"I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my
conscience leaves me no other choice. A true revolution of values will
lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling
differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with
napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of
injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally
humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields
physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be
reconciled with wisdom, justice and love."
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence by Rev. Martin Luther King 4 April 1967
Emmett Till Murder Case
'Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago, When a young boy from
Chicago walked through a Southern door. This boy's fateful tragedy
you should all remember well, The color of his skin was black and
his name was Emmett Till.
Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up.
They said they had a reason, but I disremember what. They tortured
him and did some things too evil to repeat. There was screaming
sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds out on the street.
Then they rolled his body down a gulf, amidst a blood-red rain And
they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain. The
reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it was no lie, Was just
for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die.
And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial, Two brothers
they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till. But on the jury
there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime,
And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind.
I saw the morning papers but I could not bear, to see the
smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs. For the
jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free,
While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern
sea.
If you can't speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that's
so unjust, Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt, your
mind is filled with dust. Your arms and legs they must be in
shackles and chains, and your blood it must refuse to flow,
For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low!
This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man, That
this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux
Klan.
But if all us folks that thinks alike, if we give all we could give,
We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live.
I can't believe the news today. I can't close my eyes and make it go away.
How long, how long must we sing this song? How long, how long?
'Cause tonight We can be as one, tonight.
Broken bottles under children's feet. Bodies strewn across the dead-end street.
But I won't heed the battle call. It puts my back up, puts my back up against the
wall.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
And the battle's just begun. There's many lost, but tell me who has won?
The trenches dug within our hearts. And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
How long, how long must we sing this song? How long, how long?
'Cause tonight We can be as one, tonight.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Wipe the tears from your eyes Wipe your tears away. 'll wipe your tears away.
I'll wipe your bloodshot eyes.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
And it's true we are immune. When fact is fiction and TV reality.
And today the millions cry. We eat and drink while tomorrow they die.
The real battle just begun To claim the victory Jesus won
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Click on Sunday
James Earl Ray
profile of an assassin
 Dropped out of school
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at age 15.
Joined the Army in and
out of stockade.
Burglary, armed
robbery, forging postal
money orders.
Racist
1959 robbery lands him
in Missouri State Prison
for 20 year sentence.
Eric S. Galt
 Escapes from prison in
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1967.
Flees to Canada
Adopts alias: Eric S.
Galt.
Later returns to U.S.
and buys a pale yellow
Mustang.
Ends up in Los Angeles.
James Earl Ray/Eric Starvo Galt
 March of 1968 he begins
stalking MLK. Follows him
throughout Alabama.
 Buys a Model 760 30-06
caliber rifle and scope.
$265.85.
 Drives to Memphis,
Tennessee in April.
 Rents a room at 422 Main
Street. Across from the
Lorraine Motel.
And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about
the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick
white brothers? Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some
difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to
the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live - a long
life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want
to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've
looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised
Land. So I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing
any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
Assassination April 4, 1968
 6:00 P.M. King on the
balcony of the Lorraine
Motel.
 King struck in the jaw,
fracturing his lower
mandible, severing the
jugular vein and
vertebrae in his neck
and back.
 Dies within an hour.
April 4, 1968
 White male observed fleeing
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the scene.
Left a blanket covering a
suitcase with the rifle(760 3006) in front of nearby store.
Prints found on the rifle,
scope, binoculars, newspaper,
after-shave, beer can. Radio
with prison ID number.
Fled in a late model white
Mustang
Witnesses at the hotel across
the street describe a man and
hearing a shot.
Records traced to Galt,
fingerprints match to Ray!
George Ramon Sneyd
 Prison inmates tell FBI
about Ray’s talk of going to
Canada and then Europe.
 Searched passport office in
Canada and matched photo
on passport of George
Ramon Sneyd to London.
 June 8, 1968 Ray stopped
boarding a plane to
Brussels, Belgium.
The Plea
 Ray extradited to the U.S.
 Percy Foreman hired to be his
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lawyer.
“I assume that you know I
can’t get you out of this?”
“Yeah, I know you can’t”
Ray pleads guilty: fired a shot
from the second floor
bathroom of the rooming
house at King on the balcony
of the Lorraine Motel.
Sentenced to 99 years in
prison.
Later tries to revoke his guilty
plea.
Aftermath
 Martin Luther King
becomes a martyr for the
movement.
 Rioting broke out in 125
cities across the United
States.
 Federal troops are called
out to stop the protests.
 Ray recants and claims
he was innocent. (Dies in
1998)
Dexter King believes Ray and supports his conspiracy theory.
Pride (In The Name Of Love) by U2
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One come he to justify
One man to overthrow
Chorus:
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed on an empty beach.
One man betrayed with a kiss
Chorus
Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
Chorus