Did you miss this New York Times article in the late 90s?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not killed by James Earl Ray, a Memphis Jury found in 1998... but the history books haven't changed, have they?

From the New York Times:
"After four weeks of testimony and one hour of deliberation, the jury in the wrongful-death case found that Loyd Jowers as well as 'others, including governmental agencies' had been part of a conspiracy...

Because of journalistic neglect scarcely anyone else in this land of ours even knows what went on in it. After critical testimony was given in the trial’s second week before an almost empty gallery, Barbara Reis, U.S. correspondent for the Lisbon daily Publico who was there several days, turned to me and said, 'Everything in the U.S. is the trial of the century. O.J. Simpson’s trial was the trial of the century. Clinton’s trial was the trial of the century. But this is the trial of the century, and who’s here?'”