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Klandestine - How a Klan Lawyer and a Checkbook Journalist Helped James Earl Ray Cover Up His Crime (Hardcover)
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Klandestine - How a Klan Lawyer and a Checkbook Journalist Helped James Earl Ray Cover Up His Crime (Hardcover)
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At 6:01 pm on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, while standing on the
balcony of the Lorraine Motel, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by
a single bullet fired from an elevated and concealed position. Yet
unanswered questions surround the circumstances of his demise, and
many still wonder whether justice was served. After all, only one
man, an escaped convict from Missouri named James Earl Ray, was
punished for the crime. On the surface, Ray did not fit the
caricature of a hangdog racist thirsty for blood. Media coverage
has often portrayed him as hapless and apolitical, someone who must
have been paid by clandestine forces. It's a narrative that Ray
himself put in motion upon his June 1968 arrest in London, then
continued from jail until his death in 1998. In 1999, Dr. King's
own family declared Ray an innocent man. After his arrest, Ray
forged a publishing partnership with two very strange bedfellows: a
slick Klan lawyer named Arthur J. Hanes, the de facto "Klonsel" for
the United Klans of America, and checkbook journalist William
Bradford Huie, the darling of Look magazine and a longtime menace
of the KKK. Despite polar opposite views on race, Hanes and Huie
found common cause in the world of conspiracy. Together, they
thought they could make Memphis the new Dallas. Relying on novel
primary source discoveries gathered over an eight-year period,
including a trove of newly released documents and dusty files,
Klandestine takes readers deep inside Ray's Memphis jail cell and
Alabama's violent Klaverns. Told through Hanes and Huie's key
perspectives, it shows how a legacy of unpunished racial killings
provided the perfect exigency to sell a lucrative conspiracy to a
suspicious and outraged nation.
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