Did James Earl Ray ever confess to the murder of M.L.K. and what was his motivat

Question:Was he in a racist group?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Was he in a racist group?

he recanted his confession
i think he did it for money so some one must have payed him !

Just off the top of my head, James Earl Ray was a bigoted redneck. He couldn't stand the thought of blacks having equal rights with whites. He felt they were an inferior race and should be "kept in their place." He believed Martin Luther King was a danger to the status quo and wanted to eliminate what he perceived as a threat.

I don't know if he was a member of the KKK, but if I had to guess, I'd say yes. He was an evil man.

His assassination of Martin Luther King was one of the worst things that could have happened to race relations in this country.

While I personally believe he was guilty, I also believe he was part of a conspiracy to assassinate King. Here's an excerpt from an article I found onlline.
The Martin Luther King Conspiracy
Exposed in Memphis
by Jim Douglass
Spring 2000
Probe Magazine

According to a Memphis jury's verdict on December 8, 1999, in the wrongful death lawsuit of the King family versus Loyd Jowers "and other unknown co-conspirators," Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a conspiracy that included agencies of his own government. Almost 32 years after King's murder at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, a court extended the circle of responsibility for the assassination beyond the late scapegoat James Earl Ray to the United States government.

I can hardly believe the fact that, apart from the courtroom participants, only Memphis TV reporter Wendell Stacy and I attended from beginning to end this historic three-and-one-half week trial. Because of journalistic neglect scarcely anyone else in this land of ours even knows what went on in it. After critical testimony was given in the trial's second week before an almost empty gallery, Barbara Reis, U.S. correspondent for the Lisbon daily Publico who was there several days, turned to me and said, "Everything in the U.S. is the trial of the century. O.J. Simpson's trial was the trial of the century. Clinton's trial was the trial of the century. But this is the trial of the century, and who's here?"

What I experienced in that courtroom ranged from inspiration at the courage of the Kings, their lawyer-investigator William F. Pepper, and the witnesses, to amazement at the government's carefully interwoven plot to kill Dr. King. The seriousness with which U.S. intelligence agencies planned the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. speaks eloquently of the threat Kingian nonviolence represented to the powers that be in the spring of 1968.

In the complaint filed by the King family, "King versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators," the only named defendant, Loyd Jowers, was never their primary concern. As soon became evident in court, the real defendants were the anonymous co-conspirators who stood in the shadows behind Jowers, the former owner of a Memphis bar and grill. The Kings and Pepper were in effect charging U.S. intelligence agencies -- particularly the FBI and Army intelligence -- with organizing, subcontracting, and covering up the assassination. Such a charge guarantees almost insuperable obstacles to its being argued in a court within the United States. Judicially it is an unwelcome beast.

And here is the website:

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKc...