Was the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. after a $100,000 KKK bounty?
Was James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., motivated at least in part to kill the civil rights leader by a $100,000 bounty offered by a Mississippi Ku Klux Klan group?...
From USA Today:
Was James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., motivated at least in part to kill the civil rights leader by a $100,000 bounty offered by a Mississippi Ku Klux Klan group?
Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., raises that possibility today in his blog Journey to Justice.
Mitchell, who has spent decades reporting on unpunished slayings from the civil rights era, says FBI records show that Ray knew of the bounty before he escaped from a Missouri prison.
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