Word: killers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Threading through the cloud of gossip and guesswork, the authorities managed to assemble the basic jigsaw puzzle from which the killer's identity-if not his motive-emerged...
...week. Although Attorney General Ramsey Clark had theorized that the assassin acted alone, rather than as part of a conspiracy, someone had sent false radio reports to Memphis police headquarters in the minutes immediately after the shooting. The messages could have been designed to divert police attention from the killer's escape route...
...several days, Ramsey Clark made faintly optimistic predictions. But after a week, he said: "Agents are working around the clock pursuing every lead. Physical evidence is very substantial. While it remains impossible to predict when the killer will be arrested, I remain hopeful it will be soon." If, indeed, several persons plotted King's death, chances of solving the crime are enhanced simply because prospects of a blunder multiply. And one of them might be tempted to try to collect the $100,000 reward for the triggerman...
Modern man is often at his noblest in small-unit war, a caveman hangover. But peacetime culture bars such outlets, and when men fail to achieve the virility substitute of money, power or meaningful work, they can explode in violence. Not that man has a killer instinct; he simply does not fully realize the effect of pulling a trigger and blowing off another man's head. Modern long-range weapons further blunt his sensibilities. Mussolini's son extolled the bombing of the Ethiopians: "I dropped an aerial torpedo right in the center of a cluster of tribesmen...
...hole. It is, says the screen, "The Dawn of Man." But is it? From somewhere, a strange rectangular slab appears, gleaming in the primeval sunlight. Its appearance stimulates one of the simians to think for the first time of a bone as a weapon. Now he is man, the killer; the naked ape has arisen, and civilization is on its way. With a burst of animal spirits, the bone is flung into the air, dissolves into an elongated spacecraft, and aeons of evolution fall away. It is 2001, the epoch of A Space Odyssey...