Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman

Sky History 2 HD

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Wednesday 13 November

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The actor visits Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee, which housed the infamous assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, James Earl Ray. Ray was a renowned escape artist, and it was the Tennessee prison that witnessed him conduct his most audacious escape plan. Manufacturing a ladder made of plumbing pipe, Ray and six other convicts escaped over the wall. Three days later after an intense manhunt, the confessed killer was recaptured, and his sentence was increased to 100 years in prison