*I really need help on this can you help me figure out the blanks and answer questions 1-3 please it would mean alot and this is due in 3 hours and 57 minutes* On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, was fatally wounded by a rifle shot that was(SON) for years afterwards. King was visiting Memphis, Tennessee, in order to support striking sanitation workers. While he was staying at the Hotel Lorraine, Dr. King exited his room to the balcony on his way to dinner. As he paused to speak to someone below, he was struck and killed by a single rifle shot. Authorities arrested James Earl Ray, a white escaped convict, who soon confessed to shooting King from a building across from the hotel. Near the crime scene, investigators found a bag containing a rifle with Ray’s fingerprints. Ray was sentenced to life in prison, but he soon (CANT) his admission, claiming his lawyer forced him to confess which would avoid the death penalty. Today, most people believe Ray assassinated King. Yet, a few including Dr. Martin Luther King’s family, claim the assassination was a conspiracy, not executed solely by James Earl Ray.
Critics who believe in a possible conspiracy cite a number of problems with the official story. Most significantly, Ray was not a trained sniper, nor is there any evidence he practiced firing rifles on his own. The person who shot Dr. King fired one precision shot. In addition, investigators could never match the bullet from King’s body to Ray’s rifle, even after new testing was done in 1997. A number of witnesses present at the murder scene claimed the sound of the shot came from the ground, not from above, which is where Ray allegedly fired. A man who had claimed he saw Ray leaving the room later admitted that he was intoxicated. When he was shown a picture, he even denied that Ray was the man he had originally claimed to see. Some people,(CHANT) by the potential problems with the authorities’ version of King’s assassination, still believe in Ray’s possible innocence.
James Earl Ray died in prison in 1998, and Dr. King’s family has even publicly stated that they do not believe Ray killed King. In 2000, however, after finishing an eighteen-month investigation, the U. S. Justice Department concluded that there was no evidence of an assassination plot. Today the official story remains unaltered from the original—that James Earl Ray, and only James Earl Ray, was responsible for killing Martin Luther King, Jr.

Directions: Write the letter of your answer on the line next to the number.

1.Where was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?

A. the Hotel Lorraine
B. a boarding house
C. the Holiday Inn
D. a Memphis courtroom

2.Why do some people believe that James Earl Ray is innocent?
A. His fingerprints were found on a rifle near the crime scene.
B. He proved he was somewhere else at the time of the shooting.
C. He was not a trained sniper.
D. He had no reason to kill King.

3.Why did Ray say he confessed to the shooting?

A. He said he confessed because he was guilty.
B. He said he confessed because he was temporarily insane.
C. He said he confessed because the Mafia made him.
D. He said he confessed because his lawyer forced him to.