The King family remains convinced someone else killed the civil rights leader and say they’ll look at the newly released ...

The files that have been released and digitized detail the FBI’s investigation of King’s assassination, as well as documents ...

President Donald Trump's administration released 6,300 documents on Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, uncovering ...

Historians assessing the trove of newly released documents are cautioning people against the idea that they contain any ...

JAMES EARL RAY WAS A CHEAP BUT CLEVER ASSASSIN Apparently referring to a statement by then U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark that there was no conspiracy, Ray rose and told Judge W. Preston ...

Art Hanes Jr., one of James Earl Ray's attorneys, doesn't believe James Earl Ray is responsible for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray fired Hanes the eve before trial was set to ...

Two years after their re-discovery, restored video footage of Dr. King’s convicted assassin, James Earl Ray, in custody in Memphis as well as on trial, have been released just in time for the 45 ...

King’s suspected killer, James Earl Ray, was captured on June 8, 1968, at London’s Heathrow Airport while attempting to travel to the United Kingdom with a fake Canadian passport.

On this day 50 years ago, James Earl Ray shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr. Here's what we know about the man who assassinated the civil rights leader.

Mr. Kershaw was a Tennessee lawyer who argued that James Earl Ray, convicted in the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was an innocent participant in a conspiracy.

James Earl Ray, handcuffed to a leather belt and wearing a bulletproof vest, is escorted to his jail cell by the Shelby County sheriff, left, in July 18, 1968.