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Dates: during 1960-1969
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maximum-security cell in the state penitentiary at Nashville? The circumstances of King's murder carried more than a whiff of a conspiracy. In every such case, there are those whose paranoid perspectives demand sinister schemers be hind every act. But this time many skeptics who habitually scoff at fanciful conspiratorial theories also asked some disturbing questions...
...always agreeable," replied the voice from the recorder. This seeming self-possession was one reason why the prosecution last week played the tapes to the jury trying Sirhan, hoping thereby to demolish defense pleas that Sirhan was either insane or suffering from "diminished responsibility" when he committed his act...
...banjo. For 21 years they toured the country-music circuit, had their own radio show, and were rediscovered by pop America for their background music that was very much in the foreground of Bonnie and Clyde. Now Flatt, 54, and Scruggs, 45, have announced they are breaking up the act. Just why, they would not say. Friends report that the two have never been close, and now that both are well off financially, they see no reason to stick together. Said one acquaintance: "They have come to hate each other's guts...
Although he has made a career out of defending accused killers, Foreman is genuinely horrified at the act of killing. His aversion applies not only to any state-ordered execution of his clients but goes so far as to include game hunters. Foreman takes genuine pleasure in telling the story of a deer hunter who, while sitting in the branches of a tree, fell out and impaled himself on the antlers of a deer he had meant to shoot. That, says Foreman, was "divine justice...
Personal Revolution. The last act becomes participatory theater as actors and audience debate the significance of the play. Says one speaker from the stage: "Fellow workers, you must rise and fight the bosses. You are like the Communist dragon-seduced by the comfort that Capitalism offers you as a bribe to keep quiet. But refrigerators and TV sets won't solve your problems-only the revolution can give you the strength and human dignity denied the working class so long." In the village of Vignola, the audience was so aroused by this argument that a group called for flags...