Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most famous civil rights leaders ever. He spent the 1950’s and 1960’s organizing peaceful protests and marches in the name of equality. On April 4th 1968, while in Memphis helping sanitation workers strike, Dr. King was assassinated. The man the FBI found guilty? James Earl Ray. Madison gets into all the details, and explains why the verdict might not be so clear.

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Content:

00:00 - W*nder Promo

00:52 - Intro

2:17 - New Patreons

7:33 - Start of Case

9:37 - The Montgomery Bus Boycott

16:09 - March on Washington

20:53 - Public Domain/LBJ Tangent

22:02 - After the March

23:39 - Nobel Peace Prize

25:31 - Izola Ware Curry

28:18 - Lead up to assassination/Sanitation worker strike

32:28 - Assassination

38:03 - James Earl Ray

39:08 - Timeline of JER movements

47:32 - Ray caught and tried

49:40 - James Earl Ray innocent?

53:42 - Lloyd Jowers

54:09 - Verdict on Government involvement

58:07 - James Earl Ray died

1:00:34 - Wrap Up

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SOURCES:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/assassination-martin-luther-king-jr/story?id=54095424 

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/montgomery-bus-boycott 

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/browder-v-gayle-352-us-903 

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm 

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/march-washington-jobs-and-freedom 

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/nobel-peace-prize#:~:text=On%20the%20morning%20of%2014,the%20Nobel%20Prize%20for%20Peace. 

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/curry-izola-ware

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/memphis-sanitation-workers-strike  

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/03/30/who-killed-martin-luther-king-jr-his-family-believes-james-earl-ray-was-framed/ 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/memphis-hunt/  

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/assassination-martin-luther-king-jr  

https://www.voanews.com/a/timeline-of-mlk-assassination-and-investigation-into-his-killing/4330250.html