1968 Press Photo Percy Foreman, defense attorney for James Earl Ray with newsmen

Percy Foreman, newly appointed defense attorney for James Earl Ray, accused assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holds an impromptu news conference on the sidewalk outside the Shelby County Jail Tuesday morning. Ray's trial was scheduled to begin Tuesday morning.

Photo is dated 1968.

Photo measures 8 x 10.5 inches.