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Council,

For your information.

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick [mailto:[email address]]
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:17 AM
To: Jack Layne; Dr. Clayborne Carson; Daniel Nester; Ed Colimore; Steve C
Patterson; Jenn Lucas; Bill Kelly; Kevin Shelly; Aaron Moselle
Subject: That fateful night, the truth comes out!

I have uncovered the true story of what happened in Mary's Cafe that night.
King and his friends never ordered any alcohol, they actually never had the
chance to order anything. I have found the first biography of King written
just 2 months after he was assassinated. In it, it gives quotes as to what
happened that evening. They never tried to order alcohol, they were there
for food.

The statement of the restaurant owner, which for some odd reason, has been
taken as gospel and regurgitated by many authors and historians, was merely
an attempt to "drop a taser" next to the victims of the event. The
restaurant owner was creating leverage in order to create a justification
for not serving the young black people and pulling out a gun on them.

The grand jury was considering charges against King and McCall for
attempting to buy alcohol on a Sunday, as they were considering charges
against Ernest Nichols, the gun wielding owner is Mary's Cafe. The
statement of Ernie Nichols was written and given to prosecutors 8 days after
the incident occurred.

In the 1968 biography, His life, martyrdom and the meaning of the world,
it's clear they went to the restaurant seeking food and never got to order
anything. When they realized they were the only blacks in the restaurant,
and also realized they were the only ones not receiving service, they sat in
protest, hence being the first official sit in the civil rights movement.

Which infuriated the owner of the restaurant who then threatened the young
group with a 45 caliber pistol and stuck it into McCalls face. When they
still refused to leave the bartender fired off some shots into the air and
exclaimed "I'll kill for less".

This caused them to exit and go to the police who later arrested the
restaurant owner. The complaint against Nichols was singed and dated June
12th 1950 at 12:45 am. If in fact the story of the restaurant owner was
true, he could have easily waged a complaint against the four young black
people who he claimed were very insistent on buying alcohol on a Sunday.
There were several other witnesses in the bar, some of which refused to help
King and his friends. If these same witnesses had seen the 4 young black
people insisting the restaurant owner sell them alcohol on that night, it is
correct to assume they would have bore witness to such and a complaint would
have been filed and King and his friends would have also been arrested.

The history books and news stories need to be redacted of the claim of the
restaurant owner made against King and friends; that they were trying to buy
alcohol. It's historically inaccurate and attempts to justify the
restaurant owners use of a weapon and refusal of service to the young black
people, who were actually the victims. The video of the situation is not
available, as it is in the Walter Scott assassination, but the facts are now
available and the story must be rewritten to reflect the truth. They were
hungry and the restaurant owner was a racist, who's lawyer helped concoct a
story that justified the bigots decision to not serve black people and
threaten them with a gun.


Bibliography
1970 interview with Walter McCall
1968 book -His life, martyrdom and the meaning of the world
1950 complaint of June 12th 1950
1950 June 20th statement of Ernest Nichols
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