James Earl Ray arrested for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

On June 8, 1968, James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., was captured in London, England. From the article:

"A two-bit criminal, Ray escaped a Missouri prison in April 1967 while serving a sentence for a hold-up. In May 1968, a massive manhunt for Ray began. The FBI eventually determined that he had obtained a Canadian passport under a false identity, which at the time was relatively easy. On 8 June, Scotland Yard investigators arrested Ray at a London airport. Ray was trying to fly to Belgium, with the eventual goal, he later admitted, of reaching Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe). Rhodesia was at the time ruled by an oppressive and internationally condemned white minority government. Extradited to the United States, Ray stood before a Memphis judge in March 1969 and pleaded guilty to King's murder in order to avoid the electric chair."