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Summary: Superb
Review: As someone who reads widely and often, I can honestly say this: Very few books I have ever read have had as profound an impact upon me as Dr. William Pepper's meticulously and exhaustively researched "Orders To Kill". Dr. Pepper spent upwards of 18 years researching the facts behind the King Assassination and is probably the world's leading authority on the subject. "Orders To Kill" contains the results of those 18 years of investigation. What he found is chilling and disturbing, and should make us wonder what happened to our "democracy": The government of the United States, among others, was deeply involved in the killing. And in a testament to Dr. Pepper's tenacity and skill as an investigative journalist, many of those responsible for King's political murder have actually admitted their complicity in the book (These facts do not 'give away' the plot, since this information is contained on the outside back of the book and because it takes a book of over 500 pages like this one to fully explain the enormity of the event it describes). In fact, one of the men implicated in the assassination, witnessed the shooting himself and names the individual who actually fired the bullet that killed Dr. King (Hint: it is not James Earl Ray). Of course, this individual named names only after being assured by Dr. Pepper that he would be immune from prosecution for his role in the killing. Dr. Pepper, through sheer persistence, an iron will, and a burning desire for the truth, has written a book that will grab the reader from page one, and not let go until the bitter (very) end. The tale it so skillfully tells is a tragic one and is of epic proportions. But it is a tale that must be told, for if truth is to prevail in this world, as I believe it must, then books like this one must be written. I cannot recommend a book more highly than I recommend this one. Read it and prepare to be disgusted, frightened, saddened, and in the end, amazed and hopefully glad that the truth has finally prevailed.
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Summary: This stunning book deftly reveals the horrible truth.
Review: As someone who reads widely and often, I can honestly say this: Very few books I have ever read have had as profound an impact upon me as Dr. William Pepper's meticulously and exhaustively researched "Orders To Kill". Dr. Pepper spent upwards of 18 years researching the facts behind the King Assassination and is probably the world's leading authority on the subject. "Orders To Kill" contains the results of those 18 years of investigation. What he found is chilling and disturbing, and should make us wonder what happened to our "democracy": The government of the United States, among others, was deeply involved in the killing. And in a testament to Dr. Pepper's tenacity and skill as an investigative journalist, many of those responsible for King's political murder have actually admitted their complicity in the book (These facts do not 'give away' the plot, since this information is contained on the outside back of the book and because it takes a book of over 500 pages like this one to fully explain the enormity of the event it describes). In fact, one of the men implicated in the assassination, witnessed the shooting himself and names the individual who actually fired the bullet that killed Dr. King (Hint: it is not James Earl Ray). Of course, this individual named names only after being assured by Dr. Pepper that he would be immune from prosecution for his role in the killing. Dr. Pepper, through sheer persistence, an iron will, and a burning desire for the truth, has written a book that will grab the reader from page one, and not let go until the bitter (very) end. The tale it so skillfully tells is a tragic one and is of epic proportions. But it is a tale that must be told, for if truth is to prevail in this world, as I believe it must, then books like this one must be written. I cannot recommend a book more highly than I recommend this one. Read it and prepare to be disgusted, frightened, saddened, and in the end, amazed and hopefully glad that the truth has finally prevailed.
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Summary: It took 30 years for truth to be told
Review: This book reveals the extensive role the U.S. government, organized crime, civilians, played in the assasination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. William F. Pepper had, through years of investigation, wrote a book that tells us the truth of the assasination. Theres not much for me to say except that if a student, from Singapore, who had nothing to do with the one of the most prominent figure in the history of the United States, bothered to post a review about a book which narrates events leading up to his murder and afterwards, surely tells a lot about the book.
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Summary: It took 30 years for truth to be told
Review: This book reveals the extensive role the U.S. government, organized crime, civilians, played in the assasination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. William F. Pepper had, through years of investigation, wrote a book that tells us the truth of the assasination. Theres not much for me to say except that if a student, from Singapore, who had nothing to do with the one of the most prominent figure in the history of the United States, bothered to post a review about a book which narrates events leading up to his murder and afterwards, surely tells a lot about the book.
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Summary: Superb
Review: This is a very revealing book, exhaustively researched and written in a style that is reasonably easy to read. Read it if you are open to the possibility that the government doesn't always tell us the whole truth about things and you think that, in theory at least, it may do some evil things quite deliberately. Otherwise, don't bother.
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Summary: Isn't it time for the truth?
Review: William Pepper knows more than most people about the King assassination. He has been dilagent in his research and efforts to uncover the truth about his long wrongly incarcerated client, James Earl Ray. Of course, Ray has recently died and the courts will likely use this as the final excuse to make all this noise go away. But it doesn't change the fact that this book exists, regardless of how little attention has been paid to it since publication. There are some wild theories speculated upon in the text, but the full circle appraoch Pepper uses makes you start to see his logic. Whether his ultimate theory is true or not, it finally proves irrelevent as you see the lengths the Tennassee state and the federal government have gone to suppress evidence and ignore constitutional rights. Even if Ray was guilty, there is no excuse for the sinister plots hatched by high-level individuals to keep these ideas out of the media and to toss them out of court. If Ray's gun is so obviously the murder weapon, why not allow the testing to be completed? If the case is such a sure shot done deal with the murderer in jail and now gone, why not allow the trial? Too much public sentiment, including Dr. King's own wife and children, don't believe the official conclusions. It is tragic that close-minded people will not even deign to look at some of Pepper's new evidence and they stubbornly insist that this is all taken care of and shut up people, shut up America, we know what's right for you. The further you get in this book, the more suspicious you are likely to become. Of course, the book is not without its flaws. In a reversal of Gerald Posner's chief flaw (his unquestioned belief in anything any government person says), Pepper seems too willing to disregard 30 years of lies and changing stories and accredit only the story that fits hhis theory. usually, he tries to accept the most recent telling of a story from certain alledged co-conspirators, but if the new story doesn't work for him, he relies on the o! lder story (not the oldest because that is now a proven lie, according to Pepper.) Also, Posner is a wonderful writer, churning out pitch-perfect satires of conspiracy books, mocking the style and conventions of this now established genre. Pepper, well, he's not much of a writer. The book drags and occasionally contridicts itself only to re-contradict itself later on when an editor likely told him about this. He uses this technique to establish his growing state of mind and his altering beliefs as his investigation continues. Unfortunately, it's rather confusing. The book is almost too self-interested, employing a pretentious first-person narration like it's not about the King assassination at all, it's not about James Earl Ray's wrongful imprisonment, but is the tale of an epic quest by the only man brave enough to take on the powers that be. This, I have to say, is the greatest flaw in this otherwise very important and very relevent book.
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