attorney working on a racketeering case against the arion brotherhood resigned reportedly out of fear for his own life and the life of his family tragically this environment of hate and violence across america is very similar to the environment forty five years ago when a single shot was fired from the lorraine motel in memphis tennessee killing dr martin luther king jr men who shot dr king james earl ray was brought into custody two months later yesterday never before never before seen video of ray just after he was arrested was released by the shelby county registrar in tennessee the video includes ray being read his rights being stripped searched by police as well as interviews with potential jurors for the. trial but despite these new videos in those forty five years since the assassination of dr king the real story behind his death of why he was killed has rarely been told and today as these cycles of history come around again this story is more important than ever so joining us now is lamar waldron historian and co-author with tom hartman of the book legacy of secrecy the long s

brotherhood of the arion brotherhood of texas so there are a number of suspects to investigate in forty years and want to be very difficult to protect oneself against so-called lone wolf attacks but on the other hand united states has misplaced priorities when it comes to this kind of thing you may know that there are states treasury department has more officials and bureaucrats investigating those seeking to travel to cuba than those involved the so-called terrorism now obviously that's an absurd waste of resources but that's the way things stand as we speak stay with me for the latest on the boston bombing and of course we've got more details and analysis on that's hot on our web site. and that is at this council caracas police have fires tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse crowds protesting that social results of the presidential election it came after venezuela's electroboy ignored calls for a recount of sunday's vote that saw him get shot this is hard to pick successor win by a razor thin majority and as a cia reports now the new president elect has got a tough task ahead of h

dealing with diverse movements from the militia movements to remnants of the ku klux klan to extremist arion brotherhood in prisons you're dealing with former military people who are well trained and know the system so the enemy is well armed it's scattered and sometimes very well trained amy do you want to jump in there you agree with alan sorry i mean. i very much do i mean i think if you go back to the one nine hundred ninety s. and in a funny way nine eleven those attacks in september two thousand and one were an interruption and what had been a trend in the one nine hundred ninety s. we had waco ridge and ruby ridge and waco branch davidian. then but what did happen in the two thousand is that some of the. is that feelings surrounding what had happened in two thousand and one and the rise in islamophobia and fear of foreigners got mixed then to a certain degree to the right wing. homegrown if you well. movements here in the united states and what is driving it now because there's a huge political ration of groups real fast extreme right wing groups have always been with us of course we

backers you know and we see that same deadly combination today the money is important and again with the arion brotherhood you know it's not like these people are just racists they're making a lot they're racists who are making a lot of money so when in their case you know probably millions of dollars are at stake that really amps up the odds of the the consequences into you have these murders and you also have people with money and means were able to pull off the murders and assist those who do that which is why slay the colorado prison official play to texas after them where he was killed so you know you had this the same. deadly mix and we can or look at conservative politicians who've been spreading this racism for many decades we also can't overlook the people who are usually overlooked which are a large corporate backers who are very respectable large corporations and political propaganda. sheens but they're actually fueling a lot of this hatred because of course people from the area of brotherhood to do regular conservative voters they're getting these massive doses of corporate propaga