Word: raoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoot Martin Luther King," Ray insisted in his statement. Instead of revealing new evidence of a plot to kill King, Ray stuck to his claim that he had been framed by an elusive stranger named Raoul, whom he had met in a Montreal bar after escaping from a prison in Jefferson City, Mo., on April 23, 1967. It was Raoul, Ray insisted, who asked him to buy a telescopic-sighted rifle in Birmingham and a pair of binoculars in Memphis-and it was Raoul who must have left them near the scene of the shooting, well marked with...
Committee Chairman Louis Stokes, who had predicted that Ray would be killed by fellow conspirators during his escape from Brushy Mountain state prison in Tennessee last summer, now led the critical questioning of Ray. Why had he not tried harder to help his lawyers find Raoul? "I thought he would probably testify against me," said Ray. The answer fit Ray's contention that Raoul was a conspirator working with unknown others to kill King but let Ray take the punishment. Offering no evidence, Ray implied that Raoul may have been working with...
...April 1 of that year, but the committee introduced an Atlanta laundry slip for that date bearing the name of the alias Ray had been using. Another example: asked why only his fingerprints appeared on the rifle found near the Memphis rooming house after the murder, Ray contended that Raoul must have covered his own ringers with Band-Aids while inspecting the gun-but Ray admitted that he did not notice any such tapes on Raoul's hands at the time...
...constructivism. "Paris-Berlin" overlaps the earlier shows in those areas; many of the "classics" of the '20s, like Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's light-space modulators and constructivist paintings, or the ferocious social satires of George Grosz and Otto Dix, or the Dada visions of mechanized man by Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Hoch, are on view again in Paris. But the new show deepens the argument by paying more attention to the social and political aims of the German artists and to the country's expressionist art that preceded the outbreak of World...
...Raoul Bott, Graustein Professor of Mathematics, and his wife. Phyllis Bott, will replace James Vorenberg '50 and Elizabeth W. Vorenberg as co-masters of Dunster House when they resign on July 1, 1978, President Bok officially announced this week...