King Family Believes Ray Is Innocent?

The King family and others believe that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy involving the U.S. government, the mafia, and Memphis police, as alleged by Loyd Jowers in 1993. They believe that Ray was a scapegoat. In 1999, the family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Jowers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot on April 4, 1968.

The assassin, James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested on June 8, 1968, at London's Heathrow Airport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Ray

Ray fled to Atlanta in his white Ford Mustang, driving for eleven hours. He picked up his belongings and fled north to Canada, arriving in Toronto three days later, where he hid for over a month and acquired a Canadian passport under the false name of Ramon George Sneyd. He left Toronto in late May on a flight to the United Kingdom. He stayed briefly in Lisbon, Portugal, and returned to London. In London, on June 4, he called The Daily Telegraph and requested to talk to Ian Colvin, the newspaper's foreign correspondent in Africa and the Middle East, whose articles about Africa he claimed to have read, and asked him to connect him to former British Army Commandant Alistair Wicks about the possibility of becoming a mercenary in Africa. Ray contacted Colvin again on June 6 for further inquiry, after no contact from Wicks. Colvin told Ray that it was not a good time to become a mercenary but nevertheless gave him an address in Brussels. Ray was then arrested at London Heathrow Airport attempting to leave the UK for Brussels. He was trying to depart the UK for Angola, Rhodesia or South Africa using the falsified Canadian passport. At check-in, the ticket agent noticed the name on his passport, Sneyd, was on a Royal Canadian Mounted Police watchlist.

Airport officials noticed that Ray carried another passport under a second name.