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...rumors that the small-time criminal was part of a conspiracy that climaxed with the murder on April 4,1968, of the nation's most celebrated civil rights leader. Much of that renewed speculation came from Black Leaders Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson and members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Said Louis Stokes, chairman of the committee: "My real concern is whether Ray was lured into this escape and, if so, whether for the purpose of killing him to stop him from talking...
...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...
Indeed, as the chances of a House committee investigation grew, Ray began to hint that he had concocted the story about Raoul. Before Richard Sprague, the veteran Philadelphia prosecutor, resigned as counsel to the House Select Committee in a flurry of internecine committee bickering, Sprague interviewed Ray in prison three times. Sprague said they were beginning to develop a rapport. After these interviews, Sprague concluded that Raoul "does not and did not exist." Ray did insist, however, that he had had some help from unnamed others while he was a fugitive in Canada, Portugal and England after King...
...indefatigable Lane has been largely responsible for convincing influential blacks that the King case needs official restudy. He persuaded King's widow Coretta that there was unspecified new evidence warranting an investigation. Her support influenced the Congressional Black Caucus to push creation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Incredibly, when that committee was first set up, it offered the job of chief counsel to the totally biased Lane. Even he realized his acceptance would destroy the investigation's credibility, and the job was offered to Richard Sprague. The highly independent Sprague sought an unreasonably large budget, fought...
...plan was motivated by a desire to equalize all University housing. As part of this effort, the dean had his right hand person--Ann B. Spence, assistant dean of the College--select a River House to receive Class of '80 sophomores in the 1.5-to-1 male-to-female sex ratio that until now had been reserved for the three Quad Houses...