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   All four of King's kids turned out to be problem children as adults, but   
   Dexter especially so:  Dexter is the one who fell for that preposterous story   
   peddled by assassin Ray--who pled guilty and only later tried to withdraw his   
   plea--that he was framed.   
      
   Now, I do not dispute there was a conspiracy in the King case.  (Though I DO   
   remain convinced--after scrutinizing both the JFK and RFK shootings for many   
   decades now--that each of those WAS indeed a lone-gunman assassination.)   
      
   The conspiracy in the King case course culminated in Memphis at dinnertime on   
   Thursday, April 4, 1968.  (By the way, the moment Ray pulled the trigger,   
   firing his single rifle shot from slightly to the northwest in a rooming house   
   bathroom, Jesse Jackson    
   was actually down the street from the Lorraine Motel, eating dinner in some   
   diner--though the next morning Jackson's lying about his witnessing the   
   shooting would earn Coretta Scott King's eternal enmity with his infamous   
   "bloody shirt" interview on the    
   NBC's Today show.)   
      
   But the King conspiracy was NOT between Ray and [take your paranoid pick]: the   
   FBI, or the Mafia, or LBJ's people, or the CIA, or the KGB or any other group   
   which all the JFK-case armchair-investigators so counter-factually cite.   
      
   Instead, it was between shooter Ray and one of his several older   
   brothers--Jerry Ray, whom I'm informed still survives in the Ray clan's   
   hometown of Alton, Illinois, just across the Mississippi from St. Louis to the   
   north.  As the book "American    
   Assassins" makes clear to readers, smart-guy (and non-felon) Jerry Ray was the   
   actual person whom the rather-dimwitted and repeatedly-imprisoned kid-brother   
   James (known as "Jimmy" to his family, but to history as "James Earl" Ray)   
   described to    
   interrogating authorities as "Raoul", a supposedly mysterious voice whom the   
   gunman claimed he never met in person, rather receiving his directives from   
   via telephone around the Lower 48.   
      
   What seems to have started everything in motion was when the Ray brothers   
   heard discussion of a $50,000 bounty on King's life (which they never came   
   close to collecting, of course) offered by a monied Confederacy buff, a   
   quite-possibly true rumor they    
   picked up while hanging out in a bar on the south side of St. Louis.   
      
   That the late Dexter fell for the aging-prisoner Jimmy Ray's malarky doesn't   
   speak well of Dexter's critical-thinking skills.   
      
   BRYAN STYBLE/Florida   
      
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