Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. King had been targeted by COINTELPRO and had also been under surveillance by military intelligence agencies during the period leading up to his assassination under the code name Operation Lantern Spike. A church minister, Ronald Denton Wilson, claimed his father, Henry Clay Wilson, assassinated Martin Luther King Jr., not James Earl Ray. He stated, "It wasn't a racist thing; he thought Martin Luther King was connected with communism, and he wanted to get him out of the way." But Wilson had reportedly previously admitted his father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. In 2004, Jesse Jackson, who
Martin Luther King Bridge (St. Louis) January 2019. Local traffic is being asked to detour onto the Eads Bridge, which is less than a 1/2 mile downstream. Thru traffic is being asked to detour onto one of the Interstate highways in the area - either Interstate 70 via the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge, or Interstates 55/64 via the Poplar Street Bridge. The Missouri half of the bridge is designated as unsigned Route 799 by the Missouri Department of Transportation. Martin Luther King Bridge (St. Louis) The Martin Luther King Bridge (formerly known as the Veterans Bridge) in St. Louis, Missouri, is a cantilever truss bridge