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NASHVILLE: Twenty-nine years after the assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s son Dexter asked James Earl Ray the question which has always troubled him: "Did you kill my father?" Ray's answer was brief: "No, I didn't." In an encounter broadcast live by CNN, King chatted for 17 minutes with Ray, who is currently serving a 99-year sentence for the shooting death of the civil rights leader. Seated in a wheelchair, Ray responded to King's comments in a reedy voice, rambling nearly incoherently at times. King told Ray that his family believes in the imprisoned...
...hearing. Matsch had argued that that testimony might be influenced by the emotional experience of watching the trial, a possibility bitterly rejected by victims and their relatives. Matsch says he changed his mind because of legislation signed last week by President Clinton that would allow the trial to be broadcast via closed-circuit television to an auditorium of survivors and victim relatives in Oklahoma City. Speaking amidst a growing national debate over victims' rights, Clinton said that "when someone is a victim, he or she should be at the center of the criminal justice process, not on the outside looking...
...homes, but to no avail. The Supreme Court has not finished with the prickly issue of indecency and free speech. Coming up next: a ruling on the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act, a law signed by President Clinton last year that would make it a criminal offense to broadcast explicit materials over the Internet...
...familiar list of offenses goes on: the post-season games broadcast late at night, feeding network television with ratings but depriving a new generation of baseball memories, the continuing labor disputes that perpetually threaten to shut the game down again and the wild card playoff system that perverted the integrity of the regular season for a few extra bucks...
Walters was the first woman to host the "Today" show and was also the first broadcast journalist to earn over $1 million a year...