Some Thoughts on Why Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Assassinated

 

By Steven Jonas

The word “assassinated” when correctly used refers to particular types of murders, that is ones carried out for political purposes. It is derived from an Arabic term.

In my view, there were three principal reasons why Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated (by whomever actually did the killing), at the time the deed was done.:

1. He was beginning to be spoken of in the context of national electoral politics, e.g., the “King-Spock Ticket.” (The “Spock referenced there was not the one from “Star Trek,” but rather the famous pediatrician and popular writer who was becoming ever-more involved in national political issues on the progressive side, Dr. Benjamin Spock.) The 1967 “National Conference of New Politics” which took place in Chicago over Labor Day weekend, that year. It happened that I attended that Conference as the representative of the New York Medical Committee to End the War in Viet Nam. (And as it happened further, I became the Chair of the Resolutions Committee for the Conference an absolutely fascinating experience, which I will not re-visit here.) In that context, the Rev. King gave the Keynote Address at the Conference.

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Source: OpEdNews.com