The next evening, at 6 p.m., he was shot dead by James Earl Ray, a chronically disaffected, convicted armed robber who had escaped from prison about a year earlier.

在第二天下午6点，他被詹姆斯.厄尔.雷开枪打死。 雷是一个长期心怀对社会不满并被定罪为武装抢劫的罪犯，约在此一年前越狱逃跑。

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The following March, a white man named James Earl Ray, an armed robber who had escaped from prison, pleaded guilty to the murder.

接下来的三月，一名叫James Earl Ray的白人，一名越狱的武装劫匪，承认了谋杀罪。

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Officials in Tennessee unearthed the tapes of James Earl Ray in 2011 but had no way to view the old technology.

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She led a lonely crusade to exonerate James Earl Ray, the man who confessed to her husband's murder but later recanted.

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