Because Martin Luther King was black and he was helping the black people to be treated better and James Earl Ray didn't want this to happen so he shot him.He also thought he would be seen as a hero...
Because Martin Luther King was black and he was helping the black people to be treated better and James Earl Ray didn't want this to happen so he shot him.
James Earl Ray was convicted of killing Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. On April 4, 1968, he shot King with a rifle at a motel in Memphis. Ray was captured in London on June 8, and...
King was booked in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel, owned by Walter Bailey, in Memphis. The Reverend Ralph Abernathy, King's close friend and colleague who was present at the assassination, swore...