James Earl Ray
WAP98040399 - 16 JANUARY 1999 - WASHINGTON, D.C., USA: A file photo of James Earl Ray, who was accused of shooting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., seen here in a 1991 file photo. cc/sp/files UPI
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The weekly UPI Blast from the Past package for June 2-8.
The civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on this date in 1968 in Memphis. He was 39. Much controversy remains to this day about whether he was killed by a lone gunman -- James Earl Ray confessed to shooting King and then la