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...to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states. In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison...

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...York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam. In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recaptured following his escape three...

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Tucson tragedy will only temporarily halt the language of derision and hate

...James Garfield and William McKinley, respectively. Many of us know quite well the names of Byron De La Beckwith, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, Charles Manson, Sarah Jane Moore, John Hinckley Jr., Arthur Bremer, Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph...

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...sad social commentary that, 30 years ago, blowing up the Pope may have seemed outre, but after Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Mark David Chapman, and John Hinckley, Jr. it seems passe.) The little nun (Nena Thomas) tosses off her marriage...

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This Day in History

...Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opened on Broadway. In 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later repudiated...

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...Mediterranean. (Israel called the attack a tragic mistake.) In 1968, authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1996, China set off an underground...

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This Day in History

...York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam. In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recaptured following his escape three...

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This Day in History

...to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states. In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison...

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...capsized during a storm. In 1997, Dexter King, son of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., met with James Earl Ray, the man in prison for the older King's assassination. Ray denied having had anything to do with the shooting...

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This Day in History

...Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opened on Broadway. In 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later repudiated that plea...

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