07-25-2003, 04:14 PM
That resurfaced when Rev Jackson was presenting his presidential platform some years ago for the Rainbow coalition. It went along these lines:
James Earl Ray was the world's worst shot: even with a hunting rifle and a high resolution scope, he failed to hit the guy he was aiming at. (According to this joke, that would be Rev Jackson.) The reference is to MLK and Rev Jackson being in fairly close proximity when that assassin squeezed of the round that took Dr King from us.
I well remember that event, I was awakened the next morning listening to WMAL news, as my older brother and I did every morning, to learn that Dr King had been shot and killed. 'Twas a rough year, as that same radio station alerted us to the death of RFK one morning, just after we woke up.
Better for us all if James Earl Ray had stuck to deer hunting, IMO, and stayed out of politics. Why he did not get the Death Penalty is, to me, one of the great misacarriages of justice ever.
James Earl Ray was the world's worst shot: even with a hunting rifle and a high resolution scope, he failed to hit the guy he was aiming at. (According to this joke, that would be Rev Jackson.) The reference is to MLK and Rev Jackson being in fairly close proximity when that assassin squeezed of the round that took Dr King from us.
I well remember that event, I was awakened the next morning listening to WMAL news, as my older brother and I did every morning, to learn that Dr King had been shot and killed. 'Twas a rough year, as that same radio station alerted us to the death of RFK one morning, just after we woke up.
Better for us all if James Earl Ray had stuck to deer hunting, IMO, and stayed out of politics. Why he did not get the Death Penalty is, to me, one of the great misacarriages of justice ever.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete