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What was James Earl Ray's alias while fleeing?

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Eric Galt was the alias used by James Earl Ray while he was fleeing after assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Ray adopted the alias in an attempt to evade capture, and he used it to travel across the country and to Canada before eventually being apprehended in London, England, two months after the assassination.
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