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...mounting a serious investigation that would demolish their conspiracy theory. But late last year a wrongful-death suit that Pepper had filed on their behalf against Jowers came to trial in Memphis, providing a chance for a verdict that would shore up at least part of Pepper's tall tale. The proceeding was a fiasco. Jowers--who has changed his story so many times it ought to come with a version number like computer software--never took the stand in his own defense. Ballistics testimony was provided by Judge Joe Brown, the TV judge, who has no expertise...
That's why Ray gets the last laugh. The Memphis verdict notwithstanding, Jowers' story is a fairy tale that leads away from the truth about King's murder and Ray's complicity in it. The real mystery is why King's heirs, who more than anyone else should want the truth, prefer to believe...
...mutiny was ultimately put down when the remaining crew secretly steered the boat to Montauk, N.Y., and the Africans were taken into custody. They eventually went free when the U.S. Supreme Court declared their enslavement illegal. More than a century and a half later, director Steven Spielberg told the tale on film--modern America's equivalent of a marble monument to the event...
Publishing takes another step out of the Gutenberg era this week when a new story by horror impresario Stephen King is released, at the witchy hour of 12:01 a.m. E.T. on March 14, exclusively in electronic form. The 16,000-word tale, Riding the Bullet, issued jointly by Simon & Schuster and Philtrum Press, King's personal publishing imprint, can be ordered online for $2.50 in formats compatible with a variety of e-book and computer devices...
...Nathan was itching to get out of the house. "I want to go back to school," he told TIME. And parents who used to warn kids of the dangers posed to eyes by various sharp objects now have, for the foreseeable future, a new and even more frightening cautionary tale to tell...