Research Catalog

Title

Killing the dream : James Earl Ray and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Gerald Posner.

Author

Posner, Gerald L.

Publication

New York : Random House, c1998.

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Description

xi, 446 p., [16] p. of plates; 25 cm.

Summary

After thirty years, Killing the Dream reexamines the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., based on new interviews, confidential files, and previously undisclosed evidence. Killing the Dream not only uncovers the errors of previous investigations - both private and governmental - but resolves the speculation about whether the FBI, CIA, or mafia was involved in the death of Dr. King. Killing the Dream untangles the case's leading puzzles. Was there a mysterious person called Raoul who directed James Earl Ray in the year leading up to the murder? Was the fatal shot fired from the bathroom window of a Memphis flophouse, or from a sniper's perch hidden in a densely overgrown garden across from King's motel? Did the military have a covert team of snipers in Memphis on the day King was killed? Has the recent confession by a restaurant owner exposed a wide conspiracy leading to a New Orleans crime family? And was James Earl Ray a patsy, as the King family recently declared?

Subject

• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Assassination
• Ray, James Earl, 1928-
• Ray, James Earl, 1928-1998

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-424) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The assassination. "Nobody's going to kill you, Martin." "I've been to the mountaintop." The assassination. The hunt. Hiding the truth. -The assassin. A professional criminal. The alibi. On the run. -The search for truth. "The legal truth." The confession. Military hoax. Ray's last dance.

ISBN

• 0375500820 (acid-free paper)
• 0375702210
• 0375402004 (AudioBook)

LCCN

^^^97040112^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library