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MLK assassinationAtlas
Government & Politics · Assassinations & deaths of public figures
Competing accounts of whether Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination was a closed single-actor case or involved a wider network, including disputed agency roles beyond surveillance history.
Open the caseInvolved
event
1999 King family civil verdict
organization
Church Committee
concept
COINTELPRO
government agency
Federal Bureau of Investigation
person
Gerald L. Posner
organization
House Select Committee on Assassinations
document
HSCA Report on Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
person
James Earl Ray
document
Killing the Dream
location
London
location
Lorraine Motel
event
Lorraine Motel balcony shooting
person
Loyd Jowers
person
Martin Luther King Jr.
location
Memphis, Tennessee
concept
Raoul
government agency
U.S. Department of Justice
organization
U.S. National Archives
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