
In the years since, with the help of many different lawyers, Ray has insisted on his innocence. Three days later Ray fired Foreman and wrote the judge to ask for a new hearing in April he hired a leading racist, J. Questioned by the judge, Ray confirmed the

Instead, Ray's lawyer, Percy Foreman, entered a plea of guilty. We went to court that morning for what we thought was going to be a preliminary phase of the prosecution. N March 10, 1969, I was in Memphis to assist Martin Waldron of The New York Times in covering the prosecution of James Earl Ray for the murder of the Rev. James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Richard Bernstein Reviews 'Killing the Dream' (April 22, 1998).It's very simple: James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King.
