BIRMINGHAM by Dick Gregory 26 Whitehall Books Limited, Wellington, New Zealand 6 "PEARLS BEFORE SWINE" by Mark Lane 32 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I 7 BIRMINGHAM JAIL by Dick Gregory 42 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-72945 8 "I HAVE A DREAM" by Dick Gregory 45 9"A FAR DEEPER MALADY" by Mark Lane 50 3Quotation from "Letter from Birmingham Jail." abridged from pp. 77, 78, 83-84, 92. 100 of "Letter 10 THE LAST CAMPAIGN by Dick Gregory 55 From Birmingham Jail" —April 16, 1963—in Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr., copyright a 1963 by Martin Luther King, Jr. By permission of Harper & PART THREE / CODE NAME "ZORO" Row, Publishers. Inc. "I Have a Dream," by Martin Luther King, Jr., 11 HOOVER'S FBI by Mark Lane 60 copyright 1963 by Martin Luther King, Jr., reprinted 12 ONE MAN by Mark LANE 72 by permission of Joan Daves. Quotation from "I've Been to the Mountaintop," by 1 13 THE OBSESSION by Murk Lane Martin Luther King, Jr., copyright C 1968 by the Estate 14 THE DESTROY KING SQUAD by Mark Lane of Martin Luther King, Jr., reprinted by permission of Joan Daves. Quotation from "The Drain Major Instinct," by Martin PART FOUR / PRELUDE TO MURDER Luther King. Jr., copyright C 1968 by Martin Luther King, Jr. Estate, reprinted by permission of Joan Daves. 15 MARCH 28, MEMPHIS by Mark Lane Eulogy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta, Georgia, 16 MARCH 29, MEMPHIS AND WASHINGTON April 9, 1968, by Benjamin E. Mays, reprinted by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons from Born to by Mark Lane Rebel: An Autobiography. by Benjamin E. Mays. 17 APRIL 3, MEMPHIS by Dick Gregory copyright 0 1971 by Benjamin E. Mays. PART FIVE / THE MURDER " 18 APRIL 4, MEMPHIS by Mark Leine 19 APRIL 4, ATLANTA by Mark Lane 20 DIRECTOR HOLLOMAN by Mark Lane 21 APRIL 5, MEMPHIS by Mark Lane f, PART SIX / THE STATE OF TENNESSEE VS. JAMES EARL RAY 22 THE CASE AGAINST RAY by Mark tam. 23 THE DEFENSE by Mark Lane 24 THE AFFIRMATIVE CASE by Mark Lane 25 THE PLEA by Mark Lane PART SEVEN / KALEIDOSCOPE 26 "THEY/HE SLEW THE DREAMER" by Mark Lane 27 THE MAKING OF THE MAKING OF AN ASSASSIN by Mark Lane PART EIGHT / FOR A DAY IN COURT 28 THE APPEAL by Mark Lane 29 THE BEGINNING by Mark Lane Postscript by Mark Appendix I THE FUNERAL by Dick Gregory 2 SPEECH OF SENATOR BYRD 3 FOREMAN LETI ER 4 THE RIGHT TO KNOW by Mark Lane Acknowledgments By Mark Lane Acknowledgments By Dick Gregory Index Chapter One much that is heyond the range of perception or knowledge of James Earl Ray. A minor publishing industr∎ developed after the murder. Much of the work it produced did little more than obfuscate the essential truth, through the proinulgation of an army of irrelevant data and flawed ON THE DEATH reasoning. With the exception of the incipient investigation of the murder by the OF GREAT MEN Select Committee on Assassinations of the House of Representatives the by Mark Lane only examination of the events in the nine years that have passed is a secret inquiry conducted primarily by a police agency that vowed to destroy Dr. King. Such an investigation can hardly be expected to win the confidence of the American people. It is, therefore, not surprising that just before this book was completed a national poll conducted by George Gallup disclosed that fewer than one out of five Americans believed the official version of the events—that James Earl Ray was the lone assassin Nine years ago Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. the greatest civil rights of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. protagonist in modern American history. w as murdered in Memphis, That is why Dick Gregory and I decided that this book must be written , Tennessee. Subsequently James Earl Ray was arrested and charged with now. So much new and profoundly disturbing evidence has come to light the crime. Ray insisted that there had been a conspirac and that after Dr. since 1968 —some of it uncovered by Greg, some by me, some by other King's death he discovered that he had been an um; itting implement of investigators—that the matter cries out for reconsideration by the most that conspiracy. eminent of all juries, the American people. No trial, or other public proceeding, has occurred since April 4, Greg and I decided to divide the task of preparing the manuscript 1968, the day Dr. King was killed, which permits us to evaluate the along purely practical lines. Greg knew King—was deeply involved in evidence in the case. Ray entered what he has referred to. not without his work. 1, on the other hand, had ready access to extensive documenta- some supporting evidence, as an induced plea of guilty. .A prearranged tion through the files of the Citizens Commission of Inquiry, which I now and rehearsed hearing was conducted without cross-examination or chal- head. So it was decided that Greg should be primarily responsible for lenge by the defense. It raised more questions than it answered. Ray writing the first part of the book, the part dealing with Martin Luther King publicly contended, much to the embarrassment of his own lawyer, the and events leading up to his murder, and that I should he primarily Tennessee Attorney General, and the trial judge. that there had been a responsible for the later parts of the book, those dealing with the murder conspiracy to kill Dr. King. No one asked him what he meant nor asked and its aftermath. him to elaborate. Through the work of Dick Gregory, Martin Luther King becomes In this book, Ray's explanation of that provocative assertion will be alive again for the readers of this book. Greg stood with Dr. King in Bir- explored. I have spent many hours with him at Brushy Mountain mingham and in a score of other cities throughout the Deep South, and in Penitenitary in Petros, Tennessee. I was the first person to visit him there the Deep North of Chicago as well. Dr. King's assassination was a and I have met with him there for several hours as recently as February moment of history that traumatized this country, for in his life he was fora 1977. His view is presented here, as are the results of my own investiga- moment the conscience of mankind. Greg's work and Martin's words tion into his allegation. Ray is an intelligent and articulate man not remind us again that not just a symbol died that day in Memphis. A man without a sense of humor, some of it self-directed, some of it poured upon who could think, and inspire, and lead, and love, and be hurt was killed. those who have assessed his role in the murder. 1 think that the reader will My task was different from Greg's. I have undertaken to tell the story only be able to evaluate Ray's participation in the events of April 4,1968, of some particularly significant events that preceded the murder, to relate in Memphis after hearing Ray's account of the events and when that the evidence that we have uncovered about the murder, and to describe exposition is placed in its full context. the efforts to suppress information that leads inexorably toward the prime The troubling events surrounding the murder of Dr. King encompass suspects in the murder. 2 3 If the American people are not satisfied with the official rendition of the events. then they evidently spurn as well the quasi-official efforts by Chapter Two writers Ray refers to as "novelists." Who are these writers. and why might they have chosen to ignore some of the relevant evidence? NINE YEARS AGO The death of great men often leaves behind a tumultuous wake that may inundate those who have stood too close to the event, or w ho may by Dick Gregory have inadvertently seen too much.
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