Word: raoul
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Later, in letters that he wrote to his biographer William Bradford Huie, Ray claimed that he had merely followed directions from a man he had met in a Montreal bar after his escape from the Missouri prison. Ray claimed he knew the blond Latin stranger only as "Raoul." He told Huie that Raoul had asked him to smuggle unnamed contraband into the U.S. from both Canada and Mexico, then buy a car and a rifle in Birmingham, and finally to drive to Memphis and check into a sleazy rooming house facing the Lorraine Motel, where King was staying. Ray insisted...
Indeed, as the chances of a House committee investigation grew, Ray began to hint that he had concocted the story about Raoul. Before Richard Sprague, the veteran Philadelphia prosecutor, resigned as counsel to the House Select Committee in a flurry of internecine committee bickering, Sprague interviewed Ray in prison three times. Sprague said they were beginning to develop a rapport. After these interviews, Sprague concluded that Raoul "does not and did not exist." Ray did insist, however, that he had had some help from unnamed others while he was a fugitive in Canada, Portugal and England after King...
Author Huie, who at first promoted Ray's Raoul story in a series of magazine articles, later concluded in a book, He Slew the Dreamer, that Ray had misled him. Huie decided that Ray had acted alone in killing King. But what had motivated Ray? Huie, who dug into much of Ray's life, contended he was just a small-time career crook determined to impress the big shots in his chosen profession by scoring one major...
...evidence that anyone else helped Ray plot the murder of King or instigated the crime. After reading the various accounts of other writers on Ray's activities before and after the murder, Freelancers Jeff Cohen and David S. Lifton claimed in a New Times article last April that Raoul probably was Ray's brother Jerry, who works at a country club near Chicago. They base that theory-a matter of pure conjecture-on the sequence of Ray's various mentions of both Raoul and his brother in these accounts. They also note that Jerry much later became...
...program proves that the animation technique need not impose any stylistic formula on the animator. The mood and subject of these short essays range from the melancholy romanticism of Raoul Servais's Sirene, a tale of love between a mermaid and a flutist after a holocaust, to the wry wit of Kick Me by Robert Swarthe in which the protagonist is a pair of headless legs...