WHO KILLED MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.? The True Story By the Alleged Assassin

Softcover. Foreword by Rev. Jesse Jackson. With a new Epilogue. 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 8 requests for a trial were denied. Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, Coretta Scott King, 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 Ray's fingerprints was the weapon. FBI documents disclose that J. Edgar Hoover wanted Martin Luther King Jr. "removed from the national scene." One of Hoover's top henchmen, Frank Holloman, was appointed chief of police and fire for Memphis before the assassination. The day before King was shot, two black fire fighters at a station with a view of the Lorraine Motel were transferred without explanation. No eyewitness saw Ray fire the fatal shot. Several eyewitnesses saw shots fired from bushes, not the rooming house where Ray was staying. Immediately after the shooting, FBI agents appeared on the scene. The rifle with Ray's fingerprints on it was carefully left on Main Street in Memphis in a box, along with Ray's prison radio. The radio had Ray's 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.?" Illus., New Epilogue, Appendix and Index. 256pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.