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=The Truth= ==== O n April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr was killed by a single shot to the head. He was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he went to lead a peaceful march in support of striking sanitation workers.====

====About an hour later, he was pronounced dead at 7:05 PM at St. Joseph Hospital. Shortly after the murder, a bundle was dropped near the door of Canipe's Amusement Co. A White Mustang sped away from the murder scene. Memphis police officers found the bundle to contain a 30-06 rifle, ammunition, a pair of binoculars, and other items. The rifle had been purchased in Birmingham by a Harvey Lowmeyer.====

Comparing The Different Theories
=Conspiracy Theory: The Man In the Bushes= ====Solomon Jones, the volunteer driver for MLK on his Memphis visits, told police that night he ran into the street after the shot was fired and saw a man running away in the brush opposite the motel."I could see a person in the thicket on the west side of Mulberry with his back to me, looked like he had a hood over his head," said Jones, now dead. His account became the starting point for many of the conspiracy scenarios that followed.====

=**Conspiracy Theory: Military Spies and a Dramatic Photo**= Pepper, the lawyer in the conspiracy case said military intelligence agents went on the roof of the fire station which was the opposite direction of the motel with cameras which were used to spy on King. They captured a photo of the real killer. When the shot took place, one of the guys took his camera and ran into the bushes, and he caught the shooter lowering the rifle. And he said it wasn't James Earl Ray. However, Pepper never saw the photo. He said someone told him about it and tried to get it and was rebuffed.

**Conspiracy Theory: The bar man did it** Memphis "bar owner Lloyd Jowers", ran Jim's Grill in 1968. Jim's Grill was located across the street from the Lorraine Motel. The theory says in 1993, a Memphis produce dealer named Frank Liberto (now dead), gave him $100,000 to hire a hit man to murder MLK. The killer he hired wasn't James Earl Ray. After a 7 month investigation, The Memphis District Attorney "General Bill Gibbons" reported that he couldn't find evidence that showed Jowers had any involvement in the murder.

Cause and Effect
====In conspiracy theories, there is always going to be cause and effect. The cause of a conspiracy theory is a tragic accident that has happened. People create them so the blame isn't on one individual or one group of individuals. Another reason why they occur is because everyone has a different visual view of the event. For Example, The MLK has many conspiracy theories. That is because a lot of people saw different things at the time of MLK'S murder. The different stories were all told differently because they witnessed the event from a different visual angle.====

__Facts__

 * MLK was killed by a gun shot from a 30-06 rifle that was purchased by Harvey Lowmeyer.


 * Police officers found a bundle to contain a 30-06 rifle, ammunition, a pair of binoculars, and other items.


 * James Earl Ray went to jail for the murder

=Sources=

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/28/conspiracy.theories/index.html
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mlktheory4.html