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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 and was captured there.
The fingerprints were traced to an escaped convict named James Earl Ray. [60] Two months after assassinating King, Ray was captured at London's Heathrow Airport while he was trying to depart the United Kingdom for Angola, Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) or South Africa [61] on a false Canadian passport in the name of Ramon George Sneyd. [62]
Death of Earl Siward by James Smetham "How shameful it is that I, who could not die in so many battles, should have been saved for the ignominious death of a cow! At least clothe me in my impenetrable breastplate, gird me with my sword, place my helmet on my head, my shield in my left hand, my gilded battle-axe in my right, that I, the bravest ...
Last words have always fascinated people. Perhaps they hold an echo of wisdom or a biting witticism — or at least a hint about who's getting what in the will. And so, Business Insider put ...
The FBI's original tests on the bullet that killed King and the .30-06 hunting rifle were inconclusive. In 1997, tests were run comparing 12 test bullets from the alleged murder rifle, and the bullet that killed MLK. According to an affidavit filed by James Earl Ray's attorneys, unique barrel markings could not be found on the killing bullet. [22]
James Davis Ray Jr. (1918–1990), American botanist; James Earl Ray (1928–1998), American assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. Jim Ray (basketball) (born 1934), American basketball player; James Ray (singer) (1941–c. 1963), R&B singer in the early 1960s; James Edwin Ray (born 1941), U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and Vietnam-era prisoner-of-war
Legendary actor James Earl Jones has died. He was the iconic voice of Darth Vader, starred in hits like "The Lion King" and "Field of Dreams." The star of the screen and stage was 93.
As word of King's murder by James Earl Ray in Memphis spread on the evening of Thursday, April 4, crowds began to gather at 14th and U. Stokely Carmichael led members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to stores in the neighborhood demanding that they close out of respect. Although polite at first, the crowd fell out of ...