Why?
2007-01-18 17:57:13 · 11 answers · asked by Direktor 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
James Earl Ray. Who knows why?
2007-01-18 17:59:41 · answer #1 · answered by alwaysmoose 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
James Earl Ray
2007-01-19 02:03:38 · answer #2 · answered by pUnkInner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
James Earl Ray
2007-01-19 01:59:44 · answer #3 · answered by Tumbling Dice 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A small-time thief named James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King from the bathroom of the flophouse across from where King was staying. Allegedly, Ray balanced on the edge of a bathtub, rested his rifle on the window sill, and fired a single shot that with trained-sniper perfection entered King in the head. No witness saw Ray shoot, although one claimed he saw a man leaving the bathroom around that time. A bag was found in front of a store near the rooming house, and the bag had a rifle sticking out of it. The rifle bore James Earl Ray's fingerprints.
2007-01-19 02:00:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
James Earl Ray, a career criminal, pleaded guilty to the murder and was convicted, but he soon recanted, claiming he was duped into his plea. Ray's conviction was subsequently upheld, but he eventually received support from members of King's family, who believed King to have been the victim of a conspiracy. Ray died in prison in 1998. In a jury trial in Memphis in 1999 the King family won a wrongful-death judgment against Loyd Jowers, who claimed (1993) that he had arranged the killing for a Mafia figure. Many experts, however, were unconvinced by the verdict, and in 2000, after an 18-month investigation, the Justice Dept. discredited Jowers and concluded that there was no evidence of an assassination plot.
2007-01-19 02:03:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Possibly James Earl Ray...
2007-01-19 02:04:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
James Earl Ray... and I have no idea
2007-01-19 02:01:27 · answer #7 · answered by j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CIA
AT THAT TIME DR. KING WAS AGAINST THE WAR AND HE WAS BRANDED BY HOOVER AS THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERIKKKA.
2007-01-19 13:11:01 · answer #8 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE GOVERNMENT.HE STIRRED THE POT.J...EARL...R...WAS SET UP.......
2007-01-19 02:04:01 · answer #9 · answered by freddelorme35 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a lot of reasons, racism, civil rights, changes, fear.....
2007-01-19 02:00:23 · answer #10 · answered by macmike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋