An Act Of State: The Execution Of Martin Luther King; Author: Pepper, William F.; Hardback; Book

Author: Pepper, William F.
Hardback; Book
320 pages
Published: February 2003
Verso
ISBN: 1859846955

In this controversial book, a journalist-turned-lawyer tells the tragic story of Martin Luther King, Jr.Us, powerful and significant radicalism and the government plans for his execution that involved the military and the FBI.The Execution of Martin Luther King. In 1968 Martin Luther King was shot by an apparent lone gunman James Earl Ray. William F Pepper was a friend and associate of King's and immediately started a long struggle to get to raising detail, the facts of the case. Massive media interest expected.'An Act of State' lays out, in hair-raising detail, the facts of the case as it evolved. These tell a tragic story of King's powerful and significant radicalism, government plans for his execution that involved the military and the FBI and the media cover-ups.