Time Magazine
MLK Day is a time to remember the best ambitions of Dr. King’s
leadership in the civil rights movement.
It is also a day to remember who killed him-- and why.
James Earl Ray assassinated Dr. King. A book written by
George McMillan provides research into Ray and two other infamous assassins,
Sirhan Sirhan and Lee Harvey Oswald.
Here is a brief except from Anthony Lewis’s book review, “How a
leader was killed, an A‐bomb made, a corporation acquired,” New York Times
(Oct. 31, 1876) (quoting in red).
A friend and sometime partner in crime, Walter Rife, told
McMillan: “Jim … was unreasonable in his hatred for niggers. He hated to see
them breathe. If you pressed it, he'd get violent in a conversation. He hated
them!”
His feelings were not confined to blacks. During World War II
he expressed admiration for the Nazis. His brother Jerry has said: ‘What
appealed to Jimmy … about Hitler was that he would make the U.S. an all‐white
country, no Jews or Negroes. He would be a strong leader who would just do what
was right, and that was it. Not try to please everybody like Roosevelt.”
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