The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, at a press conference here 1/28, said that more than one person conspired to kill Dr. Martin Luther King and that whether James Earl Ray was part of it was a question to be decided by the courts. He said that although he did not have evidence that Ray did not shoot King, he did not want to see Ray be the scapegoat for a crime engineered by a larger group.

United Press International · [ca. January 1969]

[Information from item housing] Abernathy, Rev. Ralph D. Montgomery, ALA., Negro Minister