He Slew the Dreamer: My Search, With James Earl Ray, For the Truth About the Murder of Martin Luther King.
"And they said one to another, behold, this dreamer cometh": First edition of William Bradford Huie's He Slew the Dreamer; Signed by Him
He Slew the Dreamer: My Search, With James Earl Ray, For the Truth About the Murder of Martin Luther King.
HUIE, William Bradford. [Martin Luther King.
$350.00
Item Number: 121041
New York: Delacorte Press, 1970.
First edition of the sensational journalist’s report on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by William Bradford Huie on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wenk/Schwartz.
Like many Americans, journalist William Bradford Huie wanted to determine whether a conspiracy had led to the murder of Dr. King. Shortly after James Earl Ray's capture in London, he obtained the exclusive rights to Ray's story. The result is a skilled journalist's complete examination of Ray's life, motives and activities, both in and out of prison, together with the author's final conclusion about Ray and the crime to which he pleaded guilty and received a 99-year sentence.
