Reflection on the King Conspiracy

Whether or not Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s death was planned by the government or by individual people is a moot point now since it is long since past. The need for the king family to bring the evidence to light was based upon a past event. The intention behind the trial was the truth behind the incident. This is irrelevant if you look at it as a past event, it needs to be focused on making the government more transparent so that incidents such as this cannot happen again. Raking over the past and getting the government riled up at being convicted of conspiracy in a murder, even if it is merely in a civil trial. The important victory this trial had is the increasing transparency of the government over an incident which they did not completely investigate, regardless of whether it was an actual government conspiracy or a small group of the government which acted independently of the whole. The truth of the matter is not evident within that article and more evidence is required to make an educated decision, but the true victory is their conviction of the government for conspiracy in something which was covered up.
“David Morphy, the only juror to grant an interview, said later: "We can look back on it and say that we did change history. But that's not why we did it. It was because there was an overwhelming amount of evidence and just too many odd coincidences.”
This quote does not show proof that what they decided was the truth, the evidence was largely circumstantial with no proof that any person was ordered from high up in the government to act in the way the local officers did. The evidence was also not nearly strong enough for a criminal case since a lot was hearsay, unsworn evidence, and circumstantial, however it was still a major victory for transparency.