king s closest aides and friends had voiced doubts about the case both then i think the government rushed to judgment. i ve always felt that james earl ray didn t act alone. and now. i don t think james earl ray acted. you don t think he pulled the trigger? i don t think he was anywhere near. william pepper first met james earl ray in 1978 when he went to visit him in prison. pepper came away from that meeting certain of one thing. it was pretty clear that he was not the shooter. had there not been a guilty plea, there might have been two huge holes in the prosecutor s case. first, ballistics experts could not match this bullet, which killed dr. king, with the rifle ray bought. the bullet was badly mangled upon impact and the markings made by the rifle barrel when the gun was fired fell short of scientific certainty. second, two men living in the
ray, from day one, regretted his guilty plea, as he explained to the parole board in 1997. everyone wanted the guilty plea except me. for years, a number of dr. king s closest aides and friends had voiced doubts about the case both then i think the government rushed to judgment. i ve always felt that james earl ray didn t act alone. and now. i don t think james earl ray acted. you don t think he pulled the trigger? i don t think he was anywhere near. william pepper first met james earl ray in 1978 when he went to visit him in prison. pepper came away from that meeting certain of one thing. it was pretty clear that he was not the shooter. had there not been a guilty plea, there might have been two huge holes in the prosecutor s case. first, ballistics experts could not match this bullet, which killed dr. king, with the rifle ray bought. the bullet was badly mangled upon impact and the markings made by the rifle barrel when the gun was fired fell short of
plea except me. for years, a number of dr. king s closest aides and friends had voiced doubts about the case both then i think the government rushed to judgment. i ve always felt that james earl ray didn t act alone. and now. i don t think james earl ray acted. you don t think he pulled the trigger? i don t think he was anywhere near. william pepper first met james earl ray in 1978 when he went to visit him in prison. pepper came away from that meeting certain of one thing. it was pretty clear that he was not the shooter. had there not been a guilty plea, there might have been two huge holes in the prosecutor s case. first, ballistics experts could not match this bullet, which killed dr. king, with the rifle ray bought. the bullet was badly mangled upon impact and the markings made by the rifle barrel when
center, says that book and that dialogue persuaded the king family to get involved. i feel that my family, mr. ray and the american people have been unjustly denied the due process that is the birthright of every citizen. birthrite of everything citiz s citizens. we came very close to getting a real trial for james, because there was a black judge called joe brown. i would object to the entire line of questioning. we re trying to get the facts. we ve got dr. king dead, in his grave, a national hero, a world hero of national holiday named after him and i m not going to allow somebody s artful cross examination to keep me as a trier of fact from getting to the bottom of this. overruled. and judge brown ruled in 1997 that they could retest the weapon. ballistics experts fired ray s weapon 18 times to see if they could get a match. the results were inconclusive.
i feel that my family, mr. ray and the american people have been unjustly denied the due process that is the birthright of every citizen. we came very close to getting a real trial for james, because there was a black judge called joe brown. i would object to the entire line of questioning. we re trying to get the facts. we ve got dr. king dead, in his grave, a national hero, a world hero of national holiday named after him, and i m not going to allow the vocicitudes of somebody s artful cross-examination to keep me as trier of fact from getting to the bottom of this. overruled. and judge brown ruled in 1997 that they could retest the weapon. ballistics experts fired ray s weapon 18 times to see if they could get a match. the results were inconclusive. but farris says one of those experts privately told him