He used up a large sum of government money in his lifetime including, housing, incarceration, and feeding him. After reading this book you too will ask "Who Killed Martin Luther King, Jr. What if I told you a man that killed one of the most well-known African American icons of the 20th century could have been stopped James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King Jr. The jury found Ray "not guilty." The real killer has never been apprehended. A former prosecutor presented the case and Ray was defended by an attorney of his choice.
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Would an assassin take time to leave incriminating evidence before fleeing the scene? In 1994 a former federal judge and a jury from Memphis heard attorneys present a televised mock trial of James Earl Ray. The radio had Ray's identification number etched into it. The rifle with Ray's fingerprints on it was carefully left on Main Street in Memphis in a box, along with Ray's prison radio. Solving the riddles behind the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. But among legal and historical scholars, there is a broad consensus that James Earl Ray, though he may not have acted alone, is the gunman who shot Martin Luther King.
Little is known about his activities in the. Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Although the FBI stated that the bullet was too damaged to test, ballistics experts agree that newly developed technology, a scanning electron microscope, can determine whether the rifle with Ray's fingerprints was the weapon. In April of 1967 Ray escaped from prison by hiding inside a bakery van. Weeks later a man by the name of James Earl Ray was arrested and sentenced to 99 years in prison for the assassination.
Nothing but the truth will set us free." The rifle that Ray admits he brought to Memphis in April, 1968 was never test-fired its bullets were never compared to the bullet that killed Martin Luther King, Jr. Her son, Dexter King, told a Tennessee court on February 20, 1997: "It is right, for the sake of truth and justice that there be a trial to get at the truth. Now Martin Luther King, Jr.'s widow, Coretta Scott King, has joined Ray in seeking a trial to set the record straight. Tennessee law provides Ray with the right to a trial, but his eight requests for a trial have been denied. A few days after he was coerced into pleading guilty, he withdrew his guilty plea.
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