![]() ![]() In 1952 he was sentenced to two years for the armed robbery of a taxi driver in Illinois, and in 1955, to four more years for stealing money orders in Missouri and modifying them to travel to Florida. Ray was convicted for the first time, for burglary, in 1949. Army near the end of World War II and served in Germany. Ray dropped out of school when he was fifteen years old. Shortly before his seventh birthday, in 1935, his father passed a bad check and the Rays fled to Ewing, Missouri, where they changed their name to Raynes to avoid detection. Ray was born in on Main a poor Irish-American family of Alton, Illinois, and was raised a Catholic. 2 Murder of King, Incarceration, and Death. ![]() This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. April 23, 1998: James Earl Ray dies of cirrhosis of the liver at age 70 in a Nashville prison facility.June 9, 1997: Davidson County Chancellor Irvin Kilcrease rules that state law does not permit Ray to be sent out of state to be evaluated for a liver transplant.May 24, 1997: Prison officials reject Ray's request to be evaluated at a Pittsburgh hospital as a liver transplant recipient.May 14, 1997: The testing of Ray's rifle begins.March 1997: In a meeting, Ray tells King's son Dexter that he did not kill the civil rights leader.Ray also wins a first step toward getting a trial. King's son Dexter says he thinks there was a conspiracy to kill his father, and that Ray did not act alone. February 1997: King family supports Ray's effort to get a new trial.December 1996: Prison officials transfer Ray from Lois DeBerry Special Needs Facility to Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital for treatment for liver failure, beginning a series of trips to the hospital.The appellate court ruled Ray has exhausted his lega remedies, and that test-firing the weapon would endanger evidence. May 1995: The state Supreme Court denies Ray's appeal of a 1994 Criminal Appeals ruling to test-fire the murder weapon and examine other evidence.October 1994: Ray sues state Board of Paroles, charging members conspired with unnamed state and federal officials to keep him in prison.May 1994: The parole board refuses Ray's parole request and tells him to renew it again in 5 years.January 1994: Ray's lawyers try to overturn his murder conviction on the basis of "newly discovered evidence" of a plot to kill King., but Shelby County prosecutors say the new evidence was too late.Jowers says he was paid "a large sum of money" by Memphis producer dealer Frank C. December 1993: Former Memphis restaurateur Loyd Jowers says he paid laborer Frank Holt to shoot King.Ned McWherter turns down a request by Ray's attorney William Pepper that Ray be exonerated and the investigation into King's death be reopened. April 4, 1993: A mock jury acquits Ray in Guilt or Innocence: The Trial of James Earl Ray, a production televised by HBO.March 3, 1993: Ray is granted a divorce from his wife of 14 years.25, 1991: Ray's book, Who Killed Martin Luther King? The True Story of a Convicted Assassin, goes on sale. June 17, 1981: Ray is transferred to the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville for his safety.June 4, 1981: Ray is stabbed by black inmates.9, 1979: Ray escapes again from Brushy Mountain and recaptured the same day. Jesse Jackson and James Lawson meet with Ray and his attorney, Mark Lane, for 2-1/2 hours and conclude they do not believe Ray killed King. 30, 1978: The committee concludes that Ray acted alone but there was circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy. 13, 1978: Ray and courtroom artist Anna Sandhu marry. 16, 1978: Ray testifies before the House Select Committee on Assassinations. June 10, 1977: Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison with five other inmates.March 10, 1969: Ray pleads guilty to murdering King and is sentenced to 99 years in prison.June 8, 1968: Ray is arrested at London's Heathrow Airport. ![]() ![]() is assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
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