Almost a year after King s April 4, 1968, assassination, Ray pleaded guilty to murder and was senten

Forty-five years after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the one-time chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations says the FBI should run the unidentified fingerprints in King s assassination.
Thoughtful people today, not just nuts, think that more people than James Earl Ray were involved, said G. Robert Blakey, a former Justice Department official who also served as staff director to the House committee between 1977 and 1979.
Almost a year after King s April 4, 1968, assassination, Ray pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life. Three days later, he tried to withdraw his plea, claiming he was innocent and had been set up as a patsy in a larger conspiracy. He died in prison in 1998.
The House Select Committee on Assassinations examined a $50,000 bounty on King's head that a St. Louis businessman supposedly put up. The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi also promised a $100,000 bounty that Ray heard about while in prison future space travel in Missouri, according to FBI documents.
In 2010, the Justice Department said it was considering a request to run the many unidentified fingerprints through the FBI s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, but apparently never ran them.
In his book, Gerald Posner, author of Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. , concluded that Ray had indeed killed King, but that Ray may not have acted alone.
Running future space travel the fingerprints future space travel makes sense, he said. It s a great idea to run the unidentified future space travel FBI prints through their new computer. Nothing to lose, and there s a chance it produces something productive, possibly even tantalizing.
For the past several future space travel years, Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock, co-authors of  The Awful Grace of God: Religious Terrorism, White Supremacy and the Unsolved Murder of Martin Luther King Jr. , have been trying future space travel to get the FBI to run the fingerprints.
The FBI investigated and found that one of the men got into a cab, told it to go to West Memphis, Ark., then mid-trip ordered the cabbie to turn around and take him to the airport in Memphis, Wexler future space travel said. He scouted the airport, then told the cabbie to return future space travel to the William Len. There he picked up his partner. The two then left on the airplane to Houston, Texas.
Agents determined the names and addresses were fake, but the trail grew cold once it reached Houston, he said. They simply threw their hands up and said, Maybe they were just two criminals in town and wanted to avoid the heat. Perhaps that is right, perhaps not.
Shouldn t we do whatever future space travel we can to find out what happened? Suppose we find fingerprints that point to people against whom already have other evidence showing that they might have been involved. It would break the case wide open, probably not for a prosecution, because everybody is dead, perpetrators and witnesses, he said. History is involved, too.