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c
mont
tion.
R ¥ denie he fired the hot. He
pleaded guilty, h cont nd , onI y
bee u e of the dure of eight
month of olitary confinem nt,
much of the time under 24-hour
lights ("a midnight sunstro ," he
lled it).
Hi bigg t mistake, Ray h
aid, was firing the Han e i
lawyer and retaining the late
Percy Foreman, who negotiated hi
plea and -year ent nee.
The younger Han said hand
hi father were preparing to go to
trial, and were confident.
They planned to undermine the
te timony of the tate' tar wi t­
ness, a fellow resident of the flop­
house who claimed to have seen a
fle ing man r embling Ray. The
witness' common-law wife would
testify that h had been drunk at the
time and that the fleeing man was
shorter than Ray and much lighter.
H 'JU I D P
in 1 88 aid it had hecked
nd foun "no per ua iv
evidence" 0 a conspir cy.
" 0 furth r inv tigation ap­
pear to b warranted," th depart-'
m nt r port d to th Hou
Judiciary Committee, ' ... unl
new information which i uffi­
ci nt t upport additional inv ti-
gative activity be om
available. "
Such information might be
found in the approximat ly 360
boxe of aled a sas ination
committee file , say re earchers
uch as Melanson, a prof or of
political cience at Southeastern
Massachu Us University.
Amon ocuments, he
.noted, , e prepared by Ca-
nadian a ori ties concerning
Ray's associatio in Montreal
during the summer before King
was killed. It was there that Ray
claim be first met Raoul.
Harold Weisberg, another
author and inve tigator, said he
would like to see the special case
index, a manifest of evidence and
intervi wees, that he beli ves the
FBI prepared, as well as the full
li t of witn e before the com­
mittee.
OMMITT IL per-
taining to the killing of Kennedy
were ord red relea ed by Con­
gr 1 t year, but th Kin r­
tion wa not includ .
But Edgar, another former
committee member, di agreed.
"In the' , we lived in a public
perception of democracy;' h
aid, "but th private reality was
a police tate m ntality on th part
of some in the intellig nee ag n­
ci ."
Th Comm rial App al of
Memphi reported last month on
decade -long Army intelligence
urv illan e of King, up to the day
he was hot. Th n w pap r aid it
found no evid nc of an Army rol
in King' d ath; the Army d -
lin d comment to the AP.
"At the tim we wrapped up
our investigation in 1978, I had no
idea," Fauntroy aid of the up­
po ed urveillan .
The purpo e of a n inve ti-
gation be aid, hould be 1 to
identify and pr ecute p ople than
to reveal what really happ ned in
the 1 , " 0 that in th decade
of the' " it would n toe y
\
, ,
Black attacks on
whites surge in
South Africa
H
ing' i ling
ov r hadowed
ani ation ri e
H DEF NSE also would
have' pointed to items found in
Ray's abandoned Mustang, includ­
ing clothing that would fit only a
lighter man, and cigarette butts,
though Ray did not smoke. Two
white Mustangs were parked out­
side the flophouse.
Ray's current lawyer, William
Pepper, sees him as the victim of a
justice system with different ets of
standard and procedures for
criminal tho e Utbatmay
be referred to as political."
By MICHELLE WILLIAMS
Aa.oc " ted Pc!!. Wrt{!!.C I • F )!
U1l'��r�' . __;_.tt ����. ...�. "·r ... dty hall. Th
, . 'ror c:» years, t e
inatid h ev. rti mora 1
Luther King Jr. has overshadowed th th arne route.
reason he came to the Mi i ippi The weekend concl uded with a
Delta city where he died. concert Sunday aftem n at Mason
More than 1300 of Memphi' Temple where King gave his last
anitation workers had gon on trike peech, A candlelight vigil followed at
in February 1 , not just for tter the Lorraine, where a wreath of flow­
wages and working conditions but ers w� b� placed at the ite of King's
also for dignity. Some beli ve the manon. The Rev. Jes eJackson
strik by members of the American and BenjarninHooks, the outgoing ex-
Federation of State County, and Mu- ecutive director of th NAACP, were
nicipal Employees was the turning cheduled to peak at the ceremony.
point of the civil rights movement.
Taylor Rog rs, who till works a�
the sanitation d partrnent, said BI ks
had no place to hower at the end of
the day and often went h me with
maggots falling from th ir uniforms.
They lifted 50-gallon drums, worked
long hours without overtime pay and
picked up trash in pouring rain ..
All for $1.7 an hour and no bene­
ft .
"My family 'd if I was tired of
being treated like a econd-cls Citi­
zen, they would upport my deci ion
to strike," aid Rogers, wh had eight
children to support during the strike.
"I was afraid of what was going to
happen.
";';fI fl
lied 10 re nt
The attack have varied
from irin m o c, to thr
mg r nad im 'pr domi-
nantly whit athenngs.
Ob rvers fear the attacks
. uld I d tara war in the
troubl d country which i cur­
r ntl trym to move towards
BI ck majority rule. Mean­
\ -hile. th PI' C h: d nied be­
In respon rble t r the attacks.
nCitizen
AID T yrnposium of-
fered a chance to et the record traight
about Memphi . He said the city i
both forever linked to King's death,
and inspired by his philosophy to
unify and fight for civil equality.
Interest in the sanitation workers'
trike w nrred recently when three
Mernphi State Unive ity prof ors
decided t make a documentary on the
ubject.
The film "At the River I Stand,"
premiered Friday in Mernphi and was
hown nationally Sunday on public
televi ion. AI 0 Sunday night a mock
trial for James Earl Ray, who is erv­
ing a 99-yearsentence for King's mur­
der, aired on Home Box Office.
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