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Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir

von Dexter Scott King

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Dexter King's courageous efforts, amid widespread skepticism, to investigate what really happened in his father's slaying resulted in a civil jury trial proving there was a conspiracy involving governmental agencies to murder his father.
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Dexter King was seven when, while watching TV, a news bulletin announced that his father had been shot and killed.

This book is much like the story of his life, disjointed, rambling, unfocused and lacking depth and direction.

He rambles from one sentence to another and one topic to another without connection. Much like the relationships he cannot develop, his story lacks cohesion.

He states that each of the King children have difficulty with bonding and, at the time of the writing of this book, none had children or marriage.

He knows he is not the leader his father was, and frankly, many cannot follow his father's footsteps, which, of course causes a great deal of turmoil and consternation.

The last few chapters detail the court trial of trying to put all the pieces together regarding what really happened the day of his father's death. Sadly, history does not focus on the fact that the jury ruled that signs pointed to a conspiracy, that James Earl Ray was part of the plan to kill his father, yet the gun used was not a weapon capable of accurately hitting a target. And, certainly, James Earl Ray was not a marksman capable of hitting the target with one bullet.

There seems to be probable US government and mafia connections, and there are witnesses who point to the fact that a shot was heard across the parking lot, and that a man wearing white was in the bushes that were conveniently cut down the day after King's assassination.
  Whisper1 | Jul 14, 2015 |
When Dexter Scott King was watching television one day, there was a breaking news bulletin. The bulletin was that his father had been shot in Memphis.

This book is about his life as one of the children of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the aftereffects of the murder of his father, of his mothers efforts to continue his fathers ‘legacy’. He writes of the Civil Rights movement and progress made. The criticism heaped on him and his siblings for ‘not being King’ and their inability to move forward.

Unfortunately he meanders, he talks about a subject through to the end, then the next chapter goes to another subject that started before this one, then in another chapter he goes back to a previous subject, and everything is very detached and rambling, you make no emotional connection to anything he says, because he is detached emotionally.

Overall this is a very detailed and informative account of what happened to MLK and to the family, but it is not very easy to read. ( )
  BellaFoxx | Apr 23, 2012 |
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