Did James Earl Ray Act Alone When He Assassinated Martin Luther King Jr?
Greetings! Gerald Posner, author of “Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK Assassination” wrote a book about the King assassination.
I haven’t read the book, but his take was that it was probable but hard to prove that Ray assassinated King, but a conspiracy is likely.
Ray had a very low IQ rating. It is very unlikely that he could independently leave the country for Europe after shooting MLK without assistance.
Ray’s “confession” was very likely coerced from the police in interrogation, so very strong questions still exist.
The King family supported Ray’s dying declaration that he was not the killer of MLK.
I haven’t read much into the assassination (I may just do that before the summer is over), but from what little knowledge I do have (with not much to support, I must add), Ray had a strong part of MLK’s assassination if he didn’t pull the trigger himself (which my gut says he did, for whatever that is worth).
I do hope this crime is solved conclusively – preferably in our lifetime.
I know this doesn’t help much, but there isn’t that much out there. Take care.
I don’t know. And this question has been asked before. He always talked of a certain “Raoul”. But never furnished any evidence on who this guy was or what was he [or she?]. My only question is who gave him the money that helped him to travel to Canada, Portugal and Great Britain where he was finally arrested while waiting for a trip to South Africa [In South Africa some would have fed him to the crocodiles]. There is something funny here. But I don’t know. Mystery.
P.D.: If he was “innocent” why he travelled so far away to places he had never been?
Not likely. He was hired… if he even did it at all. King’s family thinks that he was innocent!
the answer to that died with him.