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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 24,1967, just one day after Ray escaped from the prison at Jefferson City, he met his brothers Jack and Jerry in Chicago's Atlantic Hotel. Both brothers are ex-convicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: I'm Gonna Kill That Nigger King' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...Ray and his brother Jerry met again in a North Side Chicago hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: I'm Gonna Kill That Nigger King' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...scheme of things, was reassuring to a young man whose family was always slipping and sliding around the borders of social class, a family more often than not collapsing into deviance and criminality. Besides, the Nazis were clean, not dirty, not lazy and not sex-ridden. Speedy [Ray's father] had once said that "niggers just lay around and f____ all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: I'm Gonna Kill That Nigger King' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...Merchant in Jeff City It is a misconception to assume that the status a man has in prison depends upon his status or rank as a criminal. It doesn't. The fact that James Earl Ray was a small-time criminal didn't keep him from becoming a "Merchant" [prison term for one who deals in contraband] in Jeff City ... [He] understood prison life, and he knew how to operate with "Big Shots," guards and other prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: I'm Gonna Kill That Nigger King' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...history of Ray's illegal dealings as a Merchant in Jeff City has been very difficult to document. The prison authorities are not helpful. Just the opposite. They can no more admit that they have lost control of the prison, that the prisoners are running it, than they can fly to the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: I'm Gonna Kill That Nigger King' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

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