Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Married. Joseph Papp, 54, theatrical impresario and producer of Hair, That Championship Season, Much Ado About Nothing and A Chorus Line; and Gail Merrifield, 40, great-great-granddaughter of Actor-Assassin John Wilkes Booth and director of play development at Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
...recruited by conspirators to kill King? According to McMillan, he was plotting the murder well before he escaped from prison by hiding in a large crate used to carry loaves of bread to a prison honor farm (this required an accomplice in the prison). Moreover, McMillan quotes the assassin's brother Jerry as saying that Ray telephoned him from Memphis on the morning of the murder and said he was going to get "the big nigger" the same...
...time, Percy Foreman. An expensive and flamboyant attorney, Foreman believed that the case against his client was so strong that only a guilty plea could save him from execution. Moreover, Foreman argued, a Southern jury, in the aftermath of national revulsion over the John and Robert Kennedy assassinations, would want to show that the South did not tolerate such acts. Nevertheless, one state witness, who claimed to have seen Ray leaving the rooming house after the shooting, seemed unreliable. The bullet that hit King was too fragmented to be conclusively linked to Ray's rifle by ballistics tests...
...waste your time trying to show intelligently that Oswald was J.F.K.'s lone assassin and that the Warren Report was essentially correct? People who want to believe in conspiracy theories will continue to do so because they want to believe the worst about the U.S., its institutions and its leaders...
...syndrome "could even lead a person to get involved in situations where usual precautions are not taken--including overexposure to the likelihood of an assassin's bullet," Silverman said...