50th Anniversary March on Washington, August 28, 2013 (Washington Post)
On August 28, 2013 as I watch the ceremony in Washington DC celebrating
the 50th Anniversary of March on Washington and I HAVE A DREAM speech,
earlier concerns in connection with Dr. King's death come to mind. I
stopped everything and listened to the entire trial of James Earl Ray.
One surprise was he visited Long Beach several weeks before the
assassination and took dance lessons in Long Beach. Ray did not have a
known source of income and where he received financing is a critical
question. For more than two years before the assassination, the FBI wire
tapped all of Dr. King's conversations and conference calls with other
civil rights leaders. J Edgar Hoover called Dr. King the most dangerous
Negro in America. Many of Dr. King's inner circle advised him not to go
to Memphis due to the demands in planning the second March on
Washington called POOR PEOPLE's CAMPAIGN. The first March was the
largest in the history of our nation. The second March was denied
because of Dr. King's assassination.
On another
note, the first African America City Councilman, James Wilson and a
committee, appointed me and a trusted friend as body guards for Stokely
Carmichael (also Kwame Ture) when they invited him to Long Beach for several speaking engagements.
John Malveaux (also John Champion)
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