James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. He was born in Illinois on March 10, 1928. By the time he killed Luther King Jr, he had served time in prison for robbery. On April 23, 1967 he scaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary. Earl Ray shot King from a window of a neighbouring rooming house, King was standing on the balcony of a motel room. Earl Ray scaped to Toronto and then to England, he was finally arrested by London police more than two months later at the Heathrow Airport. Ray pleaded guilty, he was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Later on, he retracted and blamed a conspiracy.
