Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, left, speaks with Yolanda King, center, and her brother Dexter King, right, at the Salute to Greatness, Saturday Jan. 13, 2007, in Atlanta Ga.
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On March 10, 1969, Ray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary. Ray later made many attempts to withdraw his guilty plea and be tried by a jury, but was unsuccessful; he died in prison on April 23, 1998, at the age of 70.
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In 1997, Martin Luther King 's son Dexter King met with Ray; he publicly supported Ray's efforts to obtain a retrial. Dr. William Pepper remained James Earl Ray's attorney until Ray's death. He carried on the effort to gain a trial on behalf of the King family.
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Yolanda King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 's eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, has died. She was 51. King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 51, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. Klein said the family did not know the cause of death but think it might have been a heart problem.
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The King Center in Atlanta — set up to preserve the legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King — says his oldest child, Yolanda Denise King, has died. Steve Klein, a spokesman for the center, says the 51-year-old died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif.
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The death comes just over a year after the death of her mother, Coretta Scott King — a civil rights leader in her own right — at the age of 78, of complications from ovarian cancer, and after a battle with the effects from a stroke.
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A church minister, Ronald Denton Wilson, claimed his father, Henry Clay Wilson, assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr., not James Earl Ray. He stated, It wasn't a racist thing; he thought Martin Luther King was connected with communism, and he wanted to get him out of the way..
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening.
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Her mother, Coretta Scott King, died last year. Yolanda King is survived by her sister, the Rev. Bernice A. King; two brothers, Martin Luther King III and Dexter Scott King; and an extended family. Funeral arrangements would be announced later, the family said in a statement.
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The children of Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King — Yolanda Denise, Martin Luther III, Dexter Scott, and Bernice Albertine — have each in their own way worked to carry on their parents' work fighting for racial equality and social justice.
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Matin Luther king died at the age of 51. Martin Luther died at the age of 51.