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Tough to Prove. Certainly there are a number of unanswered questions. Why would Ray have killed King? How did he finance a year of travel, ranging from Acapulco to Montreal, London and Lisbon, between his escape from the state penitentiary in Jefferson City, Mo., on April 23, 1967, and his arrest at London's Heathrow Airport on June 8, 1968? How could he have acquired passports, false identification and four cred ible aliases without help? For that matter, did Ray-who has repudiated his guilty plea and demanded a trial-really kill King? The evidence against him is persuasive...
...locked safes. Arrested after the second stickup, he insisted on taking the stand in his own defense and was unable to offer a credible alibi. On March 17, 1960, at the age of 32, Ray was sentenced to 20 years in the Missouri state prison in Jefferson City. His accomplice got only seven years...
...April 24,1967, just one day after Ray escaped from the prison at Jefferson City, he met his brothers Jack and Jerry in Chicago's Atlantic Hotel. Both brothers are ex-convicts...
...JEFFERSON STARSHIP: RED OCTOPUS
...Harris had his way, the U.S. would be much altered, perhaps beyond recognition. Before almost any audience he addresses, Harris says: "The fundamental problem is that too few people have all the money and power, and everybody else has very little of either-and that is not what Thomas Jefferson had in mind." Inveighing against "bigness" in all forms, Harris says he wants to chop down big Government and big business, but he is more reticent about big labor, since he needs its support. He would break up the automobile, oil and steel industries, corporate farming operations and one-bank...