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February 26, 2019  ·  American Experience (PBS)  ·  原文

Man at Press Conference (Archival): At 3:48, Shelby County Sheriff's Department received into its custody James Earl Ray, the accused slayer of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

新闻发布会上的男子(档案): 3 点 48 分,谢尔比县治安部门拘留了被指控杀害马丁·路德·金博士的詹姆斯·厄尔·雷 (James Earl Ray)。

Dan Rather, Anchorman: The second before his arrest, James Earl Ray was the most wanted man in the United States.

丹·拉瑟 (Danrath),主持人:詹姆斯·厄尔·雷 (James Earl Ray) 被捕前的第二秒是美国头号通缉犯。

One of, if not the most wanted suspects in the world.

即使不是世界上最受通缉的嫌疑人,也是其中之一。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: This was like assassinating a president in some ways.

约翰·坎贝尔,助理地方检察官:从某些方面来说,这就像刺杀总统。

King by '68 was the face of the civil rights movement.

68 年的金是民权运动的代言人。

He was an international figure.

他是一位国际人物。

Gerald Posner, Writer: When a public official, the magnitude of King, gets killed in the prime of their life, we can't quite imagine that.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:当一位像金那样的公职人员在年富力强时被杀时,我们无法想象。

You've got this young charismatic preacher pulling together a movement with so much potential for the future, on the other hand, you have a four time loser, James Earl Ray, pulling off the assassination, it doesn't make sense.

这位年轻的、有魅力的传教士正在组织一场对未来具有巨大潜力的运动,另一方面,你有一个四次失败者詹姆斯·厄尔·雷(James Earl Ray),完成了暗杀,这毫无意义。

Reporter (Archival): Do you have anything you'd like to say right now at this time?

记者(档案):此时此刻您有什么想说的吗?

Harris Wofford, Special Assistant to President Kennedy: The greatest single blow to my spirit was the assassination of Martin Luther King.

肯尼迪总统特别助理哈里斯·沃福德:对我精神最大的打击是马丁·路德·金被刺杀。

A shudder went through the American people.

美国人民不寒而栗。

Joe Sweat, Journalist: I think it made America wake up.

记者乔·斯威特:我认为这让美国觉醒了。

You had people saying, "Golly, is this- is this division we have with the blacks, has it come to this?

有人说,“天哪,这就是我们与黑人之间的分歧吗?事情已经发展到这一步了吗?

Do we actually shoot people down?"

我们真的会击落人吗?”

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: Martin Luther King was so convinced that the only way we could win the battle was nonviolently.

塞缪尔·凯尔斯,孟菲斯部长:马丁·路德·金坚信,我们赢得这场战斗的唯一方法是非暴力。

And he had made up his mind, with all of the risk involved, he wouldn't turn around.

他已经下定决心,冒着所有的风险,他不会回头。

He wouldn't give up.

他不会放弃。

Roger Wilkins, US Department of Justice: There were black people who were saying that the magic was gone.

罗杰·威尔金斯,美国司法部:有些黑人说魔法已经消失了。

They were saying, "Well, he's always talking about this peace stuff.

他们说:“嗯,他总是在谈论和平的事情。

Well, that's not- that's not how the cracker is, a cracker's got guns and he's going to kill us.

好吧,那不是——黑客不是这样的,黑客有枪,他会杀了我们。

And we got to have guns."

而且我们必须有枪。”

Dan Rather, Anchorman: The assassination speaks to what a dangerous time it was for the country, particularly for those who tried to give voice to our difficulties and the hope for a better day.

主持人丹·拉瑟:这次暗杀事件表明,对于这个国家来说,这是一个多么危险的时刻,特别是对于那些试图表达我们的困难和对美好一天的希望的人来说。

When James Earl Ray was arrested, the questions just flowed.

当詹姆斯·厄尔·雷被捕时,问题就随之而来。

Is he really the slayer?

他真的是凶手吗?

If he is the killer, what motivated him?

如果他是凶手,他的动机是什么?

Why did he do it?

他为什么这么做?

Gerald Posner, Writer: In 1967, James Earl Ray is sitting inside Missouri State Penitentiary, what's called Jeff City.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),编剧:1967 年,詹姆斯·厄尔·雷 (James Earl Ray) 坐在密苏里州监狱(即所谓的杰夫城)内。

He's a career criminal.

他是一名职业罪犯。

He has committed dozens of crimes.

他已犯下数十起罪行。

Robberies of grocery stores, robberies of paycheck stores, taxicabs, office buildings, whatever else that he gets away with.

抢劫杂货店、抢劫工资商店、出租车、办公楼,以及其他他能逃脱惩罚的东西。

Finally, he gets caught in robbing a grocery store with a gun and he gets sent to Jeff City.

最后,他因持枪抢劫杂货店而被抓,并被送往杰夫城。

He's done time already at two other prisons that aren't easy.

他已经在另外两所监狱服刑了,这并不容易。

But Jeff City is different for him.

但杰夫城对他来说是不同的。

He tried to plan to escape from his second year in there.

他试图计划逃离那里的第二年。

Ray wanted out.

雷想出去。

Voice of Radio Reporter (archival): Civil disobedience drive in Washington.

广播电台记者之声(档案):华盛顿的公民不服从运动。

Dr. King said Congress has dragged its heels in efforts to uplift the economic levels of the poor.

金博士表示,国会在提高穷人经济水平的努力上一拖再拖。

Voice of Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): Now this has brought about a great deal of bitterness, anger...

马丁·路德·金之声(档案):现在这带来了很多痛苦、愤怒……

Hampton Sides, Writer: There's rumors swirling around Jeff City about a bounty for the head of Martin Luther King.

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:杰夫城流传着关于悬赏马丁·路德·金头颅的谣言。

Some said it was $50,000, some said it was $100,000.

有的说是5万美元,有的说是10万美元。

Gerald Posner, Writer: A lot of the white inmates of Jeff City had straight racist views.

杰拉德·波斯纳,作家:杰夫城的许多白人囚犯都有直接的种族主义观点。

There was in fact an operating equivalent of a Klan operation inside.

事实上,内部的运作相当于三K党的运作。

So, if you were a white inmate who hated blacks in Jeff City, you might sit around and say, "Too bad we're in here, there's over 50,000 for somebody who can put a bullet in that preacher out there."

所以,如果你是杰夫城的一名憎恨黑人的白人囚犯,你可能会坐在那里说:“我们在这里太糟糕了,这里有超过 50,000 人可以向外面的传教士开枪。”

Hampton Sides, Writer: It was early in the morning, and Ray was working in the bakery.

作家汉普顿赛德斯:当时是清晨,雷正在面包店工作。

This was the morning that he was going to escape.

这是他要逃跑的早晨。

He went down to a loading dock area where the bread from the bakery was being cooled and got into one of these boxes that the bread was going out on and had a false bottom placed on top of him.

他走到装卸区,面包店的面包正在那里冷却,他钻进了一个用来装面包的盒子,上面放了一个假底。

The box is placed inside a truck and the truck is waved on and goes on out of the prison.

盒子被放在一辆卡车内,卡车被挥手驶出监狱。

And when the truck comes to a stop, he just jumps off the truck and takes off down the railroad tracks.

当卡车停下来时,他就跳下卡车,沿着铁轨起飞。

It's important to understand this was a maximum-security prison.

重要的是要了解这是一座安全级别最高的监狱。

This is not an easy place to spring from.

这不是一个容易崛起的地方。

It shows something about Ray's personality that he's very patient, he plans months ahead.

这显示了雷的性格,他非常有耐心,他会提前几个月做好计划。

Dan Rather, Anchorman: He had a lot of street smarts, a lot of jail and prison smarts.

主持人丹·拉瑟(Danrath):他有很多街头智慧,很多监狱智慧。

A cunning mind.

一个狡猾的头脑。

No one would call him brilliant but it would be a mistake to think that he was dumb.

没有人会说他聪明,但认为他愚蠢那就是错误的。

Hampton Sides, Writer: When he escapes, he doesn't have very much on his person.

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:当他逃跑时,他身上并没有太多东西。

But one particular artifact that he will have with him for the next year is his prison radio, a transistor radio.

但明年他将随身携带的一件特别的物品是他的监狱收音机,一台晶体管收音机。

Ray was a news junkie.

雷是个新闻迷。

He was fascinated by the news.

他对这个消息很着迷。

Radio Report (archival): Partly cloudy, chance of showers late this afternoon and early tomorrow morning.

电台报道(档案):晴间多云,今天下午晚些时候和明天早上可能有阵雨。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: I think he thought that he was a much bigger fish than he was.

约翰·坎贝尔,助理地方检察官:我认为他认为自己是一条比实际情况大得多的鱼。

He thought when he escaped from prison that he was going to be all over the news.

他以为自己越狱后就会成为新闻焦点。

That J.

那个J。

Edgar Hoover would be on TV saying, you know, "James Earl Ray's escaped, we need your help to find him" kind of thing.

埃德加·胡佛会在电视上说,你知道,“詹姆斯·厄尔·雷逃跑了,我们需要你的帮助才能找到他”之类的话。

Hampton Sides, Writer: Ray hoped to be on the FBI's Most Wanted list, and lo and behold, he didn't make it.

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),编剧:雷希望能进入联邦调查局的头号通缉名单,但你瞧,他没有成功。

Wayne Flynt, Historian: Instead of being elated at escaping, he's actually disappointed, because what he wanted more than the anonymity of escape was the notoriety of publicity, of recognition.

韦恩·弗林特(Wayne Flynt),历史学家:他并没有因为逃脱而感到高兴,实际上很失望,因为他想要的不仅仅是逃脱的匿名性,而是公众的恶名和认可。

Hampton Sides, Writer: After Ray escapes, he goes to Chicago and has a rendezvous with his brothers, Jerry and John.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:雷逃脱后,他前往芝加哥并与他的兄弟杰瑞和约翰会面。

The Rays were pretty tight.

光线相当紧张。

They all were involved in petty crimes of one sort or another and they trusted each other.

他们都曾犯过某种程度的小罪,而且彼此信任。

They talk about what they're going to do.

他们谈论他们要做什么。

They talk about the porn business.

他们谈论色情生意。

Ray's kind of interested in porno.

雷对色情片有点兴趣。

He thinks there's money to be made there.

他认为那里可以赚钱。

They also talk about kidnapping as a possible way to make some money, and various other lowlife schemes.

他们还谈论绑架作为一种可能的赚钱方式,以及各种其他低级生活计划。

But then, finally, the subject of Martin Luther King comes up.

但最后,马丁·路德·金的话题出现了。

For Ray, yeah, he doesn't like King, but the main thing is there's money to be made.

对于雷来说,是的,他不喜欢金,但最重要的是有钱可赚。

He feels confident that he can connect with the right individuals, and that this is a way that he can, as a free man, finally make a living.

他相信自己能够与合适的人建立联系,这是他作为一个自由人最终谋生的一种方式。

The brothers were a little bit taken aback by that.

兄弟俩听了都有些吃惊。

Too big an operation, too ambitious, too dangerous, too risky, but it was in keeping with Ray's personality.

行动太大,野心太大,危险太大,但这符合雷的性格。

In the family lore, in the family mythology, James was the smart one, he was the ambitious one.

在家族传说中,在家族神话中,詹姆斯是一个聪明的人,他是一个雄心勃勃的人。

He was the one that was going to do big things.

他是那个要干大事的人。

News Reporter (archival): Well, you have certainly, by your acts, knowingly and consciously exposed yourself to the constant danger of assassination by doing and expressing the things that you believe in.

新闻记者(档案):嗯,通过你的行为,你确实通过做和表达你所相信的事情,故意让自己暴露在被暗杀的持续危险之中。

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): I would willingly give my life for that which I think is right, and I am convinced that when one does this honestly, death can become redemptive.

马丁·路德·金(档案):我愿意为我认为正确的事情献出自己的生命,并且我相信,当一个人诚实地这样做时,死亡可以成为救赎。

Harris Wofford, Special Assistant to President Kennedy: Martin Luther King saw nonviolence and politics as drama.

哈里斯·沃福德,肯尼迪总统的特别助理:马丁·路德·金将非暴力和政治视为戏剧。

You first stir a crisis in the minds of the people you are trying to reach.

你首先要在你想要接触的人的心中激起一场危机。

You sort of awaken their minds by a little shock treatment.

你可以通过一点休克治疗来唤醒他们的思想。

When you peacefully turn the other cheek, you're using virtue against them.

当你平静地把另一边脸转过去时,你就是在用德来对付他们。

You know that you are going to stir hatred, but he thought there had to be times when you deliberately almost invite death.

你知道你会煽动仇恨,但他认为有时候你会故意差点招致死亡。

Andrew Young, Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King: From the time Martin was 25 years old, he almost never knew a week when his life wasn't threatened.

马丁·路德·金博士的助手安德鲁·杨:从马丁 25 岁起,他几乎不知道哪一周他的生命不会受到威胁。

His house was bombed, he was stabbed.

他的房子被炸了,他被刺伤了。

It gave him a sense of the inevitability of death.

这让他感觉到死亡是不可避免的。

There was a kind of fearlessness.

有一种无所畏惧。

News Report (archival): In Montgomery, a mob held 1500 negros in a church for hours.

新闻报道(档案):在蒙哥马利,一群暴徒将 1500 名黑人关在教堂里长达数小时。

Finally, Reverend Martin King told them help was on the way.

最后,马丁·金牧师告诉他们援助即将到来。

Gerald Posner, Writer: The seven years that James Earl Ray is sitting inside Jeff City is Martin Luther King's ascent.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:詹姆斯·厄尔·雷在杰夫城的七年是马丁·路德·金的崛起。

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): I accept this award on behalf of the Civil Rights Movement.

马丁·路德·金(档案):我代表民权运动接受这个奖项。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: King in the 60s was legitimate as opposed to being a rabble-rouser as opposed to being some troublemaker that you deal with.

约翰·坎贝尔(John Campbell),助理地方检察官:60 年代的金是合法的,而不是成为一个煽动者,而不是成为一个与你打交道的麻烦制造者。

He won the Nobel Prize.

他获得了诺贝尔奖。

He had a tremendous following.

他拥有大量的追随者。

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): This nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its dream.

马丁·路德·金(档案):这个国家将会崛起,实现其梦想的真正意义。

Gerald Posner, Writer: The country was going through this spasm of democracy.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:这个国家正在经历民主的痉挛。

People getting civil rights acts passed, they were marching on Washington.

人们通过民权法案,向华盛顿游行。

Many whites viewed this as a threat to the America they knew.

许多白人认为这是对他们所认识的美国的威胁。

And it was a threat to the America they knew.

这对他们所认识的美国构成了威胁。

Harris Wofford, Special Assistant to President Kennedy: Everything King did was threatening.

肯尼迪总统特别助理哈里斯·沃福德:金所做的一切都是威胁。

White America had reason to wonder what King was going to do next.

美国白人有理由想知道金下一步要做什么。

Hampton Sides, Writer: After Ray escapes there's something very restless about him, he's always wanting to move on to the next place.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:雷逃脱后,他的内心非常不安,他总是想前往下一个地方。

He can't stay in any one place very long.

他不能在任何一个地方停留太久。

Gerald Posner, Writer: After Chicago, he goes to Canada for a month.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),作家:离开芝加哥后,他去了加拿大一个月。

He hangs out in Montreal.

他在蒙特利尔闲逛。

Then, he goes to Birmingham and he buys a 1966 Mustang.

然后,他去了伯明翰,买了一辆 1966 年款野马。

Then he spends a little bit of time in Mexico.

然后他在墨西哥呆了一段时间。

Hanging out in Puerto Vallarta, he's with the prostitutes, he's having a great time.

他在巴亚尔塔港闲逛,和妓女在一起,玩得很开心。

Hampton Sides, Writer: He's got a little bit of money he's saved up from selling contraband in prison.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:他在监狱里卖违禁品攒下了一点钱。

And he probably pulled off some robberies along the way, though he never gets caught.

他可能一路上实施了一些抢劫,尽管他从未被抓住。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: Ray, he looks very ordinary.

约翰·坎贝尔,助理地方检察官:雷,他看起来很普通。

Doesn't draw attention to himself, and he's great at staying in the background.

不会引起别人的注意,而且他很擅长待在幕后。

Hampton Sides, Writer: Part of this is just his personality, and part of it is the fact that he's a fugitive, and he needs to move on.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:部分原因在于他的个性,部分原因在于他是一名逃犯,他需要继续前进。

Gerald Posner, Writer: James Earl Ray comes into L.A.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳 (Gerald Posner),编剧:詹姆斯·厄尔·雷 (James Earl Ray) 来到洛杉矶

in November 1967 and he has an unusual time to say the least, for an assassin.

1967 年 11 月,对于一名刺客来说,至少可以说这是一个不寻常的时刻。

James Earl Ray is not the atypical assassin.

詹姆斯·厄尔·雷并不是典型的刺客。

There is no diary that says, "I must kill MLK, I must kill MLK, I must kill MLK." It may have been in the back of his mind, may have been something he thought about, but he wasn't acting on it.

没有日记写着:“我必须杀死 MLK,我必须杀死 MLK,我必须杀死 MLK。”这可能是他内心深处的想法,可能是他的想法,但他并没有付诸行动。

News Reporter (archival): Our guest today on "Meet the Press" is the former Governor of Alabama, George C.

新闻记者(档案):今天我们“会见媒体”节目的嘉宾是阿拉巴马州前州长乔治·C·布什 (George C.

Wallace.

华莱士。

Governor, do you think a man can be elected President of the United States today who has a widespread reputation as a racist?

州长,您认为一个以种族主义者而闻名的人今天还能当选美国总统吗?

George C.

乔治·C.

Wallace (archival): Well of course a racist is someone who dislikes people because of color.

华莱士(档案):当然,种族主义者是因为肤色而讨厌别人的人。

And of course, I do not dislike any of the handiwork of God.

当然,我并不讨厌上帝的任何杰作。

I might point out that the best evidence I can give to you...

我可能会指出我能给你的最好证据......

Hampton Sides, Writer: Ray has never been a joiner, he'd never really thrown in his lot with any particular political party or political movement.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:雷从来都不是一个加入者,他从来没有真正投身于任何特定的政党或政治运动。

But Wallace really captivated him and I think he really believed that Wallace could be the next President.

但华莱士确实让他着迷,我认为他真的相信华莱士可以成为下一任总统。

Announcer (archival): Ladies and gentlemen, the next President of the United States, the honorable George C.

播音员(档案):女士们、先生们,美国下一任总统,尊敬的乔治·C·布什 (George C.

Wallace.

华莱士。

George C.

乔治·C.

Wallace (archival): I said, "Yes our necks are red from working in the sun."

华莱士(档案):我说,“是的,我们的脖子因为在阳光下工作而变红了。”

Roger Wilkins, US Department of Justice: But he became a national figure.

罗杰·威尔金斯,美国司法部:但他成为了全国性人物。

He was famous and he was famous for being staunch about black people.

他很有名,而且因对黑人的坚定而闻名。

George C.

乔治·C.

Wallace (archival): I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.

华莱士(档案):我在尘埃中划定了界限,并将挑战抛到了暴政的脚前,我说现在实行种族隔离,明天实行种族隔离,永远实行种族隔离。

Hampton Sides, Writer: Wallace succeeded beyond the wildest imaginations of the political pundits.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:华莱士的成功超出了政治专家最疯狂的想象。

This movement becomes the most influential and most powerful independent movement in American politics since Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party.

该运动成为自泰迪·罗斯福的公驼鹿党以来美国政坛最有影响力和最强大的独立运动。

Harris Wofford, Special Assistant to President Kennedy: He stood for the whole country as somebody who stood up to this Martin Luther King and to this Civil Rights movement and said, "No, never."

肯尼迪总统特别助理哈里斯·沃福德:他代表整个国家勇敢地面对马丁·路德·金和民权运动,并说:“不,永远不会。”

Dan Rather, Anchorman: He was speaking for the poorest in the white community who feel if you give blacks even a little bit of freedom, they're going to be competing with me for jobs.

主持人丹·拉瑟:他代表白人社区中最贫穷的人说话,他们觉得如果给黑人哪怕一点点自由,他们就会与我竞争工作。

You turn these people loose and they're going to take everything I have.

如果你放开这些人,他们就会夺走我拥有的一切。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: If you look at George Wallace, he was like the last hurrah of the old order.

约翰·坎贝尔,助理地方检察官:如果你看看乔治·华莱士,你会发现他就像旧秩序的最后欢呼。

And Ray hooked his wagon up to it.

雷把他的马车挂在了上面。

Hampton Sides, Writer: It's strange that Ray was the ultimate loner, but he volunteers for the Wallace campaign and collects signatures to get him on the ballot in California.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:奇怪的是,雷是一个终极孤独者,但他自愿参加华莱士的竞选活动并收集签名,让他参加加利福尼亚州的选票。

Voice of Press Conference Reporter (archival): Wallace for President, what is your reaction to that?

新闻发布会记者之声(档案):华莱士当选总统,您对此有何反应?

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): Well, I'm very sorry that Mr. Wallace will be a candidate because I think his candidacy will only strengthen the forces of reaction in the country and excite bigotry, hatred, and even violence.

小马丁·路德·金(档案):嗯,我对华莱士先生成为候选人感到非常遗憾,因为我认为他的候选资格只会增强该国的反动势力,并激起偏执、仇恨,甚至暴力。

And I think it will arouse many evil forces in our nation.

我认为这会激起我们国家的许多邪恶势力。

Hampton Sides, Writer: Ray had TV in his room, and he had written on the back of this TV, "Martin Luther Coon." He was clearly outraged by Martin Luther King.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:雷的房间里有电视,他在电视的背面写着“马丁·路德·库恩”。他显然对马丁·路德·金感到愤怒。

Here's a man who scored all his greatest triumphs in the state of Alabama: Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery.

这是一个在阿拉巴马州取得了所有最伟大胜利的人:伯明翰、塞尔玛、蒙哥马利。

Ray, he viewed these victories for King as an insult to Wallace's good name.

雷,他认为金的这些胜利是对华莱士好名声的侮辱。

I think in his own mind he's beginning to have this kind of a duality, he was setting these two personalities off of each other in his own mind.

我认为在他自己的头脑中,他开始具有这种二元性,他在自己的头脑中将这两种性格分开。

Wayne Flynt, Historian: Ray probably didn't consider himself a racist.

韦恩·弗林特,历史学家:雷可能并不认为自己是种族主义者。

He probably considered himself just a good observer of the reality of life.

他可能认为自己只是生活现实的一个很好的观察者。

He grows up in poor, white dysfunctional family in a period of economic collapse.

他在经济崩溃时期的贫穷、功能失调的白人家庭中长大。

Hampton Sides, Writer: The Ray family is so poor that at one point they start essentially cannibalizing their own house for firewood, piece by piece, just kind of ripping it apart to get through the winter.

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:雷一家非常贫穷,以至于他们一度开始把自己的房子一点一点地拆成木柴,就像是把它拆散以度过冬天。

Gerald Posner, Writer: Even among the poor working class whites that James Earl Ray grew up with, he was at the lowest end of that.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:即使在与詹姆斯·厄尔·雷一起长大的贫困白人工人阶级中,他也处于最底层。

He couldn't afford the nickel for lunch.

他连午饭的钱都付不起。

His teachers actually put in his school records that they found him quote, "repulsive." They found him aggressive.

他的老师实际上把他的学校记录放进去,他们发现他引用了“令人厌恶”的话。他们发现他很有攻击性。

He failed the first grade.

他一年级不及格。

You're talking about somebody who was an outcast even among his peers.

你说的是一个即使在同龄人中也是被排斥的人。

Wayne Flynt, Historian: Ray and his brothers want to find somebody who's responsible for their circumstance in life.

韦恩·弗林特,历史学家:雷和他的兄弟们想找到一个对他们的生活状况负责的人。

And there were always likely victims for that scape-goating.

而且总是有可能成为替罪羊的受害者。

Southern part of Missouri, where he grows up, was very much like the hill country of the South.

他长大的密苏里州南部非常像南方的山地。

White, poor working class, bitterly anti-black.

白人,贫穷的工人阶级,强烈反对黑人。

Blacks were just people who were even lower than you.

黑人只是比你低等的人。

They were the people you pushed down in your view of the world.

他们是你在世界观中被你压低的人。

Arthur Hanes, Attorney: In those days white men had pride in their race because frequently that's the only thing they could have pride in.

阿瑟·哈内斯(Arthur Hanes),律师:在那些日子里,白人对自己的种族感到自豪,因为这往往是他们唯一可以感到自豪的事情。

The Rays may have had absolutely nothing, but in those days and times, at least they could say they were white.

光芒队可能一无所有,但在那个时代,他们至少可以说自己是白人。

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): Hello there buddy.

小马丁·路德·金(档案):你好,伙计。

How you doing?

你好吗?

Fine, fine.

很好,很好。

Roger Wilkins, US Department of Justice: I think that by '67 Martin was thinking about how you mount something that's very different from what he had done.

罗杰·威尔金斯(Roger Wilkins),美国司法部:我认为,到 67 年,马丁正在考虑如何实施与他所做的事情截然不同的事情。

His center of motivational gravity was moving from pure civil rights into broad social change.

他的动机重心从纯粹的公民权利转向广泛的社会变革。

There had been these very powerful issues.

曾经有过这些非常有力的问题。

You had Northern Black rebellions,'65 there was Watts, '67 there was Detroit and Newark.

你有北方黑人叛乱,65 年有瓦茨,67 年有底特律和纽瓦克。

Fire and looting.

火灾和抢劫。

That had scared the hell out of white people, and a lot of black people as well.

这吓坏了白人,也吓坏了很多黑人。

I think that America was ready to have a nervous breakdown.

我认为美国已经准备好精神崩溃了。

Rebellion Member (archival): We want black power, we want black power.

叛乱成员(档案):我们想要黑人权力,我们想要黑人权力。

Hampton Sides, Writer: King comes to the conclusion that these resentments that were being expressed in these riots, in these big cities, were not something that you could cure with the stroke of a pen.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:金得出的结论是,在这些大城市的这些骚乱中表达的这些怨恨不是你可以用大笔一挥就可以治愈的。

That it was the result of poverty, multi-generational poverty, that you had to rewire society in a dramatic way.

这是贫困、多代人贫困的结果,你必须以戏剧性的方式重塑社会。

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): I want some of y'all to go to Washington with us, even if you have to bring your whole family.

马丁·路德·金(档案):我希望你们中的一些人和我们一起去华盛顿,即使你们必须带上你们的全家。

We are going to have in Washington facilities and we going to have food and we are going to demand that the government do something about these conditions.

我们将在华盛顿拥有设施,我们将提供食物,我们将要求政府对这些条件采取一些措施。

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): We want y'all to come on to Washington when you get out of school.

小马丁·路德·金(档案):我们希望你们毕业后能来华盛顿。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: With the Poor People's Campaign, Martin is talking about taking these poor people to Washington, build tents, and live on the mall until this country did something about poverty.

塞缪尔·凯尔斯,孟菲斯部长:通过“穷人运动”,马丁正在谈论将这些穷人带到华盛顿,建造帐篷,住在商场里,直到这个国家对贫困采取行动。

He said, "You know, we can do better than this."

他说:“你知道,我们可以做得更好。”

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): We assemble here together today with common problems.

马丁·路德·金(档案):我们今天聚集在这里,讨论共同的问题。

Dorothy Cotton, Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King: He started to look at the option of bringing all poor and suffering people together.

马丁·路德·金博士的助手多萝西·科顿:他开始考虑将所有穷人和受苦人民聚集在一起的选择。

It's like, you know, sort of a dog gone it, lets take on the whole system.

就像,你知道,有点像一只狗走了,让我们来接管整个系统。

Let's deal with systemic poverty.

让我们解决系统性贫困问题。

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): Thank you very much.

马丁·路德·金(档案):非常感谢。

We are rushing to get over to Alabama and we've enjoyed being in Mississippi today.

我们正急着前往阿拉巴马州,今天我们在密西西比州过得很愉快。

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): Many people are going to go Washington by foot.

马丁·路德·金(档案):许多人将步行去华盛顿。

We're going to have a mule train also coming out of the South.

我们还将有一列骡车从南方驶来。

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): In 1776, the nation signed a huge promissory note.

马丁·路德·金(档案):1776 年,国家签署了一张巨额期票。

In this campaign, we're coming to get our check.

在这次活动中,我们来领取支票。

Gerald Posner, Writer: King was in fact talking about redistribution of wealth.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),作家:金实际上是在谈论财富的重新分配。

He was talking about passing money down and shaking the system up.

他正在谈论传递资金并撼动整个体系。

The Poor People's March on Washington was going to shake the government to its core.

华盛顿的穷人游行将从根本上动摇政府。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: Can you imagine what would happen if all these black and white and brown people will go to Washington, and build tents, and live in tents in Washington?

孟菲斯部长塞缪尔·凯尔斯:你能想象如果所有这些黑人、白人和棕色人种都去华盛顿搭建帐篷并住在华盛顿的帐篷里会发生什么吗?

You're talking about a redistribution of the wealth of this country?

你是在谈论这个国家的财富重新分配吗?

Oh no. No, no, no. You're talking about new tax laws?

哦不。不,不,不。你是在谈论新税法吗?

No, no. Don't let King get to Washington.

不,不。不要让金到达华盛顿。

Voice of Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): We do need this tentative plan of action.

马丁·路德·金之声(档案):我们确实需要这个暂定的行动计划。

And let's work on that tonight and get to these other things here.

今晚我们就来解决这个问题,然后在这里讨论其他事情。

Even this question of meeting with the President and all that.

甚至是与总统会面的问题等等。

Lets think through that tonight.

今晚让我们考虑一下。

Gerald Posner, Writer: By 1967, the groups that would have been on a I-want-to-kill-King list would have been the traditional suspects: the Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacist groups, the American Nazi Party.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:到 1967 年,“我想杀死国王”名单上的团体将是传统的嫌疑人:三K党、白人至上主义团体、美国纳粹党。

Groups that are actually willing to go to violence.

实际上愿意诉诸暴力的群体。

But also you have what I call the nonviolent encouragers of hatred and violence.

但也有我所说的仇恨和暴力的非暴力鼓励者。

You have the George Wallaces, running for the presidency.

乔治华莱士正在竞选总统。

And you certainly had, we now know from the documents released by the FBI, and FBI director J.

我们现在从联邦调查局公布的文件中知道,你确实有过这样的经历,联邦调查局局长 J.

Edgar Hoover, who had a pathological hatred of Martin Luther King.

埃德加·胡佛(Edgar Hoover)对马丁·路德·金有着病态的仇恨。

So much so, that he directed his own agents to break the law repeatedly in going after King and taping King and having illegal surveillance on King.

以至于他指示自己的特工多次违法追捕金、对金进行录音并对金进行非法监视。

Roger Wilkins, US Department of Justice: Hoover did not like black people, period.

罗杰·威尔金斯,美国司法部:胡佛不喜欢黑人,就这样。

He sympathized with the anti-civil rights people in the South.

他同情南方的反民权人士。

He was underhanded, he would destroy people and he clearly, clearly tried to destroy Martin.

他很卑鄙,他会毁掉别人,而且他显然非常明显地试图毁掉马丁。

Hampton Sides, Writer: Hoover had his agents compiling all sorts of reports about his movements and his extra-curricular activities.

汉普顿·塞德斯,作家:胡佛让他的特工编制各种有关他的行踪和课外活动的报告。

He tried to prove that King was influenced by communists.

他试图证明金受到了共产主义者的影响。

Harris Wofford, Special Assistant to President Kennedy: As an F.B.I.

肯尼迪总统特别助理哈里斯·沃福德:作为联邦调查局成员

agent said, it became "a mission for a vendetta to destroy King." And he pursued that for a whole decade.

特工说,这变成了“消灭国王的仇杀任务”。他为此奋斗了整整十年。

J.

J。

Edgar Hoover (archival): Furthermore, the FBI will continue to be objective in its investigations...

埃德加·胡佛(档案):此外,联邦调查局将继续客观地进行调查……

Harris Wofford, Special Assistant to President Kennedy: It drove him mad when King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

肯尼迪总统特别助理哈里斯·沃福德:当金被授予诺贝尔和平奖时,他简直要发疯了。

It made Hoover go public and say, "He's the worst liar in America."

这使得胡佛公开表示:“他是美国最糟糕的骗子。”

Hampton Sides, Writer: The way that he had tried to sort of smear King and ruin King and feed things to newspapers and perform all these dirty tricks on King, you know, it certainly got out into the culture.

汉普顿·赛德斯,作家:他试图抹黑金、毁掉金,向报纸提供东西,并对金施展所有这些肮脏的把戏,你知道,这肯定已经融入了文化。

Dan Rather, Anchorman: Did the J.

丹·拉瑟 (Danrath),主持人:J.

Edgar Hoover attitude toward Martin Luther King seep down?

埃德加·胡佛对马丁·路德·金的态度是否有所下降?

Of course it seeped down.

当然是渗下来了。

It helped further embolden the deep haters like James Earl Ray.

这进一步助长了像詹姆斯·厄尔·雷这样的仇恨者的胆量。

And of course it helped give a sense of protection to those who sought to do racial violence.

当然,它有助于给那些试图实施种族暴力的人一种保护感。

Instructional Video (archival): 1,2,3, Cha Cha, 1,2,3 Cha Cha, 1,2,3, Cha Cha...

教学视频(存档):1,2,3,恰恰,1,2,3恰恰,1,2,3,恰恰...

Hampton Sides, Writer: What is Ray doing in LA?

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:雷在洛杉矶做什么?

For several months, it's really not absolutely clear.

几个月来,确实还不是很清楚。

He takes dance lessons.

他上舞蹈课。

He takes a locksmithing course.

他参加了锁匠课程。

He becomes interested in bartending and actually goes and graduates from a bartending school.

他对调酒产生了兴趣,并从调酒学校毕业。

He's dabbling, he's trying on new lives for himself.

他正在涉足,他正在为自己尝试新的生活。

He's trying, desperately, to make something stick.

他正在拼命地尝试让一些东西粘住。

Wayne Flynt, Historian: I think James Earl Ray must have been very much a man who didn't know what to do.

韦恩·弗林特,历史学家:我认为詹姆斯·厄尔·雷一定是一个不知道该做什么的人。

He goes to psychiatrists, scientologists, hypnotists.

他去找精神科医生、山达基教徒、催眠师。

Gerald Posner, Writer: It's very hard to put yourself into the shoes of James Earl Ray.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:很难设身处地为詹姆斯·厄尔·雷着想。

He came from a horrific background, no question about it.

毫无疑问,他来自可怕的背景。

His father had been in and out of jail.

他的父亲曾进出过监狱。

His mother eventually became a street prostitute.

他的母亲最终成为了一名街头妓女。

Hampton Sides, Writer: Ray's siblings were in and out of trouble with the law or with mental institutions.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:雷的兄弟姐妹时常触犯法律或精神病院。

The Ray family constantly moved, they were constantly changing their name to allude the law.

雷家族不断搬迁,不断改名以示法律。

A really sordid and sad family history.

真是一段肮脏而悲伤的家族史。

Wayne Flynt, Historian: That created an incredible craving.

韦恩·弗林特,历史学家:这创造了一种令人难以置信的渴望。

It created a craving for being somebody.

它产生了一种成为某人的渴望。

I think at the heart of James Earl Ray is just the desire to say, "Somebody, look at me.

我认为詹姆斯·厄尔·雷的内心深处只是渴望说:“有人,看着我。

Somebody, know I exist."

有人知道我的存在。”

Hampton Sides, Writer: On March 16th, Martin Luther King comes to Los Angeles to give a series of talks, and at one point, he's only a few miles away from where Ray is staying and it's at that point that it becomes clear that Ray is focusing.

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:3 月 16 日,马丁·路德·金来到洛杉矶进行一系列演讲,有一次,他距离雷住的地方只有几英里,从那时起,很明显雷正在集中注意力。

Perhaps it was something that King said that was repeated on the television news or something in the newspaper.

也许金说过的话在电视新闻或报纸上重复出现过。

Something set him off.

有件事让他心烦意乱。

But the very next day, Ray goes to the post office and has his mail forwarded, general delivery Atlanta, Georgia, and he takes off, east towards Atlanta.

但第二天,雷去了邮局,将他的邮件转递给佐治亚州亚特兰大市的普通投递,然后他就出发了,向东前往亚特兰大。

He has no connection to Atlanta.

他与亚特兰大没有任何联系。

He's going to live there.

他要住在那里。

Martin Luther King's hometown.

马丁·路德·金的故乡。

Voice of Ray Sherman (archival): This is Ray Sherman, United Press International in Memphis.

雷·谢尔曼的声音(档案):我是孟菲斯合众国际社的雷·谢尔曼。

1,000 striking sanitation workers marched on Memphis City Hall this afternoon and demanded Mayor Henry Loeb hear their grievances.

今天下午,1000 名罢工环卫工人在孟菲斯市政厅游行,要求市长亨利·勒布听取他们的不满。

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Press Conference Reporter (archival): You've been talking about the garbage strike.

记者会记者(档案):您一直在谈论垃圾罢工。

Whether you realize it or not, we also have a racial issue.

无论你是否意识到,我们也存在种族问题。

How do you expect to handle the racial issue in Memphis now?

您现在预计如何处理孟菲斯的种族问题?

Voice of Ray Sherman (archival): The garbage collectors, predominantly Negro, want higher pay and union recognition.

雷·谢尔曼的声音(档案):垃圾收集者(主要是黑人)希望获得更高的工资和工会认可。

Voice of Jim Lawson (archival): We hope and pray that this city of our's which we love dearly will listen to the effort that we have been making for justice for the sanitation workers and for hope for poor people and for black people.

吉姆·劳森之声(档案):我们希望并祈祷这座我们深爱的城市能够倾听我们为环卫工人伸张正义、为穷人和黑人带来希望所做的努力。

Andrew Young, Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King: Martin had a real sensitivity to poor peoples' plight and he was torn in this.

安德鲁·杨,马丁·路德·金博士的助手:马丁对穷人的困境非常敏感,但他对此感到左右为难。

He used to say, " I admire the Good Samaritan but I don't want to be one.

他曾经说过:“我钦佩好撒玛利亚人,但我不想成为其中之一。

I don't want to spend my time picking up people by the side of the road after they've been robbed and beaten up, I want to change the Jericho road." So we were saying to him, "Look, we're in the process of changing the Jericho road.

我不想把时间花在路边接被抢劫和殴打的人,我想改变杰里科的道路。”所以我们对他说:“看,我们正在改变耶利哥的道路。

You can't stop and pick up every little group along the way if you're going to change the road." And he said, "Yeah, but I can't say no to these garbage workers."

如果你要改变道路,你就不能停下来接走沿途的每一个小团体。”他说:“是的,但我不能对这些垃圾工人说不。”

Joe Sweat, Journalist: It began with a tragedy on a cold day in Memphis.

记者 Joe Sweat:事情始于孟菲斯寒冷的一天发生的一场悲剧。

These garbage workers, some of them got up in the truck.

这些垃圾工人,有的在卡车上站了起来。

They had these compression trucks where you put the garbage in and then you'd flip a switch and it would compress the garbage.

他们有这些压缩车,你可以把垃圾放进去,然后你打开一个开关,它就会压缩垃圾。

Benjamin Hooks, NAACP, Executive Director: There was a malfunctioning truck.

本杰明·胡克斯(Benjamin Hooks),全国有色人种协进会执行董事:有一辆卡车出现故障。

These two men were trying to get out of the rain, got in the truck, and the truck compacted them and killed them in that garbage.

这两个人试图避雨,上了卡车,卡车将他们压死在垃圾堆里。

Joe Sweat, Journalist: It turned out that the families did not have enough money to bury them.

记者乔·斯威特:事实证明,家人没有足够的钱来埋葬他们。

It was a real, it brought up a real tragedy how little these men were paid.

这是一个真实的,它带来了一个真正的悲剧,这些人的工资是如此之低。

Elmore Nickelberry, Memphis Sanitation Worker: We was making about, I'd say 75-80 cents, maybe not that much, an hour and that wasn't enough to feed my family.

Elmore Nickelberry,孟菲斯环卫工人:我想说,我们一个小时赚的钱大约是 75-80 美分,也许不是那么多,但这不足以养活我的家人。

We didn't have nowhere to shower.

我们没有地方洗澡。

We didn't have no showers and it was rough.

我们没有淋浴,而且很粗糙。

We had to go home looking like that.

我们只好就这样回家了。

Maggots be in my shoes, all over my pants.

我的鞋子里、裤子上都长满了蛆虫。

You couldn't catch the bus, so you had to walk home.

你赶不上公共汽车,所以你不得不步行回家。

Sometime I get on the bus, I'd get in the back and some people say, "Mhmm, the nasty garbage men." So I stopped riding the bus, I started walking.

有时我上公共汽车,我会坐在后面,有些人会说:“嗯,那些讨厌的垃圾工。”所以我不再坐公共汽车,而是开始步行。

Benjamin Hooks, NAACP, Executive Director: They had tried for years to get better wages.

本杰明·胡克斯(Benjamin Hooks),全国有色人种协进会执行董事:他们多年来一直试图获得更好的工资。

They'd been to the ministers.

他们去见了部长们。

Had tried and had never succeeded and finally it blew up.

尝试过但从未成功,最后它爆炸了。

Mayor Henry Loeb (archival): Public employees can not strike against their employer.

市长亨利·勒布(档案):公职人员不能罢工反对雇主。

Joe Sweat, Journalist: Henry Loeb, who was the Mayor, asked for a meeting with the workers.

记者 Joe Sweat:市长 Henry Loeb 要求与工人们会面。

Mayor Henry Loeb (archival): You should come to me and bring up anything you want.

市长亨利·勒布(档案):你应该来找我,提出你想要的任何东西。

You can ask me any question.

有什么问题都可以问我。

Joe Sweat, Journalist: And Henry got up, and Henry thought that, you know, in sort of a paternalistic manner he would say, "Now come on fellows, you know, you can't strike it's against the law." And he thought they would just fall in step cause, you know, Massa was saying you need to stop this foolishness.

记者乔·斯威特:亨利站了起来,亨利认为,你知道,他会以一种家长式的方式说:“现在来吧,伙计们,你知道,你不能认为这是违法的。”他认为他们会步调一致,因为,你知道,马萨说你需要停止这种愚蠢的行为。

Leslie Moore, Memphis Sanitation Worker: A lot of the men was uneducated, but they know when somebody was making a fool out of them, and they stood up and refused to take anything.

莱斯利·摩尔,孟菲斯环卫工人:很多人没有受过教育,但他们知道什么时候有人愚弄他们,他们站起来拒绝接受任何东西。

We took all we could take, and we wasn't going to take no more.

我们拿走了我们能拿走的一切,我们不会再拿走更多了。

Benjamin Hooks, NAACP, Executive Director: And the city was surprised that all of them joined in the strike.

本杰明·胡克斯(Benjamin Hooks),全国有色人种协进会,执行董事:整个城市都惊讶于他们所有人都参加了罢工。

I don't think there were ten who stayed on the job.

我认为没有十个人留在工作岗位上。

Elmore Nickelberry, Memphis Sanitation Worker: They say, "If you go on strike, you're going to get fired." And plenty of people were scared.

Elmore Nickelberry,孟菲斯环卫工人:他们说,“如果你罢工,你就会被解雇。”很多人都感到害怕。

I was scared though but I signed up.

虽然我很害怕,但我还是报名了。

He said, "I'm going to get fired." I said, "If I get fired, I guess I get fired." That's all.

他说:“我要被解雇了。”我说:“如果我被解雇了,我想我也会被解雇。”就这样。

It wasn't nothing but signs, plenty signs.

这不是别的,而是迹象,大量的迹象。

The babies, the ladies, everybody most had a sign had that big sign there said, "I'm a man." Because they didn't treat us as a man.

婴儿们、女士们,每个人都有一个标语,上面有一个大标语,上面写着:“我是一个男人。”因为他们没有把我们当作一个男人来对待。

They treat us like we just nobody

他们对待我们就像对待普通人一样

Roger Wilkins, US Department of Justice: They were not asking for the moon, they just wanted decent conditions and the money that they were supposed to make.

美国司法部罗杰·威尔金斯:他们并不是要登月,他们只是想要体面的条件和他们应该赚的钱。

And it was totally compelling.

这完全是令人信服的。

To see these men having to assert, "I am a man, I should be treated as a human being, as a man with dignity and respect," you couldn't not be moved.

看到这些人不得不断言:“我是一个男人,我应该被当作一个人来对待,作为一个有尊严和尊重的人”,你不能不感动。

Benjamin Hooks, NAACP, Executive Director: That caught Dr. King.

本杰明·胡克斯(Benjamin Hooks),全国有色人种协进会执行董事:金博士抓住了这一点。

Here are these men, ignored, spat on, lied on, working forty, fifty hours a week and still having to get food stamps to live and Dr. King saw it, and he felt that if I'm ever going to help anybody, I ought to help these people.

这些人被忽视、被吐口水、被撒谎,每周工作四十、五十个小时,仍然需要领取食品券才能生活,金博士看到了这一点,他觉得如果我要帮助任何人,我就应该帮助这些人。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: The staff said, "We can't do it." He overruled the staff, said "Yeah, we're going." They said, "We're behind on the Poor People's Campaign." He says, "No, we're going to Memphis, that's it."

塞缪尔·凯尔斯,孟菲斯部长:工作人员说:“我们做不到。”他否决了工作人员的意见,说:“是的,我们走了。”他们说:“我们在穷人运动方面落后了。”他说:“不,我们要去孟菲斯,就这样。”

Hampton Sides, Writer: What was happening in Memphis really lured him in.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:孟菲斯发生的事情确实吸引了他。

It was the perfect expression of what he was trying to do in Washington.

这是他在华盛顿试图做的事情的完美表达。

And King realizes that instead of taking a right turn to Washington, he first had to make this left turn into Memphis.

金意识到,他首先必须左转进入孟菲斯,而不是右转前往华盛顿。

He couldn't ignore the call of these striking garbage workers.

他无法忽视这些罢工垃圾工人的呼声。

Gerald Posner, Writer: On March 22nd, Ray is driving from Los Angeles to Atlanta, King's hometown, where King should show up.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),作家:3月22日,雷正从洛杉矶开车前往金的家乡亚特兰大,金应该在那里出现。

So he's on the trail.

所以他正在路上。

He's following King.

他正在追随King。

Hampton Sides, Writer: Ray goes to Atlanta and checks into one of his typical flophouses in a kind of a slightly decrepit hippie district off Peachtree Street, and he begins to plan.

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),编剧:雷前往亚特兰大,住进了他在桃树街附近一个略显破旧的嬉皮士区的典型廉价旅馆,然后他开始计划。

He buys a map of Atlanta and he circles the map.

他买了一张亚特兰大地图,并绕着地图转了一圈。

King's church, where King's house is.

国王教堂,国王的宫殿所在。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: He plots out where King's world is, where he stays, where he works.

约翰·坎贝尔,助理地方检察官:他绘制出金的世界在哪里,他住在哪里,他在哪里工作。

Obviously he's focused now on King.

显然他现在的注意力集中在King身上。

Gerald Posner, Writer: Assassins turn out to be often people in their early twenties.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),作家:事实证明,刺客通常是二十岁出头的人。

They're 22-23, they're Oswald's age, 24.

他们的年龄是22-23岁,他们的年龄是奥斯瓦尔德,24岁。

They're imbued with the idea that they have found the right answer to the world and they can change the world with a gun and a bullet.

他们坚信自己已经找到了世界的正确答案,并且可以用枪和子弹改变世界。

Very seldom are assassins Ray's age, 40.

雷的年龄很少,40岁。

People at Ray's age have lost the fervor.

雷这个年纪的人已经失去了热情。

So it's a very unusual thing.

所以这是一件非常不寻常的事情。

Hampton Sides, Writer: I think you could say that the idea of killing King was a solution to all of his problems.

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:我想你可以说杀死金的想法解决了他所有的问题。

It gave him focus, it gave him something to plan and to plot for.

它让他集中注意力,让他有计划和策划的东西。

It fit in with his own resentments and ideas about the direction America was heading in.

这符合他自己对美国前进方向的不满和想法。

And I think finally, he began to see this as his opportunity to do something huge.

我想最后,他开始认为这是他做大事的机会。

Radio Reporter (archival): Today in Memphis, a three thousand-man protest march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in support of a seven week old sanitation workers' strike.

电台记者(档案):今天在孟菲斯,由马丁·路德·金博士领导的三千人抗议游行,支持为期七周的环卫工人罢工。

The strike has turned into a major racial issue in Memphis.

罢工已成为孟菲斯的一个重大种族问题。

Elmore Nickelberry, Memphis Sanitation Worker: So when he came to Memphis, you seen people's lining up, they was lining up.

Elmore Nickelberry,孟菲斯环卫工人:所以当他来到孟菲斯时,你看到人们在排队,他们正在排队。

"Dr. King coming!

“金博士来了!

Dr. King coming!" they shouting, "Dr. King coming!

金博士来了!”他们喊道:“金博士来了!

Dr. King coming!" that's all they heard, real nice.

金博士来了!”这就是他们听到的一切,真的很好。

Leslie Moore, Memphis Sanitation Worker: (singing) Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around, turn me around, turn me round.

莱斯利·摩尔,孟菲斯环卫工人:(唱歌)不会让任何人让我转身,让我转身,让我转身。

Aint gonna let nobody turn me around.

不会让任何人扭转我的局面。

Keep on walkin', keep on talkin', walkin up to freedom land.

继续走,继续说,走向自由之地。

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We felt brave, and we felt like God had sent somebody that brought us out of the land of Egypt and to a promised land.

我们感到勇敢,感觉上帝派了一个人把我们带出了埃及之地,带到了应许之地。

Andrew Young, Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King: When he got there, the crowd had been gathering there for a long time and were restless.

马丁·路德·金博士的助手安德鲁·杨:当他到达那里时,人群已经聚集在那里很久了,而且焦躁不安。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: I was around at the back of the march, because I always wanted to give some leadership in the back.

塞缪尔·凯尔斯,孟菲斯部长:我在游行队伍的后面,因为我一直想在后面发挥一些领导作用。

And I could hear on the policeman's...I heard this noise and the police radio kept saying, "Permission to break up the march, permission to break up the march."

我可以听到警察的声音……我听到了这种声音,警察无线电一直在说:“允许解散游行,允许解散游行。”

Benjamin Hooks, NAACP, Executive Director: A group of wild young men broke some glass windows.

本杰明·胡克斯(Benjamin Hooks),全国有色人种协进会执行董事:一群狂野的年轻人打破了一些玻璃窗。

And when they exploded, the police exploded on them.

当他们爆炸时,警察向他们开火。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: "Permission to break up the march.

孟菲斯部长塞缪尔·凯尔斯:“允许中断游行。

The niggras are rioting.

黑鬼们正在骚乱。

The niggras are rioting." And finally I heard on his radio, "Permission granted." And that's when they just waded into the crowd.

黑鬼们正在骚乱。”最后我在他的收音机里听到“已获得许可”。就在那时,他们刚刚涉入人群。

Elmore Nickelberry, Memphis Sanitation Worker: Them police was whooping, dogs barking, I was- hit me on side of my head.

Elmore Nickelberry,孟菲斯环卫工人:警察在叫喊,狗在吠叫,我被击中了我的头一侧。

It was just like a war zone.

这就像一个战区。

Joe Sweat, Journalist: P: eople started running in all directions.

记者 Joe Sweat:P:人们开始向各个方向奔跑。

And uh, police were macing people.

嗯,警察正在殴打人们。

Maxine Smith, Memphis NAACP: Cops came from everywhere.

玛克辛·史密斯,孟菲斯全国有色人种协进会:警察来自四面八方。

Beating heads, swinging their clubs.

敲打头颅,挥动棍棒。

The police department had gone crazy.

警察局已经疯了。

And we knew immediately we had to get Martin out of that.

我们立即知道我们必须让马丁摆脱困境。

Harris Wofford, Special Assistant to President Kennedy: He was being ridiculed for leaving and he decided he had to go back and resume the struggle.

肯尼迪总统特别助理哈里斯·沃福德:他因离开而受到嘲笑,他决定必须回去继续奋斗。

Memphis became a great test of whether nonviolence could work in a situation where violence was prevailing.

孟菲斯成为检验非暴力能否在暴力盛行的情况下发挥作用的重大考验。

Roger Wilkins, US Department of Justice: I talked to him after the march dissolved into violence and then everybody started talking about, King is passed it, he's lost it, he doesn't have, blah, blah, blah....

罗杰·威尔金斯,美国司法部:游行演变成暴力之后,我和他谈过,然后每个人都开始谈论,金通过了它,他失去了它,他没有,等等,等等,等等......

I said, "I wouldn't go there again if I were you.

我说:“如果我是你,我就不会再去那里了。

I just wouldn't do it." And he said, "I'm going to do it." And I said, "Why are you going to do it?

我就是不会这么做。”他说:“我会这么做的。”我说:“你为什么要这么做?

Why are you going to do it?" He said, "Because I promised them, because I promised them."

你为什么要这么做?”他说:“因为我答应了他们,因为我答应了他们。”

Senator Robert Byrd (archival): If anybody is to be hurt of killed in the disorder which follows in the wake of his highly publicized marches and demonstrations, he apparently is going to be sure that it will be someone other than Martin Luther King.

参议员罗伯特·伯德(档案):如果有人在他广为人知的游行和示威后发生的骚乱中受伤或死亡,他显然会确信那人不是马丁·路德·金。

What happened yesterday in Memphis was totally uncalled for, just as Martin Luther King's proposed march on Washington is uncalled for and unnecessary.

昨天在孟菲斯发生的事情是完全没有必要的,就像马丁·路德·金提议的华盛顿游行是没有必要和不必要的。

And I hope that well-meaning negro leaders and individuals in the negro community in Washington will now take a new look at this man who gets other people into trouble and then takes off like a scared rabbit.

我希望华盛顿黑人社区中善意的黑人领袖和个人现在能够重新审视这个给别人带来麻烦然后像受惊的兔子一样逃跑的人。

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): Those who got out of hand yesterday have now been talked with sufficiently to guarantee that nothing will take place in terms of violence and I feel that we can still have a non-violent demonstration and that we will have a non-violent demonstration here in Memphis.

小马丁·路德·金(档案):那些昨天失控的人现在已经得到充分的交谈,以保证不会发生任何暴力事件,我觉得我们仍然可以进行非暴力示威,并且我们将在孟菲斯这里进行非暴力示威。

The important thing.

重要的是。

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Hampton Sides, Writer: Ray is very aware of what's going on in King's life.

汉普顿赛德斯(Hampton Sides),编剧:雷非常了解金的生活中发生的事情。

He is very aware King is embroiled in a battle in Memphis They announced the specific date that King would be returning to Memphis and it gave Ray a little bit of time to react.

他非常清楚金卷入了孟菲斯的一场战斗,他们宣布了金返回孟菲斯的具体日期,这给了雷一点反应的时间。

So Ray goes to Birmingham and buys a rifle under the name Harvey Lomeyer.

于是,雷前往伯明翰,以哈维·洛梅耶的名义购买了一支步枪。

Hampton Sides, Writer: He's not a natural soldier by any means, he chafes at any kind of authority.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:无论如何,他都不是一个天生的士兵,他对任何形式的权威都感到恼火。

Gerald Posner, Writer: He's drunk.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:他喝醉了。

He's AWOL.

他擅离职守了。

But the Army does teach him how to shoot well.

但陆军确实教会了他如何射击。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: He buys a Remington Game Master 30-06 rifle with a scope.

约翰·坎贝尔 (John Campbell),助理地方检察官:他购买了一把带瞄准镜的雷明顿 Game Master 30-06 步枪。

A 30-06 was the standard military round.

30-06 是标准的军事回合。

Every time you fired it you pumped the...the fore end and the shell would...eject and another shell would...would load.

每次你发射它时,你都会泵动......前端,炮弹会......弹出,另一个炮弹会......会加载。

And it had a little clip that fit into the bottom and held about five shots.

它的底部有一个小夹子,可以容纳大约五发子弹。

Gerald Posner, Writer: It's a great killing rifle.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:这是一把很棒的杀人步枪。

It's much better than the rifle, the cheap rifle that Oswald used to kill Kennedy.

它比奥斯瓦尔德用来杀死肯尼迪的廉价步枪好得多。

It's a good killing machine, 30-06 is a good slug, and I don't mean that in a cavalier way.

这是一个很好的杀戮机器,30-06 是一个很好的子弹,我并不是以一种漫不经心的方式说的。

It was a good assassin's weapon.

这是一把很好的刺客武器。

Hampton Sides, Writer: This is the first time that his idea of killing King has gone from the abstract to something very, very tangible.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:这是他杀死金的想法第一次从抽象变成了非常非常具体的东西。

He's holding this rifle and he's realizing that he's probably going to...he's going to go through with this

他拿着这把步枪,他意识到他可能会……他会经历这一切

Gerald Posner, Writer: As far as we know, Ray has never killed anyone.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:据我们所知,雷从未杀过任何人。

We don't think he's ever shot anybody before.

我们认为他以前没有开枪射击过任何人。

He's a criminal, he's a sociopath, we know that.

他是一个罪犯,一个反社会者,我们都知道。

But he is not an easy character to pigeonhole.

但他并不是一个容易被归类的人物。

He's not a firebrand who's out there at the forefront of racial politics or racial hatred.

他不是站在种族政治或种族仇恨最前沿的煽动者。

What was clear is this, he buys the gun in Alabama.

很明显的是,他在阿拉巴马州购买了这把枪。

From the 29th on, he can kill King at any point, it's just a question of opportunity.

从29号开始,他随时都可以杀死King,只是机会问题。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: Martin flew back into Memphis April 3rd, and he had been so depressed over the weekend, it really did something to him to...to see that march break up like that.

塞缪尔·凯尔斯(Samuel Kyles),孟菲斯部长:马丁于 4 月 3 日飞回孟菲斯,整个周末他都很沮丧,看到游行像这样散开,对他确实产生了一些影响。

But that didn't make him stop.

但这并没有让他停下来。

He kept...he kept doing what he knew.

他继续……他继续做他所知道的事情。

Dorothy Cotton, Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King: I flew with him to Memphis, and when we got on the plane, the pilot said, "I'm sorry we'll have to disembark because Dr. Martin Luther King is on the plane and we have to get off and check the plane for explosives" or whatever.

马丁·路德·金博士的助手多萝西·科顿:我和他一起飞往孟菲斯,当我们登上飞机时,飞行员说,“很抱歉,我们必须下机,因为马丁·路德·金博士在飞机上,我们必须下机检查飞机上是否有爆炸物”之类的。

They brought dogs, I think, and they checked and they found no bomb.

我想他们带了狗,检查后没有发现炸弹。

But why was the word out that Dr. King was going to be on that flight that morning?

但为什么会有金博士那天早上要乘坐那架航班的消息呢?

Andrew Young, Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King: Martin kind of laughed about that.

安德鲁·杨,马丁·路德·金博士的助手:马丁对此有点笑。

He had grown accustomed to living under the threat of death.

他已经习惯了在死亡的威胁下生活。

He said, "Nobody can decide when and how they are going to die.

他说:“没有人能决定他们何时以及如何死亡。

They can decide though to keep themselves in a position so that they die for something worthwhile."

他们可以决定让自己保持在一个位置,以便为有价值的事情而死。”

Benjamin Hooks, NAACP, Executive Director: He didn't think it made any sense to be scared all the time, and he wasn't.

本杰明·胡克斯(Benjamin Hooks),全国有色人种协进会执行董事:他认为一直害怕是没有意义的,他也没有。

He would not let any of his staff that traveled with him carry a pistol or a rifle or blackjack.

他不会让任何与他同行的工作人员携带手枪、步枪或二十一点。

He did not want anybody to have any weapon of force or retaliation because it violated his principle of nonviolence.

他不希望任何人拥有任何武力或报复武器,因为这违反了他的非暴力原则。

That was his way of life.

这就是他的生活方式。

Not a theory, but a way of life.

不是一种理论,而是一种生活方式。

News Reporter (archival): What have your aides told you about the cooperation that has been arranged with the young people here?

新闻记者(档案):关于与这里的年轻人安排的合作,您的助手向您介绍了什么?

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): Well, they've been talking with various groups and I've gotten some very encouraging reports from them.

马丁·路德·金(档案):嗯,他们一直在与各个团体进行交谈,我从他们那里得到了一些非常令人鼓舞的报告。

They have talked with these groups and these groups have committed themselves to cooperation and committed themselves to following the guidelines set forth of nonviolence and what have you.

他们与这些团体进行了交谈,这些团体承诺进行合作,并承诺遵循非暴力等所制定的指导方针。

Hampton Sides, Writer: King knew he had to redeem himself and his reputation.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:金知道他必须挽回自己和名誉。

This is sort of like a dress rehearsal for the Poor People's Campaign.

这有点像穷人运动的彩排。

He knew that he had to make this thing work.

他知道他必须让这件事成功。

Hampton Sides, Writer: Somewhere along the way to Memphis, Ray gets out of his Mustang in a place where there's no cars or houses.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:在去孟菲斯的路上,雷在一个没有汽车或房屋的地方下了他的野马。

What's interesting about Ray at this point, he's reading all these books and he's gravitating toward these extreme ideologies.

雷此时的有趣之处在于,他正在阅读所有这些书籍,并且被这些极端意识形态所吸引。

There's one book in particular.

特别是有一本书。

It's called "Psycho-cybernetics."

这就是所谓的“心理控制论”。

The book repeatedly says that the most important thing that we can do for our own happiness is to have a goal, a target to shoot for, as it says repeatedly.

这本书反复说,为了我们自己的幸福,我们可以做的最重要的事情就是有一个目标,一个目标,正如书中反复提到的那样。

Somewhere in the book the author quotes Emerson: "Do the thing and you will have the power."

作者在书中的某个地方引用了爱默生的话:“做这件事,你就会拥有力量。”

Dan Rather, Anchorman: This guy was a lifetime loser.

丹·拉瑟(Danrath),主持人:这家伙是一辈子的失败者。

He had loser written right across his forehead.

他的额头上写着失败者。

But the way he could live in infamy was to take out someone as high and mighty and well-regarded as Martin Luther King.

但他能生活在耻辱之中的方式就是除掉像马丁·路德·金这样高高在上、受人尊敬的人。

Gerald Posner, Writer: He thinks he will be a hero.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:他认为自己会成为英雄。

That the man who killed Martin Luther King would really be viewed as a hero.

杀死马丁·路德·金的人确实会被视为英雄。

Wayne Flynt, Historian: I think he believes that murdering Martin Luther King is going to help Wallace.

韦恩·弗林特,历史学家:我认为他相信谋杀马丁·路德·金会帮助华莱士。

I'm convinced that's what he thought Wallace wanted and the Wallace movement wanted.

我确信这就是他认为华莱士想要的,也是华莱士运动想要的。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: I think he actually thought he was in the same mindset as...of most white Americans.

约翰·坎贝尔,助理地方检察官:我认为他实际上认为自己与大多数美国白人的心态相同。

It's the last spasm of the segregated society and Ray looked at it himself as basically trying to preserve what was left of that.

这是种族隔离社会的最后一次痉挛,雷自己认为这基本上是为了保护剩下的东西。

Radio Reporter (archival): In Memphis, the city awaits the arrival of Dr. Martin Luther King either early tonight or tomorrow for the aim of holding a massive nonviolent demonstration in support of the eight week-old strike by city sanitation workers.

电台记者(档案):在孟菲斯,该市等待马丁·路德·金博士今晚或明天抵达,目的是举行大规模非暴力示威活动,支持城市环卫工人长达八周的罢工。

Hampton Sides, Writer: Ray checks into a motel called The New Rebel, which is kind of on the outskirts of town.

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),编剧:雷入住了一家名为“新叛逆者”的汽车旅馆,该汽车旅馆位于城镇郊区。

He checked in as Eric S.

他以 Eric S. 的身份登记。

Galt.

高尔特。

Gerald Posner, Writer: He was up late that night, the lights were on, the clerk at the motel had seen that.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:那天晚上他睡得很晚,灯亮着,汽车旅馆的服务员看到了。

King was number one news on the local news channels.

金是当地新闻频道的头号新闻。

The ten p.m.

晚上十点

and eleven p.m.

晚上十一点

broadcast, both had news about King.

广播中,两人都有关于金的消息。

Ray was eating it up.

雷正在吃它。

He's trying to figure out whether he's going to get a chance to kill King.

他试图弄清楚他是否有机会杀死King。

Benjamin Hooks, NAACP, Executive Director: It rained and stormed so hard that night and Dr. King was the featured speaker at the Temple and he had decided that there would not be many people there, he simply would not go.

本杰明·胡克斯(Benjamin Hooks),全国有色人种协进会,执行董事:那天晚上下着大雨,暴风雨很大,金博士是圣殿的主要演讲者,他决定那里不会有很多人,他根本不会去。

And he sent Abernathy to speak for him.

他派阿伯内西为他说话。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: We got to the church, it was nearly full in spite of the weather.

塞缪尔·凯尔斯,孟菲斯牧师:我们到达了教堂,尽管天气不好,教堂几乎挤满了人。

Abernathy walked in, I walked in, Jessie Jackson walked in and the people started clapping.

阿伯内西走进来,我走进去,杰西·杰克逊也走进来,人们开始鼓掌。

And Abernathy's preacher's sense say, "These people ain't clapping for us, they think Martin coming in behind us." So he went to the phone and called Martin at the motel.

阿伯内西的传教士的感觉是:“这些人并没有为我们鼓掌,他们认为马丁在我们后面。”于是他拿起电话给汽车旅馆里的马丁打了电话。

He said, "Man, you should get over here.

他说:“伙计,你应该到这里来。

These people have come in the weather to hear you." And Martin said, "If you think I need to come, I'll come." So he came.

这些人趁着好天气来听你讲话。”马丁说:“如果你认为我需要来,我就会来。”所以他来了。

Benjamin Hooks, NAACP, Executive Director: The wind was blowing and the rain was hitting that roof, pitter patter patter, lightening flashing ominously, thunder, I was frightened, to tell you the truth about it.

本杰明·胡克斯,全国有色人种协进会执行董事:风在吹,雨在打着屋顶,淅淅沥沥,闪电不祥地闪烁,打雷,我很害怕,告诉你真相。

I was sitting there shaking.

我坐在那儿发抖。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: The shutters in the back of the church kept banging, the wind was so high.

孟菲斯牧师塞缪尔·凯尔斯:风很大,教堂后面的百叶窗一直在砰砰地响。

And every time they would bang, Martin would jump like that.

每次他们发出一声巨响,马丁就会像那样跳起来。

And they would bang and he would jump.

他们会砰砰地响,他会跳起来。

Bang...and I noticed that.

砰……我注意到了。

It was really disturbing him.

这实在是让他很困扰。

He was simply waiting to be introduced.

他只是在等待被介绍。

And when Martin got up, he just started speaking from his heart.

当马丁站起来时,他开始说出心里话。

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): The question is not if I stop to help this man in need, what will happen to me.

马丁·路德·金(档案):问题不在于如果我停下来帮助这个有需要的人,我会发生什么。

The question is if I do not stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them.

问题是,如果我不停下来帮助环卫工人,他们会怎么样。

That's the question.

这就是问题所在。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: He talked about the time he was autographing books in New York, a demented black woman she reached over the table and plunged a letter opener into his chest.

塞缪尔·凯尔斯,孟菲斯部长:他谈到了有一次他在纽约为书籍签名时,一位精神错乱的黑人妇女把手伸过桌子,把一把开信刀插入了他的胸口。

And when he was recovering, he said he got greetings from a teenage girl who wrote, "Dear Dr. King, I read about your misfortune The New York Times said the blade of the letter opener was so close to your aorta that if you had sneezed, you would have drowned in your own blood." And she put at the bottom, "I'm so glad you didn't sneeze." And he picked up on that and did a whole litany: "And I'm glad I didn't sneeze."

当他康复时,他说他收到了一位十几岁女孩的问候,她写道:“亲爱的金博士,我在《纽约时报》上读到了你的不幸,说开信刀的刀片离你的主动脉非常近,如果你打喷嚏,你就会被自己的血淹死。”她在底部写道:“我很高兴你没有打喷嚏。”他听了这一点,说了一大堆话:“我很高兴我没有打喷嚏。”

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): If I had sneezed, I wouldn't had been here in 1963.

小马丁·路德·金(档案):如果我打喷嚏,1963 年我就不会来到这里。

The black people of Birmingham, Alabama aroused the conscience of this nation.

阿拉巴马州伯明翰的黑人唤醒了这个国家的良知。

.

。

.

。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: He just went on about what he would have missed had he sneezed.

塞缪尔·凯尔斯,孟菲斯部长:他只是继续说如果他打喷嚏他会错过什么。

Leslie Moore, Memphis Sanitation Worker: I was there the night that he made that speech.

莱斯利·摩尔,孟菲斯环卫工人:他发表演讲的那天晚上我就在场。

He was more powerful that night.

那天晚上他的力量更加强大。

He been powerful all the time, but there was an unusual power that he had.

他一直都很强大,但他却有一种不寻常的力量。

He really spoke so deep down out of his heart, looked like he poured everything out of his heart.

他真的是发自肺腑地说出了心里话,看起来像是把心里的一切都倾诉了出来。

Martin Luther King Jr. (archival): And then I got into Memphis.

小马丁·路德·金(档案):然后我进入了孟菲斯。

And some began to talk about the threats that were out.

一些人开始谈论发出的威胁。

What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?

我们的一些生病的白人兄弟会对我造成什么影响?

Well, I don't know what will happen now.

嗯,我不知道现在会发生什么。

We've got some difficult days ahead.

我们接下来的日子会很艰难。

But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.

但现在这对我来说真的不重要了,因为我已经到过山顶了。

And I don't mind.

我不介意。

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life.

和其他人一样,我也想长寿。

Longevity has its place.

长寿有它的一席之地。

But I'm not concerned about that now.

但我现在不关心这个。

I just want to do God's will.

我只想遵行上帝的旨意。

And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.

他允许我上山。

And I've looked over.

我已经看过了。

And I've seen the promised land.

我已经看到了应许之地。

I may not get there with you.

我可能无法和你一起到达那里。

But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!

但今晚我想让你们知道,我们作为一个民族,一定会到达应许之地!

So I'm happy tonight.

所以今晚我很高兴。

I'm not worried about anything.

我什么都不担心。

I'm not fearing any man!

我不怕任何人!

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

我的眼睛看见了主再来的荣耀!

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: After that speech he was like a kid.

塞缪尔·凯尔斯,孟菲斯部长:那次演讲之后,他就像个孩子一样。

I mean it was like, "I'm laying this heavy burden down, I'm just laying it down.

我的意思是,“我正在放下这个沉重的负担,我只是放下它。

Wherever it leads me that's where I'm going."

无论它带我去哪里,我就要去哪里。”

Gerald Posner, Writer: On the morning of the 4th, Ray found King in Memphis through public information.

作家杰拉尔德·波斯纳:4日上午,雷通过公开信息在孟菲斯找到了金。

All he had to do was open up the newspaper.

他所要做的就是打开报纸。

King was front page news.

金是头版新闻。

Hampton Sides, Writer: The newspapers in Memphis and the television shows in Memphis showed that he was staying at the Lorraine Motel and they even showed the room number: 306.

作家汉普顿·赛德斯:孟菲斯的报纸和电视节目都显示他住在洛林汽车旅馆,甚至还显示了房间号:306。

Ray checks out of The New Rebel Motel and goes downtown and starts scoping out the Lorraine area and he finds a rooming house that backs up to the Lorraine Motel.

雷从新叛逆汽车旅馆退房,前往市中心,开始考察洛林地区,他找到了位于洛林汽车旅馆对面的出租屋。

He checks into this rooming house as John Willard.

他以约翰·威拉德的身份入住了这间出租屋。

Gerald Posner, Writer: He rents the room, 5B.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),作家:他租了房间,5B。

He goes to a local hardware store and buys a pair of binoculars.

他去了当地的一家五金店,买了一副双筒望远镜。

So he clearly is looking at monitoring King.

所以他显然是在监视King。

He can lean out the window, a little bit, not very comfortable to take a shot, but with the binoculars, he can keep track on the hotel.

他可以把身子探出窗外,稍微一点点,拍摄起来不太舒服,但用双筒望远镜,他可以跟踪酒店。

But if he goes to the bathroom, he has a direct view where King's room is.

但如果他去洗手间,他就能直接看到国王的房间在哪里。

Ray has no idea whether he'll get a shot at King, but he's got his rifle with him.

雷不知道他是否会向金开枪,但他带着步枪。

If King comes on to the balcony and spends any time there, what Ray knows he has to do is grab that rifle, go into the bathroom and hope no one's there.

如果金来到阳台上并在那里度过任何时间,雷知道他要做的就是拿起那把步枪,走进浴室,希望没有人在那里。

Lock that door and try to take the shot.

锁上门并尝试射击。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: That night, dinner was to be served at my home.

塞缪尔·凯尔斯,孟菲斯部长:那天晚上,晚餐将在我家举行。

And so I went to the motel to get him, about a quarter of six.

于是,大约六点一刻,我去汽车旅馆接他。

I said, "Guys, we got to go."

我说:“伙计们,我们该走了。”

So Martin and I walked on the balcony.

于是马丁和我走到阳台上。

He stood here, and I stood here.

他站在这里,我站在这里。

Hampton Sides, Writer: Ray gets these binoculars, he starts looking towards the Lorraine and there's Martin Luther King.

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),编剧:雷拿到了双筒望远镜,他开始向洛林望去,那里有马丁·路德·金。

Right there, on the balcony

就在那里,阳台上

Gerald Posner, Writer: He has the chance right there, he's only bought the gun five days earlier.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),作家:他就有机会,他五天前才买了这把枪。

He doesn't have to stalk him for the next month, this could be it.

下个月他不用再跟踪他了,可能就是这样了。

Now he has to take that rifle, get into the bathroom down the hallway, have nobody see him, get into the tub, which he has to do, and set up to take the shot and hope that when he does that, King hasn't left.

现在他必须拿起那把步枪,进入走廊的浴室,不让任何人看到他,进入浴缸,这是他必须做的,然后准备开枪,并希望当他这样做时,金还没有离开。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: He was greeting people down in the courtyard.

孟菲斯部长塞缪尔·凯尔斯:他正在院子里向人们打招呼。

He saw Jesse Jackson.

他看到了杰西·杰克逊。

Said, "Jesse, you're not dressed for dinner." Jesse said, "I don't need a shirt and tie, Doc, I got a appetite.

说:“杰西,你还没穿好衣服去吃晚饭。”杰西说:“我不需要衬衫和领带,医生,我有胃口。

That's all I need." He said, "Oh man, you...you crazy."

这就是我所需要的。”他说:“天啊,你……你疯了。”

Gerald Posner, Writer: Ray goes down the hallway, nobody sees him.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,编剧:雷沿着走廊走,没有人看到他。

He gets into the tub.

他进入浴缸。

King is still there.

国王还在。

Ray sets up his 30-06, and the window ledge becomes the brace that gives him the sturdiness that he needs on a rifle.

Ray 设置了他的 30-06,窗台成为了支撑,为他提供了步枪所需的坚固性。

He doesn't have to hold this up in the air.

他不必把这件事悬而未决。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: So I turned to go to the stairs to go down, and Martin was leaning over the balcony on the railing, talking to Jesse and Ben.

塞缪尔·凯尔斯,孟菲斯部长:于是我转身去楼梯下楼,马丁正靠在阳台的栏杆上,与杰西和本交谈。

Gerald Posner, Writer: Ray looks through the 07 power scope and King becomes large.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),编剧:雷查看了 07 的功率范围,金变得很大。

Most of the scope would be taken up with King's face at that point.

那时,大部分范围将占据金的脸。

You couldn't get a better shot.

你找不到更好的镜头了。

A deadly shot.

致命一击。

Andrew Young, Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King: It never occurred to me that it was a bullet until I looked up and didn't see him.

马丁·路德·金博士的助手安德鲁·杨:我从来没有想到那是一颗子弹,直到我抬头看不到他。

And I ran up the stairs and there saw him laying down in a pool of blood.

我跑上楼梯,看到他躺在血泊中。

And I knew then immediately it was all over.

我立刻就知道一切都结束了。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: There was so much blood.

孟菲斯部长塞缪尔·凯尔斯:流血太多了。

Blood was everywhere.

到处都是血。

He never spoke a word.

他一句话也没说。

Memphis Police Radio (archival): We have information King has been shot at the Lorraine.

孟菲斯警察电台(档案):我们有消息称金在洛林被枪杀。

We have information that King has been shot at the Loraine.

我们有消息称金在洛兰号被枪杀。

Gerald Posner, Writer: After the shot was fired, Ray knew that he would have to make a fast get away.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),编剧:开枪后,雷知道他必须快速逃离。

So he had made a bundle he'd take with him: the rifle his binoculars everything else.

所以他准备了一个随身携带的包裹:步枪、双筒望远镜以及其他所有东西。

The adrenaline has to be absolutely pounding because now it's time to escape.

肾上腺素一定会激增,因为现在是逃跑的时候了。

Ray would have to get to his car with nobody seeing him.

雷必须在没有人看到他的情况下走到他的车旁。

And he gets outside, and he turned left to go to his car.

他走到外面,左转走向他的车。

Half a block away are two police cars, and Ray couldn't tell if somebody is in the police car, or if the cars are empty.

半个街区外有两辆警车,雷无法判断警车里是否有人,或者车里是否是空的。

Ray has to make an immediate decision, if he is caught with the murder weapon, game's over, that's it, might as well give it up.

雷必须立即做出决定,如果他携带凶器被抓住,游戏就结束了,就这样吧,还不如放弃呢。

He's the assassin.

他就是凶手。

If he's caught without the weapon, he might be able to talk himself out of the reason that he's there.

如果他被发现没有携带武器,他也许可以说服自己放弃他在那里的理由。

He decides to dump it.

他决定把它扔掉。

He dumps it into a recessed doorway next door to the flophouse, then goes to the Mustang and drives away.

他把它扔进廉价旅馆隔壁的凹进门口,然后开上野马车离开。

Memphis Police Radio (archival): There is a weapon in front of 424 and the subject ran south on Main Street.

孟菲斯警察电台(档案):424 门前有一把武器,对象沿主街向南跑去。

Memphis Police Radio (archival): Not to touch the weapon, the weapon is not to be touched.

孟菲斯警察电台(档案):不要碰武器,武器是不可以碰的。

B.

B.

Venson Hughes, Memphis Police Department: That day, I was on duty with the Memphis Police Department.

Venson Hughes,孟菲斯警察局:那天,我在孟菲斯警察局值班。

And suddenly, over the radio, Dr. King has been shot at the Lorraine.

突然,广播中传来金博士在洛林号被枪杀的消息。

Very, very quickly we had the Lorraine Motel just flooded with police officers.

很快,洛林汽车旅馆就挤满了警察。

Andrew Young, Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King: All of the police came running toward us when the shot came from behind them, and we were urging them to go back that way to see who did the shooting, but they were coming over to see what happened.

马丁·路德·金博士的助手安德鲁·杨:当枪声从他们身后传来时,所有的警察都朝我们跑来,我们敦促他们从那边回去看看是谁开枪的,但他们却过来看看发生了什么。

Hampton Sides, Writer: The police started asking people in the vicinity, "What did you see?"

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:警察开始询问附近的人们,“你们看到了什么?”

B.

B.

Venson Hughes, Memphis Police Department: At that point in time, we maintained the security ring around the crime scene and around the building where the shot was fired, and we started broadcasting a description.

孟菲斯警察局的文森·休斯 (Venson Hughes):当时,我们在犯罪现场和开枪的建筑物周围维持了安全环,并开始广播描述。

Memphis Police Radio (archival): He's a young white male, a young, white male.

孟菲斯警察电台(档案):他是一名年轻的白人男性,一名年轻的白人男性。

B.

B.

Venson Hughes, Memphis Police Department: The word got out rather quickly that he was in a white Mustang.

孟菲斯警察局的文森·休斯(Venson Hughes):他开着一辆白色野马的消息很快就传开了。

Voice of Ray Sherman (archival): This is Ray Sherman, United Press International in Memphis.

雷·谢尔曼的声音(档案):我是孟菲斯合众国际社的雷·谢尔曼。

Memphis police report they have just confirmed that Reverend Martin Luther King has been shot.

孟菲斯警方报告称,他们刚刚确认马丁·路德·金牧师被枪杀。

Reverend Jesse Jackson (archival): The pathology and the sickness and the neurosis of Memphis and of this racist society in which we live is that they really pulled the trigger.

杰西·杰克逊牧师(档案):孟菲斯和我们生活的这个种族主义社会的病态、疾病和神经症是他们真正扣动了扳机。

To some extent Dr. King has been a buffer the last two years between the black community and white community.

在某种程度上,金博士过去两年一直是黑人社区和白人社区之间的缓冲者。

The white people do not know it, but the white people's best friend is dead.

白人不知道,但白人最好的朋友已经死了。

Gerald Posner, Writer: King's assassination is like striking a match and it hits the gasoline and in cities from Detroit to Newark, in Watts, in Los Angeles, in major black neighborhoods across the country there are riots, dozens dead, thousands wounded, thousands arrested.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:金的暗杀就像划一根火柴,它击中了汽油,从底特律到纽瓦克,在瓦茨,在洛杉矶,在全国主要的黑人社区,发生了骚乱,数十人死亡,数千人受伤,数千人被捕。

Walter Cronkite, CBS News Anchor (archival): Late today, the president declared a state of emergency and regular army troops moved into the nation's capital to protect strategic locations...

沃尔特·克朗凯特,哥伦比亚广播公司新闻主播(档案):今天晚些时候,总统宣布进入紧急状态,正规军部队进入国家首都以保护战略要地……

Dan Rather, Anchorman: He's hearing on the radio, Dr. Martin Luther King has been shot.

主持人丹·拉瑟:他在广播中听到,马丁·路德·金博士被枪杀了。

Dr. Martin Luther King has been killed.

马丁·路德·金博士被杀。

And that the police are fanning out trying to find suspects.

警方正在四处寻找嫌疑人。

Hampton Sides, Writer: I think it begins to dawn on him the magnitude of what he's done, that he's not going to be celebrated by the powers that be and that he's a wanted criminal.

汉普顿·塞德斯,作家:我认为他开始意识到自己所做的事情有多么严重,他不会受到当权者的庆祝,而且他是一名通缉犯。

So he knew he had to stay just ahead of this amazing turmoil that was coming out of Memphis and he just, sort of just got out in the nick of time.

所以他知道他必须在孟菲斯即将发生的这场令人震惊的混乱中保持领先地位,而他只是在关键时刻逃脱了。

Dan Rather, Anchorman: We can only imagine the farther he gets away, the more he is breathing a sigh of relief.

主持人丹·拉瑟:我们只能想象他走得越远,他就越松一口气。

And he's thinking, "Man, I think I made it.

他在想,“伙计,我想我成功了。

They didn't get me.

他们没有抓住我。

I outsmarted those sons of bitches once again."

我又一次智胜了那些王八蛋。”

Woman on the street (archival): We have lost a great man.

街上的女人(档案):我们失去了一位伟人。

I respected him and I always looked up to him.

我尊重他并且一直仰望他。

Man on the street (archival): Well I don't feel sad, no. He was a professional colored man and perhaps he got what he deserved.

街上的人(档案):嗯,我不感到悲伤,不。他是一名职业有色人种,也许他得到了他应得的。

Woman on the street (archival): Well what can you say, you know, it's a sick society we're in.

街上的女人(档案):好吧,你能说什么,你知道,我们所处的社会是一个病态的社会。

Woman on the street (archival): History of the American people, giving way to the prejudices, their ignorance.

街上的女人(档案):美国人民的历史,让位于偏见和无知。

I don't think Americans should mourn Martin Luther King, I think they should mourn themselves.

我不认为美国人应该哀悼马丁·路德·金,我认为他们应该哀悼自己。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: You had the riots at first.

约翰·坎贝尔,助理地方检察官:一开始发生了骚乱。

You have tremendous violence that this triggered.

这引发了巨大的暴力。

You have a movement that basically now doesn't have a leader.

现在基本上没有领导者的运动。

How are they going to react?

他们会如何反应?

You have the government now that's worried about, "Is this going to continue to spiral out of control, how are we going to give people confidence that we're going to be able to get the right person and bring him to justice.

现在政府担心的是,“事态是否会继续失控,我们如何让人们相信我们能够找到合适的人并将他绳之以法。

That this person will get justice And whether he'll ever be found.

这个人会得到正义以及他是否会被找到。

Where is he?"

他在哪儿?”

Hampton Sides, Writer: The day after the assassination, Ramsey Clark and FBI representatives come to Memphis and try to assure the nation that every effort will be expended to find King's killer.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:暗杀事件发生后的第二天,拉姆齐·克拉克(Ramsey Clark)和联邦调查局代表来到孟菲斯,试图向全国保证,将尽一切努力寻找杀害金的凶手。

It very quickly became the largest, the costliest, the most ambitious manhunt in American history.

它很快成为美国历史上最大规模、最昂贵、最雄心勃勃的搜捕行动。

Thousands of agents were involved and there's really never been anything like it

数千名特工参与其中,这样的事情真的从来没有发生过

Ramsey Clark, US Attorney General: Because of the way Mr. Hoover had presented himself in connection with Martin Luther King, he had to...he had to break the case quickly.

拉姆齐·克拉克(Ramsey Clark),美国司法部长:由于胡佛先生在与马丁·路德·金的关系中表现出自己的方式,他必须……他必须迅速破案。

There was nothing more important to him than the reputation of the FBI and the FBI was at stake.

对他来说,没有什么比联邦调查局的声誉更重要的了,而联邦调查局正处于危险之中。

He was afraid people were going to say he did it, you know.

你知道,他害怕人们会说他做到了。

Hampton Sides, Writer: You have the great irony that the FBI and J.

作家汉普顿·赛德斯:联邦调查局和 J.

Edgar Hoover were these people who had tried to ruin King's life, was the very agency, that was assigned the task of finding King's killer.

埃德加·胡佛就是那些试图毁掉金的生活的人,也是被指派寻找杀害金的凶手的机构。

Ramsey Clark, US Attorney General: And you could feel and particularly at the nerve center, they were very anxious to solve this case.

美国司法部长拉姆齐·克拉克:你可以感觉到,特别是在神经中枢,他们非常渴望解决这个案件。

Gerald Posner, Writer: The manhunt that takes place in the King assassination is frenzied, but it takes place in guess where?

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),编剧:国王刺杀案中的追捕行动非常疯狂,但猜猜发生在哪里?

The U.S. Ray knows that's going to happen.

美国雷知道这将会发生。

He's on his way to Canada.

他正在前往加拿大的路上。

He's smart enough to drive not on freeways, he goes on back roads.

他很聪明,不会在高速公路上开车,而是在小路上开车。

Goes to Atlanta, parks his Mustang.

前往亚特兰大,停放他的野马。

He wipes it clean of prints and he abandons it.

他把上面的指纹擦干净,然后就扔掉了。

He takes a bus up to Detroit.

他乘公共汽车去底特律。

Takes a taxi and crosses into the Canadian border.

乘坐出租车进入加拿大边境。

Where everybody's looking for the assassin in America, he's up there trying to get a Canadian passport.

当每个人都在美国寻找凶手时,他却在试图获得加拿大护照。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: He wanted to go to Rhodesia.

约翰·坎贝尔,助理地方检察官:他想去罗德西亚。

He wanted to go to a place that he felt like he would be embraced as a hero.

他想去一个他觉得自己会被视为英雄的地方。

Hampton Sides, Writer: Rhodesia was a white supremacist, segregated country that I think he viewed as a place of refuge.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:罗德西亚是一个白人至上主义、种族隔离的国家,我认为他将其视为避难所。

Dan Rather, Anchorman: Once he became convinced that his immediate getaway was successful, I think he had to be thinking, "There are a lot of big money, powerful people who wanted this to happen and I made it happen.

丹·拉瑟(主持人):一旦他确信自己的立即逃跑是成功的,我想他一定会想:“有很多有钱有势的人希望这一切发生,而我做到了。

And I'll get my just rewards for that, if I can just stay on the lam long enough."

如果我能在逃犯中呆得足够长的话,我就会得到应有的回报。”

Gerald Posner, Writer: The FBI originally thought they might be looking for several different people.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),作家:联邦调查局最初认为他们可能正在寻找几个不同的人。

For a Willard or a Lowmeyer or a Galt, all names Ray had used.

对于威拉德(Willard)、洛迈耶(Lowmeyer)或高尔特(Galt),雷用过的所有名字。

He moves into a flophouse with one name then he buys the gun with one name.

他搬进了一家只有一个名字的廉价旅馆,然后他买了一把有一个名字的枪。

They're not quite sure of who they're looking for.

他们不太确定他们在找谁。

Hampton Sides, Writer: And they're beginning to think this is probably a conspiracy of these three guys.

作家汉普顿赛德斯:他们开始认为这可能是这三个人的阴谋。

Then they begin to sift through some of the other evidence and the picture gets a little more complicated.

然后他们开始筛选其他一些证据,情况变得更加复杂。

Ray left that bundle near the scene of the crime and so it's a big puzzle that it's just all right there in one place.

雷把那包东西留在了犯罪现场附近,所以它就在一个地方,这真是一个大谜团。

There's binoculars and there's this transistor radio and these various clothing items that have laundry tags on them.

有双筒望远镜,有晶体管收音机,还有各种带有洗衣标签的衣服。

They somehow trace this tag all the way back to Los Angeles.

他们以某种方式追踪这个标签一直回到洛杉矶。

The whole thing is wide open.

整个事情都是敞开的。

The gun was bought in Birmingham, of course the crime happened in Memphis, this guy was obviously living at some point in Los Angeles, and so investigators are kind of all over this and going in all different directions.

这把枪是在伯明翰买的,当然犯罪发生在孟菲斯,这个人显然住在洛杉矶的某个地方,所以调查人员对这件事进行了全面调查,并朝各个不同的方向进行调查。

Gerald Posner, Writer: The FBI used to like to say that the most man-hours ever spent was the hunt on the King killer.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),作家:联邦调查局过去常说,有史以来花费最多的工时就是追捕杀害国王的凶手。

They do it methodically.

他们做事有条不紊。

Hampton Sides, Writer: They find these latent fingerprints on the scope, on the rifle, on a can of Schlitz beer.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:他们在瞄准镜、步枪和一罐施利茨啤酒上发现了这些潜在的指纹。

They begin to realize that you know the...it's the same print every time, it's the same guy.

他们开始意识到你知道……每次都是相同的印刷品,是同一个人。

Hoover has the idea that why don't we compare this print to the fingerprints of every known fugitive in the country.

胡佛的想法是,我们为什么不将这个指纹与该国每个已知逃犯的指纹进行比较。

So they basically have to get these fingerprints experts to analyze these things by hand, you know comparing one at a time, one at a time.

所以他们基本上必须让这些指纹专家手工分析这些东西,你知道一次比较一个,一次一个。

Gerald Posner, Writer: They have over 50,000, 53,000 different fingerprint cards that they have to go through.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),作家:他们必须检查超过 50,000、53,000 张不同的指纹卡。

It's going to take them months to get through, but they get lucky.

他们需要几个月的时间才能度过难关,但他们很幸运。

On the 700tth, they suddenly realize the person they're looking for is an escaped felon called James Earl Ray.

第 700 次,他们突然意识到他们要找的人是一名逃犯,名叫詹姆斯·厄尔·雷 (James Earl Ray)。

What they don't know is that he's not in America any longer.

他们不知道的是他已经不在美国了。

News Report (archival): Prime suspect in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King has been identified by the FBI as James Earl Ray, an escaped convict.

新闻报道(档案):联邦调查局已确认暗杀马丁·路德·金博士的主要嫌疑人是逃犯詹姆斯·厄尔·雷。

News Report (archival): Top story is the FBI has identified Eric Starvo Galt, wanted in the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King, as actually being James Earl Ray.

新闻报道(档案):头条新闻是联邦调查局已确定涉嫌杀害马丁·路德·金博士的埃里克·斯塔沃·高尔特实际上是詹姆斯·厄尔·雷。

Tom Brokaw, NBC News Anchor (archival): Five foot, ten inches tall, weighing between 163 and 174 lbs, Ray is still at large.

Tom Brokaw,NBC 新闻主播(档案):雷身高 5 英尺 10 英寸,体重 163 至 174 磅,仍然在逃。

The most wanted criminal in the country.

全国头号通缉犯。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: He's all over the news.

约翰·坎贝尔,助理地方检察官:他是新闻焦点。

Everybody knows James Earl Ray.

每个人都知道詹姆斯·厄尔·雷。

Everybody's looking for James Earl Ray.

每个人都在寻找詹姆斯·厄尔·雷。

All of a sudden, he has become the celebrity that he always wanted to be.

突然之间,他成为了他一直想成为的名人。

He was public enemy number one, he made the list.

他是头号公敌,他上了名单。

Wayne Flynt, Historian: There never seems to be anything more irrational than that one person should have chosen to create a life for himself by murdering another human being.

韦恩·弗林特,历史学家:似乎没有什么比一个人选择通过谋杀另一个人来为自己创造生活更不合理的了。

It's just an act of pure violence, an act of insanity.

这只是一种纯粹的暴力行为,一种疯狂的行为。

Well, that's from the standpoint of a rational person.

嗯,这是从理性人的角度来看。

It's not the world of a loner who has no recognition.

这不是一个没有被认可的孤独者的世界。

And for whom that one act of violence is a transcendent moment in his existence.

对于他来说,这一暴力行为是他存在中的一个超然时刻。

At the heart of James Earl Ray is just the desire to say, "Somebody look at me."

詹姆斯·厄尔·雷 (James Earl Ray) 的内心深处只想说:“有人看着我。”

Hampton Sides, Writer: He must be ecstatic because he knows that he has done something that's sent out these shockwaves.

汉普顿·赛德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:他一定很欣喜若狂,因为他知道他所做的事情引发了这些冲击波。

Back in America, people are talking about him.

回到美国,人们都在谈论他。

At the same time, it must have been terrifying because he recognized that they were onto him.

同时,这一定很可怕,因为他意识到他们正在攻击他。

He knew that his time was short in Canada.

他知道他在加拿大的时间不多了。

That he had to get out of there as quickly as possible.

他必须尽快离开那里。

B.

B.

Venson Hughes, Memphis Police Department: Not only did he get a passport out of Canada, but he bought an airplane ticket and flew to London.

孟菲斯警察局的文森·休斯(Venson Hughes):他不仅拿到了加拿大护照,还买了一张飞往伦敦的机票。

Then down to Portugal.

随后前往葡萄牙。

He was looking to be a mercenary in Africa, and he had heard that you could make contacts in Portugal.

他想去非洲当一名雇佣兵,他听说可以在葡萄牙建立联系。

Gerald Posner, Writer: He tries to get a ship that's going down to Rhodesia, but he misses it by two days.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳(Gerald Posner),作家:他试图找到一艘前往罗得西亚的船,但他错过了两天。

So he's got enough money to go back to London, where he sits for the next month and he starts to run out of money.

所以他有足够的钱回到伦敦,他在那里呆了下个月,但他的钱开始用光了。

He robs a jewelry store at one point to keep going.

为了继续经营,他一度抢劫了一家珠宝店。

Finally on June 8th, Ray goes to Heathrow.

终于在 6 月 8 日,雷前往希思罗机场。

He's trying to get over to white Africa.

他正试图前往白人非洲。

So he's traveling under an alias Ramon Sneyd.

所以他以拉蒙·斯尼德(Ramon Sneyd)的化名旅行。

And that happens to be on the watch list.

而这恰好在观察名单上。

B.

B.

Venson Hughes, Memphis Police Department: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police went through, one by one, every passport that had been issued following the assassination until they made a match on the bartending school photograph and a passport photograph out of Canada.

孟菲斯警察局文森·休斯:加拿大皇家骑警逐一检查了暗杀事件后签发的每一本护照,直到将调酒学校照片和加拿大境外护照照片进行匹配。

Hampton Sides, Writer: So Ray goes to the desk and this agent, he looks down at a little list that had been prepared for him and saw the name, Ramon Sneyd.

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:雷走到办公桌前,这位经纪人低头看了一眼为他准备的小名单,看到了这个名字,拉蒙·斯尼德(Ramon Sneyd)。

Now this...this is one of the people that are supposed...supposed to be detained.

现在这……这是应该……应该被拘留的人之一。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: And it didn't take long to figure out that this is the person everybody in the world has been looking for.

约翰·坎贝尔,助理地方检察官:没过多久我们就发现这就是世界上每个人都在寻找的人。

News Report (archival): The Justice Dept has announced that James Earl Ray, the accused assassin of Martin Luther King, has been arrested in London, England.

新闻报道(档案):司法部宣布,被指控刺杀马丁·路德·金的詹姆斯·厄尔·雷已在英国伦敦被捕。

Hampton Sides, Writer: He's flown from England to Memphis in the dead of night on a Air Force jet with FBI agents surrounding him.

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:深夜,他乘坐空军喷气式飞机从英格兰飞往孟菲斯,周围是联邦调查局特工。

Arthur Hanes, Attorney: He was wearing a...a belted straightjacket.

亚瑟·哈内斯(Arthur Hanes),律师:他穿着……一件系腰带的紧身衣。

Leg shackles.

脚镣。

Nobody knew who he was.

没有人知道他是谁。

Whether he was part of an international conspiracy.

他是否参与了国际阴谋。

Whether he was leading a vast revolutionary army.

他是否领导着一支庞大的革命军队。

He was a mystery man.

他是一个神秘的人。

Dan Rather, Anchorman: I think that Ray felt, "Now I'm a big man.

主持人丹·拉瑟:我认为雷感觉到,“现在我是一个大人物了。

I'm no longer a loser.

我不再是一个失败者。

I did something, I did something big.

我做了一些事,我做了一件大事。

I made the FBI's top ten.

我进入了联邦调查局的前十名。

I gave them a good, long chase.

我追了他们好远好远。

And I come back to Memphis, yeah, I come back in a straitjacket, but you know forevermore, I'm somebody, I slew the dreamer."

我回到孟菲斯,是的,我穿着紧身衣回来,但你永远知道,我是一个重要人物,我杀死了梦想家。”

Harris Wofford, Special Assistant to President Kennedy: I think all kinds of people thought that Ray was probably part of some kind of a group, a plot.

哈里斯·沃福德,肯尼迪总统的特别助理:我认为各种各样的人都认为雷可能是某种团体、阴谋的一部分。

There's a rational reason to think that there was motive in thousands of thousands of people to kill King.

有合理的理由认为成千上万的人都有谋杀金的动机。

There was hatred of a degree can't say anything other than it was an invitation to violence.

仇恨到了一定程度,只能说是暴力的邀请。

Therefore, it's not irrational to try to see if there was a conspiracy.

因此,试图看看是否存在阴谋并不是没有道理的。

Dan Rather, Anchorman (archival): There is no shortage of other suspected plotters and planners of the assassination.

主持人丹·拉瑟(档案):不乏其他涉嫌暗杀的策划者和策划者。

First, unnamed money interests.

首先,未命名的金钱利益。

Why?

为什么?

To prevent Dr. King from leading his scheduled Poor People's March on Washington.

阻止金博士领导预定的华盛顿穷人游行。

Two, white racists.

二、白人种族主义者。

Their motive for wanting to get rid of Dr. King was obvious.

他们想要除掉金博士的动机很明显。

Three, black militants.

三、黑人武装分子。

Why?

为什么?

Dr. King was too nonviolent for their plans and they wanted to take leadership of the Black Movement.

金博士对他们的计划来说太非暴力了,他们想领导黑人运动。

Hampton Sides, Writer: The problem with the conspiracies that do exist out there, they are so convoluted and so complicated, they end up involving the CIA and the FBI and the Memphis police department and the Memphis fire department and the mayor's office and the Boy Scouts of America.

汉普顿·赛德斯,作家:阴谋的问题确实存在,它们是如此错综复杂,最终涉及中央情报局、联邦调查局、孟菲斯警察局、孟菲斯消防局、市长办公室和美国童子军。

I mean, everyone killed King - at some point, it becomes ludicrous.

我的意思是,每个人都杀了金——在某些时候,这变得很荒谬。

John Campbell, Assistant District Attorney: I have no doubt in my mind that Ray did it.

约翰·坎贝尔,助理地方检察官:我毫不怀疑是雷干的。

All the circumstantial evidence that we have points to him, all the physical evidence that we have points to him.

我们掌握的所有间接证据都指向他,所有物证都指向他。

We're stuck with James Earl Ray did it.

我们坚持认为是詹姆斯·厄尔·雷干的。

Gerald Posner, Writer: He was an agent of larger forces in American life.

杰拉尔德·波斯纳,作家:他是美国生活中更大势力的代理人。

An agent of all those forces of hate that kept building up a drumbeat against Martin Luther King that made him into a villain, that allowed a racist, like Ray, feel as though he could kill a civil rights leader and get away with it and be a hero some place else.

他是所有仇恨力量的代理人,不断鼓噪反对马丁·路德·金,使他成为一个恶棍,让像雷这样的种族主义者觉得自己可以杀死一名民权领袖,然后逃脱惩罚,在其他地方成为英雄。

Hampton Sides, Writer: King himself envisioned that he would be killed.

汉普顿·塞德斯(Hampton Sides),作家:金本人也预见到他会被杀。

He talked about sick white brothers.

他谈到生病的白人兄弟。

That some sick white brother out there would take his life.

某个生病的白人兄弟会夺走他的生命。

And so, in a way I think he anticipated James Earl Ray.

因此,在某种程度上,我认为他预见到了詹姆斯·厄尔·雷。

If there was ever a sick white brother, it was James Earl Ray.

如果有一个生病的白人兄弟,那就是詹姆斯·厄尔·雷。

Dan Rather, Anchorman: As fate, destiny dictated, Dr. King and Ray will be forever paired.

主持人丹·拉瑟:命运所决定的,金博士和雷将永远配对。

As unfair, as maddening as that can be, say, James Earl Ray shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath with Dr. Martin Luther King.

詹姆斯·厄尔·雷(James Earl Ray)不应该与马丁·路德·金(Martin Luther King)博士相提并论,这既不公平又令人抓狂。

But so it is.

但事实就是如此。

Samuel Kyles, Memphis Minister: Here was a man with an earned PhD degree at 25, a Nobel Peace Prize at 34.

塞缪尔·凯尔斯,孟菲斯部长:这是一个 25 岁获得博士学位、34 岁获得诺贝尔和平奖的人。

All the things he could have been.

他本可以成为的一切。

University president, UN ambassador, mega-churches with his skills.

大学校长,联合国大使,用他的技能建造大型教堂。

But here he is dying on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee helping garbage workers.

但在田纳西州孟菲斯的一个阳台上,他正在帮助垃圾工人,生命垂危。

Hampton Sides, Writer: After the assassination, Coretta Scott King comes to Memphis and leads the march that King was unable to lead, the peaceful march that he had really staked his reputation on.

汉普顿·赛德斯,作家:暗杀事件发生后,科雷塔·斯科特·金来到孟菲斯,领导了金无法领导的游行,这是他真正将自己的声誉押在了上面的和平游行。

News Reporter (archival): Now why did you take part in this demonstration today?

新闻记者(档案):那您今天为什么参加这次示威呢?

Boy in march (archival): Well, I took part in this march today because of Martin Luther-Martin Luther King and for what he stood for, because this march is what he died for, and I think that if he died for it, I could carry out what he started.

游行中的男孩(档案):嗯,我今天参加这次游行是因为马丁·路德-马丁·路德·金和他所代表的东西,因为这次游行是他为之而死的,我认为如果他为此而死,我就可以实现他开始的事业。

Boy in march (archival): Yes, he stood for non-violence and peace for all men of all kind.

行军男孩(档案):是的,他代表所有类型的人的非暴力与和平。

Andrew Young, Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King: We always said we were not concerned with who killed Martin Luther King.

马丁·路德·金博士的助手安德鲁·杨:我们总是说我们不关心谁杀死了马丁·路德·金。

We were concerned with WHAT killed Martin Luther King.

我们关心是什么杀死了马丁·路德·金。

And what killed Martin Luther King was a reactionary attitude that was afraid of change for the better in America.

杀死马丁·路德·金的是一种反动态度,这种态度害怕美国发生更好的变化。

It was trying to hold America, keep America still, when America was crying out to continue the evolution of freedom.

当美国大声疾呼要继续自由的发展时,它却试图控制美国,让美国保持静止。

I learned from Martin Luther King that you have to do what you think is right and accept the consequences as they come.

我从马丁·路德·金那里学到,你必须做你认为正确的事,并接受后果。

You can't do things to stay safe.

你无法做一些事情来保证安全。

Card: On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to killing Martin Luther King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison

卡牌:1969年3月10日,詹姆斯·厄尔·雷承认杀害马丁·路德·金罪,被判处99年监禁

Card: Three days later, Ray recanted his plea.

卡:三天后,雷撤回了他的请求。

Card: He spent the rest of his life declaring his innocence, until his death behind bars in April 1998.

卡德:他用余生宣告自己无罪,直到 1998 年 4 月在狱中去世。

Who is this?

这是谁?

Our team turned to Facebook, then headed to Memphis to find out.

我们的团队转向 Facebook,然后前往孟菲斯寻找答案。

Fifty years after Dr. King's assassination, two long-time Memphis residents talk about the city.

金博士遇刺五十年后,两位孟菲斯的长期居民谈论这座城市。

Clayborne Carson discusses King's relationship to the Bible, his opinion of Marx, and the science fiction novel that helped shape his activism.

克莱伯恩·卡森讨论了金与圣经的关系、他对马克思的看法,以及帮助塑造他的激进主义的科幻小说。

The search for James Earl Ray lasted more than two months and spanned five countries.

对詹姆斯·厄尔·雷的搜寻持续了两个多月,跨越了五个国家。

Explore the images that tell the story.

探索讲述故事的图像。

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King forever bound the two men in history.

马丁·路德·金博士的遇刺将这两个人永远地绑在了历史上。

The murder, the manhunt, and the decades-long investigation — a timeline of events related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.

谋杀、追捕和长达数十年的调查——与马丁·路德·金博士遇刺有关的事件时间表。

Hampton Sides discusses writing the book Hellhound on His Trail , a dramatic account of the search for James Earl Ray after he assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King.

汉普顿·塞兹讨论了撰写《地狱猎犬的踪迹》一书,该书以戏剧性的方式描述了刺杀马丁·路德·金博士后寻找詹姆斯·厄尔·雷的故事。

Dr. King's assassination shocked the country and triggered the largest, costliest, and most ambitious manhunt in American history.

金博士的遇刺震惊了全国,并引发了美国历史上规模最大、代价最高、野心最大的搜捕行动。

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