Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent weeks, Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey found traveling with Kennedy not a bit more relaxing. One night just before the Indiana primary, Gorey was entering his motel, worn out and ready for bed. "Had your dinner yet?" asked a voice with a now-familiar accent. "At 1 a.m.?" said Gorey. "Of course." Said Kennedy: "Join me anyway." Gorey did. When he crawled out of bed early next morning, the first person he saw was Bobby, briskly walking his dog Freckles. That exercise was cut short when the tireless candidate joined a game of touch football. "Sometimes," says Gorey wistfully...
...five weeks a trio of reporters investigated every one of the 43 deaths that occurred during the riots. As a result of the series, three white policemen and a Negro watchman were indicted this month for conspiring to violate the civil rights of eight Negroes held in a motel (two of the Negroes had been shot and killed...
...rights atop Penn Station. Chicago's four-year-old circular Marina City apartment complex, already a city landmark, is built above the tracks of the Chicago and North Western Railway. In Newton, Mass., work began this month on a $40 million development-consisting, to start with, of a motel, a nine-story office building and a 650-car garage-that will straddle the bustling Massachusetts Turnpike...
...maintained that it was a made-in-Memphis undertaking. The latter theory was given some support last week by a Memphian who told TIME and later the FBI that he had overheard a local businessman giving an unknown triggerman urgent orders to kill King on the balcony of his motel, and even specifying the price for the job ($5,000) and the pickup point for his fee (New Orleans...
...Fatal Day. On April 3-the day before King was murdered-Gait registered at Memphis' Rebel Motel, and his Mustang was seen parked near Room 34. Clerks said that Gait made no telephone calls through their switchboard, but the lights in the room stayed on all night. Next day John Willard-an alias used by Gait-rented Room 5 in the sleazy rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel, where King was shot...