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Mr. Smith

Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, 1993

James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr., was known by the warden and prison officials as “Mr. Smith” so as not to attract attention. When asked if he committed the crime, he responded by saying, “I didn’t pull the trigger.”

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