</s>104-10443-10221 2017 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 INTERNAL USE ONLY CONFIDENTIAL SECRET ORIETY HANDLING LOLA REQUEST (Optimum) FOIA Appeal - Harold Weisberg, for information about: Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Earl Ray ASSISTANT NUMBER IPS 76-382 FROM: H.G. Bean ATTENTION DATE DATE Assistant for Information, DDA DATE 15 Aug. 1/7 7 D 02 HQ 51117 Assistant for information, DADA SUSPENSE DATE Suspense DATE TO: (Offer designation, design, number, and DATE building) DATE COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom buildings) DATE FORWARDO INITIALS to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment) 1. OFFICERS 1. Mr. Wells, DDO RECHIVED FORWARDIO COMMENS(Number each command to show whom THRU: Mr. Addona, DO/PICC INITALS 1: 1. 1. Dr. Alders, DDDG Attach to an FOIA Appeal with a due date of 19 Aug 77. THRUS: Mr .: Addona. DO/PICC In accordance with IPS pro- 3. 3. Mr. Dirks, DDSST creduces, the Chairman has assigned THRUR: Mr .. Redmond, DSS&T/FIO action for this appeal as follows: 4. Mr. Drinks, DDoSST 4. Mr. Wella, Mr. Dinks, Mr. Stevens, DDF/F10 Mr. Steven's, Dr. 5. Designed Action Member (a) 5. should contact me within 48 hours should there be any objection to THRUE: Mr_ Stevens, DDI <loc_295><loc_507><loc_295><loc_520><loc_105><loc_520>2. 2. 6104. HQ 6. <loc_63><loc_546>the case assignment. 6. <loc_63><loc_560>the case assumption.<loc_563><loc_561><loc_560><loc_758><loc_559>advice me or your Appeals Officer

John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray, Percy Foreman, William Bradford Huie, Coretta King, Memphis police officers, federal agents.

April 4, 1968 (Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination), March 10, 1969 (Coretta King's statement about conspiracy), Birmingham, Alabama, Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C.

James Earl Ray was identified as the prime suspect in Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination after a massive manhunt and investigation by the FBI. Ray had a history of crime and escaped from prison in 1967. He used various aliases and disguises to evade capture.

The FBI released new photographs of Ray in May 1968, which showed him with a different hairstyle and facial expression than previous pictures. Ray's trial began on March 3, 1969, with a jury of eight men and four women being selected from a pool of 200 potential jurors.

The prosecution presented evidence that linked Ray to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., including eyewitness testimony and physical evidence such as fingerprints and footprints. The defense team argued that the prosecution's case was circumstantial and that there were reasonable doubts about Ray's guilt.

On March 10, 1969, the jury delivered a guilty verdict, finding Ray responsible for King's assassination. Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison on April 5, 1969. The investigation into King's assassination revealed that Ray had been involved with a group of white supremacists who were opposed to King's civil rights efforts.

The plot to assassinate King was part of a larger conspiracy involving government agencies and law enforcement officials. The FBI was criticized for its handling of the investigation into King's assassination, with many believing that the agency had been slow to respond to the crime and had not done enough to prevent it.

Ray died in prison in 1998 at the age of 70. The case remains one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in American history.

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