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    James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998) was an American fugitive who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee...
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    the alleged assassin, James Earl Ray. Although his guilty plea eliminated the possibility of a trial before a jury, within days, Ray had recanted and claimed...
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    laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested on June...
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  • governor of Indiana James Enos Ray Jr. (1874–1934), American politician James Davis Ray Jr. (1918–1990), American botanist James Earl Ray (1928–1998), American...
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    James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor. He has been described as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors for...
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    about the 1977 escape of James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., from nearby Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. Ray covered only about 12...
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  • allegedly shot by James Earl Ray. Jowers had remained silent for twenty-five years after King's assassination. After watching Ray's HBO mock trial on...
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    her father's sense of humor. In the 1990s, she supported a retrial of James Earl Ray and publicly stated that she did not hate him. That decade saw King's...
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  • James Earl Ray (July 27, 1957 – December 26, 2023) was an American professional basketball player. After playing college basketball for the Jacksonville...
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  • assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, claiming that his client James Earl Ray was an unwitting participant in a ploy devised by a mystery man named...
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  • government to kill King. According to Jowers, the alleged assassin, James Earl Ray, was a scapegoat, and was not the only person responsible for assassinating...
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    Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was convicted of the...
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    George H. W. Bush. In 1993, Ewing was the prosecutor in a mock trial of James Earl Ray, who pled guilty to assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., but later...
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    April 20, 1968 #277, & also June 11, 1977 #351 Two months on the list James Earl Ray was apprehended June 8, 1968 in London, England by British authorities...
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  • assassination of Martin Luther King, whose killer—James Earl Ray—had been in his custody following Ray's escape to London in 1968. Eist served in the Merchant...
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  • Nashville to visit inmates at the Lois M. DeBerry Special Needs Facility. James Earl Ray spent the last few years of his life at this hospital. He died in April...
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    death, Dexter met with James Earl Ray, the man imprisoned for his father's 1968 murder. When confronting him, King asked Ray, "I just want to ask you...
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    June 10, 1977, when James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., escaped with six other inmates by climbing over a fence. Ray was captured less...
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    for his efforts to prove government culpability and the innocence of James Earl Ray in the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Pepper has also been...
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    eleven). One was Schier's partner, Gary Steven Krist, and the other was James Earl Ray, the infamous fugitive assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. The Ten Most...
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    explores the John F. Kennedy assassination, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998), about the assassination...
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  • Kirschner named the new character Charles Lee Ray based on Charles Mansion, Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray. Ray and his accomplice Eddie Caputo would be...
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  • military dissension in parts of the nation. 1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully...
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  • in Texas in 1951). Foreman's clients included General Edwin Walker, James Earl Ray, Charles Harrelson, Candy Mossler, and various organized crime kingpins...
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  • other small details. One version, the 760C, featured an 18.5" barrel. James Earl Ray used a .30-06 Model 760 Gamemaster to assassinate Martin Luther King...
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  • Wexler, Stuart; Hancock, Larry (2018). Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. Catapult. p. 201...
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    Gacy, Charles Manson, Lynette Fromme, Sara Jane Moore, Edmund Kemper, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, Richard Speck, Donald Harvey and Joseph Paul Franklin...
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    1990 project Songs of My People. Bingham was noted for interviewing James Earl Ray, the man who was convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King...
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    bushy area behind Jim's Grill. The shooter was identified by James Earl Ray's lawyers as Earl Clark, a police officer at the time of King's death, who had...
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  • background of James Earl Ray, King's murderer, including his usage of several aliases, including "Eric Starvo Galt". He questions Ray's ability to gain...
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