24 Quotes by Louis Stokes

The purpose of the investigation was to bring out all relevant facts and to keep innocent people from being harmed by unsubstantiated reports.

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

And the evidence clearly showed that Ray was in the boarding house and the bathroom from which the shots that killed Dr. King were fired.

People are just fascinated by assassinations.

Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover’s electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.

Well that’s true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.