No Wonder They Shot Him

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Originally Posted by MrPots

He had to die, Our American form of capitalism could never have let him live and still survive. The war machine that fuels our economy could not have survived true peace. Hell, it can't get by more than a couple of years tops without war.....

To the extent that James Earl Ray acted as part of a larger conspiracy (if he did), I think a more compelling case would be Hoover and his ilk wanting to keep race relations right where they were prior to the civil rights movement.