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...room in Memphis 13 paces away from the bathroom where King's assassin hid, is an insurance adjuster who is shorter and slighter than Ray's 5-ft. 9-in., 175-lb. frame, but looks not unlike him. Paul Bridgman, an educator, and Ramon George Sneyd, a policeman, whose names Ray used after he arrived in Toronto, are both 35 and have Ray's build. Police are still puzzling over how they were chosen...
...sounds of revelry churned into bewilderment, then horror and panic. A priest appeared, thrust a rosary into Kennedy's hands, which closed on it. Someone cried: "He doesn't need a priest, for God's sake, he needs a doctor!" The cleric was shoved aside. A hatless young policeman rushed in carrying a shotgun. "We don't need guns! We need a doctor...
...Remington rifle that killed Dr. King, he had made an elaborate odyssey from justice. He fled to Toronto on April 8, where he checked in and out of two $9-a-week flophouses. He adopted the name Ramon George Sneyd, that of a Toronto policeman, which he possibly picked at random from a city directory. Using his new identity, Ray submitted a passport application. Because of Canada's ludicrously simple passport procedures-which demand, in effect, that the applicant merely swear that he is Canadian-he was granted one. On May 6 he flew BOAC to London...
...Illinois, as in many states, the jury in capital cases is given the responsibility of deciding the sentence, as well as guilt. Convicted of killing a Chicago policeman in 1959, William Witherspoon was sentenced to death by a jury that had been purged of anyone with "general objections" to capital punishment. By a 6-to-3 vote, the court ruled such a practice unconstitutional; Witherspoon had not been tried by a true cross section of the community, since only 42% of the nation favors the death penalty according to a 1966 Gallup poll, said the court. His conviction stands...
...citizen in a free society has a right to know when he is dealing with a policeman, and when he is not. A Czech liberal noted recently that one of the first signs of democratization in his country was that all the police were wearing uniforms again. Obviously, the use of undercover police in Czechslovakia has been far more oppressive and less restricted than in America. But when a young man is sent to Federal penitentiary for agreeing to sell marijuana to an insistent hippie-policeman, or when a pseudo-member of a Columbia radical group suddenly flashes his badge...