James Earl Ray

Mar 10, 1928 - Apr 23, 1998

James Earl Ray was an American criminal who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. Ray was convicted in 1969 after entering a guilty plea—thus forgoing a jury trial and the possibility of a death sentence—and was sentenced to 99 years of imprisonment.
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“Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King.”

James Earl Ray
Mar 10, 1928 - Apr 23, 1998
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