MLK: The Gary Revel Story - They Slew the Dreamer

On March 22, 1977, at Brushy Mountain Prison in Tennessee Richard Sprague (Chief Counsel for the House Select Committe on Assassinations), Robert Lehner (Deputy Chief Counsel), Jack Kershaw (Counsel to James Earl Ray), Mary Noel-Kershaw, Gary Revel and others began the first HSCA interview of James Earl Ray. The HSCA was a Congressional Committee set up to investigate the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and President John F. Kennedy. Special Investigator Gary Revel was commissioned by Chief Counsel Richard Sprague of the House Select Committee on Assassinations to investigate Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in an effort to prosecute any and all conspirators involved and to follow wherever the investigation led. Gary Says, "That investigation eventually led to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy. Exactly one week later, on March 29th, 3 things would happen that shook my confidence in my investigation. Mr. Sprague had given me a list of those we were expecting to testify before the committee. Two of the names were Charles Niccoletti and George de Mohrenschildt. Those two names were among those Chief Counsel Sprague had told me were crucial to the overall investigation and I should seek them out as soon as possible for a preliminary discussion. Both Charles Niccoletti and George de Mohrenschildt died of gunshot wounds on March 29th, 1977 and Richard Sprague was fired on March 29th, 1977. Niccoletti was shot and killed as he sat in his car, then it was set on fire. De Mohrenschildt was found dead of a shotgun wound to the head at Manalapan, FLorida. The Coroner's report was that it was suicide. Although the report is self confirming, by the Coroner, I had questions as to it's believability."

Later that year Gary Revel and attorney Mary Noel-Kershaw wrote the song, THEY SLEW THE DREAMER, that contained a story of a conspiracy related to the King killing. In a few months Gary recorded the song and released it as a single 45 rpm record on the Rebel Label.

The song was published by Milene Music Inc. the ASCAP arm of Acuff-Rose Music and soon received front page publicity with the editorial caption that it was a 'James Earl Ray Promotion Gimmick'. This was on the front page and top fold of the newspaper, Nashville Banner. Later Opryland Music Group bought the publishing. In 2002 the publishing was sold to SONY/ATV TUNES LLC-SONY/ATV MILENE MUSIC. New mix dropped in 2020, available on iTunes, Emusic, Amazonmp3 and more. The lyrics to the song are below.


THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
(LYRICS TO SONG)

EARLY IN THE EVENING
THE SUN WAS GOING DOWN
HE STOOD ON THE BALCONY
IN A TROUBLED PART OF TOWN
CALLING TO THE SINGER
SAID SING MY FAVORITE SONG
TAKE MY HAND
PRECIOUS LORD LEAD ME HOME

THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
LET A DREAMER TAKE THE FALL
THEY TURNED THE COURTROOM
INTO A COSTUME BALL
THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
MADE ANOTHER SING THEIR SONG
THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
BUT THE DREAM LIVES ON

THE SHOT RANG OUT IT'S WARNING
THE DREAMER FELL TO DIE
RAUL SLIPPED INTO HIDING
FOLLOWED BY THE NIGHT
THE REAPER NOW IS READY
IT'S TIME TO AWAKE
SLEEPING DREAMER
TELL US WHO ARE THEY

THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
LET A DREAMER TAKE THE FALL
THEY TURNED THE COURTROOM
INTO A COSTUME BALL
THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
MADE ANOTHER SING THEIR SONG
THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
BUT THE DREAM LIVES ON

Words and Music BY Gary Revel
and Mary Noel
New mix dropped 2020 with Police Dispatch recording in real time of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.
The Docu-Music Video
Song Publishing by Sony/ATV Milene
A Jongleur Music Label Release

JFK HEADSHOT - CLEARLY FROM THE RIGHT FRONT




MLK Assassination Investigation Links

Copies of pages from the transcript of the James Earl Ray guitly plea hearing and analysis by Special Investigator Gary Revel
Dark Arts of Assassination by Patrick Wood
Investigating the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. - People get Killed
J Edgar Hoover's FBI Destroy King Squad
Investigating the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. - People get Killed
Leutrell Osborne Finds Disturbing New Details Investigating Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
MLK Conspiracy Trial-Transcript
Mystery Helicopter and Riot Control in Memphis During March with MLK
New Questions About E. Howard Hunt And MLK Assassination-A Gary Revel Commentary
Pictures of Assassins
The Case Against James Earl Ray: Anyalysis by Martin Hay
The Deadly Business of the Murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
They Slew the Dreamer - Lyrics and History

More Assassination Research Links

3 Tramps in Dealy Plaza: What are they to JFK killing
Adam Gorightly Interview by Investigative Journalist Bob Wilson
Abraham Bolden-Book Review-Echo From Dealey Plaza
Anti-Castro Cuban exile, Antonio Veciana met with CIA Handler and Oswald
Badgeman: Do you see him and did he kill JFK?
Beverly Oliver Interview-Eyes Wide Shut
Christopher Dodd and the MLK/JFK Assassinations
Bob Wilson Interview with Mort Sahl
Carlos Marcello's Hideout in Swamp by Gary Revel
Chief Curry, the FBI and Assassination of JFK
Conspired to Kill: Opinion by Gary Revel
Deep Throat Surfaces - Watergate and Assassinations
Was Demohrenschildt CIA and Part of JFK Assassination Team?
Download PDF of the CIA's FAMILY JEWELS - FREE
Interview of Gary Revel on guilt/innocence of Lee Harvey Oswald
Interview of Joseph Mcbride
Interview of Joan Mellen
Into the Nightmare-Mcbride Book Review
Gayle Nix Interview-JFK Assassination
JFK and RFK: The Plots that Killed Them, The Patsies that Didn�t by James Fetzer
JFK: Antonio Veciana and Lee Harvey Oswald and the CIA
JFK: Antonio Veciana's book, 'Trained to Kill' more evidence of CIA involvement of JFK assassination.
JFK Assassination Bullet Fragment Analysis Proves Second Shooter
JFK Assassination Film
by Orville Nix with interview where he says the shot came
from the fence not the Texas Book Depository.

JFK Assassination Invetigation Continues
JFK: In The Light of Day by Gary Revel
JFK: In The Light of Day Update by Gary Revel
JFK: Robert Kennedy-Rollingstone Article
JFK: The Real Story-Movie Project
JFK: Through the Looking Glass Darkly
JFK: Why and How the CIA Helped Kill Him
Mikhail Kryzhanovsky tells it like it is.
Officer of the Year: Roger Craig, Dallas Policeman and Mystery Witness of JFK Killing
Russo, Oswald, Ferrie and Shaw
Shane O'Sullivan Interview
John Whitten: How the CIA Helped Kill JFK and Keep Their Guilt Hidden
Judd Apatow tweets his displeasure with theaters delaying opening of THE INTERVIEW (movie about a CIA plan to assassinate North Korea's Kim Jung Un) due to the GOP's terrorist threats.
RED POLKA DOT DRESS: Movie project, the mystery of the assassination of Senator/Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy; screenplay by Frank Burmaster and Gary Revel.
The business of murder related to Santo Trafficante, the Mafia, the CIA, JFK, MLK and RFK
The Girl on the Stairs says Oswald did not pass her after the shooting of JFK
The Mystery of Roger Craig and the JFK Assassination
How the CIA Kept Secrets From the HSCA
Why and How the CIA Helped Assassinate JFK

John Lennon Assassination

A Not So Funny Thing Happened: (WHILE LOOKING INTO THE MURDER OF AN EX- BEATLE)
John Lennon and ...
John Lennon killing, Wanna be a hero?

More Interesting News-Commentary-Perspective from Gary

Deep Throat Surfaces - Watergate and Assassinations
'SOMEONE IS HIDING SOMETHING' by Richard Belzer, David Wayne and George Noory.
Is the disappearance of a commercial airliner with over 200 people on board no more important than a fender bender? This book draws a staggering conclusion that some may want us to believe this airline tragedy isn't even that important.

Gary Revel found links to those responsible for the assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK, John Lennon and the attempted killing of President Ronald Reagan.


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