Media coverage for the life and death of James Earl Ray has received almost as much attention as Lee Harvey Oswald. His accused involvement with the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King was yet another black eye for our country. King was died of a single gunshot wound at the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis on April 4, 1968.
Read MoreThe date was late November, 1963. Those of us old enough remember right where we were sitting the moment it happened. Murder, live and in living color on NBC!! Never before had that happened in American history. Right before your very eyes! Jack Ruby, the local strip club operator had sought his own revenge.
Read MoreIn the fall of 1975, I opened a family dental practice in Hendersonville, Tennessee, just after a two year hitch in the U.S. Army Dental Corps in Ft. Polk, Louisiana. Eight years later, in the summer of 1983, I began officiating high school football in the middle Tennessee area. One of my fellow officials happened to be the current medical examiner for Davidson County. After one of our weekly meetings, he asked me if I had any interest in looking at the mouth of an unknown decedent (forensic word for ‘dead guy’) whose body had just been discovered at Riverfront Park in downtown Nashville. I said, ‘sure, why not?’
Read MoreForensic odontology was dealt yet another opportunity to help families who’ve lost a loved one bring closure yesterday in West, Texas. When I first caught the name of the town where the explosion occurred, I thought it was a misprint. What city in the west part of Texas? The West Fertilizer Company had been a wonderful employment provider for many of the surrounding Texas counties for years.
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