On April 4, 1968, a sniper gunned down Martin Luther King Jr. as he stood on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. Charges of cover-ups and government complicity were heard almost immediately. Several versions have passed for the truth of King's assassination--from the official story in '68 with small-time criminal James Earl Ray as lone assassin; Ray's later assertion that he was framed by Raul, the true killer; to the '78 House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) report that claimed Ray acted on behalf of a conspiracy. And there's a theory that federal government agencies were out to get King--and they had greater motivation to do so than James Earl Ray.
