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Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
American civil rights leader (1929–1968)
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
James Earl Ray
Convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (1928–1998)
James Earl Ray was an American fugitive who was convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. After the assassination, Ray fled to London and was captured there. Ray was convicted in 1969 after entering a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)