![]() ![]() Joseph’s was one Breen Bland, who was also the family physician for the family of Russell Adkins, who in turn headed up the Memphis faction of the Dixie Mafia. Army for much of the 20th century, and a favorite of deer hunters to this day. The consensus was that he died instantly from the 30.06 cartridge (nicknamed the “thirty-aught-six”), a mainstay of the U.S. Joseph’s hospital accompanied by Abernathy and close associate Bernard Lee, where he was pronounced dead an hour later (at 7:05 PM). In Jones’ words “…he could not tell whether the person was Negro or white.”īy this point, Jones was in a state of shock, and was placed in a motel room to recover. ![]() Jones was in the motel parking lot below King when the shot rang out and reported seeing a man running away from the area. This brushy area was cut down the day after the assassination, along with a tree branch, which obstructed the line of sight between where the shooter allegedly was and the balcony where King stood. King’s Memphis chauffeur, one Solomon Jones, maintains that the shot came from a large overgrowth of bushes between the rooming house and the motel. In the aftermath of King’s shooting, Ralph Abernathy, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young and others rushed to his side, some of them pointing to where they believed the shot came from, a rooming house on the second floor of Jim’s Grill, some 200 feet away. King, and realized the sound was actually a shot rather than a firecracker.” - from the FBI report on the assassination. At this point, Jones could see blood coming from Dr. King fell to the floor of the walkway in front of Room 306. King he heard a sound which he thought was a firecracker. “Jones stated while he was still looking at Dr. ![]() The good-humor continued with a mock pillow fight with Andrew Young and others, right up to the moment he put on his coat and stepped outside to be driven to his last supper. Billy Kyles’ wife.Ī creature of habit, he believed in dressing for dinner, and like many Black men, he used a sulfur-based depilatory cream as a daily shaving ritual. had been in a jovial mood as he anticipated the evening meal “…of prime rib roast and soul food such as chitterlings, greens, pig’s feet and black-eyed peas…,” prepared by the Rev. Jackson in the foreword to James Earl Ray’s 1997 autobiography “Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?” “I have always believed that the government was part of a conspiracy, either directly or indirectly, to assassinate Dr. ![]()
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