Who Shot MLK? Apr 5, 2008
The most respected book on the assassination, Gerald Posner's (1998), unflinchingly points to Ray as the assassin ... As Gerald Posner wrote, Ray had picked fights with black sailors while in Mexico, tried to flee to segregationist Rhodesia after killing King, and refused to be transferred to an integrated honor farm while serving his sentence for robbery. (The Atlantic Online)
King's killer?Unanswered questions linger about Martin Luther King's assassin Apr 4, 2008
Page last updated at 00:15 GMT, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:15 UK. Seeking answers on King's killer. (BBC News -- Americas)
40 years later questions about James Earl Ray linger Apr 4, 2008
"Ray didn't mean to leave that map," said Gerald Posner, author of "Killing the Dream," a 1998 book about the assassination. "That's one of the best pieces of documentary evidence that he was stalking King.". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
New trove opened in Kennedy assassination Feb 19, 2008
The decision to release the material was praised by Gerald Posner, a lawyer and expert on the Kennedy assassination, who said that even if the transcript turned out to be a fake "more entertaining than illuminating," as he put it historians would probably benefit from seeing contemporary documents related to the investigation. No matter what they contain, Posner said, the documents were almost certain to feed conspiracy theories. (International Herald Tribune)
THAT DAY IN DALLAS, AS SEEN THROUGH NEW EYES Jun 7, 2007
(Fourteen years ago, in about one-third the number of pages, Gerald Posner, in his book "Case Closed," came to essentially the same lone-gunman conclusion. . (San Francisco Chronicle)
Who really did kill Kennedy? May 14, 2007
" Nevertheless, the author will convince many not wedded to the Warren Commission findings that the likelihood of a conspiracy to assassinate JFK (and maybe RFK) is significant. However, Talbot may eventually regret granting so much credibility to the testimony of St. John Hunt, the son of the late E. Howard Hunt, a leading CIA operative in the 1950s and 1960s and one of the Watergate masterminds. Neither father nor son makes the best of witnesses. In his recently published autobiography,... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Pakistan -- the nightmare scenario Mar 4, 2007
Gerald Posner is the author of Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11. . (The Miami Herald)
