A Memoir of Injustice
(TrinDay, 2011)
by Jerry Ray as told to Tamara Carter, with an Afterward by Judge Joe Brown.
From the moment Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed it was clear there was a war on, not a race war, a perspective encouraged at the time, but because the violence also consumed the lives of John and Robert Kennedy, it was a war over the hearts and minds and political lives of theAmerica
It is a war that continues today, a violent one that uses murder and assassination as a tool in the chest of strategists who remain behind the scenes and immune from justice, and a war that is manifest in the refusal of the government to release the now historical investigative records of the Congressional investigation into the murder of Dr. King.
The assassination ofMLK is not unique in
the failure of the government to bring justice to an historic homicide, or
release of the relevant government records, as that is also the case with the
JFK and RFK assassinations. More specifically in the MLK
case, the government failed to put the accused assassin on a fair or thorough
trial, or to properly identify and locate the shadowy Latin smuggler “Raoul,”
who holds the key to the true powers behind the assassination, thus requiring
amateur sleuths, civilians, historians and the younger brother of the accused
to do the job.
While there are dozens of other books that go into the details more thoroughly, Jerry Ray’s view of the proceedings is fascinating and reads like a Raymond Chandler novel, without pulling any punches, short, crisp and to the point.
The early part of the book, describing the dysfunctional and basically criminal nature of the Ray family, is a sad tale that sets the stage for how Ray could have been easily persuaded to be part of the plot or, like Oswald, set up as the patsy and fall guy.
One might expect the brother of the accused to stick up for his kin, even after James Earl Ray died in prison, but Jerry’s story is engaging and believable, and thanks to T. Carter, is delivered in a style that serves a fine example of the proper way to draw out oral history from a closely engaged witness like Jerry Ray.
Jerry first learned the authorities were looking for his brother when he heard they were after a suspect named Eric Galt, which he knew was an alias James Ray had used. He immediately drove toSt. Louis
After James was caught inEngland Atlanta Wilson Wilson
From prison, James Earl Ray asked his brother to check out a guy “Randy Robenson,” whose name was on the back of a card “Raoul” had, a card from the Le Bunny Lounge on Canal Street in New Orleans.
A cab driver told Jerry the club was probably one of Carlos Marcello’s joints, and as Jerry relates: “At the time, Carlos Marcello was the biggest crime boss in theUnited States Caribbean . At the time, there was strong evidence
that Marcello, who harbored bitter hatred for Robert F. and John F. Kennedy,
had played a direct role in JFK’s assassination.”
As recounted by Jerry, “I walked inside, sat down at the bar and ordered a beer. To my surprise, Le Bunny Lounge was an average place. There were only a few other customers there, and they were sitting at tables away from the bar. The cocktail waitress was an attractive woman. We started talking back and forth. I asked her if she knew Randy Robenson. She stared my way and said, ‘Who’s asking?’ I didn’t beat around the bush, and replied, ‘Twenty Dollar Bill, that’s who.’…”
She knew a Randolph Robenson, a guy fromFlorida
Jerry thought it significant, “Jimmy and Raoul meeting at Le Bunny Lounge, owned by aNew Orleans
Though Ray never acknowledged killing King, and it is questionable that his rifle that was left at the scene was the one used in the shooting, Percy Foreman, who became James Earl Ray’s lawyer, convinced Ray to plead guilty to avoid the death sentence, and also avoid a trial during which all the facts in the case would have emerged.
Some of those facts would come out during the 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) investigation and two subsequent civil trials, one led by Dr. William Pepper on behalf of the King family that resulted in the conviction of co-conspirators, thus proving conspiracy. The other case was COPA v. DOD – (Coalition on Political Assassinations and Department of Defense) that sought the release of Army Intelligence files on Dr. King in the last two months of his life, and though COPA lost the case on appeal, the DOD did release an after action summary of the reports, which clearly indicated they had maintained a very close surveillance of King and in fact, watched him being murdered.
William Pepper once said that he had identified “Raoul” and even talked with him on the phone, but since then, we haven’t heard much more about the shadowy Latin smuggler, or whether the other leads were properly followed and investigated. Pepper's suspect is described and his photograph printed in his book, An Act of State.
Memphis Judge Joe Brown, now ofTV Court Loraine Hotel
The records on the Martin L. King assassination of the HSCA are still locked away, and were not included among the JFK Assassinations Records Act as they should have been, though they can and should be released by an act of Congress, if people will only ask them to do so.
Justice many never be served in this case, as Jerry Ray concludes, but history still can be, if the relevant government records are released to the public, as they should be.
TRINDAY – A few words about the publisher – TrinDay.
Not your traditional mainstream publisher, TrinDay is run out ofWalterville ,
Oregon
Millegan has found a nice niche, publishing radical and conspiratorial, though historically documented books that are too hot or controversial for other publishers to handle.
Some of the books, like “The Bilderberg Group” and “Shadow Masters” by Daniel Estulin, concern the larger strategic conspiracies behind big governments, big money and maintaining the drug-oil industrial scheme of things that we have no real control over.
“Dr. Mary’s Monkey,” “Me & Lee” and “The Last Circle” bring out first person stories much like Jerry Ray’s “Memoir of Injustice.”
“Dr. Mary’s Monkey” is Ed Haslam’s personal investigation into the death of aNew
Orleans Last Circle
Though there has been some dispute over the details, Baker certainly was employed at the same coffee company at the same time as Oswald, but with few questionable witnesses to them being together, their love life may be exaggerated. However, the overall story of what happened inNew Orleans
More significant are other TrineDay books, like a revised and expanded versions of John Loftus’ classic “America’s Nazi Secret” and the late George Michael Evica’s under-appreciated “A Certain Arrogance” – subtitled “The sacrificing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Cold War manipulations of religious groups by U.S. Intelligence.”
Then there’s Hank P. Albarelli Jr.’s “A Terrible Mistake,” about the MK/ULTRA death ofCIA officer Dr. Frank Olson,
Douglas Valentine’s book on the DEA “The Strength of the Pack,” and Lt. Col.
Dan Marvin’s “Expendable Elite.”
In all, TrinDay continues to give us much to think about, and should change the way we think about politics and murder.
TrinDayP.O. Box 577 , Waterville ,
OR , 97489
1-800-566-2012
[Bill Kelly is author of “300 Years at the Point” and “Birth of the Birdie.” His research on the JFK assassination is supported in part by a grant from the Fund For Constitutional Government Investigative Journalism Project. He can be reached at bkjfk3@yahoo.com]
by Jerry Ray as told to Tamara Carter, with an Afterward by Judge Joe Brown.
From the moment Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed it was clear there was a war on, not a race war, a perspective encouraged at the time, but because the violence also consumed the lives of John and Robert Kennedy, it was a war over the hearts and minds and political lives of the
It is a war that continues today, a violent one that uses murder and assassination as a tool in the chest of strategists who remain behind the scenes and immune from justice, and a war that is manifest in the refusal of the government to release the now historical investigative records of the Congressional investigation into the murder of Dr. King.
The assassination of
While there are dozens of other books that go into the details more thoroughly, Jerry Ray’s view of the proceedings is fascinating and reads like a Raymond Chandler novel, without pulling any punches, short, crisp and to the point.
The early part of the book, describing the dysfunctional and basically criminal nature of the Ray family, is a sad tale that sets the stage for how Ray could have been easily persuaded to be part of the plot or, like Oswald, set up as the patsy and fall guy.
One might expect the brother of the accused to stick up for his kin, even after James Earl Ray died in prison, but Jerry’s story is engaging and believable, and thanks to T. Carter, is delivered in a style that serves a fine example of the proper way to draw out oral history from a closely engaged witness like Jerry Ray.
Jerry first learned the authorities were looking for his brother when he heard they were after a suspect named Eric Galt, which he knew was an alias James Ray had used. He immediately drove to
After James was caught in
From prison, James Earl Ray asked his brother to check out a guy “Randy Robenson,” whose name was on the back of a card “Raoul” had, a card from the Le Bunny Lounge on Canal Street in New Orleans.
A cab driver told Jerry the club was probably one of Carlos Marcello’s joints, and as Jerry relates: “At the time, Carlos Marcello was the biggest crime boss in the
As recounted by Jerry, “I walked inside, sat down at the bar and ordered a beer. To my surprise, Le Bunny Lounge was an average place. There were only a few other customers there, and they were sitting at tables away from the bar. The cocktail waitress was an attractive woman. We started talking back and forth. I asked her if she knew Randy Robenson. She stared my way and said, ‘Who’s asking?’ I didn’t beat around the bush, and replied, ‘Twenty Dollar Bill, that’s who.’…”
She knew a Randolph Robenson, a guy from
Jerry thought it significant, “Jimmy and Raoul meeting at Le Bunny Lounge, owned by a
Though Ray never acknowledged killing King, and it is questionable that his rifle that was left at the scene was the one used in the shooting, Percy Foreman, who became James Earl Ray’s lawyer, convinced Ray to plead guilty to avoid the death sentence, and also avoid a trial during which all the facts in the case would have emerged.
Some of those facts would come out during the 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) investigation and two subsequent civil trials, one led by Dr. William Pepper on behalf of the King family that resulted in the conviction of co-conspirators, thus proving conspiracy. The other case was COPA v. DOD – (Coalition on Political Assassinations and Department of Defense) that sought the release of Army Intelligence files on Dr. King in the last two months of his life, and though COPA lost the case on appeal, the DOD did release an after action summary of the reports, which clearly indicated they had maintained a very close surveillance of King and in fact, watched him being murdered.
William Pepper once said that he had identified “Raoul” and even talked with him on the phone, but since then, we haven’t heard much more about the shadowy Latin smuggler, or whether the other leads were properly followed and investigated. Pepper's suspect is described and his photograph printed in his book, An Act of State.
Memphis Judge Joe Brown, now of
The records on the Martin L. King assassination of the HSCA are still locked away, and were not included among the JFK Assassinations Records Act as they should have been, though they can and should be released by an act of Congress, if people will only ask them to do so.
Justice many never be served in this case, as Jerry Ray concludes, but history still can be, if the relevant government records are released to the public, as they should be.
TRINDAY – A few words about the publisher – TrinDay.
Not your traditional mainstream publisher, TrinDay is run out of
Millegan has found a nice niche, publishing radical and conspiratorial, though historically documented books that are too hot or controversial for other publishers to handle.
Some of the books, like “The Bilderberg Group” and “Shadow Masters” by Daniel Estulin, concern the larger strategic conspiracies behind big governments, big money and maintaining the drug-oil industrial scheme of things that we have no real control over.
“Dr. Mary’s Monkey,” “Me & Lee” and “The Last Circle” bring out first person stories much like Jerry Ray’s “Memoir of Injustice.”
“Dr. Mary’s Monkey” is Ed Haslam’s personal investigation into the death of a
Though there has been some dispute over the details, Baker certainly was employed at the same coffee company at the same time as Oswald, but with few questionable witnesses to them being together, their love life may be exaggerated. However, the overall story of what happened in
More significant are other TrineDay books, like a revised and expanded versions of John Loftus’ classic “America’s Nazi Secret” and the late George Michael Evica’s under-appreciated “A Certain Arrogance” – subtitled “The sacrificing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Cold War manipulations of religious groups by U.S. Intelligence.”
Then there’s Hank P. Albarelli Jr.’s “A Terrible Mistake,” about the MK/ULTRA death of
In all, TrinDay continues to give us much to think about, and should change the way we think about politics and murder.
TrinDay
1-800-566-2012
[Bill Kelly is author of “300 Years at the Point” and “Birth of the Birdie.” His research on the JFK assassination is supported in part by a grant from the Fund For Constitutional Government Investigative Journalism Project. He can be reached at bkjfk3@yahoo.com]
