All these years later, the notion is unextinguished that the U.S. government was indifferent to the threats it must have known surrounded Martin Luther King, at a minimum.
Whither James Earl Ray? A well chosen hate-pawn with a handler "Raoul", or self-directed?
I found this article on James Earl Ray's letters from prison, dated 2002, published with flair by The Altantic. (TIME has a snapshot dated 1976 online - the wonder of the internets).
JOHN McCAIN
It's interesting enough to ignore that John McCain is paying hommage, today, to a man who came to the opposite conclusion as John did, opposing the war about the same time that McCain was asking for the combat assignment that gave him his few hours of combat flight time (and, of course, his long internment).
MLK, of course, forcefully criticized America and was viewed by his own government as a security threat and the subject of a Hoover discrediting-campaign.
I wonder what was in McCain's mind when his campaign passed out notices to the press corps about the Reverend Wright, when that story broke wide?
So why does the media not ask McCain about the Vietnam war? Courtesy?
The final night (including the parts that are so often edited out ...):
Update: McCain tells FOX News Sunday's Chris Wallace that he was "wrong" to have voted against the creation of Federal Holiday for MLK in 1983. Wallace fails to press him on his reasons for why he cast the vote and what has changed in his view. Wallace also skips over the Vietnam war question achingly on the table ...
