Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century
The Assassination of Martin Luther King
S2 • E12 Jun 17, 1996 30m
The last 1950s and 1960s were a time of turmoil in America as the Civil Rights movement fought against racial segregation. Its leader was the charismatic preacher Martin Luther King Jr, and his assassination in April 1968 allegedly by a lone gunman James Earl Ray, gave rise to endless conspiracy theories as to who had funded him to do so.