I was born in 1969 - a little more than a year about King's assassination and Robert Kennedy's. Growing up I really had no sense of these events. In history class we never got far enough to discuss Civil Rights, Vietnam, etc. Were the events too new, recent, raw? Was it because I grew up in a predominantly white area? As such this was an informative read for me. The book had a lot of background leading up to the assassination. The title is a bit of a misnomer because the actual hunt of James Earl Ray only took up about the last 50 pages of the book.
The book is worthy of reading, discussing, and having in collections for junior high and up.
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