TIMELINE 1963-1968
THE COLD SIX THOUSAND
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May, 1968 "NEWPAPER HEADLINES"
DOCUMENT INSERT: 5/26/68. Cleveland Plain Dealer subhead:
Hunt for suspect Ray widens
DOCUMENT INSERT: 5/26/68. New York Daily News subhead:
Ray described as "amphetamine addict-loner"
with bent for "girlie" magazines
DOCUMENT INSERT: 5/27/68.Los Angeles Examiner subhead:
Friends cite Ray's race-hate history
DOCUMENT INSERT: 5/28/68. Los Angeles Examiner subhead:
No leads in hunt for skid-row killer:
LAPD links victim to recent rape-murders of three women
DOCUMENT INSERT: 5/28/68. Portland Oregonian headline and subhead:
RFK LOSES OREGON PRIMARY
Moves campaign to crucial California test
DOCUMENT INSERT: 5/29/68. Los Angeles Times subhead:
Huge crowds as RFK storms state
DOCUMENT INSERT: 5/30/68. Los Angeles Times subhead:
Record crowds cheer RFK's pledge to end war
DOCUMENT INSERT: 6/1/68. San Francisco Chronicle subhead:
RFK sets breakneck pace in California campaign
Excerpted from The Cold Six Thousand by
James Ellroy
Copyright 2001 by James Ellroy. Excerpted by
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