![]() ![]() Sirhan Sirhan was again denied parole on February 10, 2016. ABC News said the story had all the makings of a great conspiracy theory. Brown concluded that Sirhan did not act under his own volition and knowledge at the time of the shooting. Hypnosis expert Harvard Medical School professor Daniel P. Pepper believes that Sirhan, who claims to have no memory of the shooting was programmed under hypnosis to shoot and provide a distraction from the actual gunman who got away. Kennedy, and petitioning for the release of their client Sirhan Sirhan. On February 22, 2012, Pepper and co-counsel Laurie Dusek filed a court brief in District Court in Los Angeles claiming that a second gunman fired the shots that killed Robert F. On December 8, 1999, the Memphis jury found Jowers responsible, and also found that the assassination plot included "governmental agencies." The jury took less than an hour to find in favor of the King family for the requested sum of $100. Jowers testified that Memphis police officer Earl Clark fired the fatal shots. Jowers, testifying by deposition, stated that James Earl Ray was a scapegoat and not involved in the assassination. During a trial that lasted four weeks, Pepper produced over seventy witnesses. Loyd Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators". įollowing Ray's death, Pepper represented the King family in a wrongful death lawsuit, "King family vs. Eidson brought a $15 million lawsuit against Pepper's publisher which was later settled for an undisclosed amount. Eidson was then brought on camera and refused to shake Pepper's hand. ![]() This group was supposedly led by a man named Billy Eidson, whom Pepper claimed had since been killed in a cover up. This theory that held that a hit team from the 20th special forces group was to kill King if a police sharpshooter failed. He discussed the theory from his book Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King Jr. In June 1997, Pepper appeared on ABC's Turning Point. ![]() I don't think his trial-if he is granted a trial-will necessarily give us the unequivocal proof, but at least in regard to new evidence, we will know more than we do now." King subsequently said, "In the name of truth and justice, our family is calling for a trial, a trial James Earl Ray never had. King's youngest son, Dexter King, met with Ray on March 27, 1997, at the Lois M. The television jury found Ray not guilty. According to Pepper, "It looked like we were at the end of the road and then I came up with an idea, 'Well, look, why don't we try to have a real trial on television?" A mock trial was broadcast on HBO. Pepper's appeals to higher courts, and even the Supreme Court, failed. Pepper represented James Earl Ray in a televised mock trial where Ray was found not guilty. Pepper, who was Ray's last attorney, has postulated that Ray was not the shooter but was framed by the FBI, the CIA, the military, the Memphis police, and organized crime figures from New Orleans and Memphis. James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to King's assassination but soon recanted his confession. King that Ho-Chi Minh’s reverence for Jefferson, Lincoln, and American democracy, as he idealized it, made him the legitimate father of a unified Vietnam" Pepper later claimed that his conversation with King contributed to King's more adamant position against the Vietnam War, and that he was present at King's Riverside Church speech on April 4, 1967, in which King publicly attacked the war. ![]() Pepper, who supported the Communist cause, later wrote "it was not then clear to Dr. It depicted victims of napalm in Vietnam. contacted him after seeing his photo essay, The Children of Vietnam, which was published in the January 1967 issue of Ramparts magazine. Prominent cases Martin Luther King cases from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and J.D. from Columbia University, and studied abroad at the London School of Economics, Ed.D. He is the author of several books, and he has been active in other government conspiracy cases, including the 9/11 Truth movement, and has advocated that George W. Pepper has also been trying to prove the innocence of Sirhan Sirhan in the assassination of Robert F. lawyer formerly based in New York City who is most noted for his efforts to prove government culpability and the innocence of James Earl Ray in the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. William Francis Pepper (born August 16, 1937) is a U.S. University of Massachusetts Amherst ( M.Ed.) ![]()
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