American Experience: Roads to Memphis - The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (DVD)

This American Experience program tells the story of an assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April 1968. Neither a strict biography of Ray, nor a mere recapitulation of familiar highlights from King's final months, the film is an exploration of the wildly disparate, yet fatefully entwined stories of Ray and King which creates a complex, engaging and thought-provoking portrait of America in the crisis-laden year of 1968.

American Experience: Roads to Memphis - The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (DVD)