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After Mack left UPI, he worked several public-relations jobs, finally joining NBC News, where he worked as a writer and occasional correspondent. Through his reporting at NBC, Mack says, he was pepper-gassed at a Black Panther trial in New Hampshire, covered Pope Paul VI at Yankee Stadium and worked the floor at both party conventions in the 1964 presidential race...
...book Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, Pepper delivers a turgid blend of proved fact, hearsay and wild speculation. He claims that Ray was merely a fall guy in an intricate plot woven by U.S. Army intelligence units in which dozens, maybe even hundreds, of Mafia dons, government agents, white racists and small-time crooks were involved. He writes that he pieced together evidence of this vast conspiracy during a courageous 18-year investigation that ranged over several continents. But some of his most unsettling charges were lifted straight out of newspaper stories, then...
...example, Pepper got the idea that clandestine Army units were stalking King from a sensational series of articles by former Memphis Commercial Appeal reporter Steven G. Tompkins, who now serves as a spokesman for Georgia Governor Zell Miller. In 1993 Tompkins wrote, "On April 3 [the day before the killing], King returned to Memphis. Army agents from the 111th Military Intelligence Group shadowed his movements and monitored radio traffic from a sedan crammed with electronic equipment. Eight Green Beret soldiers from an 'Operation Detachment Alpha 184 Team' were also in Memphis carrying out an unknown mission." Although Tompkins wrote that...
...then there is what Pepper says about Merrell McCullough, ostensibly a Memphis undercover cop who infiltrated the Invaders, a militant black-youth organization that had allied itself with King's movement. McCullough's real mission, Pepper maintains, was to report to the 111th Military Intelligence Group headquartered at Camp McPherson, Georgia, on King's movements and plans. Pepper even includes in his book a photograph of McCullough kneeling over King's body moments after the shooting, "apparently checking him for life signs." But the man in the photograph is Earl Caldwell, then a New York Times reporter. Pepper told TIME...
...Tennessee appellate court is considering whether to allow new ballistics tests that Pepper says will prove Ray's rifle was not the murder weapon. If they do, Ray might eventually get the real-life day in court he has been demanding for 29 years. And even if they don't, all the new wrinkles touted by Pepper make the King case sound more like a movie from Oliver Stone, who happens to be negotiating a deal with the King family associate who owns the rights to the story. It would make a heck of a movie, all right...