Exmouth - The Esplanade Prior to 1968. And Two Assassinations.

            The Postcard

A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was printed in Great Britain. The card was posted on the 8th. June 1968 to:

Mr. & Mrs. Faulkner,
24, Gardner Road,
Warton,
Nr. Carnforth,
Lancs.

The message on the divided back was as follows:

"Having a really lazy time.
We have a one-room 
flatlet which is very comfy.
We mostly sit in the car
on the seafront looking
at the sea.
We have had a lovely
sunny day today, but the
weather is mixed. Much
room for improvement.
Love,
N."

James Earl Ray

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 8th. June 1968, at 11:15 in the morning, James Earl Ray was arrested at Heathrow Airport in London for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 

Ray was spotted while preparing to board an aeroplane to fly to Brussels. Scotland Yard officials, who had been tipped off by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said that he had been carrying a loaded pistol and two false Canadian passports bearing the name of Ramon Sneyd. 

During his 65 days on the run, Ray had been on a convoluted journey to evade capture. He first drove from Memphis, Tennessee to Birmingham, Alabama and then on to Atlanta. 

He then abandoned his car, rode a bus from Atlanta to Detroit, rode in a taxicab to Windsor, Ontario and got a train to Toronto on the 6th. April. After a month in Toronto, where he got a passport in the name of Sneyd, he flew to London on the 6th. May, then flew to Lisbon where he tried to get a visa to take a ship to Africa. 

Deciding that he would have a better chance in Belgium, he planned to go to Brussels after changing planes at London.

The Funeral of Robert F. Kennedy

Also on that day, the funeral of 42 year old Robert F. Kennedy, senator for New York since 1965, took place in Washington, D.C., two days after his assassination. 

Robert had been shot on the 5th. June in the Ambassador Hotel in LA by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a citizen of Jordan who had been a U.S. resident for 12 years. Sirhan shot Kennedy with three 22-calibre bullets, wounding him in the neck, shoulder and head.

Robert was buried in Arlington National Cemetery adjacent to the grave of his brother, John F. Kennedy. The last surviving brother, Edward M. Kennedy, gave the eulogy.
   

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