(Contributed photo/FBI)Martin Luther King- whose birthday America celebrates today - was only 39 at the time of his death.King was fatally shot while standing on the second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. The Austrian automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche debuted his first design at the World’s Fair in Paris © 2020 A&E Television Networks, LLC. At the time, Wallace espoused a segregation of the races. Born in Mecca of humble origins, Muhammad married a wealthy widow at 25 years old and lived Three days after falling prey to an assassin in California, Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, just 30 yards from the grave of his assassinated older brother, President John F. Kennedy. George Wallace, working for his presidential campaign for a short time in California. During the next several weeks, the rifle, eyewitness reports, and fingerprints on the weapon all implicated a single suspect: escaped convict James Earl Ray.
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Once there, Ray rented a room in a house across the street from where King was staying, later firing a single bullet as the civil rights leader exited his motel room. Such reports helped to fuel the anticommunist hysteria in the United States during the late-1940s and 1950s. Family members said Ray Ray apparently stalked King in several appearances before going to Memphis.
William Pepper and others who do not believe James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. put stock in Ray’s claim he was at a gas station blocks away trying to get a flat tire in his trunk fixed at the time of the assassination.
Ray was trying to fly to Belgium, with the eventual goal, he later admitted, of reaching Rhodesia. The car still had Alabama tags when it was recovered in Atlanta after the assassination.Ray was a supporter of Alabama Gov. King was in Memphis in a show of solidarity for striking sanitation workers, delivering his famous "Promised Land" speech on April 3 at the Mason Temple Church in Memphis.A federal investigation said King was killed by one shot fired from a second-floor bathroom window at a roominghouse located across from the motel. He later confessed to the slaying - admissions he went on to recant - and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He was armed with a Remington Model 760 Gamemaster, a pump-action hunting rifle chambered in .30-06 and outfitted with a two-by-seven scope. Who was James Earl Ray? James Earl Ray James Earl Ray. On this day 50 years ago, James Earl Ray shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr. Produced and directed by Ivan Reitman, Ghostbusters starred Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis as disgraced parapsychology professors in New York City who turn to Two farmers walking near a quarry outside of Edinburgh, Scotland, find two small, dead bodies floating in the water, tied together. Witnesses saw a man flee the house following the assassination and Ray was identified after a package including a rifle and binoculars- both with the shooter's fingerprints on them - were found near the hotel.Ray fled Memphis just after the assassination, heading to Canada, where he stayed for more than a month.
Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images In December 1978, having assiduously reviewed the evidence, the House Select Committee on Assassinations found Ray’s story to be flawed and determined that he was the killer.