Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr.
James Earl Ray, the plea of guilty to murder in ... its voluminous dossier on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray admitted that he was the rifleman who had felled King in Memphis ...
On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King while he was standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, TN. The ensuing manhunt would last more than two months and span five ...