Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on "thousands of pages of declassified and never-before-released law enforcement files on the King murder,and dozens of interviews with figures of the period, this chronicles a multi-year effort to kill Martin Luther King Jr. by a group of the nations most violent right-wing extremists. . it examines figures like Sam Bowers, head of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi, responsible for more than three hundred separate acts of violence in Mississippi alone; and Reverend Wesley Swift, a religious demagogue who inspired two generations of violent extremists. United in a holy cause to kill King, this network of racist militants were the likely culprits behind James Earl Ray and Kings assassination in Memphis on April 4th, 1968." Includes several appendices on open questions, key figures, timeline and more. Photographs. Notes, index. 439 pp. ISBN: 978-1582438306.