Word: raying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week began, helicopters were still buzzing angrily over the Tennessee mountains, and sweating officers and their bloodhounds were laboring slowly through the bush. Whatever happens, the clamor to find out how Ray managed to escape from a maximum-security prison is bound to go on. Even more disturbing, Americans will be wondering all over again, more seriously than ever, whether or not the wanted man had acted alone when he killed King. The case of James Earl Ray still has a long, long...
...thousand schemes, James Earl Ray, has tirelessly tried to scratch, claw and dig his way out of jail so many times that fellow inmates nicknamed him "the Mole." He has made eight known escape attempts-and bungled most of them. His reported escapades, up until last week's getaway...
...Attempted breakout from a courthouse in St. Louis, Dec. 15, 1959, as he was about to go on trial for a $120 holdup. Ray pushed an escort deputy violently away, fled through the building until a policeman stopped him at gunpoint...
...Attempted flight over the wall of the Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City, on Nov. 19, 1961. Serving a 20-year sentence for armed robbery, Ray tried to scale the wall with a jerry-built ladder, but it collapsed...
...Another escape try from Missouri state pen, on March 10, 1966. Ray placed a dummy in his bed, shinnied up a pole to his cell window, used wire cutters to snip through the steel mesh, and crept through a shaft to a fan ventilator. He hid there until the next night, but when he tried to leave, guards nabbed...