Episode 1 begins the investigation into Martin Luther King's assassination, with the FBI's suspect racing from Memphis just moments after King was shot.
Who was this James Earl Ray? And why did Coretta Scott King and King's closest friends and associates suspect that the FBI itself—and not Ray—was behind the murder?

Episode 1 begins the investigation into Martin Luther King's assassination, with the FBI's suspect racing from Memphis just moments after King was shot. Who was this James Earl Ray? And why did Coretta Scott King and King's closest friends and associates suspect that the FBI itself—and not Ray—was behind the murder?

Episode 1

The Crux is a story about the civil rights struggle and America at the edge of revolution told through a captivating whodunit. Like Serial, Making a Murderer or The People vs OJ Simpson, The Crux is a murder mystery: Who really killed Martin Luther King? Was it the government conspiracy that Coretta Scott King, the King children, and everyone in King's inner circle say it was? Or was it who the FBI named, a petty criminal named James Earl Ray?

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