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James Earl Ray was doing 20 years for a robbery when he escaped in a bread truck. It wasn’t even big news at the time, but it sure became big news a year later when Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis on April 4,1968.  Investigators found fingerprints on a rifle in a …

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On this date in Missouri history, James Earl Ray escapes from the Missouri State Penitentiary. He was doing 20 years for a robbery when he escaped in a bread truck.