“Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.” — Martin Luther King, JR

Reading through the Wikipedia entry on Martin Luther King, Jr. it reminded me there has been similar controversy surrounding his assassination as John F. Kennedy:

Many suspecting a conspiracy in the assassination point out the two separate ballistic tests conducted on the Remington Gamemaster had neither conclusively proved Ray had been the killer nor that it had even been the murder weapon. Moreover, witnesses surrounding King at the moment of his death say the shot came from another location, from behind thick shrubbery near the rooming house, not from the rooming house itself, shrubbery which had been suddenly and inexplicably cut away in the days following the assassination. Also, Ray’s petty criminal history had been one of colossal and repeated ineptitude;

I’m fascinated by the numerous conspiracy theories, but don’t take them very seriously. It’s probably way too late to hope that we’ll ever find out who was really behind JFK’s assassination. The Oliver Stone movie, considered to be fiction by those who actually believed the pack of garbage put out by the Warren Commission, asked some interesting questions but took too much literary license. So if it’s too late to find out who was really behind Kennedy’s assassination, what about MLK?

Audiotapes of electronic surveillance of King obtained by the FBI are in the National Archives and sealed from public access until 2027.

I haven’t seen any Martin Luther King Jr. movies but a cursory Google search turned up a 1978 documentary called King: The Martin Luther King Story. Amazon has King’s famous “I have a dream” speech in 1963 (pictured to right), or you can watch it on Google Video. Playback was a little jerky though, when I tried checking it out, understandable considering today is the day people all over the US are honoring Dr. King.

Any other good movies or documentaries on MLK worth seeing?

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