Final Call Newspaper retraction and correction
BY FINALCALL.COM NEWS | LAST UPDATED: AUG 26, 2003 - 7:26:00 PM
Appears in Vol. 22 No. 47 Original Article
Final Call Print Edition Vol. 22 No. 46
Retraction and Correction
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
In our August 19, 2003 edition of The Final Call newspaper, Vol. 22, Number 46, our front page cover sub- headline stated: "SCLC, King family seek to set the record straight about King assassination" with the front page headline: "Ye Shall Know the Truth." There was an accompanying photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also on the cover.
On page 3 of that edition, the headline reads: "SCLC returns to Memphis," with the sub-headline: "To reclaim civil rights legacy and free the future, Dr. King’s children say truth of his assassination must be made known."
The published story on page 30, column 2 under the caption "Thin theory?" included the following statement: "On April 8, 1998, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, her son Dexter King, Reverend Walter E. Fauntroy and former UN Ambassador Andrew Young met with then-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno for two-and-a half hours. They demanded a new federal investigation into the King assassination, based on new evidence that had come to their attention. The family alleges that the Reverends Jesse L. Jackson and Samuel Billy Kyles are complicit in the assassination of Dr. King."
The statement that, "The family alleges that the Reverends Jesse L. Jackson and Samuel Billy Kyles are complicit in the assassination of Dr. King" was wrongfully and erroneously attributed to the King Family.
The Final Call retracts this statement as having no basis in fact or proof.
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