I am going to elaborate just a little more. To really understand what happened to Rev King, you have to know how southern cities operated back then. They were run like kingdoms, and the people were not citizens but subjects. The law didn't matter. The Constitution didn't matter. What mattered was KNOWING YOUR PLACE. That's how they approached blacks back then. You stayed in your place and you got along fine. They even rewarded blacks for STAYING IN THEIR PLACE. They might give you an old truck or a side of a hog or some such. But if you got out of place, they would travel to the end of the earth, spend thousands of dollars, just to find you and beat you bloody. If you got out of place again, they would kill you in particular bloody ways. It was about staying in your place, which is why southern cities blamed northerners for upsetting this so-called loving and idyllic relationship between blacks and southern whites. You didn't talk back and you obeyed. Talk to some black folks from the time period and they will corroborate what I say. They warned MLK not to come back to Memphis. It was during the period Rev King left Memphis that the plan was hatched to get him back and kill him. The mayor was the law and the citizens council ( which included Mississippi and Arkansas and Louisiana,etc) was god. Government was already working with the mob and with the klan. Police informant joined the Memphis Invaders,led by Sweet willie wine (Google it). Suddenly we became a political group and what was a peaceful protest suddenly became a riot because we started tossing bricks through windows on Beale Street. Guess what. MLK came back to Memphis to restore the peace. And walked into a trap. But he also didn't stay in his place and obey warnings. So he had to be punished because you don't disobey. That's the south back then. A few months after the riots I got arrested and placed in Shelby county jail. I eventually became a trustee (rock boy) and was on the 6th floor in the trustee tank. The Rev. Ralph Abernethy was placed in jail on the 3rd floor. He was on a hunger strike. I was assigned to take care of him. Make sure he was comfortable because media was all over the place. Although rev Abernethy said he was on a hunger strike, he actually was being fed soup by me. He was on a liquid diet. He got visits every day. Now here's the strange thing I noticed back then. I rarely saw men coming to see Rev Abernathy. They were mostly women and they brought food with them just in case he wanted to eat. He stuck to water, soups and juices. Later it came out that a power struggle was going on after King's death. And rev. Abernathy was not that popular in the Sclc. I didn't think much of it then. But later it was clear that some in the organization had played a part in King's death. After about 9 months in jail, I was sent to prison for ten years. There's documentation in jail and prison records of all this. A couple weeks in Tennessee state Prison, I was classified a violent black radical and tossed in solitary with James Earl Ray. Now in those days Tennessee state Prison , all of them, were run by the Klan. You go to chow and you might see klan literature on a table. Go to las library and a klan recruitment flyer might be stuck in a book. Most Prison officials were related and had klan ties. Sometimes they might send a magazine or book to the wrong prisoner. I once received a book titled: The ****** Bible. Another book I received was The Turner Diaries. This was the climate that James Earl Ray lived in. Now Brushy Mountain Prison was horrific. Klan guards and prisoners. Brushy Mountain was way back in Mountain territory in Petros Tennessee, near Knoxville. Appalachian hillbillies lived on this treacherous, winding road going up the side of the mountain. When guards wanted to kill a prisoner, they would take him up this Mountain and turn him loose and let the Mountain klan folk track him down. For a few dollars and a big. Bag of flour. Some they brought back. Some were never seen again. Either way, they got paid. This is the Prison where they placed Ray. A coal mine prison. And prisoners broke rock with sledgehammer and dug holes. I was there to. My prison records will reflect that time period. When ray heard i was there he would send me messages. He knew by then that he was the lamb. To be slaughtered. They had lied to him and now they were going to make sure he rotted in prison. And he did. Fly spray drinking was popular among prisoners. You mixed it in a cup with coke or juice and swallowed it down and fall out unconscious with bubbles frothing out of your mouth. Ray drank a lot of it, when he couldn't shoot up talwin and other drugs his brother would stash outside the Prison when he visited Ray. Later a guy on one of the prison work crew would sneak it in to Ray. The drugs are what killed ray. I guess now that I am old and terminally ill and dying because I can't afford Obamacare insurance, I am clearing my conscience,too. Like ray when he confessed to MLK son. Thoze black folks and preachers who participated in King's murder will have to face God as well.