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  1. Apr 4, 2018 · For some 50 years, the federal government has maintained that James Earl Ray was the gunman who assassinated King that day. But within Martin Luther King’s family, there remains a persistent...

  2. 6 days ago · James Earl Ray (born March 10, 1928, Alton, Illinois, U.S.—died April 23, 1998, Nashville, Tennessee) was an American assassin of the African American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Ray had been a small-time crook, a robber of gas stations and stores, who had served time in prison, once in Illinois and twice in Missouri , and ...

  3. Jan 28, 2010 · On June 8, authorities apprehended the suspect in King’s murder, a small-time criminal named James Earl Ray, at London’s Heathrow Airport. Witnesses had seen him running from a boarding house...

  4. James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old convicted armed robber who had escaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Mo., on April 23, 1967, pleaded guilty on March 10, 1969, in Shelby County (Tenn.) Criminal Court to the first degree murder of Dr. King. He was sentenced to 99 years at the State penitentiary. Top of Page.

  5. Apr 24, 1998 · James Earl Ray dies at Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital while serving 99-year sentence for assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr; he was 70; Ray had been treated for liver disease...

  6. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested on June 8, 1968, at London 's Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary. [1] .

  7. Mar 28, 2024 · James Earl Ray, a career small-time criminal who became the object of a more than two-month manhunt before he was captured in England, pled guilty to the shooting and received a 99-year prison sentence.

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