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Documents related to the 1968 assassinations of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy will soon ...

National intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard says documents related to the 1968 assassinations of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F ...

James Earl Ray departs Bessie Brewer's Rooming House ... announce they do not believe Ray was responsible for King's death. Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison again, but is captured ...

Files related to the assassinations of former US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther ...

James Earl Ray, a career criminal, pleaded guilty to King's murder and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He died in 1998. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff ...

James Earl Ray was convicted of King's murder in 1969 after entering a guilty plea where he was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Ray was born in Alton, Illinois, in 1928 and died in Nashville in 1998.

Although James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder, he later recanted and maintained his innocence until his death. Multiple investigations found no conclusive evidence of government involvement.

James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to assassinating King. He later though renounced that plea and maintained his innocence up until his death. Robert F. Kennedy, then a New York senator, was fatally ...

Dr. King’s relatives have raised questions about the federal investigation into his death, which concluded that it was the work of a lone racist assassin, James Earl Ray. We are having trouble ...