Crime History: MLK assassin captured

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On this day, June 8, in 1968, escaped convict James Earl Ray was arrested in London for the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

A year earlier, Ray had escaped a Missouri prison by hiding in a box loaded with bread that was transferred from the prison bakery.

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