Category: Political Assassinations

• The MLK Assassination (1968) Loyal Order

  A major post-assassination theory alleging that James Earl Ray did not act alone, and may have been framed outright, in a broader conspiracy involving Memphis authorities, intelligence-linked actors, and local or federal protection networks. The theory was shaped by Ray's recantation, the long-running figure of "Raoul," the King family's support for reinvestigation, the 1999 civil verdict in King v. Jowers, and official government reviews that rejected the central conspiracy allegations.

• The RFK Assassination (1968) Second Gun

  A long-running theory that Sirhan Sirhan did fire a weapon in the Ambassador Hotel pantry but was not the sole killer, and that the fatal shots came from behind Robert F. Kennedy. The theory often adds a second layer: that Sirhan was hypnotically programmed, dissociated, or manipulated into serving as a visible shooter while another gunman delivered the fatal rounds.

• The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  The 1968 murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, officially attributed to James Earl Ray, but widely believed by many researchers and conspiracy theorists to have involved a broader plot, possible intelligence connections, and a coordinated cover-up.