Five facts about MLK’s Assassination

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Five facts about MLK’s Assassination

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., remains one of the most highly investigated and second-guessed murders of our time. While James Earl Ray pled guilty to killing the civil rights leader and was sentenced to life in prison, Coretta Scott King and other members of his inner circle had suggested that Dr. King was a “victim of conspiracy.”

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