In 1968, as Martin Luther King Jr. was at the height of his popularity, James Earl Ray was on the lam, cooking up preposterous schemes to make money fast. Then on April 4, the two men converged in Memphis, Tennessee, and with chilling precision Ray shot and killed King as the civil rights leader stood on his motel balcony. Roads to Memphis examines the volatile social and political forces in America at the time that led to that horrific encounter and attempts to decode the psychological impulses of the assassin, an enigmatic loner with a warped sense of destiny. How was this down-and-out drifter, now the most wanted man in the world, able to elude the authorities for over two months? Through interviews with King’s closest associates and officials involved with Ray’s capture and prosecution, as well as archival footage of the mayhem that broke out across the country as news of the assassination spread, this film offers a fresh perspective on one of America’s iconic tragedies.  EM