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Was the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. after a $100,000 KKK bounty?
10:39 AM on 03/10/2010
Was James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., motivated at least in part to kill the civil rights leader by a $100,000 bounty offered by a Mississippi Ku Klux Klan group?...
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Navy honors slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers
4:25 PM on 10/09/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers will be honored Friday with a Navy supply ship named for him...
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Facebook poll asked if Obama should be killed
4:28 PM on 09/28/2009
Facebook users come across lots of surveys created by other users. But this one caught the attention of the U.S. Secret Service. It asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated...
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Republican jokes about buying a license to hunt Obama
7:46 AM on 08/28/2009
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- An Idaho Republican gubernatorial hopeful insists he was only joking when he said he'd buy a license to hunt President Barack Obama...
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Father of man arrested over Obama threat calls his son 'sick'
3:38 PM on 06/06/2009
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Authorities have arrested a man who allegedly told bank tellers while cleaning out his savings account in Utah that he was on a mission to kill President Barack Obama, a federal prosecutor Saturday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Barbara Bearnson said Daniel James Murray was arrested in...
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PA newspaper apologizes for ad that calls for the president's assassination
12:14 PM on 06/01/2009
WARREN, Pa. (AP) -- Wanted: an assassination? It's hardly a suitable subject for a classified ad. And now, a northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper is apologizing for an ad that calls for the assassination of President Barack Obama. The publisher for the Warren Times Observer says the ad appeared last Thursday. It...
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