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Article: Who murdered King? // 20 years later, Ray insists he's innocent, and some believe it
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 4, 1988
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. It is the evening of April 4, 1968. The Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. leans over a balcony railing at the Lorraine
Motel. The crack of a single shot from a high-powered rifle shatters
the air.
Suddenly, he's gone.
This much is clearly documented. But who killed the 39-year-old
civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
James Earl Ray, the small-time thief who pleaded guilty, has
spent the past 20 years trying to prove he didn't do it. He talks of
a shadowy "Raoul."
Other principals in the case hold widely varying opinions: Ray's
attorneys disagree on whether he was the triggerman; the prosecutor
acknowledges he wasn't confident about the case; the ...