-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: ramon mcguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 3:25 AM Subject: MLK probe: documents not fake >Atlanta Journal-Constitution > > For former FBI agent Donald Wilson, there is some sense of vindication. > > In March, Wilson came forward with two documents he said he retrieved >from James Earl Ray's car in Atlanta in April 1968 but had kept hidden for >30 years. At the time, an FBI spokesman called the documents a "total >fabrication." > > However, scientific examination of the documents since then suggests >that they could be legitimate, according to federal authorities. > > While that characterization falls short of confirming the documents' >validity, Wilson said he believed that was "a very positive development." > > "It's encouraging," said Dexter Scott King. "I hope this will lead to >something." > > Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a limited probe in August into two >aspects of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis >on April 4, 1968: Wilson's documents and a public statement by former >restaurant owner Loyd Jowers that a mobster paid him $100,000 to hire a >hit man. Reno approved the investigation at the urging of Coretta Scott >King and her four children. > > "The investigation is well under way," said Justice Department spokesman >Myron Marlin, who declined to give a timetable for when the probe might be >completed. > > Jowers' attorney, Lewis Garrison, said his client wants to receive >immunity before talking with Justice Department investigators. > > "They're calling and writing pretty regularly," Garrison said of the >federal investigators. "But he's still a little fearful." > > Jowers, 72 and in ill health, used to own a restaurant on the ground >floor of the building from which authorities say Ray fired the fatal shot >from a second-floor bathroom window. Jowers has told the Kings that the >shot came from a brushy area behind the restaurant and that the shooter >handed him the rifle moments after the assassination. Jowers claims to >have hidden the rifle and then given it to an unnamed conspirator the next >morning. > > Ray, who died in April from liver disease, claimed he was set up by a >smuggler he only knew as Raul. Ray had pleaded guilty in 1969 in exchange >for a 99-year sentence but recanted within days and tried unsuccessfully >to obtain a trial. The King family supported his efforts. > > The Kings point to Wilson's documents as significant because both have >the name "Raul" written on them. > > "That speaks for itself," Wilson said. "It doesn't extricate Ray from >the arena of responsibility, but it gives credibility to the existence of >this mystery man Raul." DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
