Of investigation, meticulous in its discovery and presentation of evidence, unbiased in its exploration of every claim. With ''Killing the Dream,'' he has written a superb book: a model Gerald Posner, who tackled the Kennedy conspiracy myths in ''Case Closed,'' now takes on the claims advanced by James Earl Ray and his supporters. Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy, is planning a movie about the King assassination. ''J.F.K.'' convinced millions that President John F. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, and other members of the King family have declared Ray innocent. His lawyers and others have written books offering conspiracy theories of the assassination. In the years since, with the help of many different lawyers, Ray has insisted on his innocence. Three days later Ray fired Foreman and wrote the judge to ask for a new hearing in April he hired a leading racist, J. Questioned by the judge, Ray confirmed the Instead, Ray's lawyer, Percy Foreman, entered a plea of guilty. We went to court that morning for what we thought was going to be a preliminary phase of the prosecution. N March 10, 1969, I was in Memphis to assist Martin Waldron of The New York Times in covering the prosecution of James Earl Ray for the murder of the Rev. James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Richard Bernstein Reviews 'Killing the Dream' (April 22, 1998).It's very simple: James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King.
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