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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 to London, England and was captured in the United Kingdom.
The King family believes that Ray, who confessed to killing King in 1968, was framed by the FBI, which had harassed King while he was alive. They point to the lack of evidence linking Ray to the...
James Earl Ray is infamous for killing civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Learn about his criminal background, wife, death, and more.
James Earl Ray, the petty criminal who confessed to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., then recanted and spent decades seeking a trial, died April 23, 1998, of liver failure. He was 70.
Ray died while that campaign was ongoing, but — though the King family did win $100 in a 1999 wrongful death suit after the man charged as being part of a conspiracy didn’t show up to the trial —...
James Earl Ray died yesterday at Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital in Nashville while serving a 99-year sentence for the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Follow the events of April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis, and the manhunt for his alleged assassin, James Earl Ray. Learn how Ray fled across the country,...
Ray would live out his years in prison, still claiming his innocence. In June 1981, Ray was attacked in the prison library and stabbed 22 times by three Black inmates. He recovered but...
James Earl Ray was convicted of killing Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968 and escaped from prison in 1977. He later claimed he was framed and a conspiracy was involved, but offered no proof.
The question arises with new urgency because Ray, 68–who pleaded guilty to the murder, got sentenced without a trial to 99 years in prison and then recanted his confession–is in failing health.