Seneca Scott, a relative of Martin Luther King Jr., believes the FBI’s alleged role in King’s assassination should be revisited by Democrats, even though they appear to support the bureau targeting conservatives.
Scott wrote an essay in Compact Magazine about the story of King’s murder by an individual gunman and whether the FBI was involved in the killing. He begins the piece with the FBI’s campaign against black civil rights activists and radicals under the COINTELPRO program to undermine subversive political movements before going into the details of King’s murder.
“So, at this point, are the FBI’s extensive attempts to defame and discredit Martin Luther King, Jr. More enigmatic but equally important are the questions that still surround Dr. King’s assassination,” Scott writes.
King’s relatives, led by his widow Coretta Scott King, were skeptical of the official story from the outset, Scott says. “According to Coretta and her children, the ‘high-level conspiracy’ to assassinate Martin Luther King involved the FBI, the Memphis Police Department, and the Marcello crime family of New Orleans, with James Earl Ray serving as a lone patsy.”
Scott goes through the official story of Ray stalking and later killing King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Ray fled the scene and later escaped to the United Kingdom before he was captured.