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1999 Wrongful-Death Civil Suit

The 1999 wrongful-death civil suit in Memphis regarding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Jan 19, 2026
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Was the US government confirmed to have involvement with the murder of MLK?

No definitive government culpability has been legally confirmed: multiple official U.S. investigations concluded there is no reliable evidence that federal, state, or local government agencies orchest...

Jan 21, 2026
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What forensic evidence supports or refutes the claim that MLK was smothered rather than shot?

The preponderance of forensic evidence — contemporaneous autopsy findings, recovered bullet fragments, radiographs and later specialist review — supports that died of a single, fatal gunshot wound tha...