James Earl Ray

Week of June 21, 1968
Four days after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray "hightailed across the Canadian border" and spent two months on the run. After his capture at London's Heathrow Airport on June 8, authorities begin to unravel "the nexus of plastic faces, borrowed identities and bogus papers."

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