The jury–six blacks and six whites—found that King had been the victim of assassination by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police as well as federal agencies. [1]

The judge continued: “Do you also find that others, including governmental agencies, were parties to this conspiracy as alleged by the defendant?’ Your answer to that one is also ‘Yes.’” [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_...

[2] http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/MLKconExp.ht...

I submitted reference 2 as a HN story. For further discussion of the MLK conspiracy go here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5891883

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Ray

Head down to the "denial of confession" section. Whether or not there was a conspiracy, I just wanted to bring up that it was still questionable about who actually shot Dr. King.