In a Los Angeles Times interview, Lincoln Perry stated his belief that his son was set up.
Lambright's involvement with the Black Power movement at the peak of the COINTELPRO program was believed to be related to his death.
[5] Traveling in the same car was the Keenan family:[2] Critically injured: Traveling in the same car were the shooter and his wife:[2] Donald Martin Lambright (born Donald Martin Perry; May 21, 1938 – April 5, 1969) was the son of comedian Stepin Fetchit, though they only met two years before Lambright's death.
[5] A child of divorce, he took the name of his stepfather, Dr. Middleton Hugher Lambright Jr. (November 7, 1908 - June 14, 1999), a thoracic surgeon in Cleveland.
He studied political science at Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania, after being discharged from the US Air Force in 1961, following four years of service and two tours in Vietnam.