Playbill

September, 1977

After nine years in prison for killing Martin Luther King, Jr. (five of them in solitary), James Earl Ray made a daring leap for freedom last June 10. Coincidentally, he was right in the middle of an exclusive interview with Playboy. James McKinley, author of Playboy's History of Assassination in America, and Senior Editor Laurence Gonzales had been probing the mysteries of this brutal killing for some months when Ray went over the wall. In early sessions, Ray's brother Jerry dropped in at the p...