Posner – best known for his seminal and controversial book Case Closed on the JFK assassination, here turns his attention to the murder of Martin Luther King. Using explosive new interviews, confidential files, and previously undisclosed evidence, Posner tackles some of the major puzzles of the assassination, and thoroughly examines who James Earl Ray was and what led him to undertake the actions he did that day in Memphis in 1968.

A first rate copy. All pages intact, bright and unmarked. DJ is in an excellent state and unclipped, no evident wear. Cloth boards intact and spine tight. All now protected in professional clear book wrapper. Fine/Fine. 447 pp with numerous B&W photos, notes, bibliography, index

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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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Bookseller: Tom Heywood Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2190
Title: Killing the Dream : James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr
Author: Posner, Gerald
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375500820
ISBN 13: 9780375500824
Publisher: Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1998
Keywords: true crime, MLK, JFK, assassination, Posner, James Earl Ray, political assassination, Kennedys and Kings, African American History
Bookseller catalogs: True Crime;

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