The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Part II
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A manhunt is launched for MLK’s killer, James Earl Ray. After his capture he pleads guilty. With no trial the world won’t hear the facts of the case laid out in court, giving rise to decades of conspiracy theories that even the King family came to believe.
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| 1:05.1 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:14.6 | Thank you. know, a production of IHeartRadio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and this is part two of our two-parter |
| 1:20.6 | on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. That's right. Where we locked off with part |
| 1:26.7 | one was the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 1:31.5 | And we're going to pick up now with the investigation in the manhunt. |
| 1:34.8 | And while we're talking about that, we might as well go ahead and say it's still perhaps the largest manhunt in FBI history, depending on who you ask. |
| 1:43.4 | Cost a couple of million bucks in those dollars, 3,500 investigators. |
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