[8] He was sentenced to twenty years in prison for repeated offenses. Best Known For: James Earl Ray is infamous for assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Lawson assisted Pepper and the King family over the years in their investigation, during which Dexter King and Andrew Young participated in interviews with witnesses. Ray himself countered that he was not the only one involved in the crime. But that biography doesnt explain why or how Ray moved from committing property crime and supporting racists, to killing a national icon. BND archives Ray blinked in the original photo. Frustrated with his results and jilted by the prostitute with whom he had formed a relationship, Ray left Mexico on or around November 16, 1967, [11] arriving in Los Angeles three days later. Martin Luther King Jr. met Malcolm X just once. I think that contributed to the sense of conspiracy, like a What are they hiding? kind of thing. (Sides also appears in the PBS American Experience documentary on this subject, Roads to Memphis, airing Tuesday.). Born on March 10, 1928, in Alton, Illinois, was the eldest of George and Lucille Ray's nine children. Findings by federal authorities and the House Select Committee on Assassinations are confident about some things. Among those who could have been pardoned was James Earl Ray, who just a decade before had assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis. Please try again later. While there, Ray attended a local bartending school and took dance lessons. We found no reliable evidence to support Jowers' allegations that he conspired with others to shoot Dr. King from behind Jim's Grill. Was James The Democrat Party and Biden are no longer slave owners to Black America as they have a right to make an independent and educated decision. Then Loyd Jowers, the owner of Jims Grill, began claiming publicly that he was involved in a conspiracy to kill King. They were recaptured on June 13. [12] His chief interest, however, was the George Wallace presidential campaign. In court, Ray answered the standard series of questions about whether he was knowingly and voluntarily admitting he committed murder. Loyd Jowers was a Memphis restaurant owner who inserted himself into the narrative about King's death in the course of a 1993 television interview during which he claimed to have been party to a larger conspiracy to assassinate King. If the King family wanted a rubber stamp of their own view of the facts, they got it.". Additionally, Jowers has been inconsistent about other aspects of the alleged conspiracy, including his role in it, Raoul's responsibilities, whether and how Memphis police officers were involved, and the disposal of the alleged murder weapon. The FBI had just caught James Earl Ray at Heathrow Airport in London. "I believe you," Dexter responded and shook his hand. Write to Olivia B. Waxman at olivia.waxman@time.com. However, the verdict was of no real significance given that virtually nothing was at stake (this was not a criminal trial, and the defendant was only being sued for a mere $100 and thus had little motivation for vigorously defending himself), allowing the King family to present a mostly unopposed version of events and guide the jury to return the verdict they desired. Biden supported Planned Parenthood, whose founder, Margaret Sanger referred to blacks as human weeds and wanted abortions to exterminate the black population. James Earl Ray was white. No other parties (including any branches or agents of the United States Government) were named as defendants in King v. Jowers, and no identification was provided by Jowers of the purported other parties with whom he colluded to assassinate King. A courtroom artist, Sandhu drew Ray during his trial for a prison escape attempt. [36] However, Ray spent the remainder of his life unsuccessfully attempting to withdraw his guilty plea and secure a jury trial. Because Ray suddenly pleaded guilty in 1969, less than a year after the shooting, there was no trial. The rifle Ray had purchased in Birmingham was found near the front of the boardinghouse with Rays fingerprints on it. Ray met Anna Sandhu in 1977. Our thorough investigation, Kowalski said recently, just like four official investigations before it, found no credible or reliable evidence that Doctor King was killed by conspirators who framed James Earl Ray. JFK conspiracy theories: The grassy knoll, Umbrella Man, LBJ and Ted Cruzs dad, Dave Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of King, said that the King children are part of a larger population of American people who need to believe that the assassination of a King or a Kennedy must be the work of mightier forces rather than victims of small-fry, lifetime losers., People need to see something of a balance between effect and cause, Garrow said. In the mock trial, the prosecutor was Hickman Ewing. He defended Ray in a mock trial on HBO in 1993 (Ray was found not guilty), and filed and tried the Memphis civil suit that found the government liable for Kings death. Louis. Please attempt to sign up again. However, Jowers had long asserted he had no involvement in the event before suddenly and bizarrely claiming, twenty-five years after the fact, he had been paid to hire a hit man to kill Martin Luther King. Biden authored a crime bill that forced more black males into prison. Ray hired Jack Kershaw as his new attorney, and Kershaw publicly argued and promoted Ray's claim that he was not responsible for the assassination of King. James Earl Ray confessed to shooting King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Bradley Beal hits season high as Wizards fight to the finish in Atlanta, Caps trade away two more veterans, add young defenseman Rasmus Sandin, Commanders cut Carson Wentz and Bobby McCain, clearing cap space. His chosen profession was theft and armed robbery, and after his third felony conviction in 1959, he was sentenced to 20 years in the Missouri State Penitentiary. Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), African American founding fathers of the United States, Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Pueblo, Colorado), Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, San Francisco. His family believes James Earl Ray was f Arnold Hirsch, influential historian of urban segregation, dies at 69. At one point, he claimed a person named Raul told him to kill King, but theres no convincing proof of such an idea, according to Sides. At the same time, the misconduct of Hoover and the FBI was coming to light. [9], Following his escape, Ray stayed on the move throughout the United States and Canada, going first to St. Louis and then onward to Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, and Birmingham, Alabama, where he stayed long enough to buy a 1966 Ford Mustang and get an Alabama drivers license. [26][27] He picked up his belongings and fled north to Canada, arriving in Toronto three days later, where he hid for over a month and acquired a Canadian passport under the false name of Ramon George Sneyd. * The request timed out and you did not successfully sign up. The verdict came as the Justice Department was reinvestigating the case because of Jowerss claims and those of a former FBI agent who said he had found evidence in Rays car in 1968 linking him to Raul but had withheld it until 1997. Even the reference of aint is racist as to say those in Black America are not educated. Among those who could have been pardoned was James Earl Ray, who just a decade before had assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis. After this, Ray was on the run and was captured in the UK. [1], In February 1935, Ray's father, known by the nickname Speedy, passed a bad check in Alton, Illinois, and then moved to Ewing, Missouri, where the family changed their name to Raynes to avoid law enforcement. Recy Taylors gang rape was horrific. In 2000, even after reviewing the results of the 1999 civil trial in Memphis, Kowalski concluded that Ray was guilty and that there was no government conspiracy. [16] On March 18, 1968, Ray left Los Angeles and began a cross-country drive to Atlanta, Georgia. U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations, Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act, King: A Filmed Record Montgomery to Memphis, The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306, Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World; Nicolas Flagello: The Passion of Martin Luther King. Now weve got to do something about this, weve got to give them something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. Johnson continued, Ill have those ni**ers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.. Housed at the Missouri State Penitentiary, Ray managed to escape the facility in 1967. For example, he not only identified two different people as the assassin, but also most recently claimed that he saw the assassin and did not recognize him. No. As far as I knew, he was a common bandit who suddenly tried for his 15 minutes. The biggest notoriety he had was as an escape artist. Tennessee On April 4, 1968, Ray stood in the bathtub of the bathroom, balanced his rifle on a window ledge and shot King as the civil rights leader was standing on a balcony outside of his motel room. Could James Brown keep Boston from erupt That stain of bloodshed: After Kings assassination, RFK calmed an angry Fifty years after Kings assassination, promise and pain on the avenue that For one musician, D.C. was the place for black entertainers. During a rainstorm on February 1, 1968, two black sanitation workers in Memphis lost their lives when the trucks compactor Your answer to that one is also yes. Ray died at Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 23, 1998. Indeed, compelling evidence including Rays fingerprints on the rifle that was later determined to be the murder weapon seemed to point to him. James Lawson, a Memphis pastor and civil rights institution who helped mentor King, said he began visiting Ray in the Memphis jail in 1969 when Ray complained The full transcript of the trial remains posted on the King Centers website. I dont believe James Earl Ray killed my father. In a time of chaos, a breakout year for black athletes, At Folsom prison, Johnny Cash found his cause. The U.S. Justice Department concluded in June 2000 the "allegations originating with Loyd Jowers are not credible": After reviewing all available materials from prior official investigations and other sources, including the evidence from King v. Jowers, and after conducting a year and a half of original investigation, we have concluded that the allegations originating with Loyd Jowers and Donald Wilson are not credible. The Justice Department also found the evidence presented in the civil trial to be lacking in credibility: The evidence introduced in King v. Jowers to support various conspiracy allegations consisted of either inaccurate and incomplete information or unsubstantiated conjecture, supplied most often by sources, many unnamed, who did not testify. In summary, we have determined that Jowers' claims about an alleged conspiracy are materially contradictory and unsubstantiated. The latter (King vs. Jowers) was a civil suit brought by agents of King's estate (including his widow, Coretta Scott King) against a man named Loyd Jowers, who claimed to have taken part in a conspiracy to assassinate King. King was then assassinated by James Earl Ray, a Democrat. Hoover once told a group of reporters, on the record, that King was the most notorious liar in the country., You are done: A secret letter to Martin Luther King Jr. sheds light on FBIs malice. The jury was clearly convinced by the extensive evidence that was presented during the trial that, in addition to Mr. Jowers, the conspiracy of the Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband. Three days after pleading guilty he recanted his confession, and for the next 28 years maintained his innocence, but by then it was too late. An FBI Today, Planned Parenthood is predominately in the black community with half of all black pregnancies ending in an abortion. He signed a detailed stipulation of facts to the shooting, having had weeks to review it, asking only that a reference to his activities for Wallace be deleted. Check here if you would like to receive subscription offers and other promotions via email from TIME group companies. Certainly he hated Dad. But he didnt have the FBI, the CIA, the Memphis police or the mafia.. I think there was a major conspiracy to remove Doctor King from the American scene, said Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a 78-year-old civil rights icon. Is this who we now are? He escaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1967 by hiding in a truck transporting bread from the prison bakery. I found gaps in his movements that are mysterious and you just dont know who hes meeting with. He also initially sought compensation for his story, and his friends and relatives acknowledge that he hoped to make money from his account. Ray died in prison on April 23, 1998. For example, in an impromptu, recorded conversation with a state investigator, Jowers characterized a central feature of his story that someone besides Ray shot Dr. King with a rifle other than the one recovered at the crime scene as "bullshit." Youre going to kill somebody and then drop the gun right there? Ray claimed that he had given the gun to Raul, but only Rays fingerprints were on the gun. [citation needed]. So, despite 50 years of evidence fingering James Earl Ray and a consensus about his role among most scholars who study King, some people remain unconvinced. Until her own death in 2006, Coretta Scott King, who endured the FBIs campaign to discredit her husband, was open in her belief that a conspiracy led to the assassination. He shot and killed King in Memphis on April 4, 1968, confessing to the crime the following March. In 2000, the report authored by assistant attorney general Barry Kowalski found that Jowers had changed his story repeatedly and that neither he nor the ex-FBI agent were credible. The family wasnt seeking money, just information. Some witnesses, including then-New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell, said they saw a man moving in the thick bushes behind Jims Grill, below the bathroom. After returning to Alton and moving back in with his grandmother, he blazed through a number of odd jobs. Even those who believe that Ray, who died in prison in 1998, killed King tend to think that he received assistance from someone, whether it was his two brothers or the FBI or the mafia. We are going to continue our conversation about the King assassination. Astride all this controversy for the last 40 years has been William Pepper, a New York lawyer and civil rights activist who knew and worked with King. Exactly what led Ray to kill King continues to be a source of debate, as does his role in the murder. I have no stake in our outcome, Blakey said. Nor have any of the conspiracy theories advanced in the last 30 years, including the Jowers and the Wilson allegations, survived critical examination. This case overlooked so much contradictory evidence that never was presented, what other option did the jury have but to accept Mr. Pepper's version? Magazines, Or create a free account to access more articles. In recent years,Pepper has tracked down witnesses in Memphis who support his theory of the case: that J. Edgar Hoover used his longtime assistant, Clyde Tolson, to deliver cash to members of the Memphis underworld, that those shadowy figures then hired a sharpshooting Memphis police officer, and that officer not Ray fired the fatal shot. I think it was all planned.. The U.S. Department of Justice found Jowers' claims were without merit and explained that he'd never been able to provide any support for later assertions about his involvement in King's death: When Jowers has confessed, he has contradicted himself on virtually every key point about the alleged conspiracy. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? He insisted that a man he'd met in Canada, who went by the name of Raoul, had orchestrated the murder and ultimately shot King. His sister Marjorie died in a fire as a young child in 1933. On the map, the locations of the church and residence of Martin Luther King Jr. were circled. Jowers further maintained that Ray did not shoot Dr. King and that he did not believe Ray knowingly participated in the conspiracy. By signing up you are agreeing to our, What Happened to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last Campaigns, The 25 Defining Works of the Black Renaissance. They sued Jowers for participation in a conspiracy to murder King. [6] Ray left school at the age of 12. [37] A year was added to Ray's previous sentence, increasing it to a full century. That weapon was not the weapon, Martin Luther King III said. Yes, the President is part of the political party. In 1949 he left for Los Angeles, where in October of that year police arrested him for robbing a cafe. [38] The tests ultimately proved inconclusive. No one saw the actual shot fired. WebJames Earl Ray deceased in prison; was a U.S. prisoner, and a British prisoner, apprehended June 8, White was arrested after a citizen recognized him from an article in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper. I had nothing to do with killing [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.]. When considered in light of all other available relevant facts, the trial's evidence fails to establish the existence of any conspiracy to kill Dr. King. At the time, it was said to be the FBI's most expensive and biggest investigation in its history. No I didn't." Republicans introduced the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to end slavery, give citizenship, and give Black America the right to vote. The Rays struggled to make ends meet, and as a consequence, the family moved several times during the early part of Ray's childhood. Furthermore, according to these rumors, the reason this relatively new information (King was murdered on 4 April 1968) comes as a surprise to many is the "mainstream media" intentionally suppressed it after the government's role in King's death was exposed: It's common for exaggerated claims to contain a few elements of truth, and that factor comes into play in this conspiracy theory rumor for a few reasons. Whether youre a lifelong resident of D.C. or you just moved here, weve got you covered. John Karl Kershaw (October 12, 1913 September 7, 2010) was an American attorney best known for challenging the official account of the 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 Raul to kill the civil rights leader. He had Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry and had a Catholic upbringing. Pepper and his investigators worked for years to locate Raul and eventually they identified an autoworker from Yonkers, N.Y., as the man they believe manipulated Ray. President Lyndon B. Johnson sold them into the Democrat plantation stating, These Negroes, theyre getting pretty uppity these days and thats a problem for us since theyve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppitiness. Pepper was sued once for defamation, by an Army soldier he accused of participating in the conspiracy, and a South Carolina judge entered an $11 million default judgment against him in 2000. As noted in the New York Times' report of the verdict, the one-sided presentation of the case allowed for no other result: John Campbell, an assistant district attorney in Memphis, who was not part of the civil proceedings but was part of the criminal case against Mr. Ray, said, "I'm not surprised by the verdict. His family believes James Earl Ray was framed. With rates currently down to half that in 2018 (18%), these theories seem unlikely to go away any time soon. But they are unanimous on one key point: James Earl Ray did not kill Martin Luther King. Given the minor sum of money awarded, a jury would have little incentive to not find in favor of an account supported by both sides of a flawed case. Whitsett responded, Im not going to be silenced and has since sued the Michigan Democrat Party. After this, Ray was on the run and was captured in the UK. Idaho Murders: What Led Police to Bryan Kohberger, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads, Name: James Earl, Birth Year: 1928, Birth date: March 10, 1928, Birth State: Illinois, Birth City: Alton, Birth Country: United States. The most serious of those came in 1959, when Ray, on parole for an earlier theft, robbed two St. Louis grocery stores, as well as another in Alton. In fact, the idea that there had been a conspiracy to kill King that, even if Ray fired the gun, he did so at the behest of larger forces began to spread right away, and not without some reason. Kershaw convinced Ray to submit to a polygraph test as part of an interview with Playboy. Rather, it appears that Jowers contrived and promoted a sensational story of a plot to kill Dr. King. [14] The notion of living in Rhodesia continued to appeal to Ray for several years afterwards, and it was his intended destination after King's assassination. Then figure out what the total cost of the trip would be.? 2023 TIME USA, LLC. In the U.S. Senate, Democrat Majority Leader, Robert KKK Byrd, was a former Grand Kleagle, a We were living in the period of assassinations,Young said. He then repudiated his claims when required to testify to them under oath: At the time of the assassination, Loyd Jowers owned and operated Jim's Grill, a tavern below the rooming house where James Earl Ray rented a room on April 4, 1968. Is that your verdict? James Earl Ray did not have cancer. Claim: The U.S. government was sued and found culpable for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., but the news media refused to report it. He paid $8.50 for a weeks stay. However, dont expect the Democrats to give in without a fight. James Earl Ray, the man who confessed to killing Martin Luther King Jr. later recanted and insisted he was set up by a man named "Raul." I do think [Ray] had help, but I never found any proof that a group helped him, says Sides. Within days, Ray filed a motion to withdraw his plea, claiming he had been coerced by his attorney and the FBI. And the total amount of damages you find for the plaintiffs entitled to is one hundred dollars. Moreover, Jowers' repudiations, even under oath, his failure to testify during King v. Jowers, his refusal to cooperate with our investigation, his reported motive to make money from his claims, and his efforts along with his friends to promote his story all suggest a lack of credibility. His body was cremated and his ashes were flown to Ireland, the home of his maternal family's ancestors. All Rights Reserved. John Campbell, who investigated the case for years in the Shelby County, Tenn., district attorneys office, said that Rays version of events kept changing. His office issued a report in 1998 saying Ray was responsible. You can unsubscribe at any time. James Earl Ray began a record of scrapes, big and small, with the law serving terms in Joliet and Pontiac prisons in Illinois and Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas. Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.? [10], While in Mexico, Ray, using the alias Eric Starvo Galt, attempted to establish himself as a pornographic film director. "[45][46][47][48], Prompted by the King family's acceptance of some of the claims of conspiracy, United States Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a new investigation on August 26, 1998. Ray was born in 1928 and grew up outside St. Louis. According to the criminal justice system of the state of Tennessee, James Earl Ray fired the shot from the second-floor bathroom of the boardinghouse. King was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine outside room 306 when a single rifle bullet was fired into his lower jaw at 6:01 p.m. [7], Ray committed a variety of crimes prior to the murder of King. After Johnson successfully maneuvered Black America into the Democrat plantation, they became a strong voting bloc just as a young Joe Biden joined the U.S. Senate in 1973. [20] He told the store owners that he was going on a hunting trip with his brother. Even a 1978 special congressional committee said there was the "likelihood" that Ray did not act alone. It didnt help that Rays story kept changing. King was then assassinated by James Earl Ray, a Democrat. They want to tease Black America just enough to have them turn out to vote and then see them again in four years. Ray struggled to adapt to military life and was eventually discharged for ineptitude and lack of adaptability in 1948. For both our family and the nation, Coretta King said after the verdict, we had to get involved, because the system did not work.. He confessed to the crime on March 10, 1969, his 41st birthday,[34] and after pleading guilty he was sentenced to 99 years in prison.[35]. In March 1960 Ray started a 20-year sentence for the crimes. The mock trial jury finally acquitted Ray. After all, the FBI stalked King and his cohort in order to, as Sides puts it, ruin and smear the civil rights movement. The ugly reach of that campaign has only become clearer over the years. Many leaders like Candace Owens in the black community have begun to spread the message of #Blexit, a movement that encourages Black America to leave the Democrat Party. James Earl Ray was a supporter of George Wallace - who was a democrat in the 1960s but was on the side of segregation, which when you hear about t Was James earl ray white? Furthermore, the Justice Department's investigation determined no physical evidence whatsoever supported Jowers' multiple and conflicting accounts of his involvement in King's assassination, and Jowers stood to profit from his assertions: It was not until 1993, during a meeting with the producer of a televised mock trial of James Earl Ray, that Jowers first publicly disclosed the details of the alleged plot, including the names of the purported assassin and other co-conspirators. [49] On June 9, 2000, the United States Department of Justice released a 150-page report rejecting allegations that there was a conspiracy to assassinate King, including the determination of the Memphis civil court jury. [19], Ray was soon on the road again and drove his Mustang to Birmingham, Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Earl_Ray&oldid=1142126272, American people who died in prison custody, People extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States, Prisoners who died in Tennessee detention, United States Army personnel of World War II, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Pages using infobox person with multiple parents, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 99 years in prison (1 year was added after his re-capture for a total of 100 years), This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 17:21. He drove away in a white Ford Mustang before the area was barricaded, went to Atlanta and then to Canada and England before being arrested in July 1968. James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 April 23, 1998) was an American fugitive convicted for assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April4, 1968. Frederick Rudolph Yokom. Ray pleaded guilty to the murder of King on March 10, 1969. Ray replied, "No. Rays unreliability has meant the only way to find out what might have motivated him is to study the people he associated with and admired. Democrats, Biden still trying to enslave Black America. Mr. Ray was set up to take the blame.. That doesnt mean there are no questions left. Born in a poor family, Ray had a difficult childhood as his father could not support his family. He got a 99-year prison sentence, which he served until he died of liver failure due to hepatitis C on Apr. That some Americans didnt trust and still dont trust the governments conclusion on Kings murder says a lot about what was going on in America in the 1960s and 70s, when the Vietnam War and Watergate torpedoed Americans trust in government. The screen from the bathroom window was found on the ground below. Convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (19281998), Speeches, writings, movements, and protests, Initial convictions and first escape from prison, Martin Luther King Jr. assassination conspiracy theories, Interview with James Earl Ray by John Auble, United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, "James Earl Ray, 70, Killer of Dr. King, Dies in Nashville", "The assassin's brother: John Larry Ray marks time in Quincy, still trying to set the record straight", "James Earl Ray: The Man Who Killed Dr. Martin Luther King, chapter 3", "Report of laboratory, FBI headquarters to Memphis, Apr. On one key point: James Earl Ray did not shoot Dr. King from behind Jim 's.! 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