Code: 6002
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Duration: 52'
Format: For TV

On April 4th 1968, MARTIN LUTHER KING is assassinated in memphis, Tennessee, On June 8,1968, James Earl Ray is arrested. Charged with the murder, he pleads guilty on his lawyer's advice. The day after his conviction, he claims to have been manipulated and clamors his innocence in the murder of the black minister. Indeed, certain number of disturbing facts surrounding the assassination of the black American leader raise questions about an eventual conspiracy, and doubt about the theory of the lone murderer, whose motives remain to this day unclear The FBI refused to conduct ballistic examination of the bullet found in the body of Martin Luther King, though it would have determined the weapon the bullet was fired from. In 1978, "The House Select" committee on Assassinations spent more than two years and five million dollars investigating the deaths of both John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. The committee decided James Earl Ray had shot King.