James Earl Ray was arrested at Heathrow airport in 1968 and subsequently convicted of whose assassination?
James Earl Ray titled "Truth At Last: The Untold Story Behind James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr." James Earl Ray James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998) was an American fugitive and felon convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. Ray was convicted on his 41st birthday after entering a guilty plea to forgo a jury trial. Had he been found guilty by jury trial, he would have been eligible for the death penalty. Sentenced to "de facto" life imprisonment, he later recanted his confession and tried unsuccessfully
James Earl Ray later, where he hid for over a month and acquired a Canadian passport under the false name of Ramon George Sneyd. He left Toronto in late May on a flight to England. He stayed briefly in Lisbon, Portugal, and returned to London. On June 8, 1968, two months after King's death, Ray was arrested at London Heathrow Airport attempting to leave the United Kingdom for Brussels on a false Canadian passport. At check-in, the ticket agent noticed the name on his passport, Sneyd, was on a Royal Canadian Mounted Police watchlist. At the airport, officials noticed that Ray carried another