June 8, 1968: The morning they caught King's killer
Two months after assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, James Earl Ray was run to ground on June 8, 1968, at London's Heathrow Airport — the end of the largest manhunt the FBI had ever mounted.
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