Note: I discovered this information through highly recommended PEERS Email List that collects underreported news from reliable mainstream media outlets.
“The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr., a 
pastor, activist and leader for the African-American civil rights movement, was assassinated on 4 April 1968 in Memphis. The official story holds James Earl Ray accountable for the murder on the basis of a guilty plea (later recanted) but he was never put on trial. The only trial ever held concerning the death of MLK took place in 1999 (31 years later!) and not only confirmed that Earl James Ray did not pull the trigger, but found US Government agencies (among others) guilty of the assassination. From the Court verdict (page 2729):
“THE COURT: Okay. All right, ladies and gentlemen. Let me ask you, do all of you agree with this verdict?
THE JURY: Yes (In unison).
THE COURT: In answer to the question did Loyd Jowers participate in a conspiracy to do harm to Dr. Martin Luther King, your answer is yes. Do you also find that others, including governmental agencies, were parties to this conspiracy as alleged by the defendant? Your answer to that one is also yes. And the total amount of damages you find for the plaintiffs entitled to is one hundred dollars. Is that your verdict?
THE JURY: Yes (In unison).
Here is some of the evidence that was corroborated through 70 witnesses that testified for a period of over a month:
- Usual special body guards provided by the Memphis police were advised they “weren’t needed” on the day of the assassination.
- Regular and constant police protection was removed from Dr. King an hour before the assassination.
- Dr. King’s room was changed from a secure 1st-floor room to an exposed balcony room.
- US 111th Military Intelligence Group were at Dr. King’s location during the assassination.
- The 20th Special Forces Group had an eight-man sniper team at the assassination location on that day.
- Memphis police ordered the bushes multiple witnesses reported as the source of shooting cut down shortly after the assassination.
- Along with sanitizing a crime scene, police abandoned the standard investigative procedure of interviewing witnesses who lived by the scene of the shooting.
- The rifle James Earl Ray delivered was not matched to the bullet that killed Dr. King, and was not sighted to accurately shoot.
Given the implications of the verdict, it is not surprising if we are more likely to hear about Kim Kardashian’s buttocks or Justin Bieber’s selfies, while this trial has remained severely underreported and mostly unknown. Journalist James Douglass commented:
“Apart from the courtroom participants, only Memphis TV reporter Wendell Stacy and I attended from beginning to end this historic three-and-one-half week trial. Because of journalistic neglect, scarcely anyone else in this land of ours even knows what went on. After critical testimony was given in the trial’s second week before an almost empty gallery, Barbara Reis, U.S. correspondent for the Lisbon daily Publico who was there several days, turned to me and said, “Everything in the U.S. is the trial of the century. O.J. Simpson’s trial was the trial of the century. Clinton’s trial was the trial of the century. But this is the trial of the century, and who’s here?””
Most lives are a ripple on the ocean of time, but MLK’s was a tidal wave and his message is still valid today as it was back then.
MLK is the inspiration behind U2’s masterpiece “Pride”:
“Early morning April 4h, a shot rings out in the Memphis sky. Free at last, they took your life but they could not take your pride”
Serve and Preserve 