Episode 91: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Part One
The assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King in 1968 was one of the greatest of American tragedies, a truly horrific moment in time when a man of nonviolence and love, a man who’d fundamentally changed the world for the better, was gunned down before his 40th birthday. Today we tell the tale of his killer, James Earl Ray, a sad and pathetic excuse of a man, as mysterious as he was confoundingly odd and sociopathic, his very motive up for debate and swollen with conspiracy theories, some of which have yet to be disproven. But today we’re going to mostly skirt the speculation and…
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