William F. Pepper

Dr. William F. Pepper is a human rights lawyer most known for his defense of James Earl Ray in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. and of Sirhan Sirhan in the trial for the murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Pepper is the author of “The Plot To Kill King” (Skyhorse Publishing, 2016), the final volume of a trilogy.

La OEA enfrenta un llamado para una nueva investigación sobre el asesinato de Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Kennedy recibió un disparo el 5 de junio y murió el 6 de junio de 1968, hace hoy cincuenta años. Un nuevo examen de la evidencia está obligando a las organizaciones de derechos humanos, incluida la OEA, a considerar investigar el caso.

William F. Pepper
Por William F. Pepper
Charles Wright, a police technician, and officer Robert Rozzi inspects a bullet hole discoverd in a door frame in a kitchen corridor of the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles near where Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and critically wounded June 5, 1968. Bullet is still in the wood. Dick Strobel | AP

Recent news about Robert F. Kennedy’s fatal shooting sharpens the challenge for human rights organizations in how to address the shocking justice issues raised by the continued imprisonment of RFK’s convicted slayer Sirhan Sirhan. Reporters and researchers have recently shown the disturbing pattern of suppressed evidence and other legal

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The Washington Post’s ‘Breakthrough’ on the Murder of Martin Luther King

The Washington Post last week overcame its tainted history of softball coverage and published a hard-hitting account quoting the King family’s disbelief in the guilt of convicted killer James Earl Ray.

William F. Pepper
Por William F. Pepper
James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, is shown at Brushy Mountain Prison, Tenn., March 29, 1978. (AP/Dennis Montgomery)

For the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder, The Washington Post last week overcame its tainted history of softball coverage and published a hard-hitting account quoting the King family’s disbelief in the guilt of convicted killer James Earl Ray. The bold, top-of-the-front-page treatment on April 2 of reporter Tom Jackman’s

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