Acclaimed author Hampton Sides charts James Earl Ray's mission to assassinate Martin Luther King, Jr. and the funeral, 65-day manhunt, and nationwide riots that followed. In 1967, Ray escaped Missouri State Penitentiary and adopted the alias Eric Galt. Drifting about the country and campaigning for raciest presidential candidate George Wallace, Ray observed the rise of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., stalking him until that night at the Lorraine Motel where he assassinated King.
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