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	James Ray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Earl Ray (1928-1998) was the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.
		James Ray and the Performance is a rock band with ties to goth rock.
		James Ray was a fl singer from the early 60s, whose biggest hit "If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody" was covered 2 years later by Freddie and the Dreamers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Ray (232 words)

	James Earl Ray by J.J. Maloney
		After Ray was arrested for the assassination of Martin Luther King, it was widely believed that those erroneous prints were proof that the King conspiracy began in Jefferson City, and that someone employed at the prison was involved.
		James Earl Ray had traveled to Montreal while on the run, and claimed that he'd met a man named "Raoul" in Montreal, and that Raoul had furnished him with money, and eventually masterminded the King assassination—-using Ray as the fall-guy.
		Ray, whose previous history as a criminal was notable only for its ineptness, fled to Canada after the killing, assumed a new identity complete with credentials, then fled to England where he was arrested trying to fly out to another country.
	crimemagazine.com /Assassinations/james.htm (3913 words)

	James Earl Ray-All About James Earl Ray
		James Earl Ray, the accused assassin of Dr. Martin Luther Martin Luther King, Jr., is knocMartin Luther King on death's door with an appeal for justice.
		Ray, who is suffering from severe cirrhosis of the liver, recently emerged from a coma after weeks of unconsciousness.
		Ray is not on the national organ donor list, and strict hospital guidelines would probably prevent his access to a life-saving organ transplant operation.
	www.africanaonline.com /mlk_james_earl_ray.htm (820 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/James Earl Ray
		James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998) was the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.
		Ray, who was white, was arrested at London Heathrow Airport on June 8, 1968 for King's April 4 assassination and he pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tennessee on March 10, 1969.
		Ray and six other convicts escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee on June 10, 1977 shortly after Ray testified that he did not shoot King to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, but were recaptured on June 13 and returned to prison.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/James_Earl_Ray (404 words)

	Convicted King assassin James Earl Ray, 70, dies
		James Earl Ray was born March 10, 1928, in a poor neighborhood in Alton, Ill., the oldest child of George and Lucille Ray.
		Ray grew up there, on an all-but-barren 60-acre farm the family bought while his father was out on bond for a forgery conviction.
		Ray would spend much of his adolescent years under the influence of a wayward uncle, brawling in barrooms, cavorting with prostitutes, rolling drunks and breaking into houses.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/98/04/24/ray_2-0.html (939 words)

	Confessed King assassin James Earl Ray dies
		Ray pleaded guilty to the crime and signed a court stipulation that constituted a broad confession.
		Ray's body was removed from the hospital shortly after he died, and Donel Campbell, commissioner of the correction department, said an autopsy would likely be conducted.
		Ray developed the cirrhosis-like liver problem as the result of a prison knife fight and subsequent surgery.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/98/04/23/0423ray.html (741 words)

	CNN - Autopsy confirms Ray died of liver failure - April 24, 1998
		NASHVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) -- An autopsy Friday confirmed that James Earl Ray, the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., died from the failure of multiple internal organs due to cirrhosis of the liver, which was caused by a chronic hepatitis infection.
		Ray, who confessed to King's murder, then recanted, had sought a trial for nearly 30 years for the 1968 assassination of the civil rights leader.
		Ray was to be cremated and his ashes flown to Ireland, home of his family's ancestors.
	www.cnn.com /US/9804/24/ray.autopsy.pm (616 words)

	CNN - James Earl Ray awakens from coma - Dec. 25, 1996
		James Earl Ray, who suffers from liver and kidney disease, was upgraded from critical to serious condition Thursday, said Cheryl Goforth, chief operating officer for Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital.
		Jerry Ray contends his brother was "set up as a fall guy" and was not the one who shot the civil rights leader on April 4, 1968, at a Memphis hotel.
		James Earl Ray was moved from Riverbend State Prison, where he was serving a 99-year sentence for the King murder, to the hospital when his liver began bleeding.
	edition.cnn.com /US/9612/26/ray.update (703 words)

	CNN - James Earl Ray, convicted King assassin, dies - April 23, 1998
		Ray was serving a 99-year term for the assassination of King in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
		Ray's father was quoted saying his son was not smart enough to have pulled off such a crime by himself.
		Ray came as close as he ever would to being absolved in King's assassination in a March 1997 meeting with one of the civil rights leader's sons, Dexter King.
	www.cnn.com /US/9804/23/ray.obit (978 words)

	#41, January 1997: James Earl Ray
		Ray was given a mock trial with a retired judge, a jury of his peers from Memphis, Tennessee, actual Memphis prosecutors, and his own legal defense team.
		And while a bundle of Ray's belongings was dropped outside the crime scene (including a weapon with his prints on it which has never, repeat never been proven to be the murder weapon), his prints are found nowhere within the room from which the government alleges the shots were fired.
		Ray has always maintained that he was framed for the crime by a handler named Raoul, who employed him in a gunrunning scheme.
	iwhome.com /ComicNews/rants/rant41.html (989 words)

	James Earl Ray Dead At 70 - CBS News
		Ray, who was serving a 99-year prison sentence for the 1968 slaying, suffered from kidney and liver failure and had been hospitalized repeatedly since late 1996.
		Ray's lawyers maintained that he was a "patsy" who was set up to take the blame for King's murder by members of a much larger conspiracy.
		Ray, a fugitive from a Missouri prison whre he was serving time for robbery, was staying in a flophouse near the Lorraine at the time of the assassination.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/1998/04/23/national/main7900.shtml (962 words)

	Online NewsHour: James Earl Ray Trial -- February 20, 1997
		WILLIAM PEPPER, Attorney for James Earl Ray: As to this petition, Your Honor, and this effort, Your Honor will recall that as long ago as June 6, 1994, Your Honor ordered that the petition be allowed to inspect and test fire the rifle in evidence.
		Ray, history will record that his rights were fully respected, and the legal system made every effort to find out the truth about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Ray was actually retried, the only issue that the jury would be considering is the proof as to Mr.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/law/february97/ray1_2-20.html (1342 words)

	CNN - Autopsy confirms liver disease in James Earl Ray death - April 24, 1998
		NASHVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) -- An autopsy was completed Friday on the body of James Earl Ray, a confessed killer who recanted and spent nearly 30 years before his death proclaiming his innocence and seeking a trial for the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
		Funeral arrangements were pending, but Ray was to be cremated and his ashes flown to Ireland where the family's ancestors are from.
		Jerry Ray told CNN on Friday that his brother didn't want to be buried or have his final resting place be in the United States, because of "the way the government has treated him."
	edition.cnn.com /US/9804/24/ray.death.folo (327 words)

	James Earl Ray is Survived by a Family of Troubling Questions - May 1998
		This is true for James Earl Ray, Dr. Martin Luther King's convicted assassin who died in prison April 23 of liver failure at age 70.
		Ray's death ends the King Family's campaign to gain him a trial where the truth could be determined once and for all.
		First, Ray's bundled sheet was dropped on the sidewalk across from the Lorraine, presumably before he fled in a white Mustang.
	www.nationalcenter.org /NVMurdockJamesEarlRay.html (860 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr.: Conspiracy Theories
		An escaped convict, Ray rented a room in Memphis across from the Lorraine Motel where King was staying while mediating a sanitation workers' strike.
		Ray's fingerprints were found on a pair of binoculars and the rifle, which records show he had purchased six days before the shooting.
		Until he died in prison on April 23, 1998, Ray maintained his innocence, spinning a series of outlandish, often contradictory conspiracy theories, beginning with the reason he initially confessed to the murder: Ray claimed it was coerced by his lawyer, who was angling for a lucrative movie deal.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/mlk1.html (682 words)

	MLK Assassination Rifle Tests Impeded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ray confessed to the murder under a coercive situation involving his legal counsel; yet even as he plead guilty, he asserted that he was simply a patsy in a much larger conspiracy.
		Ray's days among the living are numbered, and his most likely window to a trial hinges on proving that Ray's 30.06 rifle, found near the scene of the assassination, was not actually used to kill King.
		None of Ray's defense attorneys have ever been allowed to examine the rifle, although previous tests by the FBI and the House Select Committee on Assassinations were unable to verify that Ray's rifle was the murder weapon.
	www.parascope.com /articles/0497/rifle1.htm (1484 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 8 \| 1968: James Earl Ray quizzed over King death
		James Earl Ray is being questioned by police after he was arrested by Scotland Yard officers at Heathrow Airport as he tried to board a flight to Brussels.
		James Earl Ray was jailed for 99 years in Memphis after admitting that he murdered Dr Luther King.
		Ray later retracted his guilty plea and protested his innocence and by the 1990s his continued requests for a new trial gained momentum.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/8/newsid_4400000/4400001.stm (467 words)

	! James Earl Ray, Accused Assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ray's legal team pushed hard for new tests on the alleged assassination rifle, hoping to pry open the doors of justice with new ballistics evidence.
		And with Ray's death, there is very little inertia left for the case -- except, of course, for the massive latent energy contained in the public's overwhelming skepticism towards the government's account of the assassination.
		Ray and his family, but also for the entire nation." She then renewed her call for a national commission that would fully probe her husband's killing.
	www.parascope.com /mx/articles/rayIsDead.htm (1460 words)

	James Earl Ray
		James Earl Ray was born to Lucille and George Ellis Ray.
		Ray claimed he was convinced by his attorney to plead guilty, without presenting a defense.
		James would always send me notice of any radio or TV segments that were going to be aired regarding his plight and urge me to listen or watch.
	www.maxautographs.com /james_earl_ray.htm (1695 words)

	Probe V4N2: James Earl Ray's Hospitalization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The weekend before Christmas, James Earl Ray, the convicted, yet disputed, assassin of Martin Luther King, was transferred from the Riverbend State Prison in Nashville, Tenn. to the Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital.
		Ray, 68, has been suffering from cirrhosis of the liver and kidney failure, which led to internal bleeding.
		Ray’s brother, on Christmas Eve, signed a request that Ray not be given life-support if his condition should become critical.
	www.webcom.com /ctka/pr197-ray.html (1271 words)

	James Earl Ray - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ray was quickly extradited to Tennessee and charged with King's murder, confessing to the assassination on March 10, 1969, (though he recanted this confession three days later) and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
		Ray, a presumed white supremacist and segregationist, had allegedly killed King because of the latter's extensive civil rights work.
		Ray died in prison on April 23, 1998 at age 70 from complications related to kidney disease, caused by hepatitis C probably contracted as a result of a blood transfusion given after a stabbing while at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/James_Earl_Ray (588 words)

	Real History Archives Martin Luther King Assassination (alleged assassin: James Earl Ray)
		James Earl Ray confessed in court to the crime, and was sentenced to life instead of being given the death penalty due to that confession.
		Ray's confession was forced upon him by his lawyer, who threatened Ray with the Death penalty.
		James Earl Ray was not a trained sniper, nor is there any evidence that he practiced with a gun.
	www.realhistoryarchives.com /collections/assassinations/mlk.htm (517 words)

	Online NewsHour: James Earl Ray Dies -- April 23, 1998
		But, in fact, if James Earl Ray carried off the assassination of Dr. King for a few dollars out of St. Louis or Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK because he wanted to put himself in the history books, it almost takes away the meanings of their death.
		We know that James Earl Ray did not have access to the technology that could forward him the credentials to do what he did after the act.
		But that government war against Dr. King took place on one hand, at the same time that James Earl Ray and a group of racists wanting to kill King for a few dollars proceeded on their own, toward that eventual assassination.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/race_relations/jan-june98/ray_4-23.html (1857 words)

	Videotape of James Earl Ray's autopsy for sale - Courttv.com - People
		Ray intended to hold a news conference just below the balcony where King was felled by a rifle slug.
		Ray said he needs money to continue a legal fight over the.30-caliber hunting rifle identified as the firearm used to kill King.
		James Earl Ray died of liver disease in Nashville in 1998 while serving a 99-year prison sentence for King's murder.
	www.courttv.com /people/2005/0405/ray_ap.html (394 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Questions left hanging by James Earl Ray's death
		Ray then argued that he had been coerced into making the plea and that he had been duped as part of a larger plot.
		Ray claimed he was set up by a shadowy gun dealer he met in Montreal and knew only as Raoul and said he was off changing a tyre when the shooting happened.
		Ray's lawyers argued that more sensitive tests developed since the 1970s might show the gun was not the murder weapon.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/82893.stm (533 words)

	James Earl Ray: The Man Who Killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
		First, did James Earl Ray kill Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, and second, was the assassination the culmination of a conspiracy to silence the leader of America’s non-violent civil rights and anti-war movement?
		Perhaps Ray was a patsy for a wide-reaching conspiracy.
		Conspiracy theorists must base their accusations on the word of Ray, who pled guilty to the murder in return for a guarantee from Tennessee authorities not to seek the death penalty.
	www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/assassins/ray/1.html (1109 words)

	The MLK Page
		James Earl Ray was arrested, urged to confess by his lawyer, then retracted his confession.
		James Earl Ray, not unlike his lone-nut cousin Lee Harvey Oswald, was a poor shot in the Army.
		James Earl Ray is now trying to avail himself of a Tennessee law which allows the re-opening of his case in the face of new investigative technologies that might exhonorate him.
	www.whatreallyhappened.com /RANCHO/POLITICS/MLK/mlk.html (4139 words)

	Amazon.com: Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Books: Gerald Posner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although James Earl Ray confessed to the shooting and was convicted, a few years ago he recanted his confession and claimed he was innocent.
		Ray grew up in a dirt poor family of criminals and cut his teeth on petty crimes before settling into his life's calling as a robber.
		Ray escaped prison and set his sights on one more criminal goal, one guaranteed to make him a hero amongst the underworld--the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156006510?v=glance (2674 words)

	Salon Newsreal \| Triumphant in death
		James Earl Ray is laughing all the way to hell, thanks to the King family's preposterous belief that he didn't kill Martin Luther King Jr.
		Ray's brother Jerry, who for years worked for convicted church-bomber and professional anti-Semite J.B. Stoner, was one of the few.
		Ray was denied his day in court." King -- or her press agent -- had conveniently forgotten how Tennessee prosecutors in 1969 agreed to accept Ray's guilty plea, and forego a trial, only after receiving the King family's personal approval.
	www.salon.com /news/1998/04/28news.html (699 words)

	Transcript of James Earl Ray Guilty Plea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ray and James Earl Ray is seated in the second row here behind his attorneys.
		James Earl Ray was a dupe in this thing or a fall guy or a member of a conspiracy to kill Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		JAMES EARL RAY: Your Honor,@-@l would-like to say something, I don't want to,change,anyt@ing that@l have said, but I just want to-enter one other thing.
	www.scdag.com /rayplea.htm (8303 words)

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