Surely that blood bath--and the hundreds like it in those years--couldn 't have been far from the mind of William Bradford Huie , a journalist and Ray 's confessor , when Huie claimed in a 1968 Look magazine article that King 's well-placed killers wanted to use King 's murder to trigger violent conflict between white and Negro citizens .
Huie claimed in a 1968 Look magazine article that King 's well-placed killers wanted to use King 's murder to trigger violent conflict between white and Negro citizens .