King Family Takes Part in Ray Memorial Service
About 100 friends of James Earl Ray and of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gathered in a predominantly black church Thursday for a memorial service for the civil rights leader’s confessed killer.
Several speakers said they believe King’s killing was a conspiracy in which Ray played a small part, if any. King’s nephew, Isaac Farris Jr., read a statement from widow Coretta Scott King to Ray’s family: “We share with your family regret at the tragic failure of the justice system to give him his day in court.”
Ray confessed to killing King in 1968, but quickly recanted. He died April 23, at age 70.
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