America Declassified — Season 1, Episode 8: Murder in Memphis/Night Lights

Episode synopsis

"Murder in Memphis" goes to Tennessee in order to investigate the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and to determine whether James Earl Ray could have taken the fatal shot. "Night Lights" visits the small town of Marfa, Texas in order to investigate the strange phenomena of the Marfa Lights.

About America Declassified

Conspiracy theories, mysteries, secrets and the forbidden are probed with a fresh set of eyes as "America Declassified" delves into the hidden side of the United States. Investigators including former CIA officer Mike Baker, geoscientist and radiological engineering consultant Ben McGee, and investigative reporter Michele McPhee go on location to examine stories and events using new evidence, unprecedented access and never-before-heard-from witnesses. The hourlong episodes incorporate scientific methods, forensics and state-of-the-art surveillance technology to gain new insight into John F. Kennedy's assassination, the D.B. Cooper hijacking case, most-wanted mobster Whitey Bulger's life on the lam, and a rumored doomsday bunker under a major U.S. airport, among other stories. Locals and eyewitnesses also share their accounts of strange sightings, weird goings-on and unexplained phenomena.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Fatal View/Strict Radio Silence/Buried Alive
• E2Missing in Action/Swallowed Up Hole/Nowhere to Run
• E3Doomsday in Denver/White Sands, Dark Secrets/They're Listening
• E4The Atomic Conqueror/Armageddon House/Cannibal Colonists
• E5Hiding in Plain Sight/City on Fire/Rock Star
• E6Last Resort/Rocky Escape
• E7Less Lethal/Lost Vegas/Trash Talk
• E9Identified Flying Objects/Drone Nation/Green Curtain