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    Room 306
    Room 306
    Room 306
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    Room 306

    By James Musgrave

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    Two rooms with the same number. Both events on the same day. Both events change history in different ways. A story about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from a veteran who had his own story about Room 306.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Musgrave
    Release dateSep 4, 2022
    ISBN9798215208946
    Room 306
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    James Musgrave

    James Musgrave has been in a Bram Stoker Finalist anthology, and he’s won the First Place Blue Ribbon for Best Historical Mystery, Forevermore, at the Chanticleer International Book Awards. His most recent publication, “Bug Motel,” is the first story in the Toilet Zone 3 Horror Anthology, Hellbound Books. "Jasmine," is in the anthology Draw Down the Moon published by Propertius Press. His adult short fiction anthology Valley of the Dogs, Dark Stories, won the Silver Medal at the 2021 Reader's Favorite international contest. Two of his historical mystery series are published through and curated by the American Library Association's Biblioboard.com.

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      Room 306 - James Musgrave

      Room 306

      James Musgrave

      Published by James Musgrave, 2022.

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      ROOM 306

      First edition. September 4, 2022.

      Copyright © 2022 James Musgrave.

      ISBN: 979-8215208946

      Written by James Musgrave.

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      ROOM 306

      By James Musgrave

      My name is David Harris . I want to share this story because it’s one of the main reasons I became politicized by what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called Nonviolent Resistance for active political change. Back then, I was just a Seaman out of Class A Radioman School in Bainbridge, Maryland. It was my first duty station on Little Creek Amphibious Base, Norfolk, Virginia, Room 306.

      The way I’ll write this tale down, I’ll try to place you in the scenes as they happen. I am now seventy-six-years-old, incapacitated by paralysis from an automobile accident that’s placed me in this nursing home, so I want this story told before I leave this mortal coil. My wife, Bonnie, and I never had children. She’s now dead. I know history repeats itself, and I see it happening again, today, as the voting rights are again being changed and manipulated, and the racist actions by the police are coming back, if they ever left, and even some of the names are the same. Like Floyd, for example. You know, George, the

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