Was Watergate Really About Sex?

As time rolls on, new evidence about the Watergate case seeps from the bowels of archives and witnesses revealing previously unreported information. One of these revelations is that Watergate was really about a call girl operation run by the Democratic National Committee. Although it is part of the puzzle, we don’t think it tells the whole story.

 

Although Phil Stanford has recently written a book, White House Call Girl, laying out the details of the prostitution ring serving Washington's high and mighty, the story has been around since as early as 1976, and gained stature with G Gordon Liddy’s legal encounter with Maxie Wells, one of the prominent figures in the ring. However, Standford’s book is dedicated to the details of the subject, and is more accessible to casual students of Watergate than some other treatments of the topic.

 

The call girl ring is certainly a verifiable aspect to Watergate about which Stanford reveals important details, some of which we admit are necessary inferences for which we would like meatier substantiation. He identifies 3 important characters who were the motivation for the break-in, namely John Dean, White House Special Counsel to Richard Nixon, Carl Shoffler, the arresting officer of the Watergate burglars, and Heidi Rikan, the madame running the escort service.

 

Rikan ( c. 1940 – 1990 ), also known as Cathy Deiter, was a German immigrant who became involved with the underworld as a stripper. Mob boss Joe Nesline thought that her talents would be better used as a whore to spy on his pimps’ big name clients in football and politics. She had developed an exclusive clientele in the Johnson and Nixon administrations when she came to the attention of John Dean.

 

John Dean’s girl friend and future wife Mo Biner and Rikan were roommates at the Columbia Plaza Apartments before Biner moved in with Dean. Dean and Rikan knew each other well as attested by Rikan’s black book which contained Dean’s direct White House number. Stanford believes that the ambitious Dean wanted the information Rikan had on politicians in order to blackmail them for personal political advantage. Consequently he ordered the Watergate break where Rikan’s business originated at the DNC headquarters.

 

The target of the break in was Ida “Maxie”  Wells’ desk, the secretary to Spencer Oliver, Jr. Wells was the front woman for Rikan’s prostitution service for which Wells arranged hook-ups for out of town visitors. The operation is confirmed by attorney Phillip Bailey whose credibility was so high that he was sent to St Elizabeth’s Hospital for psychiatric tests where after some considerable time he was certified sane. When he was released from the hospital he was forced to plead guilty to a felony and sent to federal prison. The purpose for railroading Bailey into the hospital and prison was to discredit him. Clearly he touched a nerve.

 

The Washington Post’s version – ie the CIA’s – of Watergate is that the burglars broke into DNC chairman Larry O’Brien’s office to tap his telephone to gather political information. They burglarized the Watergate on May 28 and June 17, with the former deemed to be a failure requiring the second break in. No bugs were ever found in the offices but the CIA story claims that Alfred Baldwin was eavesdropping across the street in the Howard Johnson motel. The most likely story is that he was listening to conversations at the Columbia apartments down the street since O’Brien had been out of town for about a month prior to the last break in.

 

At some point, perhaps as early as June 1, Carl Shoffler of the Washington DC police department, and concurrently a military intelligence agent, got a tip about the second break in. On the night of the burglary, he volunteered to work without pay, waiting in an unmarked car for a call to come in reporting the burglary. This version of events is supported by testimony of the Senate Watergate committee from a certain Army LTC whose name we don’t recall.

 

This version of the story contradicts the CIA story which alleges that an alert diligent police officer just happened to stumble upon the burglars as he was making his rounds. This story is a complete lie.

 

Two interesting points stand out about the arrest. The 5 burglars were wearing surgical gloves and had mounted photography equipment on Wells’ desk, and one of them, Eugenio Martinez had a key which Shoffler took, but which the FBI later determined fit Wells’ desk. So the evidence points strongly to the burglars breaking into Wells’ desk to photograph her black book with its rich data.

 

As Stanford puts it, the arrest looks like one intelligence operation stepping on the toes of another. But we don’t see it quite that way. The absolute most important fact of the entire Watergate saga is that the 5 burglars were not ordinary street hoods. They were hardened top level CIA agents and operatives who were involved with Bay of Pigs and the murder of John Kennedy, something which Nixon immediately recognized when he found  out about the break in. Without understanding who they were, it is utterly impossible to understand Watergate. Even if proper cognition is made of this salient fact, it is no guarantee that one will understand the purpose of the break-in, but clearly the CIA was behind it and was the reason Nixon wanted Haldeman to contact Richard Helms, CIA DCI, to thwart the investigation. After all, it was their operation.

 

Unfortunately for Nixon, the CIA was the sponsor of the break-in and they were not about to call off the investigation, especially when Nixon threatened them with the unraveling of the “whole Bay of Pigs thing.”

 

Our view is that Dean instigated the cover-up into which he drew Nixon who thought he could twist the whole affair to his political advantage. Unfortunately he was going up against the entire intelligence establishment which included the press – a fact which he never understood.

 

He also did not realize that Dean started the cover-up, knowing full well that it would end badly, thus accomplishing the agency’s goal of removing a president.

 

While we agree that Stanford has uncovered a significant dimension to the Watergate story, we don’t think that it was the true ultimate aim of the CIA operation. Certainly Dean threatened to expose an explosive sex scandal, but the Democrats fought mightily by turning it into a story about abuses of the imperial presidency in order to keep the salacious aspects under wraps, and for which the FBI obliged by suppressing the evidence of the key which Shoffler obtained during the arrests.

 

We could be mistaken about the grand purpose of Watergate, so will hedge our bets with continued research into the 20^th century’s great American political scandal. But for now, it was not all about sex.

Reference

Jim Hougan, Hougan, Liddy, the Post and Watergate, jimhougan.com, June 22, 2011, accessed 3/26/2014

Phil Stanford, interview on Oppenheimer Report, no date, accessed 3/26/2014, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MedT1FkaR0

Copyright 2014 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

Profiles in Murder: J Edgar Hoover

There are still many Americans who believe that J Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) was an exemplar of rectitude and solid American values who dedicated selflessly his life to fighting crime. These poor folks have been duped, conned, and deceived. Hoover was America’s First Criminal.

 

We have reported previously on the legal abuses Hoover used in his early years to wreak terror on his political enemies, so it should come as no surprise to learn that he was a criminal of the first order. One of his biographers – and we apologize for forgetting the name – documented Hoover’s tax evasions which he forced one of his accountants to conceal in false representations on his tax returns.

 

Hoover also regularly directed government employees on personal errands, including maintenance and improvements on his Washington, DC home.

 

If these were all of the violations of the law for which Hoover was guilty, we might overlook them in a drunken stupor. But his criminality runs deeper. Hoover had a very cozy relationship with organized crime which explains why he declared in the 1950s that it was not a major problem and that his agency should instead focus more attention on fighting the Red Menace. Indeed it was only after his death that the agency made any noteworthy attempt to break up organized crime, and even then it was probably only an internecine turf war.

 

Hoover is also well known for his innumerable illegal wire taps and files he maintained on politicians for political blackmail. His voyeurism is quite ironic given his nickname of Mrs Hoover. Perhaps not quite as flamboyant as RuPaul, Hoover had a lifelong love affair with Clyde Tolson, his number 2 man at the FBI – all while he kept a close watch on “sexual deviants.”

 

But Hoover’s crimes did not end with illegal wire taps. He was eyeball deep in the cover-up of the murder of John F Kennedy. He made remarks to lunch guests once, the son of a man named Byars, that he knew far more about the assassination than he could safely reveal, echoing Jack Ruby’s remarks to Dorothy Kilgallen that if Americans knew what he knew, they would recognize the end of democracy and self-government.

 

Hoover had many reasons to cover-up if not support the murder of Kennedy. He was living on borrowed time at his job and knew that Kennedy would not waive mandatory retirement if re-elected. He also hated Kennedy’s foreign policy, and other major aspects of his presidency, not the least of which was his boss, the 35 year old Robert Kennedy.

 

Douglas Horne recounts the story of Gordon Novel who stated that James Angleton, the counter-intelligence chief of the CIA, personally showed him a picture of Hoover and Tolson engaged in homosexual activities – and it wasn’t planning an Easter Parade. Angleton told Novel to use the information to keep Hoover on the reservation – whether by explicit or implicit means.

 

Finally, when one murder isn't enough, there is always another, this time Martin Luther King. As became evident at the 1999 civil trial against Lloyd Jowers by Coretta King, Hoover ordered the murder of King, using the CIA and US Army assassination squads to ensure the death of another "nigger," Hoover's favorite adjective or pronoun for black people.

 

Thus Hoover, who boisterously declared that no one would ever make him retire, became a willing participant in the plot to murder the president and to cover-up the crime with endless bales of lies. Hoover was a menace to America who supported its enemies, and covered for the most egregious murderers in American History. Murder is the Hoover legacy.

Reference
Inside the ARRB, Vol 5, Douglas Horne, 2009

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The Paranoid Origins of the FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seems to be the beneficiary of many coats of Teflon with even the criminal exposes of the 1970s and 1980s not leaving any enduring damage on its reputation. This is unfortunate since the agency was founded on absurd paranoid red menace fears which shift and shape to the present day to justify its ghastly growth.

Curt Gentry provides some early glimpses of the agency which became the FBI in his heavily researched book, J. Edgar Hoover – The Man and the Secrets. As a biography of Hoover (1895 – 1972), it also serves as a biography of the agency he headed for 48 years. Its excesses should serve as a warning to severely clip and limit its size and powers.

The Bureau of Investigation (BI) was established in 1919 as an agency of the Department of Justice as an outgrowth of World War I requirements although its seeds were planted earlier. During the war, the Justice Department partnered with the American Protective League to engage in mass dragnet raids attempting to round up spies and draft deserters. Although Hoover was a young attorney for the department, he learned these early tactics to apply them to his own operations in later years.

On June 2, 1919 a bomb exploded outside the home of Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1872 – 1936), the newly appointed Attorney General for Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924). The bomb did not harm the family or his famous neighbors on DuPont Circle, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. However, it caused quite a stir, especially for Mitchell who was determined to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

Mitchell had assembled a team of aggressive and close minded bigots to assist him in his war against crime and terror. Francis Garvan (1875 – 1937) was assistant attorney general in charge of prosecuting radicals whom he labeled along with other foreigners as “alien filth.” William Flynn was the assistant attorney general for the BI.

Following the dictum of Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former chief of staff, to never waste a good crisis, Mitchell and his crew used the bombing episode to forestall the post war cuts which were affecting all government bureaucracies. On June 13, 1919 they attempted to persuade the House of Representatives for an emergency 500,000 dollars in additional funding. When this effort stalled, they approached the Senate, lobbying Senator Smoot of Utah and of Smoot-Hawley fame for the additional funds. Although he and his colleagues were not particularly receptive at first, Flynn declared on July 2, 1919, without a scintilla of evidence, that the bomb was the work of “Bolshevist and Hun money.”

The trio further claimed that they had reliable information that another imminent attack was planned for July 4, an attack which the BI could avert with sufficient funding. Flush with money gained under these false pretenses, the BI began planning for a massive round-up of radicals and communists in a 12 city sweep with the goal of deporting as many as possible.

Despite the money and effort spent on locating the perpetrators of the bombs, the bombing remained unsolved. Hoover was named head of the General Intelligence Division (GID) on August 1, 1919 and began working with Flynn and Garvan in targeting the Federation of the Union of Russian Workers, the American Communist Party, and the American Labor Communist Party. The Justice Department hysterically broadcast – particular to the Congress – that the nation was under imminent threat of a labor revolt headed by sickle wielding communists who had blanketed the nation like cock-roaches, which in turn required immediate and forceful action.

The facts of the matter were quite different regarding the size of the communist parties. The best estimates reveal that the party had 25,000 – 40,000 members, many of whom had been enrolled without their knowledge by various labor groups to which they belonged. When you distribute these numbers across the 12 cities which the BI targeted for its raids, you find that each of the large cities had an average of 2,000 – 3,000 members maximum.

The raids were scheduled purposefully for November 7, 1919, the two year anniversary of the Russian Revolution. They were excessively brutal and yielded no palpable results. Since the Department of Justice could not deport anyone, it had enlisted the Department of Labor under which the Department of Immigration operated to provide legal cover for its otherwise illegal operations.

The Department of Justice also worked feverishly to rescind Rule 22 which required that those aliens investigated for deportation be allowed legal representation. The Department of Immigration refused to rescind the rule, but Hoover declared that it did, proceeding to deport people without due process. Hoover would wield this terror on a large scale through his years as director of the FBI.

The main reason for rescinding the rule was that many victims retained legal counsel who advised their clients not to communicate with the BI on the grounds that it had absolutely no evidence against them.

The playbook is exactly the same today as with the fake War on Terror. George W. Bush claimed, without evidence or subsequently finding any, that Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass. The same lies are being spread about Iran to justify another war of aggression by the militaristic Obama administration.

The paranoia of these early World War I era BI men is the hallmark of a provincial troglodyte mind which the American people accept in its leaders. It is an embarrassment that a nation of so many people could not produce more enlightened minds. It is also proof that cream does not rise to the top. These men may have had higher than average IQs but they were clouded by the most venal and vicious bigotry and ignorance. Lust for power knows no limits or respect for Constitutional government.

Reference
J Edgar Hoover - the Man and the Secrets, Curt Gentry

Copyright 2010-12 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

Did Bush Assassinate Reagan?

As incredible as it may sound to an American, we believe that there is credible evidence supporting a case against George H W Bush as the assassin of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. This may strike some as an abhorrent assault on the fairy land of perpetually immaculate American politics, but we follow the evidence wherever it leads.

The standard account is that John Hinckley Jr was an unstable soul who randomly shot the president in another reenactment of the lone nut theory which was supposed to explain the murder of John Kennedy. As evidence of prior insanity, he was a known stalker of Jodie Foster, who was then enrolled at Bush’s alma mater Yale, he left behind some weird letters to her (reminiscent of Sirhan Sirhan’s strange letters).

Even though Hinckley’s communications with Foster had been forwarded to appropriate authorities all the way to the FBI, no restraint or surveillance was applied to him – again following the pattern established in the case of Kennedy.

The Secret Service Does Its Dirty Deed

John Judge reveals some incredible information which brings back November 22 all over again and blows holes into the censored version of the murder attempt. As with JFK, the Secret Service took the lead in framing Reagan for the assassin, who was not John Hinckley, Jr. though certainly he was present at the scene of the crime.

The Secret Service (SS) started the day by telling the president that he did not need his protective vest in a move similar to its removal of Kennedy’s protective bubble in Dallas.

Reagan’s limousine did not stop at the Hilton Hotel entrance as it should have. Instead the driver pulled forward 40-50 feet, forcing Reagan to walk in the open. According to security protocol, the SS would form a diamond around the president, yet in this case, they formed a file to the right leaving Reagan and his party exposed.

The original story was that the assailant used a .38 caliber weapon, which accords well with the physical reactions of the victims. However, about 3-4 hours after the assault, the weapon became a .22 caliber – a change most redolent of the alleged Oswald weapon. In this case, Judge notes that ABC film footage shows a DC cop swapping the .38 for a .22.

NBC correspondent Judy Woodruff reported that a shot had come from overhead where SS agents were located, further implicating the agency, or allied impersonators, in the murder scheme.

The presidential limousine driver was supposed to take Reagan to George Washington University Hospital since it was the closest, but instead made its way to Bethesda Naval Hospital (BNH) which was much farther away. After some time, the driver finally decided to go to GWUH where Reagan walked in on his own accord which explains his ability to make his famous quip, “I forgot to duck.”

The delay was so obviously planned that Jim Brady, who was still on the ground 5 minutes after the president’s vehicle left, arrived at GWUH 15-20 minutes before Reagan did.

The medical team failed to find a bullet because Reagan had not been hit with one. However, he suffered a punctured lung which was caused by a CO2 cartridge supposed to be loaded with a shellfish toxin, whose remains were extracted from his body. This artifact was a dime thin flattened disk. For some reason, cartridge did not work as planned.

Throughout the day and into the morning, the Secret Service and Navy were pressuring the hospital to move the president to BNH. The head of the trauma unit steadfastly refused, thus saving Reagan’s life. The Bush team had planned to kill Reagan at BNH in the event that their cartridge failed to do the trick and to also perform a fake autopsy just as had been done with Kennedy.

Palace Intrigue

Bush started his takeover of government when he orchestrated a key reorganization of Reagan’s national security apparatus via a document known as National Security Decision Directive. Originally a product of Al Haig’s work, a second version not to his liking was formulated by the Bush camp which placed the vice president – rather than the Secretary of State - as the chairman of the Special Situation Group (SSG).

When Bush took the helm of the SSG, and after taking an initial report concerning the state of affairs domestically and internationally, he declared that there had been no conspiracy, on the authority of fragmentary FBI reports asserting that there was no such thing. This obstruction of justice followed exactly the tactic used by Nicholas Katzenbach when he wrote a memo within 3 days of the Kennedy assassination that Oswald must be found guilty as the lone assassin.

The arrogance of Bush is breathtaking. In less than 5 hours after the attempted assassination, a group of men in the SSG declared that there was no conspiracy. It took an 8th grade student at Alice Deal Junior High School to properly summarize the episode thusly: “It is a plot by Vice President Bush to get into power. If Bush becomes President, the CIA would be in charge of the country.”

The Hinckley Connection

A little noticed relationship which has not received adequate attention in the establishment press – and probably never will – is that between the Bush’s and the Hinckleys – they were not strangers. The Vice President’s son planned to have dinner the day following the assassination with Scott Hinckley, brother of the alleged assassin, an event acknowledged by the younger Bush.

George also had a lucrative relationship with John, Sr. which involved the latter’s generous contributions to George’s presidential campaign according to Sharon Bush, the wife of Neil. Later the Bush camp vehemently denied  the story – not by Bush himself, but by his mouthpiece Peter Teeley.

In another repeat of the John Kennedy cover-up, the FBI suppressed nearly all information about Hinckley including his financial records, relationships, and personality. Also suppressed were hand written notes Hinckley left in his cell describing conspiracies to eliminate Reagan.

We suggest strongly that Hinckley was an MKULTRA subject who was programmed by the CIA – Bush’s CIA – to murder the president and to obsess about Foster as a plausible basis of his insanity. This technique was the same type used on Sirhan Sirhan in the murder of Robert Kennedy. Kennedy, of course, was not murdered by Sirhan Sirhan.

Judge presents evidence for this in noting that Hinckley was taken finally to the Fort Butner South Carolina prison which was the first to call its cells “labs.” This prison was the site of the first mind control experiments done on prison populations. There Hinckley was programmed for the insane role he would be compelled to play in court.

John W. Hinckley, father of the immediate assassin of Reagan, had a long history with World Vision, an ecumenical ministry of the Episcopal and Presbyterian (USA) churches. It is long known as a front for CIA activity in the developing world. Hinckley, Sr. also had a long association with Robert Ainsworth who was director of World Vision and held numerous governmental positions including advisor in Viet Nam.

In the late 1960s, when Hinckley’s Vanderbilt Oil began failing, Bush’s Zapata Oil bailed him out rechristening the company Vanderbilt Energy. And thus it becomes clear why Sharon Bush let loose the tidbit about campaign contributions from Hinckley. It may well be true that Hinckley did not contribute to Bush's presidential campaign although we believe otherwise. The reason for raising the issue was so that the Bush camp could adamantly deny the contribution and thus insinutate that there was no relationship whatsoever between the two families. However, we believe that the facts show otherwise.

Also of interest is that Hinckley's company was at risk of being levied a 2m USD fine by the Department of Energy, something that the acting president could easily make go away.

Viewing the Reagan assassination from a distance, we see previous patterns at work where an MKULTRA subject was programmed by the CIA to undertake a risky operation while the SS does its palace coup plan. We see oil and CIA Bush connected with oil and CIA Hinckley. Next we see ambitious palace maneuverings by the Bush forces to place Bush in control of the all powerful SSG. Finally, we see the grand and sweeping declaration that there was no conspiracy to assassinate Reagan and the suppression of information of interest about Hinckley, Jr.

Although we do not have the smoking gun, we believe that the evidence presented thus far points without doubt in the direction of George Bush as the assassin of Ronald Reagan.

Reference

Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, Webster Tarpley, Anton Chaitkin

Hinckley - Bush Family Friend - Nears Release, von A. Weist, http://www.rense.com/general45/hink.htm

John Judge November 2000 Interview - Part II, John Judge, http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/112600.html

Copyright 2010-12 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

Who Killed Martin Luther King, Jr?

Most Americans are taught that James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King, Jr on April 4, 1968 but the facts do not support such a conclusion. Few know that the King family after extensively interviewing Ray determined that he was not guilty of killing their patriarch. Fewer yet know that a civil trial in Memphis, TN in 1999 fingered the real culprits. Most will be surprised to learn that the United States Government murdered the civil rights leader.

The explosive trial revealed that a consortium of FBI, CIA, US Army, Memphis Police Department, and local hoodlums murdered Dr. King due to fear that a planned march on Washington, DC would turn ugly. Yet according to James Douglass who attended the entire trial, no one from the press covered it except for a lone reporter from the Lisbon newspaper Publico. It is true that occasionally reporters would announce gossipy events such as Coretta Scott King or Andrew Young testifying but there was no substantive reporting of the trial until Mr. Douglass spoke openly about its content.

What else was revealed during the trial? The first point is that the King family brought suit against Lloyd Jowers who owned  Jim's Cafe which was located across from the Lorraine Motel where King was murdered. Jowers was the bagman so to speak for the assassin who fired the lethal shots from the bushes across from the hotel. Another murderer, Raoul Escobar, took the weapon from the assassin and gave it to Jowers who took it to his cafe for immediate safekeeping.

The care, as Douglass put it, which the government took to plan and execute the murder was quite startling to the jury - down to US Army Intelligence taking video of the assassination most likely for subsequent study for debriefing and improvement of technique. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had been meeting days before and after the assassination with the Phoenix team - an elite Army force which had been operating in Vietnam under William Colby, future director of the CIA under Richard Nixon. Former Congressman William Fauntroy who was removed as an investigator on the House Select Committee On Assassinations because of his delving into intelligence connections to the murder confirmed the involvement of US Army forces in the attack on King. The Phoenix team was positioned all around the Lorraine Motel as back up for the assassin in case he missed.

Other meticulous acts of planning included transferring sensitively positioned black police and fire men from their normal assignments to bizarrely placed locations in order to keep them away from either protecting or protesting the murder of King. The number of men so moved was astoundingly large that it would be impossible for a thinking person to consider the moves as coincidences. The man who ordered the reassignments was Frank Holloman who headed both the police and fire departments and was a senior aide to Hoover up until 1968 when he conveniently retired to join the Memphis Police Department.

One other key assassin was Merril McCullough who at the time worked as an undercover agent for the Memphis Police while at the same time worked as Minister of Transportation for the Invaders, a black protest group who were dissastisfied with the peaceful course of King's program. McCullough was subsequently transferred to the CIA. McCullough was part of a group of King insiders who had been positioned or suborned within the King organization to assist with his murder. McCullough is seen in picture checking King's pulse in order to confirm that he was dead - another careful act of planning on the part of the government.

The jury concluded after 2 1/2 hours of deliberation that it had a no-brainer verdict of guilty for which the judge, in contempt no doubt, awarded the King family 100 dollars compensation.

Barry Soetoro hired Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein as his Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Sunstein published an article in 2008 entitled "Conspiracy Theories" which pursues in effect the thesis of Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, that "It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion." One of Sunstein's conspiracy theories - a pejroative for him - is that Martin Luther King, Jr was killed by the government.

So if we know so much about the murder, who in fact pulled the trigger? The name remains a mystery but it appears certain that it was a sharpshooter police officer of the Memphis Police Department.

The evidence is solidly and invincibly against Sunstein who is pursuing with a vengeance the destruction of the truth. We do battle against falsehoods. It is of a truth that the United States government murdered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4th, 1968.

References:
Interview With James Douglass
Pepper, William F., Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, 1995