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From the acclaimed bestselling author of "Ghost Soldiers" and "Blood and Thunder," a taut, intense narrative about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the largest manhunt in American history--a sixty-five-day search that led investigators to Canada, Portugal, and England.
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King, Jr. had two very different life journeys -- but their paths fatally collide when Ray assassinates the world-renown civil rights leader. This book provides an inside look into both of their lives, the history of the time, and a blow-by-blow examination of the assassination and its aftermath."--Provided by publisher.
4) Killing King: racial terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the plot to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr
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Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Draws from previously unknown FBI sources and new forensics to argue that King was assassinated by a long-simmering conspiracy orchestrated by the racial terrorists who were responsible for the Mississippi Burning murders.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April of 1968. Explores the disparate, yet entwined stories of Ray and King to create a complex portrait of America in 1968.
6) Klandestine: how a Klan lawyer and a checkbook journalist helped James Earl Ray cover up his crime
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This fast-paced history traces the escalating racial violence that led to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and then documents how Klan lawyer Arthur J. Hanes and checkbook journalist William Bradford Huie aided the evolution of James Earl Ray's bogus alibi"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author, James Earl Rays defense attorney, and, later, lawyer for the King family William Pepper reveals who actually killed MLK. William Pepper was James Earl Rays lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., and even after Rays conviction and death, Pepper continues to adamantly argue Rays innocence. This myth-shattering exposé is a revised, updated, and heavily expanded volume of Peppers original bestselling and critically...
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