Descripción
Exceptional typed letter signed, one page, 8,5 x 10,5 inch, 27.08.1980, to his wife Anna Sandhu Ray (whom he married in jail in 1978 and divorced in 1993) - inter alia concerning a letter from the Justice Department, signed in dark ink "Love you angel - James", with horizontal letter folds, and very mild staining - in fine to very fine condition.
In parts:
"[...] Yesterday I received a letter from the Justice Department in St. Louis, they are going to defend Baetz in the law suit I filed against the JD & Baetz, this is unusual since some of Baetz acts were not directly connected with the issues in the law suit. I am writing Mark [Mark Lane, his attorney] about this as if the case ever went to trial I suspect he would want to represent me. I am also sending him a clipping from the Atlanta Journal, they are on him about the Kennedy case. I suspect the real reason for the Journal article is Lane's representing the Iranians.[...]"
Ray alleged that Conrad Baetz, formerly an investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, directed one Oliver B. Patterson to steal certain letters from Jerry W. Ray, James' brother. Mark Lane, who represented Ray before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), alleged that King's murder was a conspiracy and government coverup; he is best known as a leading conspiracy theorist on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in which he attempted to represent Lee Harvey Oswald before the Warren Commission, claiming the state is wrongly convicting an innocent man.
Más información sobre la persona
Profession:
(1928-1998) American fugitive and felon convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.
Year of Birth: 1928
James Earl Ray was an American criminal, convicted of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Ray was born in Alton, Illinois, on March 10, 1928. He was the second of five children born to Lucille Ray and George Ellis Ray. His father worked as a machinist and his mother was a factory worker.
Ray attended school in Alton until the age of sixteen when he dropped out. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1948. He served in Germany and was honorably discharged in 1952. Upon his return home, Ray worked as a factory worker and a truck driver.
In 1955, Ray was arrested for the first time for a $50 burglary. He was sentenced to two years in prison. Upon his release, Ray quickly returned to crime. He was arrested numerous times over the next several years for various offenses, including burglary, theft, and forgery.
In 1959, Ray was arrested and convicted of the armed robbery of a Kroger grocery store in Memphis, Tennessee. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison. Ray escaped from prison in 1967 and fled to Canada and then to the United Kingdom. In 1968, he was arrested in London for illegally possessing a gun and ammunition.
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Ray was identified as the suspect and was quickly captured. He was extradited to Tennessee where he was charged with murder. Ray eventually pleaded guilty to the crime in order to avoid a trial and was sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison.
Ray would later recant his guilty plea and claimed he was framed for the assassination. He unsuccessfully attempted to have his conviction overturned before dying in prison in 1998. Ray's guilt in the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. remains a source of controversy to this day.
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