Chasing King's Killer
The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin
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An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., by New York Times best-selling author, James L. Swanson.
In his meteoric, 13-year rise to fame, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a mass movement for civil rights - with his relentless peaceful, non-violent protests, public demonstrations, and eloquent speeches. But as violent threats cast a dark shadow over Dr. King's life, Swanson hones in on James Earl Ray, a bizarre, racist prison escapee who tragically ends King's life.
As he did in his best-selling Scholastic MG/YA books Chasing Lincoln's Killer and "The President Has Been Shot!", Swanson transports listeners back to one of the most shocking, sad, and terrifying events in American history.
©2018 James L. Swanson (P)2018 Scholastic Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Poor and untrue account of events
- De J.R. en 08-21-19
De: James L. Swanson
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Hellhound on His Trail
- The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
- De: Hampton Sides
- Narrado por: Hampton Sides
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this nondescript thief and con man - whose real name was James Earl Ray -drifted through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he was galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. With relentless storytelling drive, Sides follows Galt and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the crushing moment at the Lorraine Motel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History Comes Alive
- De L. Lyter en 06-29-10
De: Hampton Sides
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The Blood of Emmett Till
- De: Timothy B. Tyson
- Narrado por: Rhett Samuel Price
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 516
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Mississippi, 1955: 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Till's attackers were never convicted, but his lynching became one of the most notorious hate crimes in American history. It launched protests across the country, helped the NAACP gain thousands of members, and inspired famous activists like Rosa Parks to stand up and fight for equal rights for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tough read. Rest in Peace Emmit. We are so sorry!
- De Melanie B en 09-16-18
De: Timothy B. Tyson
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Killing the Dream
- James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- De: Gerald Posner
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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In the three decades since April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot to death in Memphis, scores of books and articles have questioned whether James Earl Ray, King's killer, acted alone or was part of a larger conspiracy. Now, based on explosive new interviews, confidential files, and previously undisclosed evidence, best-selling author Gerald Posner finally resolves the simple truth of the last great political murder mystery of the 1960s, definitively proving that Ray acted alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- De Thornton Mellon en 05-19-19
De: Gerald Posner
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Days of Rage
- America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
- De: Bryan Burrough
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 22 h y 13 m
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From the best-selling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s. The FBI combated these groups and others as nodes in a single revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American government. The FBI’s response to the leftist revolutionary counterculture has not been treated kindly by history, and in hindsight many of its efforts seem almost comically ineffectual, if not criminal in themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing treatment of tough history
- De Steven en 05-13-15
De: Bryan Burrough
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The Lynching
- The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
- De: Laurence Leamer
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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On a Friday night in March 1981, Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black jury could not reach a verdict in a trial involving a black man accused of the murder of a white man. The two Klansmen found 19-year-old Michael Donald walking home alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Readable
- De Jean en 06-10-16
De: Laurence Leamer
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Revolution’s End
- The Patty Hearst Kidnapping, Mind Control, and the Secret History of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA
- De: Brad Schreiber
- Narrado por: Brad Schreiber
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Revolution's End fully explains the most famous kidnapping in US history, detailing Patty Hearst's relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, the head of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Not only did the heiress have a sexual relationship with DeFreeze while he was imprisoned, she didn't know he was an informant and a victim of prison behavior modification.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting spin
- De jay rollins en 08-29-20
De: Brad Schreiber
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
- A Personal History of Our Times
- De: Howard Zinn
- Narrado por: David Strathairn
- Duración: 8 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 258
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 236
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Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than 30 years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war. A former bombardier in World War II, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice. Although he's a fierce critic, he gives us reason to hope that by learning from history and engaging politically, we can make a difference in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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mind blowing
- De WILLIAM en 11-27-19
De: Howard Zinn
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Killing a King
- The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
- De: Dan Ephron
- Narrado por: Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 216
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel's recent history and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. Killing a King relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, over the two years leading up to the assassination, as one of them planned political deals he hoped would lead to peace - and the other plotted murder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tragic history well presented.
- De Mmday en 02-28-16
De: Dan Ephron
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Reclaiming History
- The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
- De: Vincent Bugliosi
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
- Versión resumida
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Polls reveal that 85 percent of Americans believe there was a conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald. Some even believe Oswald was entirely innocent. In this encyclopedic, absorbing audiobook, Vincent Bugliosi shows how the public has come to believe such lies about the day that changed the course of history. Bugliosi has devoted almost 20 years of his life to this project, and is determined to show that, despite the overwhelming popular perception, Oswald killed Kennedy and acted alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional Detailed Account
- De Lindsay en 06-20-07
De: Vincent Bugliosi
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Buried in the Bitter Waters
- The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
- De: Elliot Jaspin
- Narrado por: Don Leslie
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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"Leave now, or die!" From the heart of the Midwest to the Deep South, from the mountains of North Carolina to the Texas frontier, words like these have echoed through more than a century of American history. The call heralded not a tornado or a hurricane, but a very unnatural disaster: a manmade wave of racial cleansing that purged black populations from counties across the nation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a compelling read with a disappointing conclusion
- De Gregory en 12-16-07
De: Elliot Jaspin
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Case Closed
- Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
- De: Gerald Posner
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 20 h y 29 m
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark audiobook, reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald Posner examines all of the available evidence and reaches the only possible conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Giving the truth - with some attitude
- De Amazon Customer en 06-13-15
De: Gerald Posner
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The People's Republic of Amnesia
- Tiananmen Revisited
- De: Louisa Lim
- Narrado por: Louisa Lim
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR correspondent Louisa Lim charts how the events of June 4 changed China, and how China changed the events of June 4 by rewriting its own history. Lim reveals new details about those fateful days, including how one of the country's most senior politicians lost a family member to an army bullet, as well as the inside story of the young soldiers sent to clear Tiananmen Square.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book and recording
- De Robert Peters en 06-14-16
De: Louisa Lim
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The Plot to Kill King
- The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- De: Dr. William F. Pepper Esq.
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 397
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William Pepper was James Earl Ray's lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and even after Ray's conviction and death, Pepper continues to adamantly argue Ray's innocence. This myth-shattering expose is a revised, updated, and heavily expanded volume of Pepper's original best-selling and critically-acclaimed book of the same name, with 26 years of additional research included. The result reveals dramatic new details of the night of the murder, the trial, and why Ray was chosen to take the fall for an evil conspiracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required listening
- De MJ in LA en 07-20-17
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Pillar of Fire
- America in the King Years, 1963-65
- De: Taylor Branch
- Narrado por: Joe Morton, C.C.H. Pounder
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 77
In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage. Beginning with the Nation of Islam and conflict over racial separatism, Pillar of Fire takes the listener to Mississippi and Alabama: Birmingham, the murder of Medgar Evers, the "March on Washington," the Civil Rights Act, and more.
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1 out of 5 stars
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the audio does not match with the book
- De Katie en 10-09-14
De: Taylor Branch
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Undisclosed Files of the Police
- Cases from the Archives of the NYPD from 1831 to the Present
- De: Bernard Whalen, Philip Messing, Robert Mladinich
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 110
More than 175 years of true crimes culled from the city's police blotter, told through an insightful text by two NYPD officers and a NYC crime reporter. From atrocities that occurred before the establishment of New York's police force in 1845 through the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 to the present day, this audio is an insider's look at more than 80 real-life crimes that shocked the nation, from arson to gangland murders, robberies, serial killers, bombings, and kidnappings.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good History of Crime in NYC
- De Bob Shinders en 03-10-17
De: Bernard Whalen, y otros
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American Midnight
- The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 15 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 404
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From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disturbing yet Reassuring
- De Sams95 en 11-18-22
De: Adam Hochschild
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The Race Beat
- The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
- De: Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 21 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 121
Drawing on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews, veteran journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff go behind the headlines and datelines to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen - first black reporters, then liberal Southern editors, then reporters and photographers from the national press and the broadcast media - revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings and propelled its citizens to act.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fascinating inside look at history
- De Ron en 09-22-09
De: Gene Roberts, y otros