A jury in Tennessee has found that the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was the result of a conspiracy, and not the act of a lone gunman.
The civil case was taken by the King family against a former cafe owner who has claimed to have been paid to arrange the killing. The verdict didn't address the claim of James Earl Ray that he had been wrongly found guilty of the murder.
The King family and their attorney, William Pepper, say their proves there was a conspiracy between the City of Memphis police department, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the US military to silence Doctor King because he was "too powerful." Despite the findings, the U.S. Justice Department has no plans to bring any criminal charges over the 1968 assassination.
