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Prologue: Wrapped in a Wholesome Kind of Misery
Last November, I posted about a woman named Claire Conner, and her experiences in Dallas on that fateful November day when President Kennedy died. Conner’s observations about the JFK assassination...
View ArticleBest Laid Plans
A week consists of 168 hours. You’d know this if you’ve ever worked over 100 of them during a seven-day stretch.My own fault, really. Just couldn’t say no to anyone. I was teaching five courses, at...
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Prologue: The Fuse
On 1 February 1968 Echol Cole and Robert Walker worked the early morning hours collecting the refuse of Memphis, TN residents.* As sanitation employees, their pay wasn’t much, less than two dollars...
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Leading the Memphis sanitation workers’ march was the last thing that Rev. Martin King wanted to do. His workload, and stress had increased since his open condemnation of the Vietnam War on 4 April...
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They Hate Him: What Just Happened?
Solomon Jones might have gotten the best view of the lone shot’s effect. Standing directly in front of and below Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, he witnessed the civil rights leader and Nobel Laureate...
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They Hate Him: The Man in the Mustang
Only seconds after a rifle round mortally fell Dr. Martin Luther King, a man exited the second-floor bathroom of Bessie Brewer’s boarding house. The bathroom faced Mulberry Street, opposite of the...
View ArticleGrist & Shout
Below is a list of some of the more reported upon items found in the recent JFK assassination records release, with a little trivia mixed in.(1) The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records...
View ArticleJust Three Things?
Below, Washington Post journalist Ian Shapira lists three items that have emerged from the recent JFK assassination document release.
View ArticleIt’s All an Act
Because of the historical focus of this site, I don’t often cover or comment on news events. But as most of you probably know, federal authorities recently released 27,968 documents on the JFK...
View ArticleThey Hate Him: International Odyssey
A belated happy 2018 to you all. As of late, I've been having technical difficulties responding to your comments, and commenting on Blogger to begin with. Trust me, I'm working on it. In his 1992...
View ArticleThe X-Spot: Year Twelve
I said I wouldn’t do it again, but I got greedy and took on two assignments simultaneously. As you can see, I’ve been kind of a ghost in the blogsophere as of late.It’s not that I have stopped...
View ArticleThey Hate Him: Selecting the Perfect Evidence
After his arrest, James Ray faced an extradition hearing to the United States. As mentioned earlier, The US Department of Justice could have easily won for his prison escape in 1967. But according to...
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Breaking News: April Fools Day Canceled
A lie can travel halfway ‘round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. –Rev. Charles Spurgeon, 1865 sermon*The point of April Fools Day was to set aside a special day to indulge our...
View ArticleThey Hate Him: Good Time Charlie
You play around you lose your wife.You play too long you lose your life.Some gotta win, some gotta lose.Good Time Charlie’s got the blues. –Danny O’Keefe (1967)Out of all of the witness affidavits, the...
View ArticleThey Hate Him: The Red and the Blacks
My apologies to Stendhal, but I couldn’t resist.Despite his (ahem!) vigorous defense of James Ray during the extradition, Michael Eugene lacked the credentials to represent him in the United States....
View ArticleThey Hate Him: What’s 60% of Thirty Talents?*
In his memoir, James Ray explained why he fired Arthur Hanes and son as his attorneys. Ray insisted that he had to give his version of events on the stand; how he was duped by a mysterious figure he...
View ArticleThey Hate Him: And What about Naomi?*
The previous posts summarize the common popular knowledge of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King assassination. James Ray, an escaped convict, purchased a rifle at a local sporting goods store, and shot...
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Legends, Hoaxes and the Big Liar: Alan Abel (1924-2018?)
Sixteen days ere this posting, pioneering culture-jammer Alan Abel (left) passed away from cancer complications.* Most of his activities centered on hoaxing media with such stunts as performing a...
View ArticleThey Hate Him: The Devil Made Him Do It
James Ray plead guilty to the charge of assassinating Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but without allocution. If pleading guilty to a crime, the accused should have the opportunity to offer any...
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