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MLK Assassination Trial and Media Reaction with James DiEugenio

by: Our Hidden History

Publication date: 2018-08-30

Topics: MLK Assassination, Martin Luther King Jr, Our Hidden History, Cold War, COINTELPRO, Civil Rights

Language: English

James DiEugenio is the editor and publisher of kennedysandking.com and he's the author of 'JFK: The Evidence Today'. He's also a noted researcher of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination and that's what we're going to talk about today. People are aware there was a civil trial in 1999 led by the King family in which the jury found that the assassination was a result of a conspiracy. I've been wanting to talk about this case for a long time so I found an article that Jim wrote at the time about the media's reaction to the trial's outcome. It's sort of a timeless subject to see how the press deals with events that run counter to their narratives, and Jim is always brilliant at dissecting the tropes that the media uses to kind of get around things that run counter to what they want to say.

Jim's website: https://kennedysandking.com/ Full transcript ---- https://kennedysandking.com/videos-and-interviews/jim-dieugenio-on-the-king-trial-and-media-coverage Downloadable MP3 (click the orange filename) ---- https://www.patreon.com/posts/martin-luther-jr-21144049 The Media Buries the Conspiracy Verdict in the King Case by James DiEugenio ---- https://kennedysandking.com/martin-luther-king-articles/the-media-buries-the-conspiracy-verdict-in-the-king-case Full Trial Trascript from the King Center (see link at bottom of page) ---- http://www.thekingcenter.org/assassination-conspiracy-trial Judge Joe Brown on Black Op Radio (Find show #887) ---- https://blackopradio.com/archives2018.html William Pepper - The Execution of Martin Luther King -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWS1KPCmOrI Porkins Policy Radio episode 87 MLK Assasination 49 Years Later with Doug Valentine ---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwgwuB6UELY Probe Magazine CD-ROM with James Douglass' trial reportage ---- https://kennedysandking.com/component/k2/probe-order-form MLK Assassination Trial: William Schaap Testimony on Govt. Disinformation ---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAKKviWQmSQ Mark Lane's "The Trial of James Earl Ray" ---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssy-3Z5zaG0