| (James Earl Ray's background) Even if you aren't inclined to credit the conspiracy theorists on this one -- and Hampton Sides, the author of a new book about Ray, "Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin," is not -- you can see how the pairing of killer and victim would stick in the craw. Ray was a nonentity, a toxic loser from a long line of the same |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.