Failing to get a new trial for Ray before his death, Pepper, a former journalist who became a leading international lawyer and Oxford professor, brought a civil suit against Jowers in 1999. A jury found Jowers liable for 30% of the responsibility for his role in the conspiracy. The other 70% was assigned to other conspirators, including U.S. "governmental agencies."
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It's the "governmental agencies" part of this plot that will spook your average American citizen. Pepper tracks down one of the Army snipers who served in a unit called the 902nd MIG. During the latter part of the 60s, this highly-trained Special Forces team traveled the U.S. with mug shots of leading activists, ready to take them out in the event of a major social upheaval. The sniper reports his team got the greenlight to kill at King in Selma, but the reverend disappeared into the crowd before they could get off a clean shot. In Memphis, he told Stanford military history professor Clayborne Carson (who then read the testimony into evidence in King v. Jowers), his team was again ready and willing to follow orders:
http://www.thekingcenter.org/news/trial.html
It's the "governmental agencies" part of this plot that will spook your average American citizen. Pepper tracks down one of the Army snipers who served in a unit called the 902nd MIG. During the latter part of the 60s, this highly-trained Special Forces team traveled the U.S. with mug shots of leading activists, ready to take them out in the event of a major social upheaval. The sniper reports his team got the greenlight to kill at King in Selma, but the reverend disappeared into the crowd before they could get off a clean shot. In Memphis, he told Stanford military history professor Clayborne Carson (who then read the testimony into evidence in King v. Jowers), his team was again ready and willing to follow orders: