James Earl Ray

“Well, I didn't kill him. But the point is, I was going to make some money.”

“I never shot Martin Luther King, but I was entrapped. I was not a racist. I was a thief.”

“The only thing I'm guilty of is not being a good enough professional to get out of the country.”

“I ain't going to be your patsy.”

“I was set up to be the fall guy.”

“I'm looking at this from a legal standpoint, not a moral one.”

“I have no animosity toward the King family. I want to see them get all the information they want.”

“I just wanted to be a successful criminal.”

“The fact that you're a racist doesn't mean you're a murderer.”

“They can say what they want to say, but I know I wasn't the one who did it.”

“The motive for the assassination was financial.”

“I wasn't involved in any racial matter.”

“My sole purpose was to get to a country where there's no extradition treaty.”