Guys like McCain were certainly not on King's side.
Americans forget today how controversial King had become in 1968.
No one, except the Bull Conner types, spoke against the early days of freedom marches.
But King became in the 1960s the nation's most eloquent voice against war.
No one put the case better against the war in Vietnam than King. He could send shivers down your spine.
Meanwhile McCain was in Vietnam bombing civilians, and he was indeed bombing civilians around Hanoi when he was shot down. Rather than going on about mistreatment, he should always regard himself lucky he wasn't torn apart on coming down.
King also in those last years had become a powerful speaker for more economic justice, just the kind of subject a McCain would have no tolerance for.
In fact, it was the combination of King's turning his powerful voice on the war and on economic justice that gives so many good reason to believe his assassination was the work of Borgia-like powers in America.
He had become, in the view of some powerful Americans, dangerous. And McCain is an ally of such people, not an opponent.
