Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Closing night on a weekly magazine is always somewhat stressful, since events have a way of refusing to recognize deadlines. On Friday evening, as TIME prepared to close, two startling incidents occurred almost simultaneously. No sooner had word of James Earl Ray's escape reached our offices than some half a dozen correspondents were sent into action, and the editors in New York began preparations to put Ray on the cover. In Atlanta, Larry Woods immediately chartered a plane to get to the remote Brushy Mountain state prison, while Joe Kane and Jef McAllister of our Washington bureau drove...
...James Earl Ray...
...does think that Ray got help in fleeing is Warden Stonney Lane of Brushy Mountain prison, who told TIME that he thought the break had been assisted by some authority within the institution. Said he: "They would have had to be helped." Whoever organized the plot shrewdly waited until Lane was far away in Corpus Christi, Texas, taking his first vacation in five years. Lane said Ray was the first man over the wall. "What I want to know is: Why wasn't he shot at? They shot the last one." And Lane was convinced that Ray and the others...
...possibility that Ray may have had outside help in getting out of Brushy Mountain certainly did not mean that he had had help in killing King. Even so, the escape and the questionable circumstances surrounding it will focus more attention on the feeble efforts of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which has been probing?with a notable lack of style, skill and success?the killings of King and John F. Kennedy. Staff investigators have interviewed Ray six times, and Chairman Louis Stokes of Ohio intended to call him to testify in public. Though Stokes will not reveal what Ray...
...prospect that Ray could be shot dead while at large deeply worried national leaders. According to a Justice Department source, Jimmy Carter and Attorney General Griffin Bell were "terrified" that a prison guard or a local deputy might spot Ray and kill him. If that happened, both the President and the Attorney General realize, there would be no way to convince the conspiracy theorists?whose ranks would certainly swell?that Ray had been anything other than a pawn manipulated by the real killers of Martin Luther King...