had a report that out about ten days before the assassination jack ruby was an electronics store looking for some amplification equipment for his clubs are right and. oswald was with them in the store ok and so ruby asked the guy's name he turned to oswald and said take his name down he's going to get a free pass for the club ok so that's this is the kind of stuff that's coming out which you know the mainstream media in this country doesn't really want the public to know very much about you know so there's people like you you know that we try and get this information out. and where are we in terms of the actual declassification process so trump had some issues that he basically was being stymied on by the cia and other parties to basically continue or view before disclosure so what files are still do we know the files that we know about obvious because there's plenty of share of files that were destroyed buried we'll never hear about the the was that we know or a way to be disclosed what are we looking at as far as f.b.i. cia files i'll say that i'm really glad you asked that question be

flames literally, unlikelihood of the oswald who was defined until the end and then murdered by jack ruby, james earl ray surrendered as neatly as a mouse. he was embarrassed that he was so timid he surrendered too easily. he tried to play up the story that he wasn't so weak but the story got out, and that was the ignoble end of james earl ray's run. >> host: you talk a lot in the book about the ark between king and james earl ray and all of the places where history could easily changed one small thing. one of the things that fascinates me is you start with another assassination attempt. you start and end, but many people don't know about that incident in new york at the beginning of martin luther king, jr. script. tell us about that tragic there is almost never a martin luther king as we remember him today. he didn't want to be famous. he did want to be the lead of the big movement. he thought he would let the quiet life of a southern minister as his father did, as of the men in the family did. he didn't have ambitions to be world-famous but then he got involved in the montgomery, alabam