Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr - Softcover

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In the three decades since April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot to death in Memphis, scores of books and articles have questioned whether James Earl Ray, King's killer, acted alone or was part of a larger conspiracy. Now, based on explosive new interviews, confidential files, and previously undisclosed evidence, bestselling author Gerald Posner finally resolves the simple truth of the last great political murder mystery of the 1960s, definitively proving that Ray acted alone. Beginning with a straightforward narrative of the events before, during, and after the shooting, Posner untangles the case's leading puzzles: Was there a mysterious person named Raoul who directed Ray in the year leading up to the murder? Were the FBI, the CIA, or an arm of the Mafia involved? Did the military have a covert team of snipers in Memphis on the day King died? Was James Earl Ray a patsy, as the King family has publicly declared? At the heart of this book is an in-depth profile of Ray himself, a fascinating profile of a career criminal from one of the most forsaken parts of poor white America. Posner re-creates the memorable dramas of the case: Dr. King's rousing "mountaintop" speech the night before his death; the chilling moments of the assassination; Ray's frantic flight across four countries as he tried to escape justice; and the shock of the King family's embrace of Ray just before his own death in jail. A riveting search for justice, Killing the Dream finally thwarts James Earl Ray's efforts to take his secrets to the grave, and proves the identity of King's killer beyond a shadow of a doubt.

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Gerald Posner, a former Wall Street lawyer, is the author of Case Closed, a prize-winning reexamination of the JFK assassination.  His other books include a biography of Ross Perot (Citizen Perot), an expose of the heroin trade (Warlords of Crime), a study of the offspring of Nazi leaders (Hitler's Children), and a novel, The Bio-Assassins.  He is also so-author of Mengele, a biography of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death."

Posner has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, and U.S. New & World Report.  He lives in New York City with his wife Trisha.
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After thirty years, Killing the Dream reexamines the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., based on explosive 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 hotel?

*     Did the military have a covert team of snipers in Memphis on the day King was killed?<

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  • PublisherMariner Books
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0156006510
  • ISBN 13 9780156006514
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages448
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