Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lion's strong points is the depth and quality of their pitching staff. Last year's starting rotation of Ray Nawrocki, Jim Winskowicz, and captain Pete Downs are all returning with more experience. This trio is bolstered by two promising sophomores. Glenn Erickson and John Gill. elsewhere, the veterans include all-league outfielder Jesse Parks and one of the conference's top power hitters Paul Kaliades...
Every investigative reporter in the country must have written an assassination book by now. The form is a new American genre, perhaps creeping up on science fiction and detective stories. It is an honorable enough trade, as massively practiced on Martin Luther King Jr. and James Earl Ray by Gerold Frank, who seems to have graduated from his role as a semi-disembodied ghostwriter for actresses. Delving into all the details and mysteries that still surround King's murder, Frank presents evidence, conflicting reports, false leads, rumors, opinions and untruths in more or less the order in which...
...Ray at first claimed to have received money and instructions from a shadowy French Canadian seaman named Raoul. As the case developed, the "Ray alone" theory seemed to many to have inconsistencies. In the end most are satisfactorily resolved. A false citizen-band radio report on the day of the murder, telling of a 100-m.p.h. chase after a white Mustang thought to be driven by Ray, proved to be not the work of confederates but of a teenage prankster. There is no real mystery about Ray's source of cash either: he was a professional stickup...
Frank's picture of Ray, though, is remarkable, far more than a collection of macabre bits. It will not satisfy any one who feels compelled to believe in conspiracy. But it will delight those who think that life is meaningless and random. Ray's life, his convictions for small-time robberies, his year of wandering after his escape from a Missouri prison in April 1967 and his resolve at some point during that year to kill the black man who had won the Nobel Peace Prize, all seem virtually pointless...
...Ray decide to kill King...