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James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998) was an American fugitive who was convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. After the assassination, Ray fled the United States and was captured in the United Kingdom.
Jan 10, 2024 · Who Was James Earl Ray? A confirmed racist and small-time criminal, James Earl Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968....
Apr 3, 2018 · James Earl Ray, a career criminal who had briefly served in the U.S. Army, shot the advocate of non-violent resistance. Ray was spotted at the scene and, almost immediately after the killing,...
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...
Apr 19, 2024 · 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 ...
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...
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...
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