ASSASSINS: Capture in the Cumberlands

Even in the final moments, when he had run as long and as far as he could, the fugitive still did not quit. As he heard them coming, crashing through the undergrowth, he lay on the ground and covered himself with leaves. Unerringly, a young bloodhound named Sandy sniffed him out. "James, are you all right?" asked Guard Sammy Joe Chapman. There was a pause. "I'm all right," replied James Earl Ray.

So ended last week the escape of the admitted killer of Martin Luther King Jr., 54½ hours after he went over...

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