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 Memorial Prize a Dark Time" (1984) edited by Nicholas Humphrey and Robert Lifton, "The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain" (1985) by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe", The European Tribe" (1987) by Caryl Phillips, and "Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain" (1988) by Ferdinand Dennis. Martin Luther King Memorial Prize The Martin Luther King Memorial Prize was instituted by novelist John Brunner and his wife and was awarded annually to a literary work published in the US or Britain that was deemed to improve interrracial understanding, "reflecting the ideals to which Dr. Martin Luther King dedicated his