Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What a strange moment. In a meeting room in a Nashville, Tennessee, prison hospital, the youngest son of Martin Luther King Jr. sat face to face with James Earl Ray, the man serving 99 years for murdering the civil rights leader. It could have been in a movie. And maybe it will...
...didn't, no," replied Ray in a quavering voice. Then he added, "But like I say, sometimes these questions are difficult to answer...
...they are--and of all the difficult questions that have swirled around King's murder for the past 29 years, none is more perplexing than why his heirs have become the chief boosters of the bid by Ray to exonerate himself before he dies from liver disease. In February, both Dexter and his mother Coretta Scott King testified in a court hearing in Memphis, Tennesee, that Ray should be given the full-fledged trial he never had because he pleaded guilty to the killing, before recanting three days later. Last week, after listening to Ray's up-close and personal...
Which is odd, given the overwhelming evidence that Ray at the very least had something to do with the shooting: he has admitted purchasing the high-powered rifle that the FBI says was the murder weapon, renting the room from which the shot was allegedly fired and being in Memphis when the killing occurred. Dexter King's credulity suggests the Kings have fallen under the hypnotic spell of William F. Pepper, Ray's current lawyer and the architect of a breathtakingly convoluted conspiracy theory about the assassination. They should step back from the brink...
Their most obvious connection, of course, is what they have done for the game of golf. In the American history of the sport, there have been four popular bookmarks: Francis Ouimet, the 20-year-old amateur who defeated British greats Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff for the 1913 U.S. Open in Brookline, Massachusetts; Bobby Jones, whose 1930 Grand Slam earned him a ticker-tape parade in New York City; Palmer, who teamed with television to bring golf millions of new fans; and Woods, whose galleries are not only larger than anyone else's but considerably younger...