Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ended last week the escape of the admitted killer of Martin Luther King Jr., 54½ hours after he went over the 14ft. wall of Brushy Mountain state prison with six other convicts. All were run down and seized, the last 31 hours after Ray. And Ray's capture-out in the rugged hills, on his own, just as local officials had predicted from the start-deflated speculation that the assassin had escaped from Brushy Mountain, a maximum-security fortress set down in the wilderness, with outside help...
...files from other correspondents who interviewed sources in Boston, Chicago, Washington and Atlanta, Associate Editor James Atwater on Saturday wrote our account of how America's No. 1 prisoner escaped, and Senior Writer Ed Magnuson described the conspiracy theory that surrounds the assassination of Ray's victim, Martin Luther King Jr. Our Nation staff pieced together the Ray saga, as our World and International staffs began work on another late-breaking story, the Dutch marine attack on the South Moluccan kidnapers; their story on the raid includes an eye-witness account by TIME'S Peter Kronenberg...
...local deputy might spot Ray and kill him. If that happened, both the President and the Attorney General realize, there would be no way to convince the conspiracy theorists?whose ranks would certainly swell?that Ray had been anything other than a pawn manipulated by the real killers of Martin Luther King...
...bungling petty gunman and burglar whose life of crime has been mostly one fizzle after another, was back where he had always longed to be: at the center of national attention. With his renewed prominence, painful memories-and nagging questions-flooded back concerning his slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on a Memphis motel balcony on April...
...King's murder. When Ray pleaded guilty in court on March 10, 1969, Tennessee prosecutors merely declared that they had examined all the evidence compiled by local and state police, the FBI and even international agencies and concluded that "we have no proof other than that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by James Earl Ray and James Earl Ray alone, not in concert with anyone else." Ray's attorney at the time, the flamboyant Percy Foreman, said he had grilled Ray for some 50 hours, checked all his expenses "down to 75? for a shave...