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Together We Will Find The Right Direction
Volume iaTNumber 3
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.
February 1979
Mark Lane Speaks at ECSU
Under tight security after
off-campus threats of
disruption, controversial
attorney Mark Lane spoke
Thursday night in Moore Hall
on the ECSU campus. His
two-hour wspeech was a
defense of his client James
Earl Ray who has been
convicted of the assassination
of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
Lane recently was in the
national spotlight when he
testified before a
Congressional committee last
summer that was in
vestigating the assassination
of President Kennedy and Dr.
King. As Ray’s lawyer, Lane
is demanding a new trial
based on what he calls new
evidence that Ray was in
nocent of the murder and that
the assassination was a
conspiracy by the FBI
Ray was sentenced to 99
years for the murder of Dr.
King after confessing to the
crime. But Ray now claims
that he did not confess of his
own free will. He further
asserts that he was “used by
the FBL moved around the
country, paid substantial
sums of money and directed
to but a rifle and report to
Memphis on April 4,1968.”
According to Lane, a wit
ness who saw the real
assassin has now been
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee at ECSU
Nationally known black
film and television actor and
director Ossie Davis and his
wife actress Ruby Dee ap
peared on stage on the ECSU
campus February 13 as part
of the observance of Black
History Month.
Davis, a native Georgian,
has directed such Broadway
Sun,” “Green Pastures,” and
“Purlie Victorius.”
His television credits in
cluded roles in “Bonanza,”
“Name of the Game,” and
“Hawaii Five-0.” Davis
directed several movies such
as “Cotton Comes to
Harlem,” “Black Girl,” and
“Harvest.”
plays as “A Raisin in the Davis’s most recent
television credits include
“ROOTS: The Next
Generation.” Ruby Dee also
performs in the new sequel to
ROOTS.
Ruby Dee is perhaps best
remembered for her roles in
her husband’s plays, “Purlie
Victorius,” “A Raisin in the
Sun,” and for her per
formance in “Buck and the
Preacher.”
located and is ready to testify
were there a new trial.
Lane also is outspoken
about the Kennedy
assassination. His book, Rust
to Judgement, attacks the
government’s handling of the
Kennedy investigation.
Mark Lane