Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?: Second Edition

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James Earl Ray never had a trial. A few days after he was coerced into pleading guilty he withdrew his guilty plea. Tennessee law provides Ray with the right to a trial but his eight requests for a trial have been denied. Now Martin Luther King Jr.s widow Coretta Scott King has joined Ray in seeking a trial to set the record straight. Her son Dexter King told a Tennessee court on February 20 1997: "It is right for the sake of truth and justice that there be a trial to get at the truth. Nothing but the truth will set us free." The rifle that Ray admits he brought to Memphis in April 1968 was never test-fired; its bullets were never compared to the bullet that killed Martin Luther King Jr. Although the FBI stated that the bullet was too damaged to test ballistics experts agree that newly developed technology a scanning electron microscope can determine whether the rifle with Rays fingerprints was the weapon. The rifle with Rays fingerprints on it was carefully left on Main Street in Memphis in a box along with Rays prison radio. The radio had Rays identification number etched into it. Would an assassin take time to leave incriminating evidence before fleeing the scene? In 1994 a former federal judge and a jury from Memphis heard attorneys present a televised mock trial of James Earl Ray. A former prosecutor presented the case and Ray was defended by an attorney of his choice. The jury found Ray "not guilty." The real killer has never been apprehended. After reading this book you too will ask "Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?"