Mississippi Trial, 1955

Civil rights era

What happened to his killers?

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Do you mean Martin Luther King's killer? James Earl Ray shot and killed King in Memphis on April 4, 1968, confessing to the crime the following March. Ray died in prison on April 23, 1998.

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