Whats the connection between the MLK assassination and Dr Pepper?
The connection here is a little more tenuous than the one for JFK above, but here it is: In 1968, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, and James Earl Ray was convicted of that crime after pleading guilty to it in 1969. However, within days of that conviction, Ray insisted that he was innocent, and kept insisting it right up until his death in 1998. For the last twenty years of Ray’s life, an attorney by the name of William F. Pepper, L.L.D., tried to reopen Ray’s case in order to get Ray a new trial. So (for those of you who can’t see this coming), the name of the attorney for the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King was… Dr. Pepper! Strange, but true.
