America's Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States (61 page)

21
.
    
Harold Weisberg, letter to Mark Lynch, August 26, 1985, Harold Weisberg Archive, Hood College, accessed April 16, 2015,
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/A%20Disk/ACLU/ACLU%2008.pdf
.

22
.
    
Philip Melanson,
The Murkin Conspiracy
(New York: Praeger, 1989), 44–50.

23
.
    
John Nicol, “Was the King Assassination ‘Triggered' in Canada?” CBC News, accessed December 15, 2010,
www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/04/28/fray-hearings.html
. I am not revealing their identities because both men are still alive.

24
.
    
Charles Faulkner, “Murdering Civil Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., White Supremacy, and New Facts Supporting the Guilt of James Earl Ray,” Mary Ferrell Foundation, accessed April 16, 2015,
www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay_-_Murdering_Civil_Rights
.

25
.
    
Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
(New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1998), 170–71.

26
.
    
Nissen, interview with the author, November 9, 2009.

27
.
    
Michael Newton,
The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi: A History
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007), 179–180. Newton is one of the most informed and most prolific authors on the KKK in general.

28
.
    
Wexler and Hancock,
Awful Grace of God,
213–15.

29
.
    
“Notes on FBI Hardin Documents,” Harold Weisberg Archive, Hood College, accessed March 30, 2013,
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/H%20Disk/Hardin%20James%20C/Item%2030.pdf
.

30
.
    
Nelson,
Terror in the Night,
140.

31
.
    
Jerry Mitchell, “Book Probes MLK Killing,”
Mississippi Clarion-Ledger,
January 3, 2008,
www3.nd.edu/~newsinfo/pdf/2008_01_03_pdf/Book%20probes%20MLK%20killing.pdf
.

32
.
    
Jack Nelson, “Transcript of Interview with Thomas Albert Tarrants, III, June 20, 1991,” MSS 1237, Box 3, Jack Nelson Collection, Manuscript Archive and Rare Book Library, Emory University. With the help of researcher Charles Faulkner I obtained the audio of the tape, which, with a few very minor discrepancies, confirms the substance of the transcript.

33
.
    
Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, “Findings on MLK Assassination,” National Archives,
accessed April 16, 2015,
www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-2a.html#
.

34
.
    
Waldron,
Legacy of Secrecy,
510–11, 545.

35
.
    
Tarrants,
Conversion,
59–60.

36
.
    
FBI, “Teletype from Jackson To New Orleans” (April 10, 1968), Jackson Field Office MURKIN file 157-9586, CD-ROM 59161160, 147–149.

37
.
    
“James Earl Ray: Selected Chronology.”

38
.
    
Jeffrey Cohen and David Lifton, “A Man He Calls Raoul,”
New Times,
April 1, 1977, Harold Weisberg Archive, Hood College, accessed April 16, 2015,
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/C%20Disk/Cohen%20Jeff/Item%2006.pdf
.

39
.
    
Faulkner, “Murdering Civil Rights.” Larson, who was Bowers's business partner at Sambo, was a senior officer in the military reserve. But we do not know if he made the call or if he had a connection to Alabama. The timing of the call still cries out for an explanation.

40
.
    
House Select Committee on Assassinations, “Final Report,” Mary Ferrell Foundation, accessed April 16, 2015,
www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=69366
.

41
.
    
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Urgent Teletype from Dallas Field Office to Director, Memphis and Jackson,” April 23, 1968, MURKIN 44-38861-1836.

42
.
    
Martin Luther King Jr., “I've Been to the Mountaintop,” Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, accessed April 16, 2015,
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/ive_been_to_the_mountaintop/
.

CHAPTER 9

  
1
.
    
MLK: The Assassination Tapes,
television documentary (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Channel, 2012).

  
2
.
    
Michael Honey, “King's Last Crusade,” History News Network, George Mason University, accessed April 16, 2015,
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/37087
.

  
3
.
    
Wexler and Hancock,
Awful Grace of God,
307–309.

  
4
.
    
Betty Nyagoni, “Washington (D.C) Riot of 1968,” in
The Encyclopedia of American Race Riots,
vol. 2, ed. Walter C. Rucker and James N. Upton (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007), 683–85.

  
5
.
    
Michael Honey,
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Last Campaign
(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007), 445–46.

  
6
.
    
Carol Dietrich, “King, Martin Luther Jr., Assassination of (1968),” in
The Encyclopedia of American Race Riots,
vol. 2, eds. Walter C. Rucker and James N. Upton (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007), 341.

  
7
.
    
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Jesse B. Stoner,” April–May 1968, 157-3082, Jackson Field Office.

  
8
.
    
Wesley Swift, “4-24-68 Bible Study Q&A,” Wesley Swift Library, accessed April 16, 2015,
http://swift.christogenea.org/content/04-24-68-bible-study-qa
.

  
9
.
    
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Urgent Teletype from Dallas Field Office to Director, Memphis and Jackson,” April 23, 1968, MURKIN 44-38861-1836.

10
.
    
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Airtel from SAC, Newark to Director (Attn: FBI Identification Division), 11 Jun 1968,” Harold Weisberg Archive, Hood College, accessed March 29, 2013,
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/F%20Disk/Fetters%20Marjorie%20Possible%20PCI/Item%2002.pdf
.

11
.
    
Melanson,
Martin Luther King Assassination,
137.

12
.
    
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Teletype from Charlotte to Director, Memphis, New Haven and Jackson,” April 7, 1968, MURKIN. Interestingly, the Minuteman in question, a former White Knight (name redacted), suggested the White Knights as strong suspects in the MLK assassination.

13
.
    
House Select Committee on Assassinations, “Final Report.”

14
.
    
Wexler and Hancock,
Awful Grace of God,
283–85.

15
.
    
Waldron,
Legacy of Secrecy,
604.

16
.
    
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “King Assassination Documents—FBI Central Headquarters File, Section 72,” Mary Ferrell Foundation, accessed September 15, 2010,
www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=1132538
.

17
.
    
House Select Committee on Assassinations, “Final Report.”

18
.
    
Dan Christensen, “FBI Ignored Its Miami Informer,”
Miami Magazine,
October 17, 1976, 37–38, Cuban Information Archives,
http://cuban-exile.com/doc_l01-1225/doc0114.html
.

19
.
    
Ibid.

20
.
    
Ibid.

21
.
    
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “King Assassination Documents—FBI Central Headquarters File, Section 68,” accessed April 17, 2015, Mary Ferrell Foundation,
www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=1131536
.

22
.
    
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “BH 44-1740, Airtel: SAC Birmingham to Director,” report by Special Agents Robert Barrett and William Saucier, April 8, 1968.

23
.
    
Jim Ingram, interview with the author, June 20, 2009.

24
.
    
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “BH 44-1740, Airtel: SAC Birmingham to Director,” report by Special Agents Patrick J. Moynihan and Neil P. Shanahan, April 16, 1968.

25
.
    
Gerard Robinson, interview with the author, October 2, 2011.

26
.
    
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Memorandum from SA Richard F. Kilcourse to SAC Los Angeles,” April 23, 1968, 62-5101.

27
.
    
Justice Department correspondence with the author, November 9, 2009.

28
.
    
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Admin Folder J1: HSCA Administrative Folder, HSC-A Tickler Volume I,” accessed April 17, 2015, Mary Ferrell Foundation,
www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=9975&relPageId=49
. This fourth page references a bureau teletype from November 1976 saying that no King-related records should be destroyed.

29
.
    
Jerry Mitchell, interview with the author, September 25, 2014.

30
.
    
Justice Department correspondence with the author November 9, 2009.

31
.
    
FBI, “Re: Alleged Offer of $100,000.”

32
.
    
Chester Higgens, “Hair-Raising Experience: ‘Kidnap' Try of King, Sr. Foiled; Add More Police Protection,”
Jet,
May 2, 1968,
http://books.google.com/books?id=UTgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14&d-q=hair-raising+experience+kidnap+king&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9BpjUb_NDJC30QHYtYCQDw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=hair-raising%20experience%20kidnap%20king&f=false
.

33
.
    
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Latent Fingerprint Section Work Sheet, Answer to SAC, Atlanta, Named Suspect: Floyd Eugene Ayers,” April 7, 1968. The request was made at 10:17
PM
.

CHAPTER
10

  
1
.
    
National States Rights Party, “FOIA: NSRP—Chicago 16,” Internet Archive, 155, accessed April 17, 2015,
https://archive.org/stream/foia_NSRP-Chicago-16/NSRP-Chicago-16#page/n153/mode/2up/search/kids
.

  
2
.
    
National States Rights Party, “FOIA: NSRP—Chicago 16,” Internet Archive, 127, accessed April 17, 2015,
https://archive.org/stream/foia_NSRP-Chicago-16/NSRP-Chicago-l6#page/nl27/mode/2up/search/smoke
.

  
3
.
    
National States Rights Party, “FOIA: NSRP—Chicago 16,” Internet Archive, 114, accessed April 17, 2015,
https://archive.org/stream/foia_NSRP-Chicago-16/NSRP-Chicago-16#page/n115/mode/2up/search/apex
.

  
4
.
    
David Cunningham,
Klansville, USA: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan
(London: Oxford University Press, 2013), 199.

  
5
.
    
Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, “Federal Investigations of White Supremacists and the WVO,” Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, accessed April 16, 2015,
http://www.greensborotrc.org/1979_feds.pdf
.

  
6
.
    
Kathleen Cleaver and George Katsiaficas,
Liberation, Imagination
and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy
(New York: Routledge, 2014), 95.

  
7
.
    
Southern Poverty Law Center, “Hate Group Expert Daniel Levitas Discusses Posse Comitatus, Christian Identity Movement and More,”
Intelligence Report
90 (Spring 1998).

  
8
.
    
Carol Mason,
Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-life Politics
(New York: Cornell University Press, 2002), 31.