Who Really Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?
Several years ago, they interviewed the family of MLK jr. His wife was trying to get the case reopened because even though she believed J E Ray was a racist, she didn’t believe he killed her husband. I don’t necessarily think LBJ did it, or even a conspiracy. I’m just not sure JE Ray is the one who did.
Episode description: A look at recent conflicting allegations about the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In December 1999, a Memphis jury ruled that King was the victim of a conspiracy. But a few months later, a U.S. Department of Justice inquiry reaffirmed the original verdict that James Earl Ray had acted alone and concluded that the case should not be reopened.
Martin Luther King, Jr. has several biographers. None of them discusses the following story. Years ago, I sent two of the main biographers the information about his assassination that you are about to read. I never received a reply. So I figure I might as well go public with it. The convicted murderer was James Earl Ray. To the end, he protested his innocence. Was he convicted unfairly? You would think that some historian or investigative reporter would have asked: “How did the FBI identify James Earl Ray?” The FBI had to identify Ray before they arrested him. Ray protested to the end that he was innocent. You would think that the chain of events that led to his identification would be made public at some point, but it never is. So, I’m going to tell you. I know who made the ID and how. My father did it, along with three other men and the national FBI lab. Two of the other agents verified the following story to me in 1995. I have told this story before, in a footnote in a book I wrote
