Panzram was born in 1891 on a Minnesota farm and died in 1930 on the gallows at the U.S.Penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Imprisoned for most of his life from the age of twelve and brutally punished, Panzram's keen insight into the arbitrary cruelty of his fellow human being is graphically illustrated with a litany of prison abuses, as well as the details of his own sordid, tragic life. Panzram arrives as a gripping warning from America's past to new prison-industrial complex era. The authors add an historical and sociological framework for Panzram's words.

    King's family & friends within the civil rights community have also expressed doubts that James Earl Ray was the killer, or, if he was, that he acted alone. One of King's children even went to Ray's prison cell to meet with the reportedly terminally ill convict & emerged to say that he believed Ray's denial. Conspiracy theories old & new swirl around the case, & news media from around the world have descended once again on Memphis, TN, where King was killed on 4/4/68. Amidst the speculation, He Slew the Dreamer is a remarkably detailed & clearheaded examination of the available evidence at the time the murder occurred. The author, the late Wm Bradford Huie, was one of the most celebrated figures of 20th century journalism & investigative reporting. He wrote a dozen books, most of them made into popular movies, & hundreds of articles in newspapers & magazines. A pioneer of "checkbook journalism", he sought the truth in controversial stories where the truth was hard to come by. In the case of James Earl Ray, Huie paid Ray & his original attorneys $40,000 for cooperation in explaining his movements in the months before King's assassination & up to Ray's arrest weeks later in London. Huie was a personal friend of Martin Luther King & he writes that he went into his investigation of Ray believing that a conspiracy was behind King's murder. But after retracing Ray's movements thru California, Louisiana, Mexico, Canada, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis & London, he came to the opposite conclusion: that James Earl Ray was a pathetic petty criminal who hated African Americans & sought to make a name for himself by murdering King. He Slew the Dreamer was originally published soon after Ray went to prison & was republished in 1977, but has been out of print until this new edition, published with the cooperation of Huie's widow. Author Wayne Greenhaw has written a new foreword, epilogue & afterword to the book. An index has been added. This is an invaluable resource to the current debate over the King assassination, as well as an intriguing look both at the criminal mind & at the techniques of investigative journalism.

    

    Deputy Price released them at 10:00 PM in a conspiracy with members of the Ku Klux Klan. Shortly after their release, the three were overtaken on a rural road by the members of the Klan. They were then beaten and shot and their bodies buried in an earthen dam. It took 44 days for their bodies to be found and those convicted received light sentences.This is one of many books about this infamous incident.This book was made into the movies Mississippi Burning and Murder in Mississippi.

    We can only guess at the qualities of patience and perceptiveness which have enabled Mr Parker to make of his material one of the most important studies ever to have been published of the habitual criminal.' TLS'The reader will find himself as deeply involved with his characters as Mr Parker is himself.' Spectator