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A rich collection of compelling and intriguing revelations about the undemocratic and sinister doings of the national insecurity state. As both investigative reporters and as editors, Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease are to be highly commended for providing us an eye-opening volume on governmental lawlessness, conspiracy, and murder: an excellent book for specialists and general readers alike.

Dr. Michael Parenti, author of Dirty Truths, Democracy for a Few, and The Terrorism Trap: September 11th and Beyond

Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease have kept alive the search for facts, information, and truth in the assassinations of the 60s. Through their own research and through the enlistment of new and fine writers they showed that these cases still live and reverberate today. Probe magazine was the outlet for this rare and valuable gaze into the Looking Glass. And beyond.

Dr. John Newman, Professor, University of Maryland, author of JFK and Vietnam

No one in the last decade has done more to promote serious interest in the politics of assassination than the editors of Probe. Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease instigate people all over the country to think about and to do research on the JFK assassination and the other major political murders that followed.

Donald Gibson, Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, author of Battling Wall Street

In the wake of the failures of the Warren Commission, we are fortunate that independent scholars like Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease have displayed a desire to pursue the truth in regards to the assassinations of President Kennedy and those that occurred thereafter. The American people will be well served by closely reading their work on these important events.

Robert Tanenbaum, Deputy Counsel, House Select Committee on Assassinations and Assistant Chief of Homicide, New York District Attorneys Office

Combative, insightful and always surprising, Probe was for many years a barricade on the front lines of the culture war ignited by the Warren Commissions alarming cover-up of the John F. Kennedy assassination. For their parts, Lisa Pease and James DiEugenio deserve medals for providing a venue in which some of the cases most important investigative leadsthe de facto secret history of Amerikacould be documented, explored and made public. Bravo.

Jim Hougan, author, Spooks: The Haunting of America, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA, and Kingdom Come

Probe magazine probed realities other journals dared not even mention. From the Rose Cheramie case to showing Clay Shaws connection to Freeport Sulphur, it opened vital new areas of historical inquiry. The essays on the House Select Committee on Assassinations were astonishing. It was daring, outrageous and indispensable.

Joan Mellen, author of Hellman and Hammett, and biographer of Jim Garrison

There have been numerous analyses of the tragic political assassinations of the 1960sMLK, JFK, RFK and Malcolm X. No publication has reviewed these cataclysmic sociopolitical events more thoroughly and incisively than Probe magazine. Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, the co-editors of this excellent journal, repeatedly captured the essence of those momentous historical events over the past decade. The conspiratorial murders of these great leaders undoubtedly altered the destiny and shaped the history of the world. The thorough research, objective journalism, and personal courage of DiEugenio and Pease in delving deeply into the background of these cases have helped to shed light and expose long-buried, salient facts that official governmental agencies have deliberately chosen to ignore.

Dr. Cyril Wecht, Coroner of Allegheny County, PA, and author of Cause of Death

INTRODUCTION

By Judge Joe Brown

One of the reasons why we study history is to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. We are now in a period that roughly parallels the time of the events reviewed in this book. By the mid-70s, we turned our collective ire into a series of legislative fiats to rein in the excesses that we had discovered once we became aware of the CIA, discovered the real J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI, heard about dirty tricks and Watergate. This was a time when we found utility in citizen review boards for local police agencies. We learned the hard way about excesses, outright crimes and wrongdoing that had developed over decades and arose from our complacency and trust in apparent lawful authority. This book investigates some of those hard learning experiences.

What are we doing now? After 9/11, we are rushing to impose upon ourselves a panoply of statutes, under the guise of something called the Homeland Security Act. We, in our fear, are prepared to impose, in one legislative orgy, repressive anachronisms, unfit for existence in a free society. Yes, four decades ago, the impetus was differentfear flowed from inner turmoil and unrest. Now, incomprehensible and violent clashes, cultural and religious, create that fear. Both four decades ago and today, fear is depended upon to condone the existence of agencies antithetical to a free society. Our collective mindset allows us to be held in thrall to whims of these agencies, as long as these whims purport to protect us. History reveals that we most need protection from our statute-mad protectors, who need a strong gate to hold them to the task of upholding our constitution, rather than going outside it to protect us from ourselves, or anything else, for that matter.

Before becoming the subject of my own TV show, where I do binding arbitration for the entertainment and enlightenment of the viewing audience, I was elected and then re-elected by the people of my county as Judge of Division IX, of the 30th Judicial District for the State of Tennessee sitting in Memphis, Shelby County. During my decade-long career as a criminal court judge, I was exposed to one particular case that glaringly revealed the consequences of allowing official power to be accumulated without proper and effective safeguards.

I was the judge who heard and studied the evidence in the matter of James Earl Ray vs. the State of Tennessee relative to the question of whether or not his alleged rifle was in fact the weapon that murdered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. My conclusion was and remains that it was not the murder weapon. This conclusion was not at all popular with the powers that be, and ultimately, I was removed from the case by an appellate court for, paraphrasing their words, being too committed to conducting an objective fact-finding rather than an adversarial proceeding. Unfortunately, Mr. Ray became gravely ill and died before the matter could be appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court. As long as the case against Mr. Ray stands as it does, a very convenient story has been appended to the story of what was done to the late Dr. King, and the cause he stood for.

In case the connection is difficult to understand, let me say it clearly: We were all transgressed upon when the FBI clouded the events in which they had a strong hand. There is nothing less than governmental complicity in what happened to Dr. King.

In reaching my conclusion that the rifle was not the murder weapon, and in the intervening years since doing so, I have personally observed, heard and reviewed evidence that revealed an egregious abuse and misuse of power and authority by individuals and institutions that had entrenched themselves in unassailable positions and considered themselves to be above and beyond the control of law. They sought to enforce their vision of order by going outside the law of the society they presumed to be protecting. To supposedly protect the interests of the certain people they thought mattered, they set out to destroy the late Dr. King and what he represented. He was to be defeatedto use a clichby any means necessary, inside or outside the law. Our constitutional republic was created and defined by law that prevents ad hoc resorts to by any means necessary, as defined by someone with official power. We must be vigilant.

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