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Book Exploder: James McBride - Deacon King Kong

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Deems Clemons and Deakin King Kong

Deakin Cuffie Lampkin, a five ends Baptist church, became a walking dead man on a cloudy afternoon in September 1969. That's the day he marched out to the plaza of the causeway housing projects in South Brooklyn and pulled the trigger. The morning after the shooting, retired city workers, flop house bums, board housewives and ex convicts who congregated in the middle of the projects at the park bench near the flagpole had all kinds of theories about why old sport coat did it.

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