Is the Director of the Memphis PD, the former FBI man close to J. Edgar Hoover, in on the conspiracy? The behavior of the Memphis PD on April 4, 1968 is, at the very least, racist negligence. But many see the apparent unwillingness to pursue the assassin as a necessary piece of an FBI-led scheme.

Episode 6: Serve and Pretext

The Crux is a story about the civil rights struggle and America at the edge of revolution told through a captivating whodunit. Like Serial, Making a Murderer or The People vs OJ Simpson, The Crux is a murder mystery: Who really killed Martin Luther King? Was it the government conspiracy that Coretta Scott King, the King children, and everyone in King's inner circle say it was? Or was it who the FBI named, a petty criminal named James Earl Ray?

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Episode 6: Serve and Pretext

Episode 6: Serve and Pretext