Martyrs to the Unspeakable – The Assassinations of JFK, Malcom, Martin and RFK
James W. Douglass
Volume 41 Issue 1,2,&3 | Posted: April 8, 2026
Though it happened in the USA, most Canadians were shocked at the assassinations of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a little less known, Malcolm.
im Douglass, of Mary’s House Catholic Worker in Birmingham, Alabama, a long-time peace activist and author exposes in stunning details, how and why the forces of evil murdered these four disrupters of the violent, official-industrial-educational complex. Jim’s book teaches not only Americans and Canadians, but every global citizen about the force that Thomas Merton called the “Unspeakable.” Martin Luther King referred to the USA as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
This book is history come alive, speaking to us all.
Excerpt from a Review by: Wes Howard-Brook
As I completed the book, I found myself in a surprisingly upbeat mood. I realized that the key was in the book’s title: the focus is not on the evils of the CIA and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, but on the holy witness of the four men at the heart of the narrative. Each man, coming from very different social locations, made the difficult personal decision to risk their lives for the truth of Love. I began to see the book as a modern form of hagiography: highlighting the saintly behavior of JFK, RFK, MLK and Malcolm X as they each came to understand the reality of the world and their own responsibility to speak and act with integrity. I am deeply grateful for Jim’s incredible work over several decades in painting a picture of what binds these four as models for our own resistance to the evils of the state today.
Read it, talk about it and then get out and speak and act in response to it. As I so often experienced out at Ground Zero, resisting empire with others can actually be a lot of fun!
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James W. Douglass