In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" id="mw-Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis, Tennessee</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Ray" id="mw-g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="James Earl Ray">James Earl Ray</a> pleads guilty to assassinating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." id="mw-w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.<sup about="#mwt160" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-30"}}' id="cite_ref-30" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_10#cite_note-30" id="mw_A" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 30;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw_Q">[30]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-30"><cite about="#mwt157" class="citation web cs1" id="mwCHY"><a class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/martin-luther-king-jr-assassination-did-james-earl-ray-kill-conspiracy-fbi-memphis-hoover-william-a8288686.html" id="mwCHc" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Did James Earl Ray really kill Martin Luther King or was a government conspiracy involved?"</a>. <i id="mwCHg"><a href="./The_Independent" id="mwCHk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i>. 4 April 2018<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCHo">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCHs">29 June</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt157" class="Z3988" id="mwCHw" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Independent&amp;rft.atitle=Did+James+Earl+Ray+really+kill+Martin+Luther+King+or+was+a+government+conspiracy+involved%3F&amp;rft.date=2018-04-04&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fmartin-luther-king-jr-assassination-did-james-earl-ray-kill-conspiracy-fbi-memphis-hoover-william-a8288686.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+10"></span></span>