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History > 20th century > USA > Civil rights > James Earl Ray, killer of Martin Luther King Jr. 1928-1998
Police mugshot of James Earl Ray, assassin of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, arrested for armed robbery in 1952
Photograph: Everett
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 past G Saturday 8 June 2013 12.14 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2013/jun/08/
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/
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.
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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
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