The FBI ignores a tip
In nearly two years of sometimes chaotic operations, the House Select Committee on Assassinations has shed little new light on the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. But when the committee begins public hearings scheduled for next week, it will produce some evidence that, if nothing else, is bound to embarrass the FBI.
Committee investigators have received documents from FBI files showing that the bureau unaccountably, never followed up an intriguing story about King's death told to an agent by an informant in 1973. The informant reported that Russell G. Byers, 46, then an...
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