James Earl Ray

Assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (1928–1998)

James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998) was an American criminal 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, who had planned on living in exile in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), fled to London and was captured there.

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