Farrakhan newspaper editor resigns

CHICAGO, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- The editor of the Nation of Islam paper in Chicago resigned after allegations the Rev. Jesse Jackson was "complicit" in Dr. Martin Luther King's killing.

James G. Muhammad resigned following an apology and retraction that appeared in this week's the Final Call, a weekly newspaper published by Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, the Washington Times reported.

"I failed in my responsibility to look deeply into the allegations presented in this article," Muhammad wrote. "And it has caused distress to the families of Dr. King, Rev. Jackson ... Min. Farrakhan and untold others."

Muhammad declined to comment to the Times.

The article, written by Eric Ture Muhammad and Donna Muhammad, said Coretta Scott King, King's widow; her son Dexter King; the Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy and former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young requested a new federal investigation into the assassination in a two-hour meeting with Attorney General Janet Reno in 1998.

"They demanded a new federal investigation into the King assassination, based on new evidence that had come to their attention. The family alleges that the Reverends Jesse L. Jackson and Samuel Billy Kyles are complicit in the assassination of Dr. King," the Final Call published.

The Final Call's retraction said the inaccurate information concerning Jackson and Kyles had "no basis in fact or proof."