Who Shot Martin Luther King?

Question

I was Looking at Oprah Winfrey Today and she visited The Kings House in Memphis Tennesse and was Speaking to His Daughter Lise Marie Presley i think thats her name and it was great to see what the Inside of the Mansion was Like.Then She went to were Martin Luther King was Shot Dead ,and showed old Newsreel Footage of him and when he was Shot .It did not Say anything about who shot him or what happened to the Person that Shot him , Curious could some of you give me any Info on this event not the whole History of Martin Luther King just Who Shot Him and possible why it did it Thanks .

I like your answer CG ,i think i will let this continue for a day or two more before deciding best answer. So its another Conspiracy theory James Earl Ray might have been set up there is no reason for to kill him.

Answer 1

Hi there ,
I found the following for you maybe this will help you.

The Official Story
Martin Luther King was killed by a sniper on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. as he stepped onto the balcony outside the Motel Lorraine in Memphis, Tennessee. See the original New York Times news story on this day.

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.

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.

The Problems with the Official Story
Ray's confession was forced upon him by his lawyer, who threatened Ray with the Death penalty.

Ray claimed he had purchased the rifle for a man he knew only as "Raoul".

The bullet from King's body was never matched to the gun, despite a retesting of the rifle in 1997.

James Earl Ray was not a trained sniper, nor is there any evidence that he practiced with a gun.

The man who supposedly identified Ray in the flophouse just after the shooting, Charles Stephens, was 1) too drunk to be able to make a solid identification and 2) repudiated his own identification when shown a picture of Ray on camera in a CBS special report. He denied the man in the picture (Ray) was the man he had seen at the flophouse. Stephen's uncooperative wife was put in a mental institution after disputing her husband's "ID" of Ray.

James Earl Ray died in 1998. Ray's case had been getting a lot of attention from Judge Joe Brown's court in Memphis. The family of King has now publicly stated that they think Ray did not kill King. Coretta Scott King has asked President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno to form a "truth commission" patterned after the one in South Africa to encourage those with evidence to come forward without fear of prosecution.


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Answer 2

Nobody. Somebody did shoot Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 3

James Earl Ray, in 1968

Answer 4

James Earl Ray.

Answer 5

James Earl Ray.

Answer 6

Malcom X

Answer 7

I read somewhere that J. Edgar Hoover said to him, "hey, check out the view from this balcony!"

Answer 8

not me, don't be lazy, look it up for yourself, either through books or the internet.

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

Answer 10

GEROGE BUSH