Ray Petitions His Lawyer To Testify
James Earl Ray asks his former lawyers Percy Foreman and Arthur Hanes Sr. to testify as part of a petition to withdraw his 1969 guilty plea for King’s assassination. The Sixth Circuit remanded to Nashville for a hearing on claims of coercion and conflict of interest while Ray considers a lie detector test. King was killed on April 4, 1968, during a Memphis strike support event.
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Nashville, Tenn
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Ray
U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
U.S. District Court
Nashville
Percy Foreman
Houston
Tex
Arthur Hanes Sr
Birmingham
Ala
Memphis
Tennessee State Prison
Foreman
Hanes
Robert Livingston
King
Teamsters Union
Franklin OKs four million high school expansion plan
Franklin Area School Board approved a project not to exceed seven mills annual cost to add to the high school and relocate athletic facilities. The plan aims to relieve overcrowding by housing the middle school in the new addition with funding for athletic facilities from remaining funds. A financing search will begin immediately after Edith Nordstrom’s committee presented alternatives and rejected split sessions and other options.
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Franklin
Franklin Area School Board
State Department of Education
Edith Nordstrom
Central
Man Escapes As Car Dives Into Icy Creek
Wayne L. Shorts, 23, of Meadville, escaped a frozen French Creek plunge after his 1966 sedan left Mosiertown road. The car nose dived, submerged near the roof, and he kicked free as ice broke. Police and Shorts dispute the cause, with officers later saying steering appeared fine and a sleep incident is suspected.
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Meadville
Wayne L. Shorts
R.D. 2
French Creek
Mosiertown
Shorts
FMC
Fire Destroys Cottage at Conneaut Lake
Fire yesterday morning destroyed a two story cottage on the east side of Conneaut Lake. Occupants identified by Fire Chief Lauren McAdoo escaped unharmed after being found by paperboy Timothy Sweeney who alerted authorities. Loss estimated at $5,000. the owner is Herman Hortsman of Meadville.
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Conneaut Lake
Jane Russell to Marry Again in California
Santa Barbara district authorities report film star Jane Russell age 62 has obtained a license to wed John Calvin Peoples 47 a Santa Maria real estate broker. The couple plans a marriage soon though a date has not been released.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Jane Russell
Howard Hughes
Maria
John Calvin Peoples
Spassky Advances to Semifinals in World Championship
Former world champion Boris Spassky cleared another hurdle toward a Fischer rematch, advancing to the semifinals of the world championship eliminations in San Juan. He beat Robert Byrne to take the quarterfinal series three games to none with draws accounting for the rest. Spassky will meet the Moscow winner of Anatoly Karpov and Lev Polugaevsky in April.
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San Juan
P.R
Boris Spassky
Bobby Fischer
Spassky
Robert Byrne
Byrne
Moscow
Anatoly Karpov
Lev Polugaevsky
Karpov
Polugaevsky
Soviet Union
Fischer
Reykjavik
Iceland
Julio Kaplan
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Yemasters
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McEldowney
Oster
Terrarium T
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Oxford
Lane
Murphy
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Corry Plaza
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