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Police mugshot of James Earl Ray,
assassin of Dr Martin Luther King Jr,
arrested for armed robbery in 1952
Photograph: Everett
On 8 June 1968, James Earl Ray,
an escaped American convict,
was arrested in London and was charged
with the murder of Martin Luther King Jr,
the leader of the African-American
Civil Rights Movement.
In April 1967,
Ray had escaped from Missouri
State Penitentiary
where he had been serving a 20 year sentence
for armed robbery.
Martin Luther King was shot dead
on 4 April
1968 in Memphis
and Ray was soon identified
as the chief suspect.
Ray was traced to London
where he had been
staying
in an Earls Court hotel
James Earl Ray arrested - pictures from the
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2013/jun/08/
photography-james-earl-ray
James Earl Ray, right,
spoke with his
lawyer, Mark Lane,
before testifying before
the House
Assassinations Committee
in 1978.
Ray was convicted of assassinating
the Rev. Martin Luther King,
the civil
rights leader,
in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
Ray died in prison on April 23, 1998.
Photograph: Associated Press
Mark Lane, Early Kennedy Assassination
Conspiracy Theorist, Dies at 89
NYT
MAY 12, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/us/
mark-lane-who-asserted-that-kennedy-was-killed-in-conspiracy-dies-at-89.html
James Earl Ray 1928-1998
(James
Earl Ray) pleaded guilty
to the
killing and was sentenced
to 99
years in prison for the murder
to escape the
electric chair,
but three days
after his
jail sentence began
he withdrew his confession.
His case was taken up
by the
King family,
which has campaigned
for a
new investigation
into the assassination
in
the belief that it may
have been
plotted
by senior officials
in the
US Government.
The King family
issued a
statement
expressing grief
over the death of Ray
and
renewed its call
for a fresh inquiry.
(...)
Ray was known to have
a
fanatical hatred
of black people.
Even while serving
his
sentence in Missouri,
he rejected a move
to an
open farm prison
where conditions were better
on the grounds
he could not
live
with black inmates.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/23/newsid_2914000/2914267.stm
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
james-earl-ray
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/24/us/
james-earl-ray-70-killer-of-dr-king-dies-in-nashville.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/us/
mark-lane-who-asserted-that-kennedy-was-killed-in-conspiracy-dies-at-89.html
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2013/jun/08/
photography-james-earl-ray
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/apr/05/
james-early-ray-video
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/23/
newsid_2914000/2914267.stm
https://www.npr.org/2010/04/28/
126220703/hellhound-trails-king-assassin-james-earl-ray
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89372294 - April 4,
2008
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89372291 - April 4,
2008
http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/1999/nov/28/
life1.lifemagazine1
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/24/
us/james-earl-ray-70-killer-of-dr-king-dies-in-nashville.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/25/us/
hidden-evidence-claimed-in-king-slaying.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303764/
Martin-Luther-King-killer-James-Earl-Ray-unseen-footage-
45th-anniversary-civil-rights-leaders-death.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/02/
opinion/the-assassin-s-name-is-james-earl-ray.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/28/us/
dr-king-s-son-says-family-believes-ray-is-innocent.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/26/
us/james-earl-ray-in-coma-family-retains-hope.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/03/
arts/review-television-james-earl-ray-speaks-of-king-s-assassination.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/10/
archives/money-for-the-death-of-dr-king-is-called-goal-of-james-earl-ray.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/25/
archives/james-earl-ray-wants-mark-lane-to-replace-his-tenth-lawyer.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/26/
archives/james-earl-ray-a-decade-in-the-public-mind.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/13/
archives/james-earl-ray-seized-after-2day-manhunt-in-eastern-tennessee-area.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/12/
archives/manhunt-is-pressed-for-james-earl-ray-one-convict-gives-up.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/11/
archives/james-earl-ray-flees-a-prison-in-tennessee-with-6-other-convicts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/11/
archives/james-earl-ray-flees-a-prison-in-tennessee-with-5-other-convicts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/11/
archives/court-denies-appeal-of-james-earl-ray-in-dr-king-shooting.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/25/
archives/rays-testimony-is-off-until-today-his-brother-says-lawyer-pressed.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/28/
archives/james-earl-ray-to-move-to-us-prison-for-testing-first-thought-he.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/12/
archives/james-earl-ray-released-from-solitary-confinement.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/04/
archives/james-earl-ray-is-captured-in-abortive-jail-break.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/30/
archives/that-ray-alone-killed-him-he-slew-the-dreamer.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/17/
archives/books-of-the-times-further-confusion-on-james-earl-ray.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1968/11/18/
archives/a-chronicle-of-rays-whereabouts-from-the-time-he-fled-prison-until.html
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