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...Capote's reconstruction of the crime, in fact, Ray's only function was to throw the FBI off the assassin's trail, first by assuming the name of Eric Starvo Gait ("My theory is that there are two Eric Starvo Gaits"), and finally by planting his fingerprints on the gun that was later to be used for killing King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: The Assassination According to Capote | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...article "Who Killed King" [April 26] attributes the following quotation to me regarding James Earl Ray: "Extremely dangerous, cold-blooded and ruthless. There is no doubt in my mind that Ray could be a paid assassin." I made none of these remarks and used none of these descriptive adjectives regarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 3, 1968 | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...Twice within five years, we had to hear from the land that all others strive to emulate, the harsh, frightening crack of an assassin's rifle. The shots that were echoing around the world after the death of John F. Kennedy, shaking the belief that the U.S.A. is the last place where the courage of an individual to fight against man's inhumanity to man would be met with the cruel bullet of an assassin, had hardly died away. And now Dr. King is dead, crucified on the cross hairs of a madman's telescopic sights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 26, 1968 | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

West Germany's leftist students idealize violence as a necessary weapon for revolution against what they consider their country's corrupt and repressive society. After their leader, Rudi Dutschke, was badly wounded by a would-be assassin two weeks ago, the students staged violent and bloody demonstrations in virtually every major city. Last week, bruised and battered from police truncheons, they were having some second thoughts about the efficacy of violence. They had, in fact, found neither violence so romantic nor West German society so weak as they had imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Bitter Aftertaste | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

Violence flared in Europe last week. An assassin picked as his target Rudi Dutschke, 28, a self-avowed revolutionary, leader of Germany's student unrest and author of fierce tirades against "repressive" European society. As Dutschke wheeled his bicycle away from the headquarters of his Socialist Student League on West Berlin's Kurfürstendamm, a young man who had been lying in wait fired three shots at him from a pistol. The bullets hit "Red Rudi" at close range in the chest and head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Berlin: Ignoble Emulation | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

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