Since 2006, the Justice Department has been re-investigating civil rights cold cases from the 1950s and 1960s. It has examined over 100+ cases from that time period. One case that it has not examined: Martin Luther King, Jr's assassination. Although James Earl Ray initially confessed to the crime in 1969, he later recanted that confession. Congress re-investigated the murder in the late 1970s, and concluded that while Ray might be guilty, the murder was likely the result of a *conspiracy.* Dr. King publicly pushed for justice in many civil rights crimes during his lifetime, risking his life in the process. His own murder deserves the same renewed attention as the other crimes.
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