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    What "slip up" caused James Earl Ray to be arrested after he assassinated Martin Luther King Jr.?

    Question #122554. Asked by star_gazer. (Jul 21 11 8:39 AM)


    gracie3

    		Shortly after the assassination, witnesses saw James Earl Ray fleeing from a rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel where he was renting a room. A package was dumped close to the site that included a rifle and binoculars with Ray's fingerprints on them


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

    Jul 21 11, 9:21 AM
    star_gazer

    		On June 8, 1968, a little more than two months after King's death, Ray was captured at London's Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the United Kingdom on a false Canadian passport. At check-in the ticket agent noticed the name on his passport was on a Royal Canadian Mounted Police watchlist. He was using the name of Ramon George Sneyd.[16] At the airport, officials noticed that Ray carried another passport under a second name. The UK quickly extradited Ray to Tennessee, where he was charged with King's murder.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Ray#Capture_and_trial

    Jul 21 11, 9:55 AM

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