Comments on: James Earl Ray’s Arrest at Heathrow in 1968

By: Joseph Meyer

Joseph Meyer — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 12:42:56 +0000

Also interesting is that nowhere is it mentioned that James Earl Ray was returned to the US aboard a US Government flight from RAF Lakenheath (mostly US air base) in Cambridgeshire.

By: keianna morrison

keianna morrison — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:34:05 +0000

I am doing a mlk project and we need to say about his asassintion and I’ve got 10 facts for that page thanks for talking byee

By: March 9-10: This Week in Black History | Rookie Notes

March 9-10: This Week in Black History | Rookie Notes — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:22:00 +0000

[...] March 10, 1969: Barely a year after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the assassination of civil rights leader. While King was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, Ray shot and killed him. Ray fled to Canada and two months later was detained in London’s Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the United Kingdom under a fake Canadian passport. Officials at Heathrow noted that the name on his passport, Syned, was on a watch list; subsequently, the saw that Ray was carrying another passport with a second name. Police extradited Ray back to the U.S.A where he was indicted. Photo [...]

By: JILL AMADIO

JILL AMADIO — Sun, 19 May 2013 20:31:01 +0000

I heard that James Earl Ray was ID’d by the police at Heathrow partly through measurements taken of his ears. Anyone confirm this?

By: Ben Cooper

Ben Cooper — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:27:20 +0000

I was booked into the Earls Court Hotel very shortly after by my employer Mitchell Construction/Kinnear Moodie. I found some American girlie magazines in the bedside table of the room in question and only later when I heard of Earl Ray’s arrest put 2 and 2 together. I did think it strange that the room had not been thoroughly cleared.
Ben Cooper

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 05:57:26 +0000

I was alive during this time in history, only a boy I do not remember anything about the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I was born on August 23rd, 1959. The only thing I can say is I will never judge another
unless I see the person doing the crime at the time with my own eyes, to do other is to bear false wittness against others and that is a sin.
To forgive is something I think that Dr. King Jr would want us all to do. To forgive the person whom killed him, to judge someone as the murderer I can not say and will not only that I feel sorry for the soul that takes a life, and I will pray for that person whom was killed in hopes that they knew the Lord Jesus Christ and for the person whom killed because in killing they prove to me that they know not the true nature and being of Jesus Christ and unless they change will be lost forever into the firey pits of Hell. God the Father, Jesus Christ, and The Holy Spirit created us all and if we do nto faulter to sin and the Devil and hold Jesus Christ up as our Savior then and only then can we live like Christ and then and only then can we understand why he came here and died and came back to show us the true way of his heart and the way to eternal salvation.

By: Annie Hawker

Annie Hawker — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:28:05 +0000

I have a subpoena sent to my mother in the UK to attend the trial in Memphis, Tee. on November 12 1968 ( State of Tennessee vs. James Earl Ray. No. 16645)

By: VXIII

VXIII — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:40:47 +0000

This is quickly becoming my new favorite blog, such well researched articles and beautiful photos…

By: tiffany kees

tiffany kees — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:00:22 +0000

i’m so sorry for martin

By: Michael Gabriel

Michael Gabriel — Fri, 20 May 2011 07:34:47 +0000

Before I comment let me please point out that James Earl Ray did NOT die of a kidney related disease. He needed a liver transplant and would most likely be alive today except the commissioner of the Tennessee penal system refused to allow him to have one, using private funds – no tax payer money was to be used.

I know its difficult for a person with a closed mind to see the facts when they parrot the rumors and the lies they have been spoon fed by the media, as they pass on misconception as truth but James Earl Ray did NOT kill Dr. King and he was not even aware that a plot existed.

The government refused to allow him to test the alleged murder weapon for close to 27 years. Use your common sense people -its simple, if he was guilty, he would have had his lawyers fight to prevent the state from testing the rifle and not the other way around. What did they want to hide? I’ll tell you. They did test it and Judge Brown ruled that it was NOT the murder weapon.

A jury in a civil suit by Coretta Scott King against Loyd Jowers, found in her favor and by default stated that James Earl Ray was innocent. Jowers said that Ray was a patsy, chosen to take the blame and that he had nothing to do with it. The government offered Ray his freedom if he would admit his guilt and he refused even though it meant he would die in prison. James Earl Ray said that he would not admit to doing something that he did not do.

The facts are available. Read ” An Act of State – The Execution of Martin Luther King by William Pepper or A Memoir of Injustice by Jerry Ray and Tamara Carter