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In 1963, Robert Blake was cast as a regular on The Richard Boone Show, a one-hour anthology. Boone had just come off a very successful run on CBS with Have Gun, Will Travel and Blake was a guest star during the last season. The Boone show lasted only one year, so Blake went back to western guest shots and small movie roles, finally gaining the respect of the acting community with his rivoting performance as the psychotic killer in the motion picture In Cold Blood in 1967 and with a strong part in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here in 1969.
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Blake distinguished himself during the Civil War , while serving as a powder boy on board the U.S., "marblehead", in an engagement with a confederates in the Stono River, off Legareville, S.C., on December 25, 1863. The commander of the "marblehead", Richard W. Meade Jr., reported Blake excited his admiration by the cool and brave manner in which Blake fired the rifle gun. The action of the union worship caused the confederates to abandon their island position, leaving a caisson behind.
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Blake has maintained that someone else killed Bakley when he left her briefly in the car to retrieve a gun he'd left behind during dinner. That gun wasn't used to kill Bakley.
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Jury foreman Thomas Nicholson said prosecutors "couldn't put the gun in his hand" with evidence of gunshot residue or blood on Blake's clothing. Jurors considered the circumstantial evidence against Blake "flimsy" and discounted the testimony of two key prosecution witnesses, he said.
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