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EPILOGUE On Dec. 8, 1999, a jury in Memphis, Tenn., deliber- ated for only three hours before deciding that the long-held official version of Martin Luther King Jr.’s The wrong. cated a retired Memphis businessman and govern- ment agencies in a conspiracy to kill the civil rights Though the trial testimony had received little press the an official Ray acted alone or possibly as part of a low-level Leading newspapers across the country dispa

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assassination giant. attention outcome tling defenders December the conspiracy The tion.