In 1967, he returned to the United States (Los Angeles) from Mexico and took dancing classes in a bartending school. Such a conclusion must be drawn from a premise that the King family was willing to publicly, wrongfully, and unjustifiably vindicate Ray in order to accuse others simply to gain notoriety. [12], Brown is an Independent candidate for the 2023 Memphis mayoral election. Ray, was found by bloodhounds about eightmiles away from the prison shortly after the escape attempt. Top of Page Somehow, Ray managed to escape from prison on two different occasions. Thorpe Menn, then book editor of The Star, sent it to me to review. James Earl Ray was an American assassin convicted for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. After his conviction, he spent all his life in prison. Later, though, he claimed he left the prints to gain international notoriety. He is a male registered to vote in Wayne County, Michigan. There were those who joked about Ray, because of the nature of his attempted escapes. The jury was clearly convinced by the extensive evidence that was presented during the trial that, in addition to Mr. Jowers, the conspiracy of the Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband.. Kershaw and Ray approached the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations and got approval for the conduct of ballistics tests. But what do you know about James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King? Dr. Martin . One day he walked away, and it was rumored he took $5,000 of state money with him. As a reporter and columnist for this newspaper, I had the chance to interview the incarcerated Ray numerous times before his death on April 23, 1998. Over several decades, federal investigators have routinely concluded that Raoul doesnt exist. While attending law school, Brown worked as a substitute teacher. Ray confessed to the crime on March 10, 1969 and received a 99-year prison sentence, which increased to a 100-year sentence after he briefly escaped in 1977. In prison I knew men who would stab you to death over a carton of cigarettes, or for even a slight insult. Among the evidence was a recording of Jowers in which he suggested he was interested in fabricating his story for financial gain. Further information about this communist was found in the book, Its Very Simple: The True Story of Civil Rights, by the late author and speaker Alan Stang. Among the first to rear his head in Ray's defense was J.B. Stoner, a lawyer who was also head of the National State's Rights Party (and who would later be charged with the bombing of a Birmingham church in which several children died). B. In 1997, King told Ray personally that both he and his family believed him. Dwight Lewis served in a variety of roles at The Tennessean, including reporter and columnist, from 1971 to 2011. It stated that King had allied himself with black nationalist groups that planned to seize the initiative and escalate the nonviolent demonstrations into violence. It continued: King has met with black nationalists and attempted to solicit their support. In my many discussions with people such as Laster, Westberg and Davis on the subject of escape--and how to avoid capture afterward--no one mentioned that method.). He was first convicted for a burglary in California in the year 1949. Ray died on April 23, 1998 at the Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital due to Hepatitis C at the age of 70. USA.gov, The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration In the 1960s John Larry Ray (another brother) owned a tavern in St. Louis, and that tavern was an unofficial headquarters for the Wallace for President campaign. Ray watched it all on the cell-block TV at Jeff City. The greatest sin a convict can commit in prison is to escape. Since Ray's arrest for the assassination, he has become mythified. In fact, King's family was as convinced of Ray's innocence as the families of Nicole and Ron were convinced of Simpson's guilt. All three bore the fingerprints of an escaped convict named James Earl Ray. Just once, he was caught with three packs of cigarettes, a pound of coffee and a ballpoint pen. She told a congressional subcommittee that while she was a member of the Communist Party, she knew Martin Luther King to be closely connected with the Communist Party. Brown joined The American Opinion Speakers Bureau, and while on the lecture circuit, she told audiences that King was the hero of Americas Communists. As the paper continued, it provided documentation that what King planned for after the civil disobedience would not be so innocuous. McMillans false scenarios portray Ray as a rabid racist in prison. While serving in the military, Ray was often charged with drunkenness and breaking arrest. As President Ronal Reagan once wrote to former New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson, who had sent a letter to Reagan urging the president not to sign the bill for a holiday honoring King, On the national holiday you mentioned, I have the reservations you have, but here the perception of too many people is based on an image, not reality. [3] Brown has spoken about how his upbringing shaped his philosophy. Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an extremist Black Nationalist organization, has conferred with King. Whatever noble goals King proclaimed, the subversive company he chose to keep severely neutralizes any good he may have aspired to and creates serious doubts about the sincerity of his stated mission. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Ostensibly only a New York City attorney and businessman, Levison is, in fact, a shrewd, dedicated communist. Weirich responded: "Its a sad day that someone that out of touch with reality considers himself a viable candidate for one of the important positions in Shelby County. Speech of Senator Robert C. Byrd, Senate Journal, Appendix Two, March 29, 1968. a right twist by the rifle from which it had been fired. For some 50 years, the federal government has maintained that James Earl Ray was the gunman who assassinated King that day. Stoner is one of the most investigated people in America. It contained a pair of binoculars, a newspaper with a story about King staying at the Lorraine Motel, and a .30-06 Remington Gamemaster that had fired one shot. He got a 99-year prison sentence, which he served until he died of liver failure due to hepatitis C on . Some in the community took offense to this assertion since the incident took place during Brown's Shelby County district attorney campaign and Brown brought his own lawyer with him during the 2014 incident, causing many to wonder if it was a ploy for publicity. There is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta King said at a press conference in 1999, according to The King Center. Brown was thrust into the national spotlight while presiding over James Earl Ray's last appeal of his conviction for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Brown was removed from the reopened investigation of King's murder due to alleged bias. James Earl Ray was born in a poor family on March 10, 1928 in Alton, Illinois, USA. They would rather ignore the facts than become disillusioned. (Several authors have said it was "common knowledge" in Jeff City that you could go to England and acquire an ID the way Ray did. No new evidence has been presented in the King killing since then. Stoner campaigned for several political offices as a Southern Democrat in order to promote his white supremacist agenda. His fathers name was George Ellis Ray and his mothers name was Lucille. Ray was never that type. Ireland. After Ray was arrested for the assassination of Martin Luther King, it was widely believed that those erroneous prints were proof that the King conspiracy began in Jefferson City, and that someone employed at the prison was involved. A staunch segregationist, Earl Ray could not stomach the integration policies of King. it from Birmingham, Ala., to Memphis, Tenn., where he rented a room at 422 1/2 South Main Street, and moments after the assassination, he dropped James Earl Ray did it, case closed! Wardens and guards know that an escape artist is a threat to their livelihood; more guards and wardens have lost their jobs because of escapes than for any other reason. I know they interviewed some inmates, but they did not interview the people most likely to know something (and also the most likely to tell them to go to hell). That year, Kings son Dexter Scott King visited Ray in prison to draw attention to the familys push to appeal his case. Ray had seven siblings. In an article in The New American back in 1999, John F. McManus, former publisher of this magazine and president emeritus of The John Birch Society, provided further detail about ODell association with King: In 1960, King hired one Hunter Pitts ODell to his staff. In one instance, the FBI sent him a tape that allegedly contained audio of him having an affair. Ray, a white supporter of segregationist George Wallace, was a career criminal whod been convicted at least four separate times for robbing a cafe, a taxi, a post office and a grocery store. The House Assassinations Committee examining evidence in the killing of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images). Westberg was warned, and hurriedly got out of the box, which was then filled with bread. In the year 1952, he served a two year prison sentence for the armed robbery of a cab driver. King's convicted killer, James Earl Ray, pled guilty to his murder, received a life sentence, and died in prison of natural causes 29 years later. In fact, Kings family was as convinced of Rays innocence as the families of Nicole and Ron were convinced of Simpsons guilt. It is known that, after escaping from Jeff City, James Earl Ray went to Chicago, where Jerry Ray was living. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Doesnt the controversy between Galileo and the Catholic Church prove this? In the five decades since Martin Luther King Jr.was shot dead by an assassin at age 39, his children have worked tirelessly to preserve his legacy, sometimes with sharply different views on how best to do that, an article in the March 30 Washington Post said. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_Brown_(judge)&oldid=1134528878, This page was last edited on 19 January 2023, at 03:56. When James Earl Ray bought the rifle that killed King, he mentioned that he was going hunting with his brother. Wait Who? Indeed, to them the perception is reality. (Emphasis in original.). Brown then said, "OK, OK, I'll tell you what. The facts tend to be the same, G. Robert Blakey, a law professor at Notre Dame University, told me on April 8, 1998 during an interview as I worked as a columnist for The Tennessean. Their goal was to cover all aspects of true crime: Read More, Contents Copyright 1998-2020 by Crime Magazine | J. Patrick O'Connor Editor | E-mail CrimeMagazine.com, Designed by Orman. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law. He is the one who sits in leadership and is the most powerful person of a country. More:Manhunt in the mountains: James Earl Ray and the Brushy Mountain Prison breakout of 1977. Ray was also Stoner's bodyguard and chauffeur. After his capture, his sentence was extended by one more year to 100 years. He was transferred to the maximum security facility called Lois M. DeBerry Special Needs Facility in Nashville which had hospital facilities. That description comes closer to Jerry Ray than to James Earl Ray. and chemically, revealed the presence of lead from a disintegrating (In the period 1963-64, there were 550 serious assaults inside Jefferson City, including hundreds of stabbings, which is why Time magazine called it the "bloodiest 47 acres in America." This doesnt mean that Ray couldnt have received assistance. This time, Ray rented an apartment for $100 a month at 1535 N. Serrano Ave., a. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. The Galileo Case Revisited | Beyond the Cover. On the night of the shooting, I had left the rifle with Raoul.. And, although the FBI later claimed to have interviewed every convict in Jefferson City who had served time with Ray, they never tried to interview me, or Davis, or Laster, or Westberg or anyone I knew. He is a former Shelby County, Tennessee Criminal Court judge and a former arbiter of the arbitration-based reality court show Judge Joe Brown. These claims led Kings estate to sue Jowers in 1999 for a symbolic $100 in a wrongful death civil action. The new trial was never granted. King was visiting Memphis to settle a strike by garbage workers. 15. He also founded his own white supremacist party. Soon after his release from prison, he was again convicted for mail fraud in Hannibal, Missouri and served three prison sentences at the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Ray, although not personally motivated by racism, comes from a rural background where blacks are not highly regarded. One week prior to Kings assassination on April 4, 1968 he had gone to Memphis to show support for local sanitation workers. They laid out the evidence before he entered his plea, and he said, OK. He said his lawyers were incompetent, and that proved false. Along with the rifle, he also bought a 2X-7X scope to aim the target well. [22] He was released from protective custody at the Shelby County Corrections Facility the morning of September 1, 2015. There is an important flaw in that logic as well; the defendant was only sued for $100, which he was ordered to pay. Ray told me several times, and I have it on tape, that he bought the rifle that was used in the King slaying. One of the most intriguing aspects of the New Times article on James Earl Ray/Jerry Ray/J.B. This should have been driven home years ago when a surreptitious tape recording was made of J.A. In 1999, James Earl Ray was found innocent of killing Martin Luther King Jr. in the same way O.J. There were half a dozen guys who rented magazines, and they hawked their wares by the yard shack (a small rock building where the guards stayed). At the Tag Plant I met Jerry Ward Davis, an Oklahoman who'd been shot in 1959 after kidnapping several guards (along with Rollie Laster and Ronnie Westberg) during an attempted escape that involved the use of zip-guns. Milteer told the informant that a scheme was in the works to kill President Kennedy. A Democratic Senator from West Virginia delivered an extremely incendiary speech on the Senate Floor that was directed specifically at President Lyndon Johnson, also a Democrat. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law, and it was first recognized three years later. Each year, the third Monday in January is a celebration to commemorate the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr., the tireless civil rights activist who was gunned down in Memphis, TN, in 1968. James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 - April 23, 1998) was an American fugitive convicted for assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. His first prison break happened in 1967, when he escaped the Missouri State Penitentiary on a bread truck before fleeing to Canada. The same NSRP member said there were plans to kill Martin Luther King. In only two decades, the white population fell by over 300,000; DC became majority-black in the late 1950s.. "[10], In August 2015, Brown served five days in the Shelby County Jail after having been held in contempt of court in March 2014. PRPhotos. The King familys belief in Rays innocence was partly influenced by the strange case of Loyd Jowers, whod owned the restaurant below Rays rented room in Memphis. King was one of the worst enemies my people ever had. Her reference to my people was to her race, since she was black. I don't recall that your name's ever been submitted, sir. A member of the Republican Party, White was first elected in District 12 in 2010, which then included Angelina, San Jacinto, Trinity, and Tyler counties.He left office on August 11, 2022. and other allegedly exculpatory evidence are not worthy of belief. Dexter King went so far as to name Memphis Police Department Officer, Lt. Earl Clark as his fathers assassin. In the year 1977, Ray escaped from the prison for the second time along with six other convicts from the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary located in Petros, Tennessee. For the first 25 years after Kings death, Jowers did not claim any involvement in the murder. Judge Horne did have the authority to hold him in contempt. Jerry Ray had moved in with Stoner, and shot an intruder who broke into Stoner's office which was in the same building as the living quarters. He boiled when King came on the tube. He was sentenced to 99 years at the State penitentiary. Because of the 1959 incident, Jerry had so much heat on him that if the guards lost sight of him for even a few minutes, they panicked. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Westberg was the first to learn that the bread box wasn't searched. James Earl Ray Sirhan Sirhan Jack Ruby. The paper quotes Kings statement explaining his strategy: To dislocate the function of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot, because it can be longer lasting, costly to society, and not wantonly destructive., Kings admission that the strategy he planned for Washington, D.C, would be costly to society is startling in view of a fact noted in The Urban Institute report, Our Changing City, which observed: 1950 also marked the start of the white exodus to the suburbs. He admitted to staying at the rooming house from where authorities said the bullet that struck Rev. King said he liked the idea. . Simpson was found guilty of killing his wife Nicole and Ron Goldman - in a civil trial. The incident was incredibly damaging to the cause of King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Meanwhile, William Bradford Huie, gathering information for his book, One of the most intriguing aspects of the, John Wayne Gacy Confessed to Killing Dozens (December 22, 1978). Martin Luther King Jr. [17] In audio obtained by WREG[18] and an available transcript on eonline.com,[19] Brown can be heard arguing that the judge didn't have the authority to sit on the bench. I watched my parents tough it out on a daily basis, and I saw that what really kept them going was making a difference to others. After reading about the news in newspapers, he immediately drove to Memphis. Months later, he recanted his confession, without effect. The damage to the clothing was consistent with the caliber I've always had trouble accepting Ray as an assassin. In order to hang onto your drugs, people had to know that you would kill them without hesitation. An egregious example of shoddy workmanship is the book The Making of an Assassin by George McMillan. One thing never mentioned about Ray's time in Jefferson City is the fact he had a nearly exemplary conduct record, with the exception of the two escape attempts. Although Ray had two attempted escapes on his record, he did not have nearly as much heat on him as Westberg. James Earl Ray was the assassin of American Baptist minister and civil rights activist, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ray was born in on March 10, 1928 in a poor Irish-American family of Alton, Illinois, and was raised a Catholic. Moreover, Jerry Ray and James Earl Ray are close. Those who express skepticism at the results of the 1999 trial in which James Earl Ray was found innocent of assassinating King have an incredible hurdle to overcome the belief of the King family, which sides with Ray. Therefore, I challenge your authority to hear it. The restaurant owner named Memphis Police . The day after a stabbing, for example, virtually everyone in the prison who is considered "solid" would know who had done the stabbing. The date was November 9, 1963. McMillans false scenarios portray Ray as a rabid racist in prison. James Earl White (born July 16, 1964) is a former member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 19, which encompassed Polk, Hardin, Jasper, Newton, and Tyler counties. The explanation is much simpler. We had no contact, however, since he was on the other side of the building. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/james-earl-ray-30416.php. He was named after the church where his father held his first pastorate. Warden Swenson of the Jeff City prison immediately issued an edict that convicts could no longer correspond with editors. 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