On June 10, 1977 James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee along with six other convicts. For 55 hours he ran through the woods surrounding the penitentiary until he was caught on June 13. He had made a total of eight miles.
Gary Cantrell, a neighbor to Brushy Mountain State Penn and longtime runner watched the news coverage with scorn. “Eight miles” he scoffed to himself. ...
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