KING/RAY FOIA.
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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

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CONFIDENNAL

SECRET

(Optiondi)

TOTA Appeal - Tiacold Weisberg, for information arout

Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Earl Ray

EXTENSION

DATE

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IPS E. 76-382

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H.G. Bean

Assistant for Information, DDA

7 D 02 HQ

TO: (Oficer designation, roore number, and

DATE

building)

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OFFICER'S.

INITIALS

COMMENTS (Number socia comineni lo shan irom whom

to vinom.

Draw a line across coium ailer sach common.):

RECEIVED

FORWARDEO

Mr. Wells, DDO

TARU: Mr. Addona, DDO/PICG

1 D. 4125H0

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Attached is an FOIA Appeal.

with a due date of 19 Aug 77.

2.

In accordance with IPS pIO-

cedures, the Chairman has assigned

action for this appeal as follows:

3.

Mr. Dicks, DDS&1

THRU: Mr. Redmond, DDS&I/FIO

6 8 561Q

BY-1

Mr. Wells, Mr. Dirks,

Mr. Stevens and Ne. Blake

5.

Mr. Stevens, DDI

THRU: Mr. Lawler,

DEX/FIO

2 0 6204 HQ

FX-4

Designated Action Member (s)

should contact me within 48 hours

should there ba any objaction to

the case assignment:

The OGC attorney assignad to

advise you or your Appeals Officer

regarding this case is:

7.

Mr.

Blake, DDA

7 D 26 HO

BX-4

Mr. Ziebell

8.

3.

Mr. Ziebell, OCC

6-D-0120 - Has. BX-S

The Action Member of Appeals

Officer is requested to ensure

that staff work is completed and

the case is ready for presentation

(should such be required) at the

l1 Aug, 77 meeting.

110.

2.

Bean

fix. Biddisconbe, OS/IRG

CE 31 HQ

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JAMES H. LESAR

ATTORNEY AT LAW

1231 FOURTH STREET, S. W.

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20024

TELEPHONE (202) 484-6023

F 76÷382

June 11, 1976

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

OS

DDO

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Mr. Gene F. Wilson

Freedom of Information Coordinator

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D. C.

20505

Dear Mr. Wilson:

On behalf of Mr. Harold Weisberg of Frederick, Maryland, I

request access to the following:

I. All records pertaining to DI. Martin Luther King, Jr.

2.

All records pertaining to the assassination of Dx. Martin

Luther King, JI.

3.

All records pertaining to James Earl Ray, under whatever

name or alias.

4.

All records

on any alleged or suspected accomplice or

associate in the assassination of DI. Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. All collections of published materials on the assassination

of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

All analyses,

commentaries,

reports, or investigations on

or in any way pertaining to any published materials on the assassi

nation of Dr. Martin Luther king, JI. or the authors of said materials.

y, All records, letters, cables, memorandums, routing slips,

photograpas

tape recordings, receipts, sketches, computer printouts

or any other form of data pertaining to or in any way relevant te

the toregoing requests for information, regardless of source or 5

origin.

This sequest is made under the provisions of the Freedom O5o

Information Act, 5 U.S.C. $552, as amended by Public Law 93-502g

Sincerely yours,

une t eras

Lesa

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2 1 JUN 1976

James H. Lesar, Esquire

1231 Fourth Street,

S.W.

Washington, D.C. 20024

Dear Mr. Lesar:

This acknowledges receipt of your letter of 11 June 1976

on behalf of Mr. Harold Weisberg requesting, under provisions

of the Freedom of Information Act, access to any. CIA records

dealing with Dr. Martin iuther King, Jr., and/or James Earl Ray

and any of his alleged or suspected

accomplices in DI. King's

assassination.

I shall arrange for a search of CIA files and shall be in

further comnunication with you once the search has been completed

and any records found reviewed for releasability under the Act.

As you may know, the heavy volume of Freedom of Infomation

requests received by the Agency has resulted in processing back-

logs.. If we do not respond within the 10 working days stipulated.

by the Act, it is your right to construe this as a denial, subject.

to appeal to the CIA Infornation Review Committee.. It would seem

more reasonable, however, for us to continue processing your request

and to respond as soon as feasible..

Any denials of records could

be appealed at that time. Unless we hear from you otherwise, we

will assume that this is agreeable to you and proceed on this basis.

For your information, I am enclosing a copy of our fee schedule.

if the charges seem likely to be considerable, I shall provide you

with an estinate and perhaps require a partial payment in advance

of processing.

Sincerely,

/ s/GFI!

Gene F. Wilson

Information and Privacy Coordinator

Zuclosure:

as stated

inG/CES/cb/21 Jun 76Distribution:

Orag - Addressee

• IPS Chrono

Ips

(F-76-382)

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3 0 NOV 1975

Jones Hi. Lesar, Esquire

1231. Fourth Street,

S.. Ho

Rashiagton y

•36. 20024

Dear fr. Lesar:

IPS/DGV/cr/29 Nov 76

Distribution:

Orig, - Addressee

- OSC (Strickland)

1

- DDO/PICG

- OS/IRG

- AI/DDA

@- IPS (Weisberg,F-76-332)

SPR

- IPS (leisberg Correspondence)

- IPS Chrono

You will recall that our letter of 21 June 1976 achnovledgo

roceipt of your lettor on behalf of Hr. Harold Heisberg requesting,

moder provisions of the Freedon of Inforaation Act, access to any

CIA records deslisg with DI. Martin Luther King, 31., and ta those

dealing with James Earl Ray and any of his alleged of suspected

nccorplicos in Dr. King's assassination.

Do find that me are mable to cospond to your request as it

no% stunes due to logal and regulatory resêrictions on the release

of personal information roe official records.

In that light,

plosse bo advised that wo

can procoed no further with your request

Unless and until wa are in receipt of nozarized statements of re-

Loass Fros Hrs, Corotta King and James Fail. Ray, Iespectively.

Those staceneats should be quite specific as to

what areas of

personal inforsation are and are not authorized for release by this

Ageticy to you and your cliont..

If all infernation in our records

1s. releasable, that saould bo so

stated; if caly such inforsation

us relates to specific incidents or to specific periods of tine is

releasable, these caveats shonld be clearly stated.

Finally,

wo must ask that you provide a statement of 1i11ing-

wess to pay search sad duplication fees as rcquired by this requost

and in line with the feo schodule enclosed.: It has been estimated

chat such chargas could soprosch $1006.

Along with the notarised

atatonents above, and the statement of willingness to pay all search

und copying charges (or those up to an established limit), we woula

require a down payment of bale cho ancicipated charges.

Paynent

should be sads

to this offica in the fora of a check or money order

voyablo to Trossurer of the United Siates.

ncerely:

Gene F. Wilson

Information and Friracy Coordinator

Croosure

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JAMES H. LESAR

ATTORNEY AT LAW

1231 FOURTH STREET, 5. VI.

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20024

TELEPHONE (202) 484-6023

December 3, 1976

Nic. Gene E. Wilson

Information and Privacy Coordinator

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D. C. 20505

Dear ME. Wilson:

,:-1

In response to your letter of November 30, 1976, Mr. Harold

Weisberg has authorized me to state his willingess to pay search.

and copying charges up to the amount of $1,000 if such charges are

required by his Freedom of Information Aci request for records

pertaining to DI. Martin Luther King, JI. and his assassination.

Because you require a down payment of half the anticipated charges,

I enclose a check for $500.00:

This payment of $500.00 and any subsequent payments made in

connection with this request are tendered with the express reserva

tion that Mr. Weisberg does not waive his right to recover them.

C.I.A. regulations provide:

Records shall be furnished without charge

or at a reduced rate whenever the coordina

tor determines that waiver or reduction of

the charge is in the public interest because

furnishing the information can be considered

21 PM '76

as primarily benefiting the general public.

The Coordinator also may waive or reduce the

charge whenever he determines that the inte-

rest of the government would be served there-

by. 32 C.F.R. $1900.25 (a).

In accordance with this regulation, I call upon you to

determine that it is in the public and governmental interest to

valve search and copying charges incurred in connection with Mr.

leisberg's request.

Enclosed herein is a copy of a letter to Deputy

Antoney General Harold R. Tyler, Jr. which makes a similar request

of the Department of Justice.

The reasons expressed in that letter

for granting a waiver are incorporated in my request that you grant

• waiver.

Should you require it, I will provide you with affidavits by

nurself, Mi. Weisberg, and others in support of this request fox

wiver of the search and copying charges for these records.

YOU

So wish supporting affidavits, I would appreciate it if you would

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inform me of this as soon as possible. I would also request

that you indicate what standards, if any, you have established

for determining whether or not a

request for waiver should be

granted.

You state that you can proceed no further with Mr. Weisberg's

request "unless and until we are in receipt of notarized state-

ments of release from Mrs. Coretta King and James Earl Ray,

respectively." Because Mr. Weisberg's request undoubtedly com-

prises records which do not involve any proper claim of privacy,

this cannot be true. I do enclose, however, a copy of a notarized

waiver by James Earl. Ray. " I will immediately contact Mrs. King

about a waiver by her.

in the meantime, I request that you procee

to make available those records responsive to Mr. Weisberg's re-

quest which do not involve any proper claim of invasion of privacy.

Sincerely yours,

Sanes #. Texas

James H. Lesai

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13 JAN 1977

James H. Lesar, Esquire

1231 Fourth St.,

Washington, DC 20027

Dear Mr. Lesar:

Thank you for your fetter of 27 December. This will acknowledge

recise of process over executed of your equest has een toti-

ated.

Upon receipt of the sworn walyer from Mrs. King, as mentioned

in your latter of 3 December, we will then be able to proceed with all

aspects of your FOIA request.

We also wish to acknowledge receipt of

your check for $500.

Thank you for your assistance and continued cooperation.

This request has been assigned the case number F-76-382.

Sincerely,

her alon

Gene F. Wilson

Information and Privacy Coordinator

IPS/EK/cb/12. Jan 77

Distribution:

Orig - Addressee

1 - IPS Chrono

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1 - OGC

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28 APR 1977

Janes !. Lesat,

Aitorey nt Law

Es?.

1231 Fourth

Sereet,

S.W.

Mashington, DC 20023

Don. M. Lesar:

This is in partial response to your request, cated 11

June 1976, nade on behalf of your client, fir. Harold Weisberg.

Please refer also to our letters, dated 21 June 1976, 30

Novenber 1976 and 13 January 1977. Ter our recent telsphone

conversation this partial response addresses ltself to thas

part of your letter requesting records pertaining to: Janes

Earl Ray.

The naterials. located thus far have been revioned

carefully, and our deterinations are as follows:

Inclosed, Tah A, are conies of the following items which

are being relensed in you in their entirety:

1.

the book excerpt.

2-100. One hundred and eight (108) press itons,

110-134. Trenty-five (25) UPI wire itens.

155-171.

Thirty-seven (37) Routers wire icons,

272-225.

Fifty-tro (52) AP vire items.

I'nclosed also, Tao i, are segregabis portions ne cha

docurents listod belor.

Deletions in the originals very made

undor the exemption provisions of the Freedon of Infomation

Ac: subsections which are given wish each docuaent ciced.

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The applicability of these exenntions has been explaired

to you in our earlier correspondence.

Docurents

223-225.

Two cables, doted 10 April 1063.

230. Cable, dated 10 April 1963.

227-220. Thrce cables, dated 10 April 1965.

Exenations

(p) (1); (B) (3)

0(1),

03) (3) ;

(a) (6)

(o) (1)*

(D) (3)

(b) (6)

230-233. Four cablas, dated 20 April 1063.

(b) (3);

(b) (6)

234-255. Two cables, dated 22 April 1068.

(B) (1) ,

(b) (3),

(b) (S)

256-237. Two dispatches, dated 22 April 1969.

238-239. Two cables, dated 23 April 1063.

(5) 017, (D) (5)

(D) (1),

(0) (3) ,

(b) (6)

240.

Menorandus, dated 25 April 1903.

(h) (I).2

(0) (3) ,

(b) (6)

241. Cable, dated 26 April 1953.

242. Routing slip, dated 22. October 1975.

• (b) (1): (b) (3)

0(1),

(0) (5),

(b) (6)

243.

Routing slip, Lazed 23 October 1975.

(3) (1) ,

(0) (3) ,

(6) (6)

The docusents listed beloy are being withheld in their

ontiraty under the exemption provisions of the Fresdom of

Intornaton Act subsections gâven wich each document.

Documents

Exerptions

244, Memorandun, dated 17 April 1968.

0212, (6)(53,

(b) (6)

245. Memorandon, dated 10 April 1903.

(b) (3), 01(3):

(3) (0)

246. Cable, dated 20 April 1063.

(9) 02, (0)(3),

(b) 16

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• 247. Cable, dated 20 April 196%,

243. Menorandum, dated 1 May 1902

249. Cable, dates 3 May 1959.

250. Menorandum, sated 14 May 1963.

251. Menorardum, dated 16 May 1962.

252-354 Three cables, datad P June 1952.

255a Piemorandua, dated 19 February 1067.

256.

Menorandus, dated 26 Yay 1969.

257-2544

Right biographic stetches.

205.

Menorandun, dated 17 April 1958.

265-272.

Seven Cables, dator 10 April 1968

273s Cable, dated 20 April 1908.

27%.

Cable, dated 22 April 1963.

275. Cable, dated 25 April 1903,

270. Cable, dated 24 April 1968.

277-278.

Two Cables, dated 25 April 1062.

279. Dispatch, dated 26 Anril 1069.

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(1) (2) = (h) (3),

(6) (9)

(5) (1) , (b) (5)

(b) (1)

(0) (5)?

(3) (6)

10) 0123

(b) (3),

(b) (5)

(b) (23, (b)(3),

(0) (7), (h) (3)

(o) (1),

0(2),

(b) (3)

(5) (6)

(3) (1), 01(2),

(6) (3);

: (b) (6)

(b)(3,

(b) (2)

(b) (3) , (3) (6)

000,

(3) (3),

[b) (6)

(b) (1),

(0) (3),

(b) (6)

(2) (1)

(9) (5) ,

(D) (5)

(0) 11)

(b) (6)

(b) (3),

02),

(b) (6)

(h) (5) ,

02(13, (0)(3) =

(3) (9)

(0)(2), (0)(3),

(1) (6)

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280. Cable, dated 33 Unril 1908.

201-282. Two Cables, dator 50 April 1068.

285. Menozanden, dated 2 May 1002.

234.

Monorandon, inted & lay 3963.

235. Menorandra, dated 15 May 1955.

(0), (0)(3),

(b) (6)

P (6) (3),

(b) (6)

010, (6) (3),

(6) (6)

02(3), (0) (3),

• (5) (6)

(0) (13

(2) (3),

(b)

200. Cable, dare 34 May 1963.

(0) (1), (0)(3)9

(b) (6)

The decisions cited above were made by Mr. Charles A.

Rriags, DDO Infomation Reviey Deficer.

As specifiad in the Freedos of intomation Ace, 1 an

advising you of your right to appeal the above socisions, but

it would seen to be nore reasonable to arait the complete

to do so.

our processing before you actually dotemine whether

We thank you for your patience and consideration.

Sincerely:

Charte.

Geng F. Wilson

Infomation and Privacy Coordinator

Enclosuros

IPS/EK/CD/20 Apr 77

Orig. -

Adse.

DDO

IPS

IPS

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LOG AS

APPEEL (F-76-382)

appeal

Doesn't the our us

money?

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Ri. 12, Frederick, Id. 21701

7/21/77

(Tom D., or successor,.

Cere, Wilso, ICIA/Pa Coordinator

Gectral Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C.

Dear to alson,

The news account of your coming release of an additional 4,000 rages on thai might

25.7

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requests cover anything and verything directly or indirectly related to this subject. that

you have interpreted my requests as I have is evidence fron prior corraspondance not.

fying me of releases.

at for Under the Act there is autcority for the remission of all costs and ices. I beljeve

I neet the requirerents for this remission and I make the request formally. Fy work

is restricted ezclusively to what is nor regarded as important historical cases, In one

on which If have paid the CIl large suas ithout complience, the sing assassination,

Previous Attorey General so held, fornally, confirmed by a federal judge. I have already

arranged to give all ny records, not just these, to a university system. I beliave at an

earlier date I reserved the right to recover these fees. I have delayed a fornal appeals

pending a determination of a judge that there be a ruling by the Department of Justica

with regard to re and on this.. The Deparimeni provided a bargain-basement response, a

6o, ranission that I have appealed and vill if necessary litigate, I hope the Cla will

act favorably on this.

It has been a very long tire since I have heard fron you about a multitude of requests

ali long overdus by your on backdog claius. One of those is on the King assassination, In

that you may recall you estimated a $1,000f search fee and asked for and raceived a $500

deposit. What, you lave sent is ludicrous. In the long tine in which I lave heard and

received nothing further I think you have in effact refused the request after charging

fees so this is also an apueal. on the min/ Ray racords.

I an asiang again when I may expect to hear from you un all the other requesis,

including my Pi request for the records on me. The appeal is several years old now. My

recollection is that your last reference to this stated the processing of the appeal. had

zot bean conpleted. I have rights under the Act to nora than copies. I want to ezercise

those rights. this is impossible without obtaining ali conies first. As.I have toid you

repeatedly I rould prefer not to have to litigata his. ihat I am thus really astring you

is does the CIA vart me to suit it on a request that

goes back to 1971 and oz which it is

not in compliance? Hot even processed tre apreal?

Anong the factors naking it difficult to leap track of these non-coupliances is your

failure to respond as well as to corply. I beliere I have asked this before. " i have then

¿unai follous is an appeal fron a refusal, If I have not it is a nor request. I would lie

all records relating to my requests and appeals; including their sequential relationshios

to otbes requests, under both Acts and particularly as this relates to compliance with

othor requeste.

Sincerelys

Ed K

ils tid ss

Hazold Weisberg

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APPROVED FOR RELEASE

Date: 19 AUC 1976

JAMES EARN RAY

MURDERED

Cotinty, loun, hernuse, inhis words,

"7o porcue of the volors at this

county the Memphis wren) voted

for either Wallace or Nixon." Hel

added that corrainly ho didn't lnvo

lo lour d denth sonónco beckundh

"no while man has ever been given:

DR.KING

" death sentence in a racial killing."

32056%

A The Ray brothers believe that Jimmy is support-

ed not only by millions of individual Americans lut

miso by certain newspapers and newspapermen. On

November 1, 1968, when he thought the trial might a

start of November: 12, Jorry Buy came to Mabana

nd talked whih mo. Ond of his worries; ho said, was

obody but thoral reposers" could get h sent

assigned in the courtroom for the trial. Jorry wanle

This is the third in a series of articles on James Parl

mo do use my inducneo do get "somo conservative is.

Kay and the murder of Dr. Martin Lather King, Jr.,

Paul Harvey and Fulton Lunds nasigned

by Willlam

Bradlord Quie, the eight generation

vo somo trionde who'll doll Jimmy's

Sunchernor tho solood the murder of Bmimes Till on

vas hard to conclodo Somon

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or 11 am. The train lole for Joronto shoul 20 mine

les aller sil there / arabeed in toromo nbond

5 pa. on the all of April (Saurday), and I rented

the room « 102 Ossingion about 6 poll. for 810. The

people who ran the rooming house were immigrants

(Polish1. The woman couldn'd speak hardlyany Eng

lish and the man not much beller. I never gave them

a name as they never asked me for one.

Dat On Mendey I went lo the newspaper office and

went through the old files looking for to names to

use to apply for o passport. I Bot abone con names

from the paper, including Paul Edward Bridgman

and Ramon Goorgo Snage. (Ray Bot thes

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from births reported in 1902, la manted mon

his mun eke. Ray mus born li 102n, buch

sanel A, acparntoly nud together, talked with Ruy for ing south." Another witness, "Cornbrend

more thinn one hundred hours. It waan balling expe

snid that he anw. "the inon" fre the ahot!

rienco hecure Rny nevet gave us his confidenco on

bushes and then "inke of."

critient inaucs. Preparing his defense wns like prepar

From a concenled pos

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ing for moot court in law school. We worked, bit wo

south of Bessie Brewers rooming house, po

had no defendant lo work with na.

watching the aren of Dr. King's room, tryin

Ac Al all limca, liny was courieous and respectal.

ice him fron what they thought was the inor

Of modernto size, with a acusitivo, nounssertivo per:

thrent in him: possible nilack by Negro mil

sonality, he is a man who would go unnoticed nny;

Negro policemon who could recognize the i

where. Probing for motivations, l ofion ntlempled lo

gerous of these militants wae at a peephole

discuss rnce or politics with him. Ho la woll informed

tually saw De. King Call. Boll freinon and pe

but his views are neither extreme nor bitterly hickl: I

who were in the back of the firo slation

never heur him express or saw him display resent-

shot, and they all thought that it came from t

mcnt, hatred or malice loward anyone.

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WILLIAM BRADFORD HUIE CONTINUED

and Mexien, I was handicapped by what I now re-

gard as several misconceptions, Other people, I ic-

alice, will disagree with me emphatically, and in de-

tail. I believe, however, that if this tragedy is to be

understood, il ever all the questions are lo be an.

, swered nud the answers widely necepted, these mis.

conceptions must he dispelled.

The first misconception is that Ray's Night

through Canada ofter the murder and his obtaining

« Candlinn pnasport by using the names of living cil.

inema of Decondo sere comples Cente that he could

have accomplishes only with arrislanes, Aller is.

tracing tole tripe, and studying bag's necount of il, 1

belina the fond was within his capabllies,

sidlance was necessary. Here's how he did it:

Leaving Memphis 1 has l0 drive stom and cure/ul se

1s 100 l0 80908 al1e1101 0s8 gee arrested foss spreel.

inge A eleone south into Mississippi for a while, then.

turned 695 16908s dississippi. and Alabama, throngh

Birmingham 1o Allane. I got 10 my room in. Ailanta

«hom 6 a.1, 01l April 51h. 1 partied the Mustang und

lefe it and sure hated l didn's have lime to sell it for

all leas 81,000, Upon leaving my room, on the leble:

1 of « leter 10 me from the John Birch Society tell.

ing me how lo get information alent the linglish.

speaking countries of Aprico. l mendeel the MIll 10

investigate this loller while@gol.comey.

1 cool a las from Alana do Cincinnali, It Was

due do leave Allense alone 11:30 11001., but it left

about l pal. l arrived in Cincinnali alone 1:30) a.mn.

of the all of April, I had about an hear and a hall

in the bus station. I think the verns close there at.

2:30 8.m. A arrived a Detroid about 88:00 a.m, still

the Oll of April. I then caught a cab to a train station,

achero 1 90ae 80olel 8'i brasses doo lookie as carlo des Winelsere

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"ON BALANCE, I FEEL RAY WAS HELPED."

FOR

CUNSPIRACY

BY ARTHUR J. HANES FORMER ATTORNEY FOR JAMES EARL. RAY

Wus on James kinel Ray

had al longt some time to studly the rooming

murder Dr. Mustin Ille

eomples from whiel the fatal shot la allegael s

thor king, Jr? I alill bo.

been fired, we can't bollove thut liny coul

lieve that Ray killed Dr.

krose that he would have on unobatracted

King becauso ho waa di.

Gre at Dr. King from the room he rented, or fi

rectes lo do il. Deapilo

bathroom the alale claims the alot was fired

his plea of guilly in court,

Sinco thero la no evidence that Bay over chicre

I also feel that Ray did

house until 3:15 poa, on the day.of the murde

m0l carry out the murder

aince when he did enter it, he slick't go thron

entirely alone. On bal.

house looking out of various windows, but mer

aner, boll my son and

dicated wane room ho wanted, we hollere that

partner, Aithur, Jro, nod

one must have lokd him wilch house lo oute

I leat that, al the vory

lenal, Buy win helped.

2. Iventy leot below the bathroom windon

This menne that wo bo.

which the shod is alloged to have heen fired, ih

lieve there was what the

o vacant lod, which at that time one covereil

low called conspirney.

bushes 12 to 15 fect high. Dr. King's chaudent

Between July 6, 1968, when, al Ray's request, I

omon Jones, told reporters a few minutes nitr

first saw him in London and became his altorney, and

shooting thee "iat after the shot was fred, a

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ARTHUR J. HANES CONTINUCO

the Main Street entrance to the rooming house.

Q. When the man who fired the shot emerged

from the rooming house onto Main Street, Ray's

Mustang was parked to his right. Yel, according lo

wilnesses in the ground-floor Canipe Amusement Go.

who saw the rifle dropped, the man with the gun turned

lell, or south, away from the Mustang, dropped the

rifle, and continned walling south.

7. livo while Mustangs were parked on Mnin

Street near the entrance to the rooming house. The

me that die not belong to Ray was said to have a

"whiplash" antenna, indienting rodio-brondenst

equipment. Within a few minutes after Dr. King fell,

there sere mysterious radio soporte about ahola la

ing fired from a Pontine al a lening Mustang. I lis.

lened to police recordinga of these reporta, and thes

reamin a myserg to me. All I know is that they could

not have emanated from the Musting cornerd boy Kay,

WILLIAM DRADIONO NUIE CONTINUCO

RAY TOLD HUIE:

"I WAS GOING TO FRANCE

• TO TRY TO GET

IN THE MERCENARIES."

passport and let Bridgman be his witness, and l'i lin

both segel and Bridgman, so I applicd for birth cer.

lificates in boil thesr: names.

I them nold the Polish ladly on Ossinglon Street

that mg name was land Bridgman. I wrote it all for

lege one de adore of nerves bernese l arisedled mall de d

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which had only an ordinary car radin.

88. I know the father and son who own and op.

crate the Aeromarine Supply Company in Birming

ham. 'They sold tvo hunting rifles to Ray, and tnlked

with him on succcasive days. They told me that the

man who bought these riles "seemed to know very

little shout guns."

1. Finally, in all my conversations with Ray, I

kept asking myself: Why would this man have killer

Dr. King? He was doing all right ns a fugitive. He

wns slaying oul of jail, finding girls, drinking a little

beer and vocka, sriving hia Mustang In place like:

Aempuleo, New Orleans and Tea Angeles, apparently

enjoging himaelf, and paying he way with varions

Illegal activites. Why then would he gravely Jeop.

nrelize Almaelf boy the senseless murder of as wesll.

Camona ligura? As far as I havo been able to learn, lo

got no big final payment for il, and may not have ax.

While 1 1as in. Montreal the police must have.

had a lip that l might be: there beenuse several people:

mere arrested. I remember reading in a paper where

100 mules were arrested in a white car with a dog.

P'er this reason I never left the room except for meals

anel when I went to the shipping olice. I returned la

Toronto aller being some nine, desis, and new dey 1

called the travel agency and was hold that my peessport

had just arrived, Ilhen I picked up the passport 1

found the name uns spelled Wrong. fle nas swit

insionel of saiD. Rag prints when he writes, and his

triangular 18 can easily le: mistalien for ain d. On his

application for the passport, the D) in Snegel looks lilie

111. 1.1 There wasn't time no gel is changes, in I hell

en leave d'arento mith a lander Dessert.

pected any, though he has made contradiclory

ments on this point. So I simply can't think of an

live that clearly satishes me in this ease.

This is not to imply that I think I can disg

that Ray killed Dr. King. I'm as puzzled as an

else. The state had a formidable circumslantinl

against Ray. The Federal Burenu of Investiga

for which i once worked as an ngeil, lins den

usual masterful job. I admire Mr. Foreman, wio

great criminal Inwyer. I know and respect Mr. 1

with whom I have spent many hours puzzling

this ense; and certainly he writer persunsively ni

Ray's motivations,

But a4 of this moment, I simply cannot of

that James Part Bay was not helped in murdering

King. Theres are 100 many moanswered questione

my mind. In months to come, I hope that Mr. Hi

with Mag's help, cnn anases liese questiona.

had practiced that trip from Detroit to Windun

loronto to Montrenl.

Buy has an mmeingly retentive criminal min

He can dea an accucate diagram of any place hin li

ever visited. He knows his wag around. He mey las

Must againmen in his eecape aftor the murder, but li

probably dich'd need ll, and 8 nos son't holious h

And l. Io's doo proud of having donn it alonn.

Tha arcane misconception is that Bag's linding

Is rooming house in Memphis from which he sho

De. king, the precion timing, his "knowing wher

King would be at a certain lime," and his escape

from a murder scene crawling with police and polics

apa that all this required narisbanes, that one min

inde wasn't capable of doing all this ly liselle hin

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had applied for the birth certificate under that name.

then I went to the Dundas Street alress aul rented

a room as Kamon George Sneysl. I lole the Chinese

lady I worked nights. I was going in spend days al

Dundas Strech as Snegel, anch nights al Ossinglon

Streehas Bridgman.

I then went lo Brown's Theatrical Supplies on

Yonge Streel and bought ee makeup kit. This was so

I could apply for the passport as Sneyd, then I could.

change my appearance and go back to the passport

olice as Bridgman und sign as a witness for Sneyd. In.

this way I could be Bridgman vouching for Sneyd.

In the meantime I had been stopped by a police.

man and given a jaywalking licket so l had to destroy

all my Gull I.D. [this included his Alabama driver's

license and all other papers identifying him as Eric S.

Galt./Ithcn.wentlethelravclagencyandapplicelfor

« passport for Kamon. George Sneyd. It was there and.

then that 1 Jound and that I had gone les a led of calra

trouble. If you don' have anyone to swear they have

passpore simply by seeming that son are a Gienion.

cilson. I elid this and was told I'd gel my peessport in

bones 11001081i5.

I dida'd need Bridgman ng more, so l cheelieel

out of the O)ssington Sereel room and hope the lin.

das Street address for Sneyd's passport te be mailed

10, Then l men lo Monocal lo check on some ships in.

ense: the pressport dend fell cheongh, In Montreal I get

«roon on Netee: Dame Weal, all the may across lous

from Notre Dume Fast where I had lived in August,

1967.1/1 dickie Gel the passport, l was gesing to rent.

massage 01 ee shin that sailed around the corest ol

South Afriece amd boy to slip in all and of the slops. 1

found a Scundinanian line that heel ships going lo

Mesambique, The price for a licked was $600, bull:

they wanted es passpord number, so I gave up on that.

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When I got back to Toronte from Montreal I had

ribout $800. I wanted lo go lo an English-speaking

country in Africa, so l could gel employment, but the

price of a round trip licket was $820. You can't gel in.

one of those countries without a round-trip lickel. So

I bought a round trip lickes le London, but I didn't

espect la slay in England because it has lon close

police and other lies with the U.S.

Upon my arrival in England I called the Porln-

guese himbassy and.asked them how longiwould lalie

to get a visa. They sold me one day. I then used my

return.ticket. loGanade 10 g010 Portugal thal day. li

Porlugal I spent all my lime looking for a ship to go

lo Angola. I finally Jound one. The price was 3,777

escudlos one way, about $130. The ship was leaving

in tun days. I then went to get the visa and was told

il would iake seven days. I then returned to lingland.

as I was gelling short of money. In London, he hell

I mas going from England la Prunes: 100 lrg.111

Bel in the mercenaries. Out they were hering rieds in

france, and planes erre not landing there. I finally.

contacted a menspaper reporter oohe cold me the mer.

eemories heel an ofice in Brussels. He gave me the

meress. l then honghe a licked le Hrussels, and 1 u11s

feing there when I was caught al the landen airport.

They sheel ma clown and found the B8. I also had s

blueprine on hom le malic ae silenees for a pistel.

That is a remarkable account ond, ne for as I can

determine, o true one. The man who wrote it re-

squiree no anginennes lo leavel anywhere. Hay ladl

spent seven yeurs in the Miscouri Sinto Penitentiary

aludging hend 1o aucape from polson and from dies

United Stales- He had read books and listened lo

other prisonera, la July and Auguel, 1967, Moreo

months after bie escape from the Missouri prison, lis

just had to have somchody to lick him.

But did he have lo have help? Here is the pro-

gression of events, along with an explanation partially

baseel on Ray's stalements to me:

UE SNAL, DECISION to kill Dr. King, mado by:

Ray or soicone else, appears to have becn

reached on March 16 or 17. Dr. King was in

Los Angeles on those days, his movements and

slutements reported by newspapers, radio and

lelevision. On Saturday the Loth, he addressed

the California Democratic Couneil in conven•

Lion at Anaheim and "called for the defeat of I'resi-

dent Johnson." On Sunday the 17th, he spoke nt the

Second Baptist Church in Los Angeles. The subjeet:

The Meaning of Hope. He said that hate had become

the national malady, that he had sech hate on 100

many faces,

"on the faces of sherifts in the South

and on the fnees of John Birch Society membera in

Californin" He aloes boy anging: "Hate is 80o great

Literally while De. King one delivering that aer.

mon, al a post clice three miles away, bay was filing

a care changing bie mailing noelreas from the St.

Francis Hotel, Los Angeles, do General Delivery, Al.

Anna, Ca, Next morning, De. Ning left Los Angssles Coor

Mississippi, and Dug left 100, Ray, driving the Mun.

enng, slopped in New Orleans; Then on Marcis 22, he:

was ne the Flumingo Motel In Selma, Ala, when

De. King wns 10 miles away recruiting. for the Poor

People's March. Dr. King returned to Ailanin. Bag

apent the night of March 2:3 in Birminghams; hen on

March 21, he paid a weck'e rent on a room in Allanta

Al 113 141h Strent.

On March 21-27, Dr. King was in the Nes York

seen. May 1460 1he90 cage do loone nd cheerve Dr.

King's home, his oflice ot scor headguarters, nnd his

continues

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WILLIAM BRADFOND HOME CONTINUCO

church, Bbenezer Baptial. On a map found in lay'a

Allanta room by the Mil oder the murder, oll three

of these doentione were circled. Buy's fingerprinty

were on the sap. On Thursday, March 28, Dr. King

lee Mriking enges workers

in Memphia on 1ha

march that a few young black militants turned into

a riot. On the same day, Ray or someone else derided

he should buy a rille.

Ray told me that he decided to bug the rille in

/ Birmingham, rather don in Adanta, beeness "I had

I.D, in Mlabamn." On March 29, Ray drove to Bir.

minglem, registered as Pric S. Call al the linvolodge,

live Points; then went lo the Doromarind Supply

Company de the Bacologgle Alopede mood, am Marvey

1000y00, Dong 1.200 called colle sille a ResTlesle

scope Elle amid hes load conne do Birmingham 10

the ridle because "D had I.D, in Minbamn."

Yet he bought Dee rilles ander an aline for which lin

had no identifiention.) De, King, on the 290h, returned

10 Ailanta deply depreamed beenues, for Be Giral lanes,

n fes murcher lee log him huo remorted los violeness.

Newappers. ondio nad television publicized hispledge

lo return lo Memplia "nest weck."

On Saturday, March 30, Bay went back lo the

Acromarine Company and exchanged the ritle he had

bought on friday, for a heavier riles a Keminglon

030-00 elide-setion rille, sith a 2-168-7-power varinllo

Redlick scope. This rille package, with 20 Pelers

High Volocily, 150-grain, Soft Point eartridges, coal

Rny $205.85. Dr. King hekd a sial mecting at the

Whenezes Boptied Church during which he connidered!

calling of the Poor Peoplo's March in the fee of tho

"riming dide of loade In America."

On Sunday, March i31, De. King prenched at thin

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Washington Cathedral, and Kay drove back from Bir.

mingham to Allamn.

On Monday, April 1, after an sete staf meeting

in Ailanta, it was announced that. Dr, King would re-

turn to Memphia on April 63. Boy lef Allanta loto 1laal.

allernoon, drove cortwed and spent the night in o

molel near Florenes, Aln.

On Tuesday, April 2, De. King rested al his .

home, while Ray moved do a motel near Corintli,

Misa. On a side rond lending off of U.S. Highway 788

In Missiusippi, Ray practiced with his new rife. le

lived averal of the Palere Soft Point cartridges hes

had bought in Birmingham, and aeveral Army .30.06

N WeDNESDAs, April3, De. King dew to Men.

phie on a plane that was delayed while it was

anceled after a bomb thrent. He went to the

Lorraine Hotel and Moral nud was given

Knam 306. He load alnged al this place he-

Portable model rooms fronting on Mulberry

• Photographere look pictures of him, and on

Ielevision that evening, the number 306 could be secn

nove De, King's hend.

Ray came into Memphis on the morning of April

1. 1 a49009 he acaded the moder meand and could

note thine the doorways of all the borning Motel

roome are visible from the back windowe of the room.

ing housc, which has its entrance nl 1.22% South Muin

Siren. Bay got o haired, purchased a shoving kit ot.

^ Rexall Drug Store, then regitered ne BrioS. Call at

Me Rebel Motel Inable the Memphin sily Bimila,

113:16 pm, on April 1, n4 John Willars, Ray

rented Room 5B at te rooming house, Ahout 1:00

pom., he purchased Bushnell binoculars aud caa

from the York Arma Company a few blocks away on

South Main Street. He look the ride ond the binocu-

lare to his room. Ai 6:01 p.m., when Dr. King come

leisurely out of his room and lenned on a roiling,

Ray killed him with one Soft Point bulkel, which

mushroomed on contel.

Did Ray have hely in arranging this? He my

have. Bud again, he could have done is without help.

The third misconception is that the fatal rille

ahol could have been fred only by a practiced, ex.

perienced, expert markaman.

To Aeromeing Sepply Company Mold me Mie

Bale Pille, ammo amallon, amanes M480pes 1000000110166

in the anme manner, that they sold Ray. Then I is.

cometracted the shod that killer Dr. Kings.

The distanes was 205 Cect. Dr. King was Aland.

Jogg to ling'a riglot al me angles ef about 20 degreen, Has

was slanding, because of the terrain, shout 15 fert

Ds. King, unlike John Kennedy, was unt a moving

lnsget. He was standing still. Ray war firing from n

bathroom, with the rifle at reat on the windowaill.

Through the scope, De. King appeared to be standing

no more than 30 fect from the cod of the rifle harrel.

I hadn't fred a heavy rifle in 25 yenrs. (n my

frat ahol, I hit a circle the eize of a ailver dollar. Any

12-year-ole hoy familiar with n .22 could have killed

Di. King from that porition with that wenpon.

Ray had Army Iralning. He was in the Militory

Pollen. He had practiced with kune, So the shot was

cany los him.

The fourth misconception in that lay in arupist

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es to

WILLAM BRADFORO KUIE COATINUED

and inept. It's true that some of his earlier crimes

were ludicrously inept He couldn't pull a simple

holdup without running down a blind alley or losing

his shoes or dropping his wallet as he ran. But during

his seren years in the Missouri State Penitentiary, he

eridently matured as a eriminal: His escape from

there on April 23. 196 was well planned and well exe-

cuted. He somehow persuaded at least two men who

are still there to take the risks of aiding his escape.

Instead of being inept. Pay has become crafty.

The fifth misconception is that Ray could not

have supported himself and his trasels between April

23. 1967. and June &. 195k and therefore must bare

had financial assistance.

In Montreal about August 1, 1967, Ray held up

a food store and got £1,450. La reply to my written

queries, he first told me that he get this money by

holding up a whorehouse, and I pablished his account

of it. Then he toid me that it had really been a food

store, and that he told me it was a whorehouse be-

cause he didn't want a "hold waiting for him in

Canada when he got out of prison in Tennessee.

E TOLD ME many stories about a 30odd-year-

old French-Canadian or "Latin" named

"Piaoul" whom he met in Montreal, Ray said

be twice carried narcotics for him across the

border at Windsor-Detroit and was paid

$750. Then Raoul came to Birmingham and

gare bim $3.000 to buy the Mustang and

some camera equipment Later, according to Ray, he

met Raoul in New Orleans and in Laredo. There were

probably sereral Raouls accomplices of Ray in hold-

ups and other money crimes. Ray bought a large

quantity of marijuana in Mexion and disposed of it

in some fashion.

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immers ($128), a pair

shears (FCB7), and a

ng Scissors ($815) If

el that generous, give

of the three. For that

nir of Wiss scissors or

a very fine gift, indeed.

re stores everywhere.

But there is nothing in Ray's beharior to indi-

cate, nor has he ever claimed that either he or Raoul

or arbody else got any money for the last big job he

was supposed to pull I beliere that Ray wanted to

murder Dr. King for reasons other than money.

Since Ray apparently got no money after the

murder, in seren mont's of dealing with him 1 wait-

ed for him to show some sion of feeling that he was

cheated, that he didn't get what he had been prom-

ised. Instead of bitterness or resentment. Ray has eri-

denced only an expanding self-satisfaction.

Ray seems to have spent about $12.00J between

April 23, 1957- and June & 1968. There were a num-

ber of unsoled robberies of banks, loan companies

and supermarkets in the areas through which Ray

mored. Getting that much money would hare been as

easy for him as killing Dr. King from 205 feet.

I can't prove that no one gate him money to kill

Dr. King. But I can prore that he could hare gotten it

in other hays.:

The sixth misconception is that Ray. haring

been in prison so much of his life, is not a "racist" or

"nigger-hater" and therefore coald have been moti-

rated only by money.

The record indicales to me that he is a "nigger-

hater," eren though be never eridenced this to Mr.

Hanes. On April 5. 195k Ray was released from the

Federal prison at Leatenworth. Kan_, with this item

in his report: ~On Septenber 12, 1957, be was ap-

proved for our Honor Farm but was never actually

transferred to the farm due to the fact that he did not

feel that be could lite in an Honor Farm Dormitory

because they are integraled. He was therefore never

given Honor status. He was assigned to our bakery

where he has remained until his Conditional Release.

Bitter anti-Negro actions or remarks by Pay

were reported to me by persons who knew him in

Canada, Mexico and California

A serenth possible misconception is that Ray is

not a "killer" and is therefore probably incapable of

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"RAY WANTED TO WIN RECOGNITION."

AGAINST

CONSPIRAGY

BY PERCY FOREMAN AITORNEY FOR JAMES EARL RAY

I6, ON THE DEAD ON

NICT, l ever Aummon

« pligaleian, and his aro

rives at my beckids and

n4ka, "Are you sick?"

I ahall use my remnin.

ing enorgy lo kinve my

hed and throw the fool

out of my house, So

when a man accuses of

murder send for lorry

Foreman, I show him

tres eonlary of naaums.

Ing ln is guilly and that

he hoped Dean enves him

from excearive punish.

ment, like why would

lor be preparing do divide his workdly gooda, or lope

of sime, with me?

• When, Inst November, the brothers of James Eart

Jects: dropoute from the school of nchievement, all

of them aliceel by burning pride. They had energy,

n98969, ambition, but they load more motor than brakes.

And a defective alcering apparatus. They belonged lo

The race of men that don't fit in.

They killed neither sceretly nor for hire. True,

after killing President Kennedy, Oawald Med. The in.

Alinct of ecl-preservation momentarily overeume that

of sell-renlization. Bus Dawald Was a pamplet pert.

oller. Ho had boasted to his wife of trying lo murder

Gen. Edwin A. Wulker. Ind he lived, he would linvo

bonster of killing a President.

For a los houre, l repremonted Desall'a killer,

Jack Ruhy. Ho was o Crustrated showmon, aucenarful

only at showlag of the backelden of Illnerand girls, li

perform before 50 million television viewers was 1

chamen he conden's restal.

Sirhan della ne in his diary that "sun believe

thnt the glorious United Senies of Amerien will even.

tually ho folled by a blow of an ecosin's bullet. i.?"

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WILLIAM BRADFORD HUIE CONTINUED

having killed Dr. King. It's true that there is no pre-

vious murder in his record. But in 1966, Ray was

given a thorough, six-weeks' psychiatric examination

at the Fulton (Missouri) State Hospital. He was diag-

nosed as a "sociopathic personality,

antisocial type

with anxiely and depressive features."

The superintendent of the hospital at Fullon is

Dr. D. B. Peterson. I asked him if James Earl Ray is

capable of planned killing for moncy.

"Certainly he is," replied the Doctor. "Any man

who commits armed robbery indicates that he inny

he willing to kill for gain if necessary. There is very

little dierence between armed robbery and planned

killing for moncy."

I then arked: "le Buy empable af killings in the

hopes of winning distinction" Approval? la he ca-

pable of killing in the hope of relieving lis anxiely,

caluncing his self-reapect?"

"Perhaps. Ho is so consumed with self-consider.

alien that lin in incapable of respecting the rights of

may other indivkiant,."

When the misconcepticne have beon dispelled, al

lenst partially, these questiong still remain:

Has there a conspirecy?

Well, there are largo conspiracies and little con.

apiracien. In large conspireles, rich and/or powerful

mes are involved. Small conspiracies involve only

little men. Lund Detober, aller working with lay los

two months, I thought that powerful men probably

had mado the decision do kill De. King. 'le sale, 1

have found no confirmation of Ray's insinuntiona

about this. Nor have 1 Sound Bellevable avidener of

any link betweeo to murders of Dr. King and P'real.

dant Kerinerly.

I believe that ood or two men other than Jolly

Earl Boy may have had Corokessledge of this mur.

der, and that maken a lole sonapirneg, Bul it 1lors

was n conspiracy, l now believe dont James Barl Kay

• was prolmbly it lender, nol lla tood or its slupe.

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Ray gought mo out and handed' me a letter from him,

Doloro he led ho murdor scene, Jamos Partlay,

beseeching me lo represcht him, I dich't lly lo the

carofully watched by three wincases, deposites! on the

Shelby County Jail in Memphis and run a gamut of

sidewalk the murder rifle that ho had wrapped in his

guards to ask: "Jim, did you do it?" Because on

own laundry-marked bedeover lo proicet his linger-

Thursday, April 1, 1908, James Ray was prowling

prints on the rifle from obliteration. He niso loft a

the vicinity of 122½ South Main with a deer rile,

canvas bag containing his laundry-marked shirt and

and that is not one of the Volunteer State of Tennes.

underwear, along with a transistor radio clearly bear-

scc's several game preserves.

ing his identification number as a prisoner at tho Mis-

I assumed that Ray had sent for me not to spring

souri State Penitentiary.

him, but to try to save his life. I then, over several

Both rifle and bag he could have carried a few

wrecks, spent 40 hours in conversation with him, en-

feet further and placed in his white Mustang. But that

deavoring to bring him to believe that I knew more

might have prevented his identification. He wanied

nbout the law than he did, after which I saved his life

1o escape, but he didn't want to lose credit. As further

in the only way I thought it could bo suved. I consider

precaution against such drended loss, he left his fin-

this no mean achicvement.

gerprints in the side room that he had rented, and his

Why die Ray kill Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

palm print in the bathroom from which he fired the

In public discussion, I normally lenvo the ques.

shot. All this by a man to whom fingerprinting lac

tion of why lo doctors of philosophy. If thoy won't

becomo n way of life,

defend eriminals, I won't write exonys. Here, T brenk

A jury must consider the mental stale of a do-

my rule and ofter a few pointed semarks.

Sendant In dotermining his dogres of guill. So ni de-

The mouth-filling word "assassination" has

Jense lawyer must present his client's thinking no lo

beca popularized by people who have forgolten ita

the net charged. Had I not obtnined a waiver of the

meaning. Others have defined it: An nssnesin is a Me.

death penally for Ray, it would have been my duty

crot killer for bira. Under the popular but incorteet

1o offer tuatimony as to Ray'a beliefs nbout his victim,

definiton, the deaths of Prosidont John & Kennedy, even though none of these was my own.

De. King and Sen. Robert & Kennedy are called nauns.

: I think Buy bolieved Dr. King was n Communial;

sinationg. But they were not aaanssinations, they were Mint his cruandes had opened the landorn's box of

killings; and Lee Harvey Oswald, Jance Earl Kny

riot; and that, though he prenched nonviolence, by

and Sichan Bighorn Sirhan were and are not assas-

indirection he created Black Muslims, Black Pan-

sins, but killers.

thers and Invaders. Ray thinks that the war between

Why did they kill? They each wanted the world

the races is imminent, and he wanted to fire the first

le hear of them. 'They wanted credit. Top billing.

shot, Tho shooting of Dr. King, to him, was the l'earl

Hendlines, Promopage pictures. A by-line, Self-renli-

Harbor of that war. the didh't cold me may of this: it

ration. A shortent to fame. To exercise the ego. lo

is whint I believe he thinks.

thein, notoriety nud lame are synonymous, Whatother

I don't believe there was any conspiracy, James

men stuey, plan and struggle a lifetime lo achieve,

Earl Kay wanted to win recognition. He hoped tint by

these killers thought they could win with lead.

killing Martin Luther King, he could make the rest

Whn did they have to lose? 'They ivero social re.

of his futile, boring life exciting.

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Is thare a chance that other quishons lust

be answoreal?

Yes, I think no. Remember that there are still i

many fundamentl unnswered questions.

And finally: Whae was Ray's real molivation?

Why did he want to kill Dr. King?

A clue to the ultimate answer, 1.think, lies in

this circumstance. On April 21, 1967, to days be.

fore his escape from the Missouri State Prison, Ray

bought a six-transistor Channel Master radio in the

prison commissary. He carried this radio with him

when he broko out, and listened over it for the an-

nouncement of his escape. He then carried it with hin

on all his travels and adventures for over a year.

After he shot Dr. King, Ray rushed down the

stairs, and threw the rifle on the sidewalk. Then, de-

liberately, he threw down beside the rifle a blue zip.

this has in

per bag in which there wore several ilems, including

his old companion in lonelinces, the transistor radio.

Ruy know that it clearly bore his prison I.D. No.

00116. He also loft his lingerprints on the rifle, on

the binoculars and in the room upstairs, In short, he

purposefully left his calling card, telling the Pill that

-JAMES EAM. MAY WAS MENE. That was his glory. He

wanted the IB3l and all of us to know that James Earl

Ray, that poor, contemptible lide man with a pries

of $50 on his head, had killed one of the great Anori.

cans of this century.

This is the slate of our knowledge up to this point.

Bul, enore than a your older the murder of Dr. King,

there still remain certain basie, nagging, unanswered

questions, the result in good pare of the dcliberally

clusive silence of James Barl Kay, who in this re

spect if no other is a remarkable man. Mr. Huie plans

lo continue his investigation, communicaling with

Kay, luce to face if possible, and, as he uncovers fur.

ther answers, will report on them in Look...

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D/S 15 MAR 69

RAY'S BIOGRAPHER

NOW HAS DOUBTS

OF CONSPIRACY +

NEW YORK (AP)

William Bradiord Huie, bi-

ographere Ga. James Early

Ray, said yesterday that be

noy doubts toat the deatbof

De. Diartin Luther King Jr.

was the resuit of a conspira.

CT.=

202212:3

Huie, wto interviewed

Pray after his capture and

wrote a series. of magazine

articles hinting at a conspir-

acy, said in an NBC televi-,:

sion interview. that he con-

cluded early this year that.r

Ray made the decision to

Ray pleaded guilty to the

murder of King in a Mem-

phis, Tean, coutroom Mon-

Altcough he has now con"

cluded that Ray. himself

made the decision to kill

King, Rue added, "But I do

not know tais and Ray in-

sists otherwise... Ray has a

strange mind and a sharp

one. 202

"He takes great satisfac-

tion out of ice fact that we

still have douots. That we

still have wanswered ques

tions. He wants continuing

drama - in his life," Huie

said.

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VISHES MAR

5.1

Ray Quoted as Now WiShing

He Had Undergone Full Trial

last sue in England, he was

Fares Eal Har

¡returrad.. to Tearessee to faca

riergo a ful trial for the blar-

parament sorres acizowledged caarge 1i

in liner King assassination, ibe goverument was iniormed in The gorerament's oniy intrü-

ras joined in his regreis toda? advance that. Ray trada plead sion in toe case since came 3íoa-

3y the U.S: Justire Depariment

gully and take so years nev

day-aiter the trial ended

As source in tre department

-when the Justice Departmeni

said the feeling there over Ray's!

Tse reasonia suden more by Pay and his Meanwale, on Capiiai Hil,

fill-ledged triai, bad one been langer, Percy Foreman di Eous some senators joined perspa

pers across the country in iosist

April: 17,: 195a, Eccusing

igure in scare race Masanta a u consping with a man

Probe by Senate Unis

ra Nashmile, the Nasarie

* Chairman James O. Eastland,

Tensessean said in a copyright

aleged to be his tober tolD-Miss., said his Senate Internal

stort that Ray disclosed secand violai King's civi riguis in thai)

Security suicommitice is infes

thoughts about the guity, piea sise 20-s

4.9960%

tigating. diract information oi

within hours of his sestencing in Tea charge was barught undar

conspiracy in the Ring staying

alephis to an agreed 99 years an-1370 Recolstructon era stat-

"Itere are some things abouti

in prison Ray also has inquired|ute zed conviction moid have!

abow how be could hire a rew cared a mastum in yest sen-!

this affair," Eastland declared,

"that indicate to me there may

attornay, the paper said.

have been a conspiracy." Has

Bider Ray was apreiended

Aiter: entering bis plea of

"Wish I Eadn't Now"

guilty Murday, Ray siood up

The story said unidentified oí-

and said be disagrced with the

Eciai sources gocied Play as saja

theory. that no conspiracy was

linked mita the assassination. He

Ten I went to court Morday

did not elaborate.

226308

I tias continced if i dida't plead.

Ray's original' attorney, for-

gutsy I was going to the electric

mer: Birmingham, Ala, mayor

chair, Twish the /beil. I bain'

Arthur Hanes Jr., disagreed

know. because with what they had!

meanwhile with Foreman's be

on me. I beliere. the worst la

lie? as expressed in court Mon

gaten woud cave been life."

day that no conspiracy existed.

Under, Tennessee law a flie

*Hares was interviered on the

prisoner could be eligible for pa-

CES evening news with Walter

roje aiter: 13 years 7 months; er

Crotkite?

even earlier if he eamed mas

Hares said there was no ques

mun good behavior time. Uriery

tion in his mind that "there was

are year sentence. a prisiberi

a pio invoired"- in toe killing.

must serve at leasi 3) years. e

"Bar said Hanes, was, a

The Tennessean said a prison

dupe.

sounce further quited Ray: 19

Ice Alabama lawyer said tee

assassinatior "had to

do-cot

told me about six weeks ago that!

caiy with sational politics, but

the: best. thing for me to to wash

international politics."

to plead. gulty if we could work!

In Atlarta, tre Rey. yet

Andrew

out a deal to keep me out di toe!.

Young, executive director of tre

chair. They told me tsey toughs]

Southern Christian Leadership

this could be dore.

Conierence which King bezded,

said his organization, was not

Lorerament Miormea

consalted concerring Ray's

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I was thinking about it ard

guilty piza 2te5

every day they thought I would:

"We do want the investigation

plead guily. Last week ljust

contimied i because. we believe

toid them it dey thought this

Ray: was. at most merely a teol

was best and what I ougat io co,

or pans"Young Said. "Tie

then I wouid plead guliy."

would hope that for the good of

Ray, was; reporied: to bate

the country, toe Justice Depart-

ässed escorting dicers Gurag

went would continue to investi

AS EDiTon the empaia jat 'i

gout toe case, " "aa'

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CHAR

ty in

SS

Cey

u a

conspiracy

ere, director. of

Le legal Daterse Fund, said

geompson asked for the meeting

cats own active and at hist

rescense

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LENARACT

Tito

ca

Attorney

CIE

where ike fatal shot was fred

simay by driving

tarough the

Parasing fog as-

zrea."

"Ycan you dive jast

Pay in the

tei), those triccons of te rcom

vite case, but

ing houses stare right as you

ua2, cree tea vice gi

Eja. boore del Cochran said. "All you had to do

Candidate: of $aa

sented and hired was drive around ca Main Szzet

Stales: Pighis Party

a lawyer Percy

FEET

i to find the 'for reat' signs."?

0F3E1ZE

nue also pointed: out inst ta

Kiat,

anged Ray to enter

same oi. King's motel and bi

teạn

SNO ZOES

Z07e mick Ray

room numbe? had beea priated

parandy fee ened alost as note morning rewspapers of

So Stare Prisoz

oh as 2a -tele Storer said Goril! doril!4. He said Ray apparenty

Pay had minalito bim the firstland no idea ween King would

Pay in ciminal masters i

daylie. ta mes iransierced appear on tre pa cony, but wa

mas: basting several lice sa

Crazpas, where the Prepared for 2 lo5g wait a

1aa: F27 Mends to Meage

Tastesn

Ee tock ais toilet aricles, his

savesa! natual magazizes

underwear and'a halia, dozen

Thic Conspiracy.

cans. of beer (into the rcoming

tory" caanges against air. 2134

Poing canoestial 32 charce to open the beers

house). He never ever got a

mas Enreas te slaying off "Dr. King appeared on the

2a2s5 sh no bieng gray

balcony long belore Ray espect

ed. him to and Then de did Ray

Lee dange test

As Per

canoeis patta feid vasterday purry," Coccran said...

mace his decision: to shoot in a

esper any pastry cip

=3

• Le electric caria Fizza

Fied out lost a mas hard to be-

Aiter the scoting Pay bastily

mappala gular pleas

Eare teare sas a'esaspiracy.

foundled up all dis balozgings

Into a bedsoresa — then pau

icked and aroppsd the bundle

27. P6503 02377

Ree. Cochran,

when he goi ouiside and saw a

Pya,

Wrote to Jedgeh

policeman taling on ais car ra

Zay.

Last ten tee

dio.

say. a mit certainty. Il

"You could go to any beer

jange, Preston Batale, asting

Zo:

al past-convictica

Sat Bay Fade so many: blus

joint and pick up a scan with

Frica be is entitied mie

Last i scato celeve that

intelligerce enough ta do what

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Lam-and intends to ass

icate mas arate mind behind Ray did," Cocarar said.

I35

an opponenty to deange zEs

¡e ples ca zen be had any seip

pie

in Mephis cat

Caranza said te was "amazed

wading his guily?

tea Ile senterce,

Pay wate

Fat so =aa Beggle still insist

the rigat to aozeal but leza.

reunities said dare mere uns

Sa said Pay blundered in pur-

ways ba could best eis cast

castg tea ceata ride himsel

e as: ride back andic

aire. Ee apparanty interes to

1275-3 personally havingli

pissue teaze."

elasespie site reunted oa t'ae

3 Pay aas nst said rico ais atto

and pascaly buying his!

asi Creas sald Ray could navel

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New Tries

Plea by

indy

Called Nes

NASSVILLE, TaIL (CPD

A motion seeing a zew Lial in.

James Earl Pay will se size in

Mempais "possibly this feet,"

accordiaz: to Pay's orcer, sio

said Ray mou'd pleau lot gat

¡to the assassination ci Dr. Mar

tin Lutcer Jing Jr-fas

*A decision wili be made wes

in the net tuza days it etacas

what the pesion th say ard

who will file it," said Jary Ray

in a copyriguisa sion i te

Nasaville Tenesseau yesteriay.

"Weare consigaring ino añar-

neys.? ot

The lawyers were certifad as

J::B. Storer Gi Savanizi, Ga,

the 15 Vice presidecial catc

date for the. Jazonal: Sizze

Rights: Party, and a J.Pgza

jo Mempais.

ME Pay Visited is Prisca

, Stoner. visited Pay in his ceil

at the Tenzessee Stire Pisis

Saturday were be is serviez. alo

so year sentence aer pleadingi

guilty to. King's sucer. Ire

Georgia lawyer said Pay Was

incent, ard had been fores

sured inio pleading zulty.??

Jerry Pay, rho also visitei

his broider Saturday, said se

delivered "evidenca" to support

a claim tsat Pay's former ato?-

sey, Percy Foremas, bad "fres

sured him" aio pleading gaity,

according to a Isaacsseas 12

Ray said terence, de

scribed as personal cuntracts it-

tween his broter aid Foretan,

will be used in the pastion for al

rew trial Snar

P: Foreman said be advised Pay!

to plead gilty. "cecausE I DE

lieved he: wouid be eleci ocuted!

if he: din't Be said (Rez!

"thougst he'd be electrocuted,

too" and sent Foreman a lete

ofacially requesting tee paa

DOE ELE

Letter Shown to Judge:

S'T have the letter and I

showed it to the judge (W. Pres

ton: Battle) and the prosecuting

attorney,"' Foreman said 20/h

Jerry Ray said Foreman told

Risis brother hes would take

$150,000 he pleaded guilty,

"out he wanted everything he

(Ray) would evers earn if he

didn't (plead guity). Hos

Foreman, contacted in Hous-

ton, said: "That's a bunch of

buil How is some man doing 99

¡years gonna make anything?"

The Terinessean said Foreman

stated he took.over; the same

financial: arrangements that ex-

isted beiween Ray and his first

attorney, Arthur Hanes: He said

the original contract called for

author. William Bradiord Huie to

receive 40 percent of all pic

tures, book and magazine rights

to Ray's story with Pay, and

Hanes splitting the rest. He said

Ray was to sign over his scare

to Hares as attorney's fees.a

Second Agreement

SENTY

Foreman said that when Ray

decided to plead guilty he sug-

gested to Ray that the fee be

adjusted and Ray signed a sec-

ond. agreement to pay him

$150,000, a figure suggested by

Ray...The picture rights to Ray

already have:" been sold for

$175,000, plus 13 percent of the

receipts, Foreman said. Res

Memphis police said Saturday

King's murder was so ineptly

carried out it was hard to be

Lieve there, was a conspiracy.

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WS. Ol APR 69

searcha

=37

Faye

ose in Ray Case Is Dead,

Trial Now More Likely

Fastes Baite has

20t rising

Jarca 10 bearing where thei

Juch! pea mes made:

But Blarinell said that was'a

Be quage had compieted.

33-77222°=

section Tads Sody

Para's ready mas found byl

=20

JamEs Basalez, as assistant dis.

tie audrey general who was

ase diace prosecutors in Ray's

Basstay said. he had tried us-

te atdrasoz and neticed;

za zial Ea

23 т-12a

zis sa on in tre chambers in!

a Criminal Court-county jaill

a5- Teen leaving for koana.

30:75,

sal be opened the dcor to

tie

cos-bars and found Battle

raged ovar his desi d

i Leat attac's mas given as

: a Fazes!

said:

GE. V. PRESTON BATTLES DO a Fraisea

I13e5003

Ma comy medical examina.

cora bare po coot on beinto den e posteorter on Dr.

126080033

mates In dia:

The cace:?'s four other crimi-

ranisere a hours, in Battle's cham-

AUTHOR SAYS RI

SAW SLAYING AS

AIDING WALLAC

KNEW

YOPE (AP)

Jazies Earl Ray tought an

sassmatng Dr. Martin L

ther King Jr. would he

elect: Gaurge Wallace pre

cert, ausco. Vilian Bra

ford Eule syas. Ray expar

ed: Walace sculd then pa

coa him, according to Hu

Yule, yan Alabaman wi

bought publication rights

the story of Pat's life, sa

Ray considers himsel a pr

lica, prisore: ard. expec:

vitia fo

years. Ja pieaced guilty ai

was senterced to 99 yeal

Zule said last Octobe

*Powerful a sea. probac

made the decision to kill C

King." But be has change

his mind: "Ore or two in

oter teas James Earl R

may have had forecor

edge of lais murder, 'a:

that makes a lite conspir

cy," Zue said tris. wes

"Sut: i there tras a corsy

James Earl Bay was prol

bly its leader, zot its tool

rizzis areiciare. Ea said Ray, mored aL

Tre Con't want Ray to tell us

Berease: Sane Ecs, cartaraly have see ellater ta wote someting to

Jurisa: Escaton Zed to a saw trial in Ratianad Juige:

Batle and it disap

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- za

Jampas sor

personal 1g garbage nece

ENTERE 2 53C- - Tre

=as Earl Par.

Marcia 25. stared

this court so tea

legai sozco, ec

¡for a rejegal c

25

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Caninzi Cou

Trashe hit saa:

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Fie

Ecacades

сатеу

WS OR APR 692

suage By Ray

Discovered

Battle's deata letters even if cossteued as mo

a ser trial would be auto-icions, do sut automaticaly

do pay bad asked for itiguarantee a new trial. n

ace Bale died befora giving ale

"The: naw trial plea is one os

the rigats Ray walred in plead

Tea costarts ci Pay's letters ing guilty, along with his right ci

a rapedied by Criminal Court| aapeal to oter state courts;"

23-53

it 28: Cia Games A Blackwed, who said Burnet Mat

man casiody bi Batle's calciall In open court, Pay was asked

Fees to defiled as past of the

=='3 recards:

repeatedly by.Battle whether he

undersicod that such a plea pre-

Earker. Letter Knowa

cluded appeas. Se said be did

elead achnowladged re-

Fay bas claired sisce, don-

Wi:

o cida diarch 19 letter owl ais guilty plea.

ever that he was pressured into

27. 255 225 divulged some oi

Cores, including Pay's

=zer: a zam trial. The judge

Dated reveaied that se aad

is 2 secced letter. Ge

dastice: Eamilton Bui

Ece Tezzessee Supreme

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PRay Acquires

Sid Lawyer

New Judge

ESPEES,

Hema (AD):

See to preside: Ores mia

minise to be complicated pac

Deo; pleaded

253 J. a gear ago io:

weed mas sestenced to: 95

i gazer certacatios jas-

jereas drew lawyer;

ren Sioo will be to try to gat

ere bearing of fee case

sags be wants on

en on cal Criminal Couri

Age A tea C Peous Jr., is to!

escaraty moddas or argu

Legat wig present. The

easy-going and with a

canedy yesterday to replace

Joise: Fa Prosion Battle Jr.,

Pao, ded Moday of a Feart at

RACKA

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Date:

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Asted

4kc Void Kay

Commaes

21 CP

WS 13 APR 69

corney.

New f

CEREALTOCEA, Tem. (UPi)

Jamas Sarl-Za7's new aitor-

ay says Le celeres his client is

in the siaying ci Dr

E an

watter Fing ur, and that

respared to presens nei

Maila bearing Wednes

17-8

he rey, Robers em. Cotec

Criminal Court Judge: AT-

Faquin- bas said he will

i Mersphis then ween he

Lear

argumezis: on Ray's

IS FC.

-a new trials

said he masa't sure whet

Facia would take rem evi

See 27 cat time cut i so, "I

Havel hew eridence in the

Nice naturench teekeri-

mas not disclosed. 309

Etorey said Pay's Jros-

would be available to!

and daat Jairy "sed a

$

don of prost and vill

-Bu ated, a pettion mU.S.

B Court ta Nashvile a

Ten chargig that Ray wasit

assureal into pleading guilty t

Slice King slaying to pictect

Le stary and movie rights to hiss

No ideas that all said mizit

balmonta"millions of dolars."

ze larya: asked the Distict

Size to seid the contracts teat

Easieriously made wit trialt

Enge Percy Feremar, autaor

mean Pradiora Huie, asd an

lawyer, forma Sining

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FBI

Asked About Riot,

Rey's Brother

Rezorts

-pas menspaper reporters

broicer di te an conTiated oi Crades: Edmundson of the Cos

kHng: De. 22

ader hang Heal Lapeal, aud Roy Bamil

yestery a to Memphis Press

sassane in cia cirlirigais

cous,who toos over. the

ca5=.

aiter. Batte's deata in

Maci, acted at the recommen

Jazy Ray.

vade brotar of cation oi a special bar associa-

Places Earl

to commitice on pablicity

ing teas

won Baile had created. No

SEEISMEL

Zagal müere

B3OZ2

"Tre ester 2

wao pleaded

guty: Jaren 10 to 3ung's cass

ard mas santenced to so years,

mi appear at azac gefordas

on his mount dc an Ela

Jerry Ray sa2 zaras asked

auvice of an arzero

uncey asked a gresada oz tee

i can

missed: conteros of cour. cita-

tions against seven men in tue

Ray case,

Cited Tater Baa

strict pubicity bas on the case.

He issued, tie ciadous for al

Eays, a pri

and two trem

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ме гімна

Ray Loses Bid

For New Trial

In King Death

NASHVILLE, Tema. (AP) -

James Earl Ray was returied to

his maximum-security prison

cel aier losing a bid for a new

trial in the assassination of Dr.

Martin Latber King Jr.

This bearing was only the

begining" said Richard J.

Ryan of Memphis, ore of Ray's

turze new lawyers. Pyaa said he

will take the case to the Tennes.

see Court of Criminal Appeals.

Judge Artnur C. Faquin Jr. of

Criminal Court in Tempois helc

resterday that Ray waived an

right of appeal when he entered

Te is the opinion of this court

tat the guilty plea entered was

properly knowingly, intelli-

gently and voluntarily entered,"

Paquin said in a written order.

"Judge: Battle had ample evi

cerce in firding taa: the defend

ant was fully advised and has

waived, intelligenty and under-

stanängy, his righis to a mo-

tion for a rew trial."

Judge 17. Preston Battle died

three weeks after accepting

Pay's plea of gulty in aschange

jor a 99 year prison sentence.

Ray sougat a new trial on

grounds he was coerced by his

former -lawyers- into pleading

gutty. He charged that his origi-

Dal lawyers were more interest

ed in writing ard selling stories

about the death of King than in

seeing that he received a fair

trials

Bay, 41, was whisked out of

Merpiis last etening and es

corted to Termessee State Prison

here by police cars.

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VE: 31 MAY 59

Avery Tells

Of Offer

Made to Ray

NASEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -

Fired state corrections commis

storer Harry S. Avery says he

sold James Earl Ray be would

"So and ge" any money Ray

bad "Stasted amay", and deposit

it in a trust sued for him

The oiler, Arery said lasti

night, was part of his attempt to

"get at the fall truth" in the

assassination of Dr. Martin LU

ther. King Jr., for which Ray is

serving S9 years in state prison:

Avery, contacted by telephone

while on a ashing trip at Cooke

vile Tern., says: Ray "com-

mented at some length about it

(the offer), bat I don't intend to

say.anything. about his com-

menis.2.a sirce he has attor-

Beys: toying to get bim a new

trial??

Avery, fred Thursday by Gov

Bulord Ellington; said he

Matred to Pay at great length"

aler Ray, who pieaded guilty

Marcht: 10 to kiling King, was

brought to tse prison.

Avery Said Ray told him "a

conspiracy existed"" in the king

deatn, but refused to elaborate

one whaty at auy, details Ray

might have given him.?

eT told bir that if he wanted

to tell me the full truth about

this in his own handwriting and

it anyone was interested in pur-

chasing it, I wouid see that er-

ery lickel that anyone paid was

placed in his trust fund,". Avery

said

Avery bed said previously he

betierea a plot existed at the

posoa, to kill Ray stould he be

released trom marimum securi

ty:

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17.

RAY ADMIREGUL

-Kay. biniself refused.tol

et these statements e

tense: moment in the

IN DR. KING DEAT

man his plea of

scinde a finding

SUGGESTS. A PIAO

as ne conspiracy.

urd Ray pleaded not gutty

and been convicted of arst

Judge Sets- 99-Tear:

er degree minder joe the full scale

trial, that had been, scheduled

Aiter a Jusy ofs 12 Mercie. Ast Z be could have been

Agrees to Arrangement Sentenced to douse

eat be had feceived a life set,

fence her woald? have beek

A CONSPIRACY DISPITE neligible for parole in 13 years

zit-

is vader the sa year sentence; he

wil not be eligible for parole

Both Prosecutor and Defense

mtil be serves half his terma

The disagreement: between

Doubt That There Was Una Ray and the lawyers appeared

Despite Slayer's Proteste to mauy observers to leave un-

resolved the question; ot

whether a conspiracy was ine

BY MARIE: WALDRON

volved in the kiling of De

King last April 4 at a

motel

Eart Ray pleaded gut

to murdering the

ten hasmon ta to be one

Marin Lubes Kne

sentenced to siv

the Tamessed State

Nasaville ==

The sentence was

by Judge M-Preston,

Criminal Cout aile

presentation of evidencé again

meand I Edgar Hoover, the di

Ja ponted on Page 16, Coluan 7.

New York Times

the defendant to aja

The jur had agita

a plea of guilty-

Both the prosectior;

phis: Attorney GereralP

Carale, and Ray's cou

Percy: Foreman, tale the o

that therer was, no evic

Ray had: been tarotreiti

conspiraty.

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i, TUESDAY, HARCH 11, 1959

ing and Is Sentenced to 99 Years in Prison

But he said that be doubted and black cneckered suitcase, called from a régular jury vénire expénditure of more than 50

if Ray had escaped from the and a small blue valise.

Missouri stale prison with the About 15 miautes later, Ray, house were picked and the men Mr.

already on duty 'in the court-cents made by Ray....:

Foreman praised

Mr.

ides of killing the civil rights escorted by five deputies. was brougat into the courtroom and Canale and Judge Battle for

airsougs. tot prosecu- brought inta the court through seated in the juy box.

agreeing to allow Ray to plead

bat Ray had made racist re-a rumpled blue suit, a tattlelesplained briefly to the jury!

The prosecutor, Mr. Canale, quilty and take 99 years.

marts: while in do prison

The prosecutor, Mr. Foremda

origis of Masay.

tale-gray white shirt, a blue tiewhat was happening. In Ten- said, "is as big as his office. He

Mr Casale said tbere was Bo

ind blick snoes. He walted asinesste, nè said, a jury must find is a mart not concerned 'with

if his feet hurt him He wasin défendant guilty in a murder scalps on his belt and is not

assure that the

not meariaz theb jacis hom-icase even

2090y. leat Ray spent so freely

rimmed glasses that he used as pleads guilty.

Il the defendant trying to make a record to rus

for some other office or."

canag ise yeur be: was free

2 disguise when Se fled to. Tié state had agreed to ac-.

rad come from co conspirators.

Judge Battle Mir. Foreman

"gube said, had seat & large King was murdered

Canada - last April after. Dr. cept the guilty plea and would said, "is a compassional and

amarat of money out of the

¡recommend a sentence of 99 human judge."

Ray sat down by Mr. Fore years, the judzé said.

man,

Pho

moved io join him

Ray's comments" about cos

the defense.

that Ray had sold

hie he was as inmate

prison

When the court

De

tHO

couasci

"Cin-tach, of you acceptispiracy came when Mr.

Fort.

inued

wiro had

argue

tarougs

abie cat?" Ms. Canale said in aska man had finished talking to the

over

whether Ray should guded by his recommendation:!

Lasting the jurors il they would be "After the judge

the inevitable and plead lach of the jurors nodded

posed. of

Ray's remarks,

sulty,

did not

tait

caca

the

other

while

waiting

for

Before beginning

the testi-istaté

began

putting

ILs

Tàcy

sati judge

taemory to prove Dr. King's mur abbreviated case.

After

Judge

Battle.

In proving that Dr. King had

lie proceed.

had dispose

of the pérsisteat It-

Canale attemoted to been murdered, the state called

regan a 5:45 AM.

opened court, ir. Foramaa rose; ports that Ray was hired to as fivé

witnesses--the Rev.

Sam-

and asked that Ray be allowed sassinate Dr. King.

uel B.

Kyles, a Negro minister

ctators had to

change mis

gualty.

He: said

that

bot

haling around that Mr. James fart

"There have been rumors zo

from Memphis; Chauncey

ridge,

Negro lawyer frost

fter being ind Ray had alread

signed a Ray was a dupe, a fall guy

or

Chieago; Dr. Jerry T.

Francisco,

o-toot by petition asking for this and thatia member of a conspiracy," Mr

the Memphis medical examiner.

and by

the

ad before

Meraphis

priade defender

Canale said

Inspector N. E. Zachary of the

Hush

W.

"We have no proof other than

He

led and bowed Hugh IT,,

Stanton, and his son, that Dr. Martin Luther Kinz Jr.

Memphis

Police

Départment

appuRted 25 CO-DOU-

homicide squad, and Robert G.

nomén in tbe

court

sel by

the judge for Ray,

were was killed by James

JONg

sat down in one of prepared

to siga the petitoa.

¡and James Earl Ray alone.

Earl Ray! chase of el

special

agent

in

the Mémphis office

hairs it the side of

Canale said that he and of the F.B.I

-32-100t courteoom.

agreed to accept the sty plahis staff had réad 5.000 pages! pr.

Kyles, who had invited

The

recommencing a

seridi reporis from police officers

King to come to his home

ence of 39 years,

judge

5aшe

local state and rational. He

on the evening of April 4, 1958,

Hé looked at two large tables

motioned Ray to his feet

ontanin i smale models of the

had

Explanation on Rights

pieces or evidence

for a "sout food"

dinner, said

examined 300 he was about five or six steps

Hotel

Motel

And three from

and :.

was staying

After

members of his staff had trav-of

Dr.

King on the balcony

King

the " Lorraine:. Hotel

cahé was murderid, and of

had

explaining to Ray thatcled thousands of miles in the Motel when the rifle bullet his

various

legal

and

rights,; United States,

cumia, house

tazs he mizat and Portugal, he said

Mexico, Canada! Dr. King in the rigat side of his

Eat shit then to teet

aded guilty, Judgei

to Ray:

"We have no evidence that

neck, knocking him off his féet.

Is this what there was aay

conspiracy in

"looks' hke the last suo you

10

volved,"

he

Heard Fatal Shot";

said. "If we are

Ur- Foreman said

SO.

"Yes,

said Ray. "I believe ever presented competent evi- for

Mr.

"dence

hes ridit the chromey

'Southern

Foreman tas

zack tray sait, a dart shirt andi

"Has

anything

that there was a cor-i Leadership Conference,

Christian

which

senténce

besides this spiracy, we will take prompt Dr. King headed, said that h

à guy and bluc tic

The illect!

onte

solidity.

a ta promised a 3, year.

beca action

heard the fatal

"Not that i know oi."

Mr. Foreman followed Mr. overhead.

shot: "zing"

Mr.:

hisa topiar even

larger

than

Canale before the

Eskridge. was

The judge asked Ray if any- Foreman wanted to

jury. Mr. walking down to the parking

ais 250 pounds

As be

waited for Ray to-be

fone had préssured him to pleaditach juror individually to make

question lot below Dr. King.

•Dr. Francisco:

brougat to the courtrooni,: Mr.

guilty to Dr. King's murder. sure that none would refuse to autopsy showed that the

said that an

"No, no one"

FOTEERRA

rerzad

the

patition

"Did you kill Di. King under years in

go along with the deal of ggibullet killed the

civil

nfle

•rights

inat de pianned to fle bafere

retum for a guilty leader almost immediately.

it plea.-'

Inspector

Zachary said that

side andlot murder in

The had found a rifle, which was

Bag Day be allowed to plac

under the slaw

later determined to be the mur

and several other

Rays: brother John

¡to try to prévent Ray's guilty articles on the sidewalk about

Pity calls Jack and who visited

front tarnishing his own a block from the Lorraine Motel

Ray-the

day

betore

Ray es

remarkable record of winning almost in tront of the rooming

aged tron

the Missomi State

¡favorable verdicts. in murder house there Ray had registere

Prison in 1957,

came rata. the

Procedure Outined trials, and to declare that he, earlier that afternoon.

patroom and sat in the see.

Ray. seêmed to be haviaz a also, did not believe there was

little trouble witi his voice

Iza conspiracy.

¿oa reserved for sacEtator$

came through clearly but with!

The inspector, identified the

lobiects found with the rifle as

out much. force - benind it

"I neve rexpected, hoped or being a plastic zipper bag. two

almost squeakid.

It:had any idea that I could ac- cans of Schlitz beer, a pair-ol

At 330 AJ1, as spoctators

Ray's

complish anything but saving binoculars and a binocular case.

zere byiag to ind easier rest.

hair, which had been this man's life,". Mr. Foreman a T-shirt, a pair of men's under.

85 sates on the hard theater

groomed close to his bead, beisaid."

Bashtra

carol: yet ty or the his air are a tea

drawers:

a pasteboard.bot;

to suck up l the rear asia He said that he had reached hairbrush, a transistor radio: a

althe conclusion that there was pair of pliers.

Pay trial, deputies begas bring-

jury, which was in- no conspiracy after more than paper bag

a - hamaner,

isg ini armloads of extidis

paneled after the judge finishedist hours of conversation with April 4,

and a copy of the

1968,

edition

of the

questioning Ray, ircluded two Ray and a-check of every min--newspaper, The-Memphis Com-

jong shotgun box, a large red Negroes The first 12 namesiute of Ray's time and everylmercial-Appeal. saph soir

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NEW YORK TIME

Ray Pleads Guilty to the Murder of Dr. K

Contizood From Page I, Col si

recor of ise Federal Bureau of

Irrestization, less than one day

after de laying to conclude

Here was no conspiracy.

3::

Ray "Can't Are -1°

A Lasscript of Ray's remarks

today scowed that: he said,

"Your honor, I would like toi

sty somethinz I don't want to?

change arytung that I have

said be I just waat ta enteri

che oiser thing. The only thing

benave 2o say is that I can't

azree sich Mr. Clark"-

Ha: Foreman interrapted - to

"Pursey Cart"

saur. who? asked the judge

Mr. i. Edgar. Hoover,

said!

Play.

1 a27e

with all these

stipulations, but I am not rying

Tange anything"

"You con't agree with whose

tatories?" asked the judge.

"Mr. Canale's,: Mr. - Clarit's.

and Mr. I idger Hoover's about!

-te conspiracy. I don't want tol

add soncching on that I haven'ti

ayroed to in the past," said Pay.

Antoney. Irterprets

"I chinis that shar he said!

is that he doesn't agres that;

Ransey Cark is right or that

J. regar Hoover is rizht."

said!

Mr.

Poreman so the judge

"*I:

arare that as

evidence!

117

this case. I simply

stated

ment of Create

the stare-!

Cavaje that

Judge W. Preston Battle, center, who presided at the brief trial of Jamês Earl Ray, read-

may bad made the same state i

ing á statement to newsmen after Ray wás sentenced yesterday. Flanking him are Sheriff

William Morris, left, and Phil 71, Canale, the Shelby County: (Mémphis) Attorney General.

pees set required to said that Ray would be trans majority of cases, Hamlet was/may have been acting rant

those detona cret a a do

ferred to the state prison ai any right: when

Bazde,

murder

he said: "For other's direction.

yous moild still be the same?" chosen last summer to try ther

though it have no? None. of: the court offcial

WaS tongue, will speak with most would try to explain Ray'ste

auriculous organ. n

cord are nothing life seemed be beered that to long interview after the

Kc marks- although Mrs. Foreman

questions that 1

asked you and your answers and the staté"

his attorney, soft-pedied them:

have a "just one to boia defendant conclusion of the case, Mr.

20 them you changed none of!

Unexplaince InciderLiE

them at air? In otber

words, had cried

The judge said to those who question

-Canale gave this answer to al

The prosecution acknowl

out for Dr.

you are pleadinz guilty to and slayer to be sentenced to theifrom Ray. s

ratting 39 Tears?

King'siwould accept a guilty a plea of

as. to why the stateiedged thatt here were a number

"Yes.

sir,"

said- Ray.

-..-

electric chair that "all the!

unexplained incidents thas

or i might make it appear Ray may

I think the main question direction of doiag array. with would any other."

trends in this country are in the this case to treat it just as we Dr.

*We decided at the start oflhäve had some help in planning

that I trast to ast you is this:i capital punishment aitogether."

King's

murder.

But

guilty to

incidents

may have been

the first degree

How about conspiracy and policy:

re-

in the puaishment

And, he said, it has been his lated to other illegal activities,

since he became the such as the smuggling activities

see in he plained to co conspirat ta agons 201 according to the strida See sion and the d ite

States. from Canada, and jew.

To Lawye?

Your course, this is not conclusivel. There was

"Yes.

sir,"

the

moment, when the

courtest enter be or deled, a a despiracy that there was the bre

flight, Mr.

Canale said.

The

that kill the decedent, no member!

One interpretation was that prosecutor dismissed & report

ever Ray had agreed with Mr. Fore- that Ray had robbed a bank of

i sit con seen to plea guity withou ex 527000 m uly: 1967 1 Alon,

sing for contined

down to pleasant drearas, be- plaining his actions or mention-! Ill.

RET

'in

a cause in this sate there is noung any possible conspiracy.

The prosecutor said that the

The öther interpretation was state had no evidence to indi

that Ray was trying to say that cate when Ray had decided to

nocs of its evidence in the case; my 35 years in these that he was so deeply involved have, been

res before: a jury.i

N. Morris: Jr.lvinced me

have con that be was guilty of first de- weeks. before the April 4 slay-

that in the great gre murder. even though beling or even before that:

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Ny Times.

2уLe:

a Bossily of day Dizading Ray's tial was secedeter

Mushe last Monday. Ismas resciceduled

ead Gat

are Seneatles Messing che eared on

1632021

-Deal for 03-Vec

terra

7.527

eat Contined a Dege 15, cal

in any aracles that appeared

Exce blury Wader Tan in Luck magazine last ai

assa ten, in murder cases in fiabama ascor, Willar 3rad-

a coat penaity coud be ford bie, resorted. that Ray!

ipses the prosecution must bad told his reat te hactacer

hires su a siond Cuber. =aned

pran paoi cat the marce Ragal io assassinate De. King

reseniad and that che Cary Mira

Buie resorted thee Ray:

fia arcoably committed in bad: said the radicareer to:

Dare Associatad Press Biminzsame Aja, Los Mageles

Cred Eca Huntville (Ala.) New O-lass and io several

Feast saying that.. the

nities in Mexico white awzang

a sond accept a guilty.

fina asaueross on the mur

pies and recommend a ser:

accepe 99 years are: Fear-

recording to the author Ray

Ey 2 prica facia case lavolvo: said tear be and first beer: ap

23.02e2/ew

witiesses

preached baRaoul, the blond

Pay sonia

Fa. Tires article said

cüs2a, in Memercal in

the so.-

aesar this procedure the jury

mer

0. 2967.-but

he had not

ziuray 29t

suit ba alowed to leave

bean toid by Paou! that Dr. Fung

Be eat esc

a correcon to condon tr

Auras to ba marcared until early

1955, 2002246,322022233

the jedge's

NE.

3 PES 300008

Mataporter Ray's decisten Mempa

Zue appeared before al

manjury

¿lasti

ảy.

a peta gutsy came aiter sure monta

•Far bas been citea by:

ween ta Ray hau been tired Judge

Bare for contempt

=

cocai mea

Da. King, the civil rigate cour for writing about desails:

=i= 2nd Nobel Prize winzer of the casa while is mas pend-i

5455255: 22

se sapoted plan is followed, ing trial cabrad

= Icantaton will presumably

7zy, wao:325-serving 2: 20-1

Rate to coronarity to presentive senteace for coober and

22 EUSIE

and besi

2022e

Gca

T725

5da0a01 2 cOnspiraCy:

lio: being a cortinned criminal,

Logar Taan Life Term.

escaped For the

Missouri

Ass-year santance might 5e

State PenienSaty at Jefferson

City in the spring. os

196749

arisonmen: in Tennessee. Tre

$32

=2sse3 Attorney General's

persoes sex-

Fa cable for parole arter

Des, me a defendast wit

ba algicia for parole unal hal?

his sezzasia nad been saved.

I- Jong tras stain by a rifle

ase Seed for a S1-2-day note.

= Hepass south side at:

601 232 last April 4:

224

Pa ensu vas using various

ases, ranäng, Eric Stavo

Cain sr2s: 22z2sted last June in

condon and was. exteräited to

tize. Waited States in July. Until

725 presented, cy Arthur: J.

Fares of Birmingham, da, a

c-z= Deafong of Birmingnan

at 2 sometime attorney for the

coital larger who has a long

seras a scocessiul: cou.t.oom

2222222095 17. 02n21: 01. D2-

he caged ma nicer, ico.

Grate case aiter Ray dis-

missed saFares in couri

Dates

Docta

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19.

NewYoRTimes EmArG9

ice Vegasce Teel by Jury

Evend, Gutsy Ried is Eniored

ADRON

side at Ray's Liar, has

cated his posisca, pub-

sai taiwas reportad today

Her sona

= 2:

adult being invigatin a

#For saleral montes last year,

abusa such

a/defense.

=: Sradora, Hule, ta Ala-

S3.1

tina frage

= FEE 23

Bay contended 2a. had

sen faired to pation some

-allactabut that heldad

5 on unal a few days ba:

He Da Kãog was Scot ca April

15ES, raat he wes 10 murder

10,90

SAGe SES

There was a report today that

23 Lad cluctandy: accepted

=- agreement:

for: 299-72a:

→ Being convicied and ser-

Eised to deada:"

Ferragea

22ds.

saned men

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AS

ChoteL bye

as Carain

Ny times

L4MAR 69

wt9.....

BIWO

grOUDS: an-

Bizes. to hoid memo-

Bestia Meraphis on

first anniversary of

Esideath." The Rev. Ral?

ceratry,

sing

as head of the

dan Leadership

said 2: ICH Poor

march wi begia in

his on that date.

He gave

It jesse Esos, head of the

Ear that represents some 7,0

-ais werkers,

said: these

Sais Wouid take the day oif

nanniversary Cemonstra-

Dearing had gone to

rosaikang garbage workars.

sashe tvas killed.- Fae Post-

vaca =

spates quoted Join Lary Ray

Sad celes baring said. teesose age.

azerstases Betrat members or the Ray.

pact with Foreman inta

- Louis suburb two waeks ago:

Ecretian told us there was

jess iuo much evidence in the

2 2311

Les of the prosecution.: Fore-

=i said he couldn't agree to

a capesia day conspiracy angle, b

sea it would make Jimmy:

siza tike a hired kiter rather

ja someone who may have

sa King because he thought

32 2e was a Communist or differed

"Foreman warned us that if

(3kae trial were to take place,

pose be aley woald possibly go to the

electric chair: to, be made an

eagle of, even though Ten-

san

Ter

Basea hadn't electrocuted any®

ere in i0 years." a Mindu giou

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Lose Seis IFay 25

RE:

Faquia: Jr.

to-

hear.

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se murder of the

rers

exe

cutiv:

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dag:

possicility

would appear

oa 02 Ray's eligi:

trialis unclear

law:

Metran

ea ca: March

Lungs murder and

ced co S9 years in

are who entars

o zeits rights: to

neanngs, and

Judge W: Pres-

ed that out: to

Wastmade

asses.

law also

a} new trial mo

272

Spendag

before

872-3

ta

chas must auto

santed. Judge

2 geart attack

mediately,

after he

Ray said he was

so doing so send

trial

Herwrote

that erecteto

and Ray's dat

enchihatia: jetta

ins before the judge's

25/a motion : jor

was

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7 Freed of Contempt in Trial of Ray

ar-2%

plators with a record created

Judge Faquim wiped the rec

Spedal mates Is 200

he the necessity for suck or lord clean today.! He granted

NEMPHS, May 23 1A

on his own initiative, motions

rigat to prohipit pretai pes- Battle were Samphis newspas!

This left no record. that

guE conierept citations ai

Rat 3 Fames, and, a private could be appealed.

g on the murder. ual a decure a

34353

Those who had been found

Inchica oes both Merohis were. Mr.. Hames: Roniro: T

plea of guity to the matca

of tre Reve Dr. DIa ta: Ivia:

does to the Supreme Court, mundson of The Memphis Com-

soas in conterps ore of tem

possible to Cy. to determine mercial Appeal and Roy Fam

King Jrs had held seves per lie extent off2 judge's nower fiton of The Memobis -Press

ice too discessing go gulate what newspapers Scimitar, Wiliam... Bradford

the asy priat

Huie, the author, who was cited

I Look magazine; the Rev. James

ce pas conowing a man-T. Bevel, a civil rights leade

treicare frontie: Supreme Courtland.. George Bonebreak, vai

civil rights leader.

years in prison for slamar dice 1566 case of Da Samuel agent of the Federal Bureau

Tue clear and presastican Scepperd or. Cleveland, who of Investigation. on

ger to a fair, wial, waich made was granted.2 new. trial be Ray was in the Shelby Coun

necessary the promuigation of case of publicity surroundingty -Jail in Memphis

today

orders regarding pretrial pas- his first trials unties awaiting a hearing Monday on

licity, now no longer exisis,""! Tre. Cout said in that case his request for a new tai.

aid Judge ragun uno waits juages "rust take: suchile has contended that he wa

ver Judge:Battie's cocket. "Tisess by, rue. and regulation coerced into pleading guity a

10s such import 05, t0 try delterierence."

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nays Contention of Being Dupe

Is Likely to Be Atred Tomorrou

MEPHIS, Blay, 21-James Lew trial. He said

that the

Earl Ray's contenion tiat bei Texas:

attorney had: told him

was a dupe in the murder of teat he was sure to be sen.

the Rer. Dr. Marts Inine Jing pleaded guilty.

beaced to: death unless, he

Jr. is Isely to ba taorozaig. Ray had told his first law-

aired for the fust tina in apuo yer, Araur J. Hanes, a former

lic searing Monday iz Mezpais.

Ray is seeing & law wai oa Mayer of Bimingham, that hel!

zot shoot Dr.

King. Ray

the ground tune ba 772s coerced; said de want to Memphis Aprilli

into pleading gulity to tie slay.

•3,1S03,

ing oi the civil lights leader.

iad said that a

wit a "contact" whol

group of Cuban

The State of Jaznessee, which refugees wanted.

to buy blacki

is opposing a new tial, especis carter rifles, presumaoly to

o call as withesses Percy Fore-use in' an invasion of Cuba.

man; the Houston lawyer wico Ray said chat the fifle he had!

taor to wrom Pay sold a ver-

Sion of Do Day TWas

Ray's request for a new trial

was cosplicaied by: the death

Two-Day Tarring

of Criminal Court: Judge W

Prosecutors: expect ize hear-

az before Crimital Cout Judg

restor Sarie Fe died Marca

26825338

Two Major-Points

Ariu C. Faquia jI. to jasi tRo

days.

Ray rad written the judge a

Meanwhile, ageats 0?; the

iatzer

" 17- wnich

he

said he

Federal Bureaz ci Luvasugaion planced to file a motion for a

are continuing 25 inquiry inso rev trial even though: he had

the siaying

as shot to deats Apri To Men de me dent: Marca

when de pleaded guilty.;

at a Memphis motel. Ica F3.IL

Tenzessee law provides that

is tajing to consauce a day-by-

proper motions pending before

ja jüdge: at the

time

day account of Ray's activites dent must. La granted.

of his

¡rom the day ae esczead from

Tous, Judge Faquin will have

the Missouri State Penitentiary, two major points to' decide at

April 23, 1967, urial ne-tras

tie herring.

rested in London: Jine 8, 1963.

Lasi monta,

grias dae letter in itself a

FBI zzanis iI-

motion for a new trial?:

tally located:

the motel in Sir-

mingham, Ala, Where Ray

SWas Pay actually. coerced

zaditato piezding guilty?

stayed for two days wale reiRay's remest attomeys, who

was buying the rile toat Mem-are banding the hearing, in-

pais police found at tea nurdesi ciuce J. B. Stoner of Savannah,

scene. He bad registered as Fric|Ga. He bas been an attorney

Starvo Galt, one o. several ai for various Kuklux Klansmen

and for de. National States'

ases he was er Gerald say orgats, party, a racist political

Ray's broicer,

Chicago, said aa FBI

tried to interview him in Them

azantgroup

phis this week abou staanenisi

le had mada about a conspira

o assassinate Dr. Jing Eeraid

New YoRN ames

Rey s to him that miste

a4 mAy 69

be called beiore a raceral grand

jury for questioning Ance

Warrant Still Oustanding

The IB.I. declined to com-

ment.: But

officials of thel

agency said

aiter James Eari

Ray

pleaded guilty in March

that the investigation would re

amin

open. A Federal, warrant

with conspirit?

charging Ray alleged to de hisi

with a man

brother to deprive Dr.

King

of his civil right is still oui-

standing.

When

Marcia: 10, Ray

he pleaded suity

said-ce

there was no

conspiracy.

"Ray:

fired: Mr.. Foreman

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OCT BRITAI TODAY ALLY AUTHORIZED

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LOND ON JAPESS AL

CATHE MURDOR OR MARTS LUTHER KING AND WANTS

TO N2ZURE TO DIE 4-50-20

CASTE HISSELE, ON THE CHAEGES:

ATTORNEY ARTHUR JE HALES SR.

SALD RATE AGREED TO DRIVE AN EXTRADITION

MORSE SAID-RAY

LIE LOSE MUST OR DEPARTICLE AND BRITISH ATMORATES TO PERMIT PANES

TO ACCOMPANY HIM WREN HE ES HANDED OVER TO U.SO AUTHORITIES, TO BE SEN

HEAPHIS HE

MARES SAID THE JUSTICE DEPARIMENT HAS DEEP THIS REQUEST SO EAR.

HANS SAID SNEYD DED LOT HAVE TO SIGH ALY MALVERS BUT SIMPLY.

ACTED THROUGH THE ALABINA ATTORNEY. ADVISING HIM TO PROCEED WITH

DESTEADITION PROCESS.

RANS SALD RAYUANTED TO RETURN TO TUE TAS, TYMEDTATELY 150

KE CLI DIE AND TICAN BECTE WETHOUT FURTHER DELAYITO COUBAT AND COUMTERACT

HE UMPRE VICIOUS AND LIBELLOUS PRESS AND TELOVISION CAMPAIGN

SO PORTRAY HIM IS A CONVICTED NUEDERERO A MONSTERS A DEGENERATE, AND

POPE: ADDICT.

CILS, MAN DANIS GEENGTO THE DAZTED STATES AND CATAR ETC

ELSA BANES SAIDA

DITS SAID THE VISION SCLASSISTAN ATTORNEY GENERAL

AAO MASON URE TOAL DAD ONE

WERE REWAS ALLOUED TO SEE RAY BUT

TO TALE LITH HIM US HEGH-HANDED AND WRONG AND I THINK HEGHLY

JUBIELAL

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by Clay Blair, Jr.

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RAY AND KING-

HERE ARE THE FACTS!

The.day James Earl Ray was arrested in London

for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., Bantam

Books: commissioned former SATURDAY EVENING

Post editor-in-chief Clay Blair, Jr. to

undertake

his own inquiry into the history and psychology of

the accused assassin.

Blair traveled over 15,000 miles--from Toronto

to Birmingham to Los Angeles interviewing hun

dreds of people and examining countless records.

Blair's keen reporter's cyc led him to many pre-

viously untapped sources of information vital to

understanding Ray's character and possible motives

_testimony from his sister, fatlier, stepmother,

Acquaintances and jailmates establish a cunning,

shrewd criminal.

Ray's quick and uncapecied court appcaranco on

Monday, March 10, only increased the nogging

questions and doubts of a case plagued by contro-

versy.

NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME,

HERE ARE THE FACTS!

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The

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Case of

James

Earl Ray

The Man Who

Murdered

Martin Luther King

by Clay Blair, Jr.

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In the fall of 1935, little Jimmy Ray made his formal

debut in the outside world. He entered first grade at the

Ewing Consolidated School There was no school bus.

Jimmy walked the mile and a quarter; cutting across dusty

beanfields and cornfields, down through the shady back

streets of Ewing; through the hillside cemetery, across the

new highway and into the dirt schoolyard. He was smail,

blue-eyed, shy, the poorest of the poor, dressed in over-

alls and shabby tennis shoes with brown birder cord for

strings. But always clean. Lucille registered Jimmy &s

"James Rayns." (Later, when John Larry entered the

same school, he was registered as John Raynes.)

We The Ewing Consolidaied School was a wretched insti-

tution in a wretched time and place. There were 50 ic 60

students crowded into three "basement" rooms (the upper

portion of the school was yet to be built). The first and

second grades shared a room. The third through ffth

shared another. The sixth through eighth shared the last

There were half a dozen teachers. School hours were from

9:00 to 4:30 with a break for lunch at midday, always

preceded by a prayer of thanksgiving offered by a volun-

teer" student. For those students who could not aford

a nickel, including Jimmy Ray, the lunches were free.

There was no organized recreation Absenteeism was high

among the student body. Students were needed at home

for chores. Their parents were not obsessed by the need

to educate the children. It was often too cold to walk to

One can well imagine that Jimmy Ray was bewildered

by his first contact with books and formal teaching He

was, in the current jargon, a truly deprived child. It is

doubtful that a book of any kind had ever entered his

home. Miss Ina Kitson, who still teaches at the school; re-

members Jimmy Rayns quite well. "He was just precious,"

she recalls. "He always played up to me, always came m

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Although circumstances of his environment placed him

in a deprived category, denied him recognition, Jimmy Ray

did not give up easily. The denial, the twinges of adversity

and stern compression of circumstances had, perhaps, im-

bued him with a mysterious "ruthless fixity of purpose and

tenacious mother-wit," which, as Winston Churchill writes,

drive men to unusual endeavor. On February 14, when he

and his classmates exchanged Valentines, Jimmy appeared

with a handmade card that surcly took him many paticnt

hours to create. When classmate Brown came down with

polio, Jimmy carricd his books for him. Jimmy was so

anxious to star in the sandlot football games that he broke

his leg carrying the; football into a line of much larger and

tougher boys. He worried to his teacher, Virgil Graves,

that the other kids might make fun of his clothes.

At home there was little inspiration for Jimmy Ray, His

mother, now burdened with two more infants, both girls,

Melhn, born in 1938, and Carol Jenn, born in 1941, hnd

succumbed to that fatal Trish weakness, drink, Sho also

smoked-on the sly. She despaired of religion. "There was

no Christianity in that house," Charlic Pércock reclis.

"Nothing in help them over the rough spots." To get Are-

wood, members of the family, ripped up the Moor and toro

clown the walls of the house. When the line-covered shinck

was dangerously undermined, he trucked in nother shock;

n one-room affair with a potbellied stove..Lücille. hung.a

blanket from the ceiling to partition the, space. The two

adults and fivo children lived in untold tension, and without

privacy. T

Then came World War Il. It dramatically changed al-

most all lives, including the Rays'. Now there was a labor

shortage-big moncy. for those willing. to work. Relicf

programs were abolished. The depression was a thing of tho

past,

a nightmarish. mcmory. With his house now a

shambles, no food for the five children, James Gerald Ray

was evidently stirred to netion, He found regular work-

for the Chicago, Burlington and Ouncy Rallrond In Onles

burg, Illinois. In tho summer of 1943 after Jimmy, then 15p

gradunted from tho eighth gindo, Oerry: Ralnes abandoned

the form and moved to Onlesburg. ste

And so Ewing's most obscure and deprived mily melted

away, almost without trace. Marjoric's grave was left

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unmarked: James Gerald Ray, or Gerry Raines, left behind

not so much as a scrap of paper bearing his signature and

only one unpaid bill: a $12 balance on Marjoric's funeral.

John Loscher: bought the farm in 1945 from Mary Maher

for $1,250 and plowed under all that remained of the

dwellings:

4

Drummed Out of the Elite Corps

The cldest son did not go with the family to Galsburg

Instead, Jimmy went to Alton, to live with his Grandmother

Mnher, and to inke n job. He was, perhaps, ashamed of his

mother and father, the numbing poverty, the lack of pride;

ambition, The tenacious mother-wit had taken hold. Jimmy

Ray would make something of himself, lind that hord-

sought recognition, That fall he went to work in the tunning

factory of the International Shoe Company, carning 776

an hour. He was a young lad with the determination of

Horatio Alger. Always neat in appearnnee, he arrived at

the factory promptly for work. He literally slaved for his

moncy-sweeping floors, shoving cavy stock in tho

shipping room, going about his work with quict compe;

tence, cager to picase, to get on, to climb the ladder of

the frec-enterprise system. Hc was clean, honest, frugal

morc "Scotch thinn Trish," Aunt Malel recalls, admiring her

young nephew's frugality. He did not smoke or drink. The

life of crime-Uncle Earl's way-held no appeal. He told

his "younger brother, John Larry;

"Why should people

go and steal when they can make this much working?? He

was holl-bent to rise above his own environment nid heris

tage. He banked most of his salary at the Alton Bank &

Trust Company. He drenmed of starting his own busincss;

of buying n gasoline station after the war.

" The Mahers were ngrecably surprised by the Industry

of young James Earl Ray. In a statement now in the files

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of the Edwardsville State's Attorney, in connection with

less fortunate times, Grandmother Maher had this to say:

"He worked with a man in the tannery from Germany und

learned the trade of dyeing lether to never went out

ded never"runned around or

as far as girls, lie wus

backward. He was bashful with girls: No pals of men either

Just stayed home. He's quiet and ensy, Always comes in

with a smile on his face. He don't smoke? His Uncle Bil

Maher sometimes took him to St. Louis to watch the

Browns play: "He loved baseball," Maher recalls, "just like

any other boy. He used to go down to the neighborhood

field and play baseball with the other boys. He was a pretty

good shortstop, But you'd never see him banging around

on the corner with any of them." eac

Ray worked diligently for two years, 1944 to 1945. Then

came a shock. Business at International Shoe fell off

sharply, perhaps because of a cutbuck in defense orders.

Jiminy Ray was laid off, It was not due to incompetenco,

for lack of ambition or willingness to work. He was a vic-

tim of circumstances. The older men with seniority had

first claim on the remaining jobs. a

19%.

There is no evidence that Ray was embittered. On the

contrury, after putting in his last day in December, 1945,

he promptly made plans to join the army. He was not yot

18, he could volunteer for induction and choose between

Europe and the Pacific for his duty station, A few weeks

later, on February 19, 1946, he went down to East St.

Louis and enlisted. He picked Europe specifically Ger-

many for his ultimate duty station. At the tannery, Ray

had met a German emigré who had kindled his curiosity

about the country and its people. The young boy, in fact,

admired all things German: Ray left $1,180 tucked away

in his Alton savings account, more money than his father

had accumulated in a lifetime.

After basic training at Camp Crowder, Missouri, Ray

was shipped off for duty in Europe. The war was over

now. The infantry had done its job. The elite corps of the

Occupation force was the military police: In wartime, they

were little more than traffic cops, directing convoys toward

the action. Now they were the symbol of authority, hated

and respected with equal intensity. James Earl Ray was

selected for the military police and assigned to the 382nd

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MP: Battulion, stationed In NUrnberg, where the War

Crimes Tribunal was organizing to punish the, Nazis.

Eit was a curious and perhaps; fatal ussignment., Most

Mp's ore toll, robust, assertive, men with imposing phy-

siques and communding voices; priding theiselves on their

military, bearing, and jaunty uniforms. It is dillicult. to

imagine James Earl Ray in such an outfit. He was very

small, like his father, He was shy-painfully shy. He

rarely spoke unless spoken to. His posture, his bearing,

his general physical appearance was the antithesis of the

MP. He slouched to the side when he sat down. He walked:

in a curious, loping, uncoordinated way, sort of a clod;

hopper shuffle. He found difficulty in looking a man di

rectly in the eye...s

Ray was an MP. for about a ycar and a half, a jeep

driver in Nürnberg. He went about his work quietly and

proficiently. He regularly sent olf posteards lo members

of the family= Uncle Bill Maher, Aunt Mubel, others:

He sent most of his puy home-to savings, or to his

father, who had been laid off from his rairoad job anc

now lived in a sleazy house in "the Line" in Quincy. There

is no evidence of trouble, no disciplinary action in the

MP battalion. On the contrary, all signs point to a well-

adjusted young soldier, proud of his status, thrilly, sober;

celibate. He was on his way to rising ubove his environ-

ment.

Then something happened. What, exactly, has never

been revealed. In April, 1948, Ray was abruptly drumnied

out of the MP's, transferred from the elite corps to the

regular infantry-Company B, 16th Regiment. It may

have been that some new captain or lieutenant, seeing

Ray in the barracks or behind the wheel of his jcep. took

exception to his military bearing, perhaps asked: "What's

that hillbilly doing in my outfit? Get rid of him."

There seems little doubt that the transfer came as a

stinging rebuke. It was another wound, a painful rejection

that embittered Ray with the army and all it stood for.

From that moment on, as he said later, he was determined

to get out as fast as possible. The fastest perhaps only-:

way out in those days was to provoke some disciplinary

action. 1309 ey

On October 31, 1948, Ray was arrested_ for being

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drunk in quarters: Three days later. he attempted to e

cape. He was tried by a special court-martial, convic:

THE STRAN

and confined to hard labor, in the Nümberg Military Per

Stockade: for three months; he forfeited S45 of his pr.

wion and tis seca o

The Line" with strag

for four months: Before half his sentence had been sens

were uncared for. Ther

out, the army concluded that Ray was not fit for milita:

showing dangerous o

service. He was transferred back to the States. On Decer-

JaDes Earl Ray bad d

ber 23, 1948, he was cashiered with a general" dischare

occasion, leaving on

(not honorable, but not dishonorable) and another stin

Lilian, with Auni Mat

ing rebuke. The army stated officially that it ejected Ri

vide the absolure noos

because of "ineptness and lack of adaptability to milita?

challenge beyond her

service." sa

Bricity out of prison. bi

trainag a tamly spal?

was heightened by direct contact. A sister says: "Therei

now the was back in Mt

And what of Ray's admiration for things German? f"10 years for assaul: wil

no doubt about it. Jimmy liked Germany better than h:

did the United States.". Was it possible that his tour of dur

in close proximity to the War Crimes Tribunal, which wa

prosecuting the great and near-great Nazis on an assemble-

line basis, plucked a note of sympathy in the young private?

And a corollary contempt for U.S. authority and justice?

Says a sister: "When he got home from German. Jimm

was always yelling Heil Hitler'-and I don't think it was

completely a joke." Perhaps not-completely:

5

"Just Don't Get Caught"

James Earl Ray arrived home from the Army in Janu-

ary, 1949. What he found in the dirty house at 214 Spring

Street was less than encouraging. His father was not work-

Lucille had given birth to

ing. There was no money, little food. The indefatigable

two more children: Franklin

Dennis (named for the President. whom she admired tre-

mendously) and Susan, born while Ray was overseas. Now

fat and disheveled, Lucille was drinking steadly mostly

Mabel, In her living

retiring self. Aunt Mabi

probably not much abo

talk about, especially no

in the stockade, the fina

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S"1 don't have 1o,

both of us."

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for the future. He wante

special cram school int

Adults (now a division

was entitied to the GI E

a small subsistence alloi

lege: Later he would su

capital. It might be a fill

Anything profitable. He

license. He would pay c

ike giving money away

get his license. Ray proc

driver and received his:

bought a car, a two-yeal

pay cash. He withdren

sarings accouni and fina

None of these plans

smarting from his reject

by the sight of his mis

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ler. The Ray family

job-hopping. from

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Gerry Ray, now 18, a dark, extroverted character,

chatty and popular with girls, was only a few steps behind

his older brothers;. On the afterioon of February 1, 1954,

, Gerry and three other boys-were riding around in a car

in Quincy. A plot was hatched. They parked the car on

7th Street between Kentucky and State.: Gerry and a boy

named Mickey Walker got out of the car and walked to

8th Street, Just opposite the State Theater, Gerry and

Mickey saw Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Schaefer walking along

the sidewalk. Gerry ran by the couple, grabbing Mrs.

Schaefer's purse. Mickey: bumped: Mr. Schaefer, throwing

him off balance. Then the two: boys ran back to the car.

They drove down to the riverfront. The four boys divided

the money in the purse. $85 and then burned the purse.

The boys were caught. Gerry was charged with grand

larceny. He sought probation, but it was denied because

of his previous record. At the trial on February 24, 1954,

Judge Fred G. Wolfe senterced Gerry to Menard to serve

a minimum of two years and a maximum of five years.

He entered prison as Gerald Ryan: In the year 1954, then,

there were three Rays in Menard: John Larry, Gerry and

Uncie Earlie creamss

In Alton, James Earl Ray took a job in a gas station.

pephew with disdain. Would James Earl make it now on

the outside world? The answer: no. 2.12

The night of August 27, 1954 a Saturday-was warm

and rainy. In East Alton, a small town adjacent to Alton,

a "merchant policeman"= a private cop hired by the own-

ers of the shops and stores named Andrew Biro made

his rounds by car, peering into store windows in the busi

ress section to be sure all was well. Tony Biro, the father

of nine children, was a small, scrappy man, dark, alert;

a zealous cop with uncanny eyes who took himself and

his job very seriously. That night Biro had a companion:

Chaten Greenwood, an East Alton policeman. Shortly after

am, as they were cruising along Ponce Street near the

riaduct, they passed the National Cleaners, a one-story

esiablishment faced with fieldstone. Through the drizzle;

Biro's eagle eye detected something amiss; one of the

six-pane metal windows on the side of the building was

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com another mysterious man in a

off on a spree:

mes. Earl Ray then had an automa

icle worth perhaps $400 or $500.

I cashed a few checks," Rife says.

ouis, and south to Alabama and

Itogether pleased with his accom-

orger," Rife says.

"He'd walk into

ilty. He was heat personified."

1, was glib, professional. "I'd go in

with the clerk, con him a little,

shange: Half the time they'd never

royances: James Earl Ray, was

7 and somewhat eccentric in be-

y, he insisted they sleep in cheap

sippi they picked up a penniless

they stopped for food. They

lamburger. He gobbled it down

is food. "Ray got real flustered,"

was guilty, or angry, or some-

w how to handle the situation.

d out. He was just a country boy

it Petty little situations like this

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vas an incredibly bad driver,"

> ask directions, he'd just stop

y intersection."

And he was no

ple of girls, he'd turn his head

now how to act around girls.

't dance. Didn't know. what to

sex, Rife said, he bought it,

y-order checks: jewelry and

boy. "He hardly drank at all.

Bourbon and Coke. Can you

s no drinker. But after he had

began to throw his money

remembers that Ray was a

a shower and shaved every

lean and neat"

5. fists, Rife says. "We wound

S I mean, if you go fishing,

ALENGE CASE OF JAMES EARL RAY

youve got to expect mosquitoes." Ray, Rife says, "was a

mean pasty righter. He fought to win, no matter what it

took a club, knife or gun. I never saw him lose a fight."

But, Rife, says, "Ray didn't look for trouble. If somebody

bothered him, he'd sit there for a long time, smoldering.

hed go a long way to find a way out of it, avoid it. But

then, he'd explode and POW!" In one bar, Ray was an-

noyedebya, drunk patron. He smoldered, 'said forget it,

Haked out But he came back in the back door," Rife

In the Deep South, according to Rife, James Earl Ray

expressed a deep-seated hatred for black people. "He was

prejudiced to the point that he hated to see a colored per-

son breathe," Rife says. "You could gather from his con-

versation that if it was up to him, there wouldn't be any

colored people. They would either be shipped back to

Africa or disposed of in some way.".

In Florida, Walter Rife became enchanted with an auto-

mobile on a used-car lot, a maroon 1949 Lincoln. Rife,:

pockets bulging with cash, dickered. He and the salesman

were only a few dollars apart when Ray, to Rife's amaze-

ment, offered to throw his car in on the deal as a trade.

"I don't know what 'possessed him to do it,". Rife says.

"Ordinarily he was so chintzy. The only thing I can figure

is he didn't want to drive back north by himself."

The two men headed home. In Florida, Ray passed a

S50, money order, signing the name Willard McBride. In

Hot Springs, Arkansas, on March 20, he cashed a $75

money order addressed to McBride at the Askay Art Gal-

Teries. And another for $75 at the Biles Music Company.

And another at Dino's Store for men. Rife passed three

$75. money orders at Brown's Department Store, Pfeiffers

and Charles Weaver's. They headed for Kansas City. But

the postal inspectors, following their trail from the cards

rejected by the computer, were drawing the noose tight.

f On March 21; a blizzard was raging in Kansas City. Ray

made his way to Askins, a men's clothing store. The man-

ager, Joe Isaacson, fitted Ray with a new suit of clothes.

Ray paid with a postal money order. Ray returned to his

hotel, saying he would call for the suit later. The credit

manager in Askins was suspicious of the money order. He

telephoned the postal inspectors. An inspector was on the

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mother,

mother, brothers, sisters.

3 a beeline for his family, it

trustworthy, and Iikeliest to

I they may find it. Ray had

he did, they were probably

ide, in a place like the St.

Id be too great. But he had

v miles

in St. Louis: John

usband Albert Pepper, and

If. Ray did receive help from

3. And he had "substantial"

t was hidden or by whom

irnished by Ray to Huie and

his way to the banks of the

it westward toward Kansas

for five or six days. He ate

i, hid during daylight in cul-

om swollen feet. On the sixth

a "town" and caught a train

claims, he took a cab to East

nd," who drove him to Ed-

ay then caught a bus for

own near Alton, the county

arl Ray's father was married,

ted James Earl Ray in 1954

obery in East Alton; and in

very. robbery.

After nightfall

ranger, a fugitive, would be

wardsville, he took a terrible

I the bus stations in St. Louis

g watched; that he was safer

mlet like Edwardsville. Cer-

, the location of the bus sta-

y fugitive facing ás much time

sore time if caught-would

,and a way to flee the coun

for the more affluent, Brazil;

extradite criminals. But, as

rust have certain necessities.

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103

The most important of these is "I.D."- some form of iden

unication. America is a land of identification cards: driver's

license, social security card, draft card, credit cards, birth

suficates. Without these, or one of these, it is difficult

ora man. to move about, to get a job, of to apply for pass

ports and other official papers. ras

According to the account he supplied Huie, Ray moved

into a rooming house at 2731 North Sheffield in Chicago,

registering in a $14a-week room there on April 30 a

me an o his brother name on ays, yorks an

and his father's current last name, and perhaps a last

name John Larry has used from time to time. It is perhaps

merely a coincidence that Ray picked an alias of the man

who had visited him at Jeff City the day before he escaped.

When he arrived in Chicago, Ray also bad à social-security

number #318-24-7098in the name of John Rayns, an

alias and number Huie says he remembered from around

41951" (but none of his official arrest records indicate Ray

was using that or any alias in 1951). It is remarkable

that he could remember a nine-digit number after 16 years:

On May 3, 1967, this ad was published in the Chicago

Tribune:

Kitchen man and dishwasher. Eday wk. 594.

For north suburban restaurant Call Indian

Trail: at HI 6-1703. 1

The Indian Trail is a family-style restaurant in the fash-

ionable suburban town of Winnetka, just north of Chicago.

It specializes in

¡"plain home-cooked food" and does an

impressive business. It has been operated by friendly,

home-folk owners, Clara and Harvey: Klingeman, and

Clara's sister Elly, for about 35 years. In May, 1967, the

kitchen help was a formidable army: 27 Negroes and four

Filipinos. James Earl Ray responded to the ad in the

Tribune and was hired as a dishwasher giving his name

as John L. Ray and the John Ray social-security number,

but no card..oue

10237

It is perhaps merely another coincidence that Ray's

brother Gerry lived and worked at a couatry club withir

ten miles of the Indian Trail Restaurant, maintaining a

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e's account, he did not arrive until

sent the night in the Grenada Hotel.

counted for. There, as Ray told Huie,

pposedly dangerous alias, John L.

me that he had worked under at the

a, probably because he had Rayas

t 26, as Eric:S. Galt, Ray took a

surroundings. He registered in a

•I-class southside neighborhood-

y stucco building with a red tile

Avenue, known as the Economy

l sign: "We serve Maxwell House

do not ask. for LD. Cash talks.

py 72-year-old Peter N: Cherpes.

or 18: roomers. Ray-Gal nio-

loyee of the Ingalls Shipbuilding

2, Mississippi, who was in Bir-

ition," perhaps as long as four

ay-Galt at his word, joshed that

on. Ray-Galt said he had been

rpes assigned his new roomer

l'a week's rent-$22.50 includ-

1 cash, in advance. he

mingham at this time? It has

According to Huie; Ray was

*cumulate I.D. as Eric S. Galt,

If there was no "Raoul" —if

-then it seems likely that Ray

l itself. As anyone.who.could

Ir. King was due shortly in

entence for his role in the

le famous.confrontation. be-

Conner. Birmingham would

ssination of Dr. King, prob

sassin could imagine. The

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should never happen That

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THE STRANGE CASE OF JAMES EARL RAY

$117

"A guiet fellow. Did't have much to say. Looked at

color TV in the sitting room a lot Oh, he was pleasant and

would speak when spoken to, but he didn't talk about him

selfs much. I think he told me he was divorced. He ate all

of his meals here excepting the last week, when he ate out:

Tdon't know where. He spoke with a southern accent and

dressed well, usually a suit with a tie especially a plaid

sports suit. He usually turned in early, didn't go out much.

He never had telephone calls or visitors. "

According to the Huie account, "Raoul" now wrote Ray.

Galt a letter care of general delivery advising Ray to meet

Whim that night" at the Starlight Cafe, opposite the US.

Post Office on Fifth Avenue North. Ray-Galt picked up

the letter on Monday, August 28. If the mail had been a

day late, Ray-Galt might have missed the rendezvous. That

morning, Ray rented a safe-deposit box (#5517) at the

Birmingham Trust National Bank: According to Huie, Ray-

Galt gave as a reference one "Karl Galt," 2515 Lafayette

Street, St. Louis. His late brother Buzzy" lived on La

fayette Street in St. Louis, but there is no 2515: At 2:32,

according to bank records, Ray opened his box. He told

Hue that he placed inside his Rayns ID., "Raoul's" tele

phone number and a "little money," a portion of the $750

Raoul" had given him in Detroit, one presumes, or per

thaps most of it. That night, in the Starlight, "Raonl" told

Ray to get a good automobile something in the neigh-

borhood of $2,000. They would meet again the following

right, August 28, in the Starlight sorts sodda

Two days before, on August 27, William D. Paisley, the

sales manager of a Birmingham lumber company, ran the

following advertisement in the classied section of the

Birmingham News.

Mustang. '66, V-8, auto trans. Radio, W.W. tires-factor.

warranty. Individoal, $1,995. 592-0148.

The day after meeting "Raoal," Tuesday, August 28,

Ray telephoned Paisley about his ad and arranged to come

see the car at 6 p.m. Ray arrived by cab. Paisley drove him

around the block. Ray did not like the color-white but

he said be would buy. "He didn't try to cut the price at all,"

Paisley says. They met the next moruing August 30

in front of Ray's bank. Ray counted out $2,000 in cash

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-could provide a dramatic pretext for

decisive outbreak of violence and riot-

of turmoil in the United States. If the

fficient intensity, it might raise the need

soldiers from Vietnam to provide pro

ities.hir

in fact, on June 22, New York police

it Negroes, two of whom were alleged

assassination of two-and perhaps

lerates; Roy. Wilkins and Whitney M.

to the indictment, the Negroes were

orist group known as RAM- Revolu-

vement. The reported founder of RAM,

led to Cuba in 1961, and then to Com-

FBI described RAM as pro-Red China

itted to the overthrow of governments

ssassination. One of the to men in-

the assassination of Young and Wilkins

rguson; an assistant principal of Public

1s. He

was later convicted. The charges

on had scouted; the homes and offices

ung to establish: movement and escape

orted they found ten rifles, a machine

and a shotgun in Ferguson's home at

SC /10200253/085602

aspirators, there remains this very im-

how-or why-did they make contact

ay? Up to this point, Ray had been in

nonentity in Jeff City, with no special

ble connections with extremist organiza-

ce, at least, he would seem an unlikely

icated conspirators. After his escape,

ed he was with "friends" in the Alton-

then a dishwasher in Winnetka, leading

rooming house. Even assuming a group

1 somehow found Ray-or he them—

ly to invite a stranger into their midst?

laps? Ray had no record as a killer. In

ted above, the conspirators themselves

actual killing. Why take on an ex-

wn outsider? 3

e account Ray gave Huie, Ray was not

THE STRANGE CASE OF JAMES EARL RAY

P11l

par of a conspiracy when he arrived in Canada. He had

sworn to himself that he would never again cross the bor-

der into the United States. He had arrived in Montreal

with the spur-of-the-moment alias Eric S. Galt. His sole

ambition was to get on a ship and sail to obscurity in

Laun America He says he hung out on the watertront

Job hunting for a berth on a ship, or hoping to roll a drunk

mosailorsand get his I.D. passport and merchant-marine

papers. At night he drank sparingly in rough seaman's bars,

Metting the word go out that he was available for special

work if the risk were not too great. In one such bar, the

Neptune, Ray told Huie, be met a blond Latin, "Raoul

about 35 years old, who might have some specral wor

They began hushed talks. caus

Enter now, another mystery about Ray's finances., Ray

told Huie that he only had $70 left after paying his room

and board at the Har-K rooming house. That was on the

afternoon of July 18. Yet on the very next day, July 19;

Ray appeared at the Tip Top Tailors to splurge money on

fancy new clothes. A salesman, I B. Cloutien, fitted him

for a new powder-blue Botany suit. He also bought gray

slacks, a red T-shirt, a yellow T-shirt, yellow swim trunks,

red pajamas, socks, underwear and neckties. In all, about

$200 worth. Two days later he appeared at yet another

haberdasher, English and Cottonwood Limited. A sales

man, Edward John Feisin, fitted Ray for yet another suit

This suit, when completed, was mailed to Ray in Ala

bama:) Then he had his nails manicured at the Queen

Elizabeth Hotel! al

According to the Ray-Huie account, Ray paid for these

tems by robbing a Montreal whorehouse of $800. He says

he spent $25 casing the establishment one night, then

robbed it the next. If he cased it at the first possible oppor-

tunity, the night be arrived in Montreal, July 18, then he

robbed it on July 19: But he arrived at Tip Top Tailors

to spend $200 on July 19- before the robbery.

Then, about a week later July 31- Ray did an amazing

thing for a man so desperate for cash. He took off for a

week: of luxurious loafing in a posh Laurentian resort

The room alone cost him $153. He must have spent at

least another $20 a day on drinks and entertainment. Al-

together, say, $300. Conceivably, this lark was financed

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rehouse robbery-if there was such a rob-

shing tupward of 5600 on clothes and play,

shing fling.

4, the Ray. who arrived at the resort had

astonishing transformation. Here in this un-

xury Ray, as Eric S. Galt, appeared to be

world, a poor man's jet-setter. He was well

is nails manicured. He hung out in the bars,

e make. He met, according to Huie, a "culti-

a high-level employee of the Canadian gov-

nd doubt one of the "most attractive" on

t payroll. Ray-Galt was extraordinarily at-

ing. He danced. He took her to bed and

189003166,

rk, the extraordinary transformation, oc-

an be no doubt. Huie, a careful reporter,

sort, found the girl, talked to her. Ray's

the lark: he hoped to find a girl who would

and as a reference so he could get a pass-

"she had known him for two years.

anation raises more questions than it an-

thing, he must have known that the refer-

it for a passport was easily circumvented.

for that purpose seems far out of propor-

I. Suppose he was unable to meet a girl

, him. Ray had never been noted for his

with girls. Even if one did, he would have

the name. Eric S. Galt. Suppose someone

S. Galt already held a Canadian passport.

d in that name, he would be found out

get a-birth certificate in the name Eric S.

le were purely a concoction by Ray, there

ord of his birth. Beyond all that stands the

e money he blew in the Laurentians he

ght forged identity papers that were safe.

sinating aspect of the lark is Ray-Galt's

formation in character. Almost overnight

a frugal, shy hillbilly who was a dish-

3 in a flophouse to a natty, manicured

danced in a luxury resort and went out

surt women. Those who knew Ray find

on utterly remarkable, if not unbeliev-

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113

able. It was almost as if a different person had come or

me scene, a double (leading to the speculation that now,

and later, there were two Ray-Galts). Many believe that

the transformation could not have occurred on the spur

of the moment. That it was the first step in a long, well

thought-out plan to create a fictitious identity, a part of

which was the selection of the name Galt itself. If so, then

Ray must have conceived the new identity in Jefi City, or

shortly after his escape. Those who believe this alsó be

leve he went up to the Laurentians with plenty of money

available: he would not gamble money on a lark. And all

of this speculation lends weight, of course, to the theory

that Ray had money stashed away and was acting alone,

executing an exotic plan conceived behind bars. 7: 12 €

By his own admission, Ray-Galt was not yet recruiter

into the "conspiracy." 5n

Ray, in fact, left the cultivated girl behind in the Lauren-

tians on August 7, saying be was rushing to meet his

brother" in Montreal. He had told her the night before

that he "worked for" his brother "in some kind of busi-

ness" and that the old red Plymouth was his brother's

wife's car-a jalopy for hauling groceries. So far as is

known, it was the first time Ray mentioned to anyone that

he had a brother, of that he had business with a brother.

In the coming months, Ray would mention three times

again that he was embarked on this or that enterprise with

a "brother." Partly on the basis of these statements, the

initial FBI indictment against Ray also mentioned a "broth

er." Did Ray mean John Larry, who visited him the day

before he escaped from Jeff City? Of Gerry, who lived so

close by when Ray worked-as John L. Rayns in the

Indian Trail in Winnetka? Or was it merely a small lie?

In any case, neither brother has been formally charged in

the case.

22 GRA

Back in Montreal, Ray told Huie, it was not his brother

but "Raoul" he was rushing to meet. Raoul if there was

a Raoul-may have resembled John Larry. He was about

John Larry's age-35 or 36 and was. like John Larry,

blond. (The name Raoul, French or Spanish for Ralph,

is not far from Ray.) In the coming months, Ray-Galt

himselt would try to pass himself off as "Raoul's" age-35

or 36.35

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1959, it must have been between his release from Leaven-

worth and his arrest for the Kroger grocery holdup in St.

Louis, perbaps another vacation, an unwinding from the

ngors of his profession. But now-eight years later-the

frugal Ray-Galt was in for a jolt. Acapulco had been dis-

covered by first the jet set and then the prop-jet set and

then the prop set. Prices were sky-high. Every. Mexican

had his hand out Burning, Ray-Galt turned north to

Puerto Vallarta, a posh, offbeat little jet-set hangout north

of Acapulco.0

On the night of October 19; 12 days after leaving Bir-

mingham, he checked into the Rio Hotel He gave his ad-

dress as the Economy Grill and Rooms. He signed the

register in his unmistakable hand, "Eric Galt" He re-

mained at the Rio for 19 days; then shifted to another

hotel, right on the beach, the Tropicana, where he stopped

another week- until November 13. The hotel employees

recall him only vaguely. He was "quiet."" He kept company

with prostitutes, but in contrast to Canada there was no

white-hot intimate affair with a "cultivated" mystery wom-

an: Someone remembered him saying, "After I make a big

score, I'm gonna come down here and live on beer and

beans." Ray-Galt was just one more rich noreamericano

tourist, basking in the sun, haunting the bars at night, liv-

ing the life of the superrich. But no one remembers him

as an avid photographer-with expensive equipment The

employees remember only the white Mustang. Someone-

perhaps Ray-Galt of one of his girl friends glued two

Mexican turista stickers on the side window of the car.

Or was he merely a simple tourist? He may not have

been. Investigative authorities in Memphis have said that

during his stay in Mexico, Ray was engaged in smuggling,

as he had been in Canada. In Mexico, they say, Ray picked

up contraband jewelry and smuggled it across the border;

to a person, or persons, unknown. De

Ray-Galt now drove north to Los Angeles. Why? An-

other mystery. He told Huie he went there to try to find a

job on a ship just in case Raoul didn't come through? In

Jate November, he rented a room at 1535 North Serrano

Avenue from Mrs. Margarita Powers. The house was in

a sleazy neighborhood of. low-slung California bungalows,

on the fringe of glamorous Hollywood. He signed in as Eric

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S Galt." (Curiously,

this address.) He hu

lobby of a seedy ho

Francis:: There is a

drinks for 60, and

not the Laurentians

a wateriront dive ir

John Larry-took ti

Cin the Sultan Ro

Marie Martin. Thei

Ray-Gali io her co

Charles. Charles Sti

character with a bus

to Yucca Valley on

He lived in a cool p

Rita. Outwardly, Sti

hardly the type a hi

compatible. Yet the!

the puzzle.

To Stein. Ray-Ga

not quite right. Late

sion... and he had

basiness. He was act

never drank too muc

üget near him ... hi

was broads..

Perhaps through S

ing an "underground

Then Ray-Galt inser

- Single, male Ca

# passionate marri

He also paid $1 to th

addresses of five girls

A couple of week:

Stein, a-native of Neu

him to New Orleans t

-small children. An a

go to New Orleans hi

"says "Raoul" had wri

Galt would give Stei:

that Stein and his sist

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desia has no formal diplomatic ties with the United States,

extradition would be impossible.

What was the purpose of this letter? Was it a ruse

meant to be discovered at some later date, a red herring

to deflect investigators in the direction of Rhodesia in

pursuit of the fictional Eric Galt? Or was it earnestly meant?

If it was earnestly meant, if Ray-Galt was seriously inquir-

ing about ways and means to emigrate to Rhodesia with-

out a passport, then why? The mysterious Latin, Raoul,

had repeatedly promised Ray-Galt ID. and money to go

anywhere in the word, including a passport. Did Ray-

Galt fear Raoul might renege on that part of the deal?

Was he hedging his bets? Seeking an alternate escape tun

nel he could use without a passport in case Raoul failed,

to come through? Or was there no Raoul, and was the

lone wolf preparing his own escape route? 2th

Whatever the reason, the response was not encouraging.

The Council mailed Ray-Galt a routine reply, stating that

it did not handle such inquiries. The Council, which repre

sents five African nations, was organized primarily to pru

mote tourism, or so it claims. 5906/2206503

After mailing off the letter, Ray-Galt abruptly changed

his living quarters. From Serrano Avenue he moved to

the St Francis Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard, above the

Sultan Bar. The SL Francis is not a fleabag. It is an old

rundown establishment with worn carpeting and an elderly

clientele, including many permanent residents. Ray-Gat

took suite $408, a small apartment, with a living room

(a Murphy bed in the wall), a full kitchen and a smalt

dinette. The rent was $95 a month, including a special

parking place in the lot. out back...

Ray-Galt caused little notice. The hotel manager, Alan

Thompson, remembers him at mail call by the front dest

every morning at 10:30, and recalls mail forwarded from

Serrano Avenue, probably including the reply. from the

Counci. Ray-Galt always wore a jacket and tie, and as

a roomer,:

Thompson says, he was "absolutely immaculate

one of the best no trouble at all has one of the

rare ones." During this time, Ray-Galt had his launds

done at The Homes Service Laundry Company, down the

block from the hotel. An employee, Mrs. Mary Lucy

Pinela, stamped Ray's laundry with a special mark Heako

THE STRANGE CA

bought a hammer and a pa

Hardware Store. Pira

Ray-Galt had enrolled

school. Why? He told Hui

Latin dance steps so that 1

finally settled below the-b

to find refuge in Rhodesia, :

Council, then why Latin s

lessons were merely one.m

establish the fictional ident

Ray was: no dancer. Everyb

avid dancer in the Lauren

ham and in Los Angeles.

Ray-Galt picked the N;

Beach, a slickly modern,

ment with a roster ofèso

arrived at the studio shortl

to New Orleans. He talked !

about the course of instruc

the most comprehensive:.. a

that cost $465. Ray-Galt g

a deposit. At the next lesso

cash, much of it with $20

Ray-Galt is remembered

to be a southern gentlema

neatly dressed, but not sh

alligator shoes he wore all ti

drawn type of individual.?

tor, says: "One time I talk

tried to break him down. E

personal, he became quiet

Norton, a young, pretty in.

says: "He told me. he-had

coast of Mexico somewhere

it" Another instructor,

Galt's gold ring studded wit

and carefully knotted tie,

about dancing. He'd tug. at

crooked smile."

Now Ray-Galt turned to

lers: creating some kind.

Montreal, in the Laurentian

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a ties with the United States,

this letter? Was it a ruse

ne later date, a red berring

e, direction of Rhodesia in

t? Or was it earnestly meant?

¿y-Galt was seriously inquir-

emigrate to Rhodesia with-

le mysterious Latin, Raoul,

Galt LD. and money to go

ding a passport. Did Ray-

e on that part of the deal?

ing an alternate escape tun-

assport in case Raoul failed

ere no Raoul, and was the

scape route?

sponse was not encouraging.

a routine reply, stating that

s. The Council, which repre-

organized primarly to pro-

Ray-Galt abruptly changed

Tano Avenue he moved to

ywood Boulevard, above the

s not a fleabag. It is an old,

rom carpeting and an elderly

manent residents. Ray-Galt

artment, with a living room*

, a full kitchen and a small

month, including a special

ce. The hotel manager, Alan

it mail call by the front desk

recalls mail forwarded from

icluding the reply from the

ore a jacket and tie, and as

was "absolutely immaculate

trouble at aller one of the

fRay Galt had his laundry:

aundry. Company, down the

employee, Mrs. Mary Lucy

with a special mark. He also

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bought a hammer and a pair of pliers, probably at Ramage

Hardware Store.

Ray-Gall had enrolled on December 5 ma dancing

school. Why? He told Huie that his purpose was to learn

tam dance steps so that he would feel at home when he

cinally settled below the border. But if his real intent was

to find refuge in Rhodesia, as indicated by his inquiry to the

Council, then why. Latin steps? More likely, the dancing

lessons were merely one more detail in the careful plan to

establish the fictional identity of Eric S. Galt. James Farl

Ray was no dancer. Everybody knew that Ray-Galt was an

avid dancer in the Laurentians, took lessons in Birming

Sham and in Los Angeles. Stree

Ray-Galt picked the National Dance Studio in Long

Beach, a slickly modern, clean, efficiently run establish

ment with a roster of sober middle class students. He

anived at the studio shortly after returning from the tip

on cours of tard ion, and is Radi A bideon

the most comprehensive: a three-mouth, 50-hour course

that cost $465. Ray-Galt gave Arvidson $100 in cash for

adeposit. At the next lesson, he paid the $365 balance in

cash, much of it with $20 bills. 3e

Ray-Galt is remembered well at the studio. "He seemed

to bea southern gentleman," Arvidson says. "He was

neatly dressed, but not sharply dressed, except for the

alligator shoes he wore all the time. He was the shy, with

drawn type of individual." Andreas Jorgensen, an instruc

tor, says. "One time I talked with him for an hour and

tried to break him down. Every time the conversation got

personal, he became quiet. He was a real clam? Kathy

Norton, a young, pretty instructor who wears miniskirts,

says: "He told me he had a restaurant or bar along the

coast of Mexico somewhere: But he was very vague about

i Another instructor, Sharon. who remembers Ray-

Galt's gold ring studded with dark stones, his white shit

and carefully knotted tie, says: "He was embarrassed

about dancing He'd tug at his ear and smile that little

crooked smile.? the 03213

Now Ray-Galt turned to the most dificult of his prob

lems: creating some kind of "employment" for Galt In

Montreal, in the Laurentians, he had told the cultivated

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Canadian girl he had been working for his brother. In

Birmingham he was an ex-shipyard worker on vacation:

On his Alabama driver's license application he was "Mer-

chant Marine." All fictitious, and for good reason. Find-

ing employment in America for a fictitious character is not

easy. Employers ask for references, employment records;

social security card, other identification. They withhold

income taxes. They send records to Washington.

Ray-Galt made a stab. He ran an ad in the Los Angeles

Times offering himself as a "culinary." He had a social-

security number-the one he had given to Mrs. Klingeman

at the Indian Trail in Winnetka. It was a "safe" number;

he had used it before. (At Social Security headquarters, the

number is the only thing that matters. As an official says:

"People change their names all the time. We couldn't keep

track of that.") Ray-Galt received three job offers. But

each employer asked for references and a social-security

card. Ray-Galt could not supply these. He was turned

away..

In another country-Latin America, Rhodesia-he

would not need these annoying papers and numbers. But

he would need a skill. As a well-dressed American abroad,

he could not very well list his only previous experience as

"dishwasher" or "culinary." Where would a dishwasher

get money to go abroad? It would arouse immediate sus

picion, perhaps bring an investigation. But where could

Ray-Galt acquire a skill in a short time? Something that

would not be demeaning or arouse undue notice? The

answer. he would become a bartender. He could learn

that trade in less than two

months. Bartenders make

enough money to travel abroad. They are a kind of restless,

international breed, shifting from one country to another.

It was a perfect long-term cover, not apt to ever arouse

suspicion.

One of the bartenders. in the Sultan Room; Gil Martin,

says he gave Ray-Galt the idea. But Ray-Galt may have

had the idea earlier and merely asked certain questions,

giving Martin the impression it had been his idea. Ray's

brother John Larry had taken a bartender course, and had

worked as a bartender in New York, and later at his sister

Carol Jean's place in St. Louis, the Grapevine. So, as Ray

häd earlier chosen his brother's name for an alias, his age,

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his love of vodka and orange juice, he now chose his trade.

On January 19, Ray-Galt appeared at the International

School of Bartending on Sunset Boulevard, not far from

the St. Francis Hotel by Los Angeles standards. The school

was not impressive from the outside. Except for the sign

on the front, it might have been taken for a store in an

ordinary neighborhood. It was not even a permanent lo-

cation: by the following summer it would have moved to

Alvarado Street. tr

Inside, the school looked very much like a cocktail

lounge. There was a long "training" bar, sleekly modern, a

few small tables, soft lights, heavy carpet. Behind the bar

were dozens of whiskey bottles-filled with water- and a

vast variety of highball, liquor and cocktail glasses. Pre-

siding over the "school" was the "director,.

" a genial Latin

named Tomas Reyes Lau, Lau was a dapper, very precise

man; with swarthy skin, dark eyes, sharply trimmed mous-

tache, given to alligator shoes and corduroy trousers and

sports jackets.

Lau invited Ray-Galt into the small "oflice." He showed

him the elaborate "course book" (nuthorized by law) and

explained that by "graduation" time, six weeks hence;

Ray-Galt would know how to mix 110 different drinks.

He would also be taught poise, style, personality improve-

ment, confidence, coordination, balance, hygiene and psy

chology-presumably how to be a sympathetic listener;

or how to evict a noisy drunk without traumatizing him or

other bar patrons. "Students" at the school would work

behind the bar three to six hours a day, be "graded" in

a dozen categories At "graduation" Ray-Galt would re-

ceive a diploma and have his picture taken in a tuxedo

jacket and formal shirt and black tie. There were many

pictures of former graduates tacked on the wall. The fee

was $220:

Ray-Galt gave Lau the impression that he was "desper-

ate" to get a job and go to work as soon as possible. He

gave Lau the $220 fee in cash. He filled out an application

blank, giving his address as the St. Francis Hotel He gave

of birth of his brother John Larry, born June 19, 1931,

As references; he listed Maria Deninno at the St. Francis,

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(another name for Stein?), at the Steins' residence, 5666

Franklin Avenue, He listed a "Mr. Weller" of 741 S.

Figueroa Street as a former employer who had paid him

$50 a week. Although he had passed himself off as "des.

perate" for a job, it is certain that Ray-Galt never intended

to apply for a job as a bartender in America upon gradua-

tion. He knew the problem of the social-security card, the

references, the employment record. More important: in

many cities, including Los Angcles, bartenders are re-

quired to register with police when they take a job dis-

pensing liquor. Often, applicants/ are fingerprinted and

investigated by police departments. That was a risk Ray-

Galt could not afford.

Ray-Galt applied himself conscientiously, eagerly. "Ho

was a nice fellow with a nice personality," Lau recalls. "Ho

was very intelligent. He hnd the ability to develop this typo

of service." Lau found him almost idcal: "Quict and re-

served," as a good bartender should bo. Ray-Galt had a

"slight southern accent." saddes

i. It was a very. important, almost crucial undertaking for.

Ray-Galt. Fle was committed now, totally committed: If ho

failed the course; ho had no further options. Time wns

running out. So intent was Ray-Calt on making it that ho

visited a "specialist" on sclf-improvement, the Reverend

Xavier von Koss, head of the International Socicty of Hyp

nosis, accordig to Huie, "an internationally, recognized

authority on hypnosis and self-hypnosis in the field of self-

improvcment." Ray-Galt said he had been rending up on

mind concentrition and self-Improvement. Von Koss sug.

gested hypnosis, but Ray-Onlt declined, perhaps fearful

that he might reveal something he shouldn't. The Roverend

von Koss gavo Ray-Galt thirce self-improvement books to

tako along: How to Cash in on Your Hidden Memory Pow

er; Sell-Hypnotism: The Technique and Its Use in. Daily

Living; and Psycho-Cybernetics. A

So intent was Ray-Onlt on making good that ho termi-

nated his dancing lessons or February 12, forfciting tho

large fee he had paid for the course. Says Rod Arvidson;

"Ile snid he planned to open n bar in the Los Angeles

area. That wns the reason he gave us for lenving before the

course was complicd. Ho wanted to, concentrate on his

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bartending course." His explanation, of course, was not

quite the whole truth." 2a2//e

in!.

* Journalist Louis Lomax believes that at about this time:

Ray-Galt made another whirlwind trip to New Orleans and

vicinity. Lomax says that on Valentine's Day, February 14,

Ray-Galt swapped his console TV with a girl in return for

her portable i, and during this transaction Ray-Galt told

her he was "leaving town." Lomax (who claims to have

found the girl) believes that Ray-Galt then drove to New

Orlans and delivered a package to a family there from

their daughter in Los Angeles. Afterward, Ray-Galt drove

to Birmingham. In that city, Ray-Galt bought gas and

reccived Grccn Stamps, proof of the trip. c

Beyond Lomax's speculation, there is no further evi-

dence that Ray-Galt made a trip to New Orleans in mid-

February. Ray himself mnkes no mention of it in his ne;

count to' Hulo. The Green Stamps do not provo ho was

in Birmingham in February; Green Stamps aro not dated.

Rny-Onlt could have acquired them the previous Scptem

ber when he lived in Birmingham. If he mado tho trip, họ

would have missed classes at the bartending school, pers

hips too many to "gradunte." Besides that, he was busy

on nother of his purposcful projects. st

On Februhry 19, in Los Ángeles, Ray-Galt visited a

plastic surgeon, Dr Russel C. Hadley: Ray-Galt was. con

corned about two prominent physical features that might

conccivably draw attention to him especially in a photo

graph. One was the little tip on the end of his nose. The

other was tho drooping left car lobe. In Hadley's office,

Rny-Onit filled out a form; listing his birth date agnin close

to that of John Larry-July 20, 1931-and his closest.

relitive ns "Cirl L: Galt," 2608 Highland in Birmingham,

the nddress of the Economy Grill and Rooms. Dr. Hadley

removed the "tip" two wecks inter on March 5. as

Mennwhilo, Ray-Onlt hnd successfully completed the

course in bartending. He "graduated" on March 2, a bricf,

chcery interludo in Lnu's smill olico. Ray-Gall reccived

his "diploma.". Then lie stood holding his diploma in the

name of Eric S. Galt before a camera for his graduation.

picture. with Lau, Tho color photograph that resulted is

remarkablo in at least one respect: It benrs littlo or no

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likeness ends there. One reason may be that Ray-Gait had

his eyes firmly closed n0 doubt deliberately-when the

shutter clicked. Without eyes, a face like Ray's could

resemble millions of others.

Lau informed Ray Galt that he had lined up a bartend-

ing job. But the Ray-Galt who had given the impression he

was "desperate" for work six weeks earlier declined. "I

have to leave to see my brother," Ray-Galt said. "What

good would it do for me to work for only two of three

weeks? Id better wait until I return to town and get a

permanent job.".. When Ray-Galt telephoned Lau a week

later on some routine matter, Lau again offered him a job.

Again, Ray-Galt declined Amonded

Was Ray-Galt, in fact, off to see a "brother"? No one

knows. But interestingly it was the second time Ray-Galt

had used seeing a brother as an excuse to terminate a

relationship and shift the scene of his operation

About this time, an incident occurred in Alabama that

would later assume a curious aspect, another minor- or

perhaps important mystery in the unfolding drama. On

about the last day in February, according to Captain T. L.

Payne of the Alabama Highway Patrol, someone identify-

ing himself as Eric S. Galt telephoned the license division

requesting a duplicate driver's license. The duplicate was

mailed to Galt, together with a bill for 254, on March 1, to

the Economy Grill and Rooms in Birmingham. There, ac-

cording to manager Peter Cherpes, the duplicate license

was picked off the front hall table, by a person unseen and

therefore unknown, on or about March 2 or 3. The license

division received the 25¢ payment on March 6.4c

The incident cannot be dismissed lightly. It is the only

proof that Ray-Galt may have had an accomplice in his

enterprise. Conceivably, Ray-Galt could have telephoned

long distance requesting the duplicate. But he could not

have picked it up at the Economy Grill and Rooms on

March 2 or.3. On March 2, he was in Los Angeles, "gradu-

ating." On March 5, he had his nose operated on. He

visited Dr. Hadley for postoperative treatment on March

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was called upon to denl with another protest movement,

the garbage strike in Memphis. 'The doublo there had begun

two months before, in February. The city's 1,300 garbage

collectors, 90% Negro, had petitioned the Mayor, Henry

Locb, for a modest wage and compensation increase. Loch

stubbornly refused. The garbage collectors struck. Tempers

flared; no mediation seemed possible. The collectors sent

an appeal to King: come and help dramatize the impasse.

King responded to the call reluctantly,

On March 17, the day Ray left Los Angeles, King was

the principal speaker at the important California Demo-

cratic convention in Los Angeles. 'The next day he flew to

Memphis. Then he went to Atlanta. On March 20, he was

in Mississippi. Then Alabama. Then Atlanta. On March

28, he was back in Memphis; to lead the protest march.

The march erupted in violence. In the melee men were

killed. His nonviolent philosophy, his leadership of the

black community were on trial.

He remained in Memphis March 29, returning to Atlanta

on March 30. On April 1, he was in Washington, where ho

gave a moving address to 3,000 people; mostly white, in

the. Washington Cathedral. He had made public his inten-

tion to lead a second march in Memphis on April 6:

On March 29, while King was in Memphis, James Earl

Ray appeared in the Aero Marine Supply. Company, a

sporting-goods store near the main entrance of the Bir-

mingham airport. There, using the name Harvey Low-

meyer, with a Birmingham address, Ray purchased a 243-

calber Winchester: rifle with a Redfield telescopic sight

from salesman U. L. Baker. A customer, John De Shazo;

observed the purchase. Why he shifted to yet another alias

has not been revealed. The Birmingham address was false.

It was part of the plan, perhaps.

That afternoon, Ray-Lowmeyer telephoned the Aero

Marine Supply Company. He spoke to another salesman,

Donald F. Wood. Ray-Lowmeyer said he had talked with

"his brother" and wanted to exchange the rifle for another.

Ray-Lowmeyer left the impression he was "going deer

hunting in Wisconsin with a brother or brother-in-law." It

wäs the third time Ray had mentioned a "brother" in pub-

lic. Ray-Lowmeyer wanted to exchange the rifle for a larger

caliber, a 30.06. Wood said,

"Fine, bring the other rifle in

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THE STRANGE CASE OF JAMES BARL RAY 111

ut nino o'clock in the morning." Ruy-Lowmeyer did, and

picked up a Remington at three that afternoon. Tho Rem-

Ington was a Model 760 Gamemaster Pump Action 30.06;

serial number 461476. Wood shilled the Redfield sight

(serial number 17350) to the new rifle. With the sight

attached, the rifle would not fit in its regular box. So Wood

put it in a Browning automatic shotgun box, and Scotcli-

tuped it closed. The final bill was $150, which Ray-Low-

meyer paid in cash.

Why had Ray exchanged rifles? He had apparently al-

ready bought at least six heavy dumdum-type bullets else-

where. These bullets could not be fired in the Winchester

without mechanically filing the rim of the firing pin so it

would make contact with the cartridge cap. It was easier to

exchange rides.

Ray then retumed directly to Atlanta. On the day after

he got the Remington, March 31, he paid Garner another

week's rent. At that time, Ray wrote his namc Eric S.

Galt—on an envelope. Either at this time, or five days later,

Ray-Galt left Garner a note saying he had to return to

Birmingham, and would be back later for the television

and other personal effects. He may have left his note in

the envelope bearing his name. On the envelope, he left a

fingerprint.

The next day, April 1, Ray took some laundry to the

Piedmont Laundry around the corner from Jimmy Garner's

rooming house. He left it in the name of Eric S. Galt with

a clerk, Mrs. Annie Peters. Then he turned the Mustang

westward, toward Memphis. On the night of April 2, he

spent the night in a motel in Mississippi, registered in the

name: of Eric S. Galt. The next day, April 3, Ray-Galt

stopped at the Rexall Drug Store in Whitehaven, Tennes-

see, and bought some toilet articles, including a bottle of

after-shave lotion.

That same morning, Dr. King arrived at the Eastern Air

Line sheep run at the Atlanta airport to catch a plane for

Memphis. There, Eastern officials informed him the flight

lad been delayed: rumor had it that someone had planted

a bomb on the plane. King and his associates sat in the

desegregated waiting room while the plane was searched.

King was not alarmed, merely wildly annoyed by the delay,

He had come to accept threats to his life as routine. "For

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the heat full blast. On the same day the fingerprints wer

matched; the FBI released Ray's name; record and oi

data, including a precise physical description, and a galley

of photographs those taken at the time of his previou

arrests. On the following day, beneath banner headling

Ray's photograph was published on the front page of mos

of the major newspapers. Reporters set to work digeng

into his past, stitching together the threads of the Ray

family and its history, manfully grappling with the b

wildering variety of names-Ray, Ryan, Raya, Raymes,

Raines— the many children..a

So did the FBI. The focus.of the manhunt now shifted

to the Midwest. Suspicion fell on Gerry and John Larry as

possible accomplices. The St. Louis FBI office became the

command post in this new search: the lights burned all

night in the Federal Building. Agents scurried in and out

at all hours with scraps of information, compiling an ex-

haustive biography of Ray, his family, his cohorts, his past

accomplices. It was hoped that from this mass of informa

tion a clear picture of Ray the man and his habits would

emerge, and thus lead them to his probable hiding place.

-While this hunt was in progress, the Bureau also alerted

Mexican authorities and the Royal Canadian Mounted

Police. Ray had visited both those countries since his

escape from Jeff: City and prior to the assassination. He

might have returned to either. disea

The FBI found Gerry Ray working as a maintenance

man at a country club in suburban Chicago. Not long after-

ward, enterprising Chicago reporters also found Gerry Rar

Gerry probably told both FBI agents, who fully cleare

him, and reporters the same story. He said that the lat

contact he had had with James Earl Ray was a letter—

addressed to Gerry's Wheeling, Illinois, post-office box-

a week before James escaped from Jeff City: James had

made no effort to contact any members of the family since

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"He won't contact anybody in the family," Gerry said

"I'm sure of that. The FBI will be watching all of as."

Gerry was one of those who believed that James was

probably part of a "giant" conspiracy. He thought his

brother had been "used" in some way, probably as the

"fall guy" and not the killer. "If he did it, which I doubt,"

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tains, a double bed with pink and white Spread, an old.

televisioni set, three straight-backed chairs, a three-drawer

chest with mirror, and on the wall, two faded portraits of

Jesus Christ and a flowery homily: Home Sweet Home

Ray, who told Mrs. Szpakowski that he was a salesman

for the real-estate firm of Mann and Martel, paid her a

week's rent $10 with a single Canadian bill. M

Mrs. Szpakowski says that Ray was the "ideal" roomer

He was quiet, kept to himself, made no unusual demands.

He paid his rent in advance and on tune. He left the house

every morning at 8:30, sometimes came home briefly at

midday, and returned in the evening at 6:30, just afte

supper. What he did during the day is a mystery. He may

have gone down 'o the bar at Ossington and Queen. to

drink: beer or shoot pool. He may have eaten at the nearby

Columbia or Gor. Vale restaurants. A barber in the shop

near. College street thinks he gave Ray a haircut. A clerk

in Ball's Drug Store thinks Ray bought gum, aspirin ang

after-sbave.lotion..53733

a Mrs. Szpakowski, an amateur student of human natur

noticed something not quite right about Ray. He was s

worried-looking all the time," she recalls. "Such a deer

thinker. I thought maybe he was worried about his family

He: looked sad.: I thought once he might have been from

the mental hospital down the street." At night, he browni

food to his room and watched television.

NU Sometime during the week, the telephone at 102 ossne

iton Avenue rang. The caller asked for Mr. Paul Bridgen

Mrs. Szpakowski's eight-year-old daughter Lidia answered?

She assumed the call it was apparently a local calle

for the new man in the second floor; front. Who called

or why has never been revealed. Another mystere

On Thursday, April 11, the day the FBimpouno

the white Mustang in: Atlanta, Ray appeared about nog

at the Arcade Photo Studio on Yonge Street. Ray, und

the name of Bridgman, said he wanted a passport pho

graph. Mirs. Mabel Aew ushered Ray-Bridgman Fe

the rear of the studio, which is adorned with two pray

mirrors and a travel poster for Holland. Ray ene

sat on a piano stool in front of a plain white backag

paper, stared into the lens. The camera clicked, the gi

THE STRANGE CASE O

for a passport photo was $2 for

told Ray-Bridgman about a sp

extra prints for 50g. But Ray-B

Ray left, returning in

about a

photos. They showed a dignifie

trimmed hair, slightly graying o

and a left ear that protruded f

The next day, April 12, Go

office issued and then retracted

Galt. But the blooper was give

newspapers, on television and

America was more keenly, attu

any news about the name thar

the next day, Holy Saturday, Ra

the bulletin. He knew then: th:

registration-had been found as

The FBI was hot on the trail of

of the bulletin- that was curious

more than had been revealed?

was time now, perhaps; to shift

so move on, to make further pla

a plan already made.

On Tuesday, April 16, Raya

sieps of the plan. "First he tele

rations at another rooming hous

Then he went to the Kennedy T

spectable establishment on the f

manager, Mrs. Lillian Spencer,

ort of appeared from: nowher

abulous person. Blended right:]

Ray said he wanted to go to I

?1-day economy excursion fligh

faring May 27. Mrs. Spencer.,

"xer: $3+5. He would need a

Ray did not have a passport N

lized, she could easily arrange thar

isis? No, he did not Well then,

who could vouch for having know

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it Aid only been back three: we

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birth, mother's maiden name, retum

ibe found in the birth notices in the

into newspapers in the main library.

ces for Bridgman (mother's maiden

len) and Ramon George Sneyd

me: Gladys Mae Kilner), born a

onto Star and the Evening Telegram

for. Bridgman's birth certificate, Ray.

venue rooming höuse as his retuni

after he made reservations at Mrs.

he applied for a birth certificate in

ring the new address...

18, the Toronto newspapers carried

Eric Starvo Galt and "a brother"

ite Dr. King's civil rights. They also

of the photograph obtained from

I in Los Angeles, one with Ray's

tnother. with the eyes retouched

(The eyes were a wrong guess—

a different man.) Mrs. Szpakowski

id remarked to her husband that

er on the second floor, front. Her

was crazy. But Mrs. Szpakowski

was more worried and withdrawn

vas apparently urfolding according

id been found as it was bound to

Into the assassination: Ray had

e car, so that would lead to Bir-

They had tracked him to Los

vas part of the plan, too. Now, if

about going to Latin America-

iS, and so on were acted upon,

entrated below the border.

Ray had not counted upon was

rother." Where had they heard

sual remark about going hunting

store in Birmingham? Was that

ictment? Had this been the fatal

1 no trace of a brother to. Galt.

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Atabout 11:30 that morning there was a telephone can

for Parl Bideman. Ray came down and answered. The

Conversation was brief; Ray said almost nothing He bung

p. Who it was telephoned is another mystery. Then he

Bent out and bought a newspaper, That night Ray packed

up. The next days. Aprl 19 he left without notice: simply

walked out, leaving the key on the downstairs hall table.

When Mis Spakowski went up to clean the room, she

found a copy of the Toronto Star opened to a photograph

ot her boarder. In spite of her intuition; her suspicion, she

passedit off. After all, her husband had said she was crazy.

I she notified, the police, they might come to the same

conclusion She'd look ridiculous. Besides, he was such a

gentleman, he couldn't be a killer trees

The ney, boardinghouse was only aboat seven blocks

away from the first. It is a red-brick. structure, semi-

detached, with arched stained-glass windows and faded

drapes m a polyglot neighborhood full of foreign signs

accents and smells. The rooming house was managed by

Mr Sun Fung Loo, a Chinese immigrant with several chil

iren: Ray, who amved with no luggage only a newspape

look a room on the second floor, facing on the narrow

rear yard. The room was small. The cream-colored walls

were smudged. There was a sagging mattress on a box

spring against one wall, a dark wooden chest, a battered,

wobbly dresser with mirror against another wall, two chairs,

a dirty green stuffed chair, a radio and shabby white cur-

tains: But the room was a dollar a week cheaper: $9. Ray

paid his first week's rent with a Canadian $20 bill, infor

ing Mrs. Loo that he was a nightime hospital worker. The

new place was a comedown; to be sure, but Mrs. Loo spoke

no English at all and, busy with her children and boarders,

was perhaps not so sharp a student of human nature.gc

Now came a real shock. The next day, Saturday, April

20, the newspapers: and broadcast media bummed with

the news that Eric Starvo Gait was in reality an escaped

convict named James Earl Ray. The publicity was incred

ible. And there it was: his name, his prison record and his

photographs, spread on the front papers. The heat was on

now, the greatest heat in the history of crime. Not simply

police heat. With a reward of $155,000 on his head, every-

body would be looking for Ray. He could trust no one..?

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The night clerk Luis remembers Ray as "quiet, lonely a

shy. He never talked to us nothing more than ed

morning and good night," Luis says. "He never mad: ze

phone calls or talked to any of the other guests." Thr dr

clerk, João, says: "He was a timid guy, always wait

around with his face "down." A chambermaid. Maru

Celeste, says that Ray was a quiet customer and did an

make any trouble: "He never said anything to me. Nee:

even rang for room service. He was meticulously neat, be

he never took a bath."s atta

There is evidence, however, that Ray spent a lot of time

in a rough seaman's bar in the neighborhood, killing time

and consorting with prostitutes in the Galo, Boh mia. Ritz

One recalls: He sat in the corner, alone. drinking beti.

But he didn't want to talk." In all these places. Ray ate

and drank sparingly and tipped niggardly. One dark-haired

girl, a pretty fixture in the Texas Bar, admits to having

gone to bed with Ray. "He didn't have much money on

him," she says. "He didn't talk about himself He wouldn't

even tell me what ship he came from.". During the irysi.

Ray asked if she had childr-n. She showed him pi tures of

them-all fatherless at which point. she recalls, Ray was

sad, and almost wept. Frugal in all things, Ray even

wheedled her down in price. He paid only 300 escudos-

about $10 instead of her usual price of $17 50 for a hali

hour's dalliance. 'But he was a nice guy," she says.

Ray did not "lose" his passport in Lisbon.

He had

something better going for him. His passport contained a

typographical error. The surname "Sneyd" was spelled

"Sneya." On May 15, Ray went to the emigration section

of the Canadian Embassy and was waited on by Mrs.

Manuela Texieira Lopes. A Canadian consular official

says: "He came into the consulate and said that his name

had been misspelled on the passport-that it should have

been Sneyd. He produced a birth certificate in the name

of. Ramon George Sneyd and asked us to change Sneya to

Sneyd." The obliging Canadian officials promptly cancelled

the old passport, issued Ray a brand-new passport..:

On May 17, Ray checked out of the Hotel Portugal.

leaving no tips. At the airport a Mr Fama of the Lishon

police checked both passports and cleared Ray to exit the

country. Ray flew back to London, From May 17 to

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See Ray lived in E

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on May 28, Ray appear

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wetyngir with dark hair,

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enumal& she says. "He wa

eally shy. He seeined secre

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might think I was too fc

There was, Jane Nassau

checked in. She doesn't te

anything about him. She 1

be? Fis identity has never l

But be- Sneyd-was

Navau says. "He kept reg

You had to work to talki

confidence. But I found n

the clerk assigned Rav

with brown wallpaper, a

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, has never been disclosed. Ra

ir in the day while telephonia

money to buy his plane ticke

some left from the money te

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saw James Earl Ray casing

ip. But the RCMP think thi

MP. carefully checked out ali

to during Ray's stay and cas

him to any. Memphis invest-

hile in Toronto, Ray traveled

robberies in that city. They

obberies,: or. the amounts in-

5, was the source of his mones,

elp from other people.

ly informed Mrs. Loo that he

shildren made disturbed him.

rid a curious legacy: an empty

ht meter, a small metal bor

Esso map of Toronto; a dirty

ner, three empty beer bottles;

garette package;, three girlie

ught at discount; and six rolls

Ifter leaving Mrs. Loo's, Ray

o airport. At 6:00 p.m., be

light 600 for London.

1350

ent Abroad

t mnen, customs oficials, spe-

, underworld tipsters, ticket

w.on the lookout for James

II had deployed or otherwise

D agents on the case. Never

TESTRANGE CASE OF JAMES FARL, RAY

1193

sary had so ught a net been drawn, In. Canada, for

nee traffic police who stopped motorists for speeding

ner minor infractions had orders to check for Ray:

aucer after week drageed by with no sign of him. There.

to tips by the hundreds hopes raised, taverns and

oming houses staked out but none paid off. Every lead;

Say trailled to a dead end. o

bon, was leafing through his files; when by pure acci.

ant became across the letter Ray (as Galt) had written

run Los Angeles on December 28. The name Galt rang a

bel. Acord teread the crudely typed letter with its all-cap

opeface and misspellimgs.: There it was? Eric S. Galt,

asking how he might emigrate to segregationist Rhodesia,

and carbon of the Council's form-letter reply stating the

Coucil did not handle such matters. Acord pulled the

ter from the file and sent it over to Kenneth Towse

Rhodesian: representative in Washington Tows

looked it over and promptly took it to the FBL CLEA

By now the FBI handwriting experts had amassed con-

siderable documents bearing the signature Eric S. Galt.

These included, among others, the application for the bar-

tending school, the registration card in the Rebel Motel,

the Alabama motor-vehicle: transfer application; from

Paisley to Galt, the driver's license application, the card

for the safety-deposit box. in Birmingham, the envelope

provided by Jimmy Garner. All these signatures were the

same had been signed by the same man. The handwriting

exactly matched that of James Earl Ray. 200a

the FBI handwriting experts looked over the letter from

Eric S. Galt to the Southern Africa Council. It matched

previous Eric S: Galt signatures and was unquestionably

that of Ray. The retur address 1535 North Serrano

Avenue, Los Angeles, was one of the places Ray had lived

Hollywood not far from the St Francis Hotel,

More importantly: here was an indication that Ray

might have some other refuge in mind than Latin America

There was logic to it I Ray reached Rhodesia or some

other strife-torn segregationist nation; it would be extreme-

lydificult perhaps impossible to extradite him. It might

be too late. Ray might already be safely there:

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ain and fog. A little while

'CA Hostel on Warwick

Jere was a man with him:

be American. Who was

evealed. The YWCA has

y were all filled. Ray was

onist referred Ray to an-

down the same street, tic

be: Pax alone-during a

iger of this seedy estab

lave a name on the front,

ok- Mrs. Anna Thomas,

tered Ray in a small first-

Ipaper. (He later moved

wer wallpaper.) He paid

Ars. Thomas a five-pound

jas took an instant dislike

said,

"As though he had

He kept the door of his

was here. He complained

aspirin. He never left his

it a time. I thought maybe

n. When I brought up his

eito leave it outside the

red. Then, a minute later,

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mission to clean his room

made his own bed. This

e might have a girl in the

him out so she could have

L Says: the maid: "Yanks

had a lady in there. But

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only one obsession: flight.

leave London. He spent

pe plane reservations and

with someone who would

in Africa. His actions do

being helped along by a

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$203

Before leaving the New Earl's Court Hotel, Ray had

are to a street callbox, and, out of the blue, telephoned

in Colvin an editonal writer and African authority or

Daly Telegraph newspaper. As Mr. Colvin recalls the

orate conversation, Kay, identitying himself as Ramon

Snyd and speaking in a high sing song voice, perhaps to

sguise his southern accent, said: Tm a Canadian in

London for a while. I'm trying to reach my brother who

swith these people in Angola." Ray implied that his

brother had, enlisted with the mercenaries based in Portu-

guese Angola who were operating against the Congo. Did

Colvin know how he, Ray, might get in touch with Major

Alistair Wicks, a Britisher who was known to have been a

mercenary recruiter? (On May 19, two days after Ray's

amrival in London, Major Wicks had been prominently

leatured in London newspapers some of the articles by

Colvin, where his role in the Congo operation and more:

recently, Biafra was described at some length.) AS764vg

It was the fourth time Ray had referred to "a brother"

public!

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Colvin did not know what to make of this stranger and

his urgent request. He was busy meeting a deadline. But

Ray pressed, asking for Wicks' telephone number. Partly

to get nid of Ray, Colvin said he would try to reach Wicks

and pass along Ray's message. But Colvin refused to give

Ray Wicks number.

L242 40029

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Hotel, called Colvin a second time. Ray, according to

Colvin, was speaking "a torrent of words" and there

seemed to be greater desperation in his high-pitched voice

Colvin asked if Ray had heard from Wicks. No, Ray said

sheepishly. Perhaps because he, Ray, had changed hotels

"Nobody seems able to help," Ray kept saying.n1

What about the Canadian Embassy?" Colvin said.

Well, they are just no help to me at all," Ray said.

If your brother is missing, someone will help you,? re

plied Colvin. "Why don't you try the consular section of

the British Foreign Ofice?"

Well it's not so much my brother's missing," Ray said,

Shitting ground.

"I just haven't heard from him in four

months, Fact is, I'd like to join him and be a mercenary

myself.":

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PERZOD WITHIN RECH THENO BEENSE MAX AR PENDS TORNA DOZE LOT LABEAS

COURT

(NONE)

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ЗаяЕ

A HORNE

SE VANESTGLAZUORY

LORDOSE DULT BE CREUTERS) LAWYERS GOR JAMES EARL RAY TODAY

BEAR PLANTINO AT APPEAL CARRRIOR TO PREVSET HIM MOG STAND TIG

TAL THE WAITER STATES FOR TIS AILING DE REU. MARTIN LUTHER

LA-MAGISTRATE AT BOM STREET COURT HERE YESTERDAY ORDERED

SALS EXTRADITION,

BUT OSE OF RIS LESAL ABVISERS SAID AFTER THES

FEARINS: THEX WOULD ASK THE CRITISH HIGH COURTFOR A URIT OF HABEAS

SUCH TA APPLICATION, CHALLEESIECNES COMMITAL CO PRISONATOH

MATE EXTRADITION, MUSE 35, BADE ITHEN 15 DAYS AND COULD MEANITE

WHOLE CASE WOULD BE THRASKED OUT AZAIS LEE HIGH COURT.

IF THE HUSH COURT CASE FAILED)IRAY COUED THEN APPLY EOR, PERMIS

STOR TO APPEAL TO THE ROUSE OF DORDS UPPER CHAMBER OF PARLTANEUT

BEGINAL COURT DE APPEALA

I RED AUBE

SEEZGIEPE S112

O4S53 15T ADD LORDOS RAYS

SAMX APPEAL.

THE FINAL ORDER

FOR HIS SURELIDER RESTS SICH BRATISH HOME

SPRETARYECINTERIOR

CAMPAISY SAILS.

MAGISTER LAMES CALLASHORO TARAY S LEGAL?

CALLAGHAL MUST CHEASTCH ASSARBAOL ORDERING MOM TO BEGURNED

TO AMERICAO AUTMORITIES

IS E0UT2D 346THS0T SLAUTHORIONES OMMA CHARGESOO SURDER INC

SERO CIVIL SIGHTS LEADERA LEANED PHIS, DENED UNILE

0455771 ST ADLELO DOS RAVE

SEX APPEALE

THE FINAL ORDER FOR HIS SURRE DER RESTS SITA, BRET ISHUHONE

SECRETARY CISTERIOR MIRISTER- JADES CALL AS HANG

CAMPAIGN FAILSON

CALLAGHAT MUST THEM SISE A KARTAST

BALDER ING GUE TO BE TURNED.

QUERO TO APERICAN AUTHORIZIASS

TRAY IS NANTED BY THE U.S.

AUTHORSTES OR CHARGES OF MURDENING

HE LEGRO CIVEL RIGHTS LEADER APRIL A DALEMPHIS, TENO WHILE

LOIC A CHEER MAGISTRATE PRAUR MELTON DECIDED YESTERDAY IT HERE

REATSO GRODES SCOR RATES EXTRADICIDE TO AMERICANAS A REUBTTIVE

PITALS

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22CZ0 2PERSN2

YY NOR:

022S 25 ADD LOMON RAY:

aomicatniai

THE-FIRSTIVAS HIS SOIVICITOE FOR POBBERY ANDIESCARESRORE

MESSOURT PENITENTIART AFTER GERVEEGSE IOHTIAZARS OF HIS -SELTENCEY

THEL DE CO HL

HAS THE CRARSES THAT HS URDERED

KING.

IXE AG ISTRATE REDECTSO DEFENSE CLALYS IHAT RING E PURDER LAS

POL ILECALS

ARDINGTACOVERED CY EXTSADICION LANSRAND THAT T

HESHISSOURT ROBBERIUAS SOT&COVERPO-3Y TREJEXISTLUCHEXTBADITTO

RET Y 3EIVSEN BRITAI3 AIDFAMERICAN

HE ORDERED RAY KERT TE CUSTORY OE 1S OINELEND SAZDI PE WOULD

EVE TIE RIGUT TO MPPLY

IN THATIT TBS EOR ALURIT

OFTHABEAS CORFUS

ORSTOTRES LIKE

PROCESSE SA

RAEDELIESLATLI PALVISES TEARI SAR AD HALKILLBOKISG

AAT TESTERDA ZATE LADETA STAIEHEGI OBUECTINGITO TESTIMORYSRY

IE CTIVE CHIET SUPERIUTENDE EL ZHOXAS. BUTNER.OF

COTLAID TARD, DESCRISINS-AP IHERVIEM NITE HIMAFTERSNTS

TRRESTIAT LO DOI AIRPORTE AUID.3.

FLRAY VAS INTETALL Y CHARSED WITH POSSESSINC, TUGUFORGED

CAHADIAA PASSPOETS BEARING THE BANE RAFOR GFORGE SWEYD,WAND

ILLEGALLY CARRYTEGTANGURA

HSL AS CHAMSSP O

THO SDO COUNTS

CEDMRAT EO NAPZRORASSE YO"

PES AFOTHER HEARTEG IS EXPEGTED JETE DEER S THOSE EHARGES

LCREUTERSIFSHENH

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220 0PE 053

15103

DAIS BULLETICA

FISKILEAD RAY:

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LOSSOM DELY 5 REUTERS)THE AMERICA, MATTORNEY FOR THE

ROSESTO ASSASSIS OF DRO ARTIS LUTHEN LI O SAID TODA RES

STEAL COUT CAO PROT GUILTYS TO THE GHARGE OF HURDERLIO

THE CTUAL RISHES LEADER

202 CAPE: 050

TRASET MIST ADY LOTDOU TORTLEAD SISTE

LEADERI

SAT BEGAN

MANES CORNER FAVOR OF VORVOE ALACO REDS

SERUP OUTREINESINT LEET SONG ERLADS SNOW LUTES CONOURCE

DISE WAY FORSAFIRST DISE LOOSE AN UR SECURITY

CHES TASTER VISIOSAY PORED CUTES.

CORDENEUR

REE SPE 052

ELVIROEITER A PLEN OR DOT COILING DUEDER,* MANES

PERSE TO MENHIS ATECE,

TIE CORLE ALSO AGREED ZO EXTRADIO DORIA SESSISLARY CHARGE

1963.

SORCO ROBBERY COR UNTER RAT MASSSS TERCED ,10 2O YEARS JAIL

MASCARED FROG DIG ESSEN STATE MEAITENTIARY

SHIRTEAR

APPROVED FOR RELEASE

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AX JAS ARRESTED JUICE SAT LOO LATAPORT IN THE CANS OF

SAROM AZORSS SHEYD DE CHARCES OR TELSCALLY CARRYING & GUN

ASKOF POSSESSINE POREDDA PASSPORISA

SECAY S BRITESR LASTERS DAID THEY NILESAPPCAD LA ZHO BRITISH

JUSTER COUNTRY LAWYER"

SAILOS GIRL LIVINE CRATES

THE TOLD BEYSTEM,EVAS COEFDENT RAY COULD PAY RITTEE

PAIR STIGR3302E

HE DECLINED TO SAY EAT HIS USUAIGHTABE AND BRUSHES

SOE FURTHER QUESTIONS UND ASHSEE PENSISTED OR

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HOW AEL YOU OLD BUDDY

SEERS 61

AND IS IS GRATEFNE

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CORITA SH AUTHOR LINES

COMPENTS MADE BY A SCOTLANDE

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100K

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WU: AND

2817U SURGENIRAY&

LONDON, MUR YE GEOCUTERS LAWYERSAND FONTO TENANESE

EARL RAY HAB DEGIDED NOT CO FIQND EXTRAD CORONER OCE COT NOONTO THE

¿UNSTED STATES WHERS UP FACES TAMONARGE ORARURPERANG REVE

LUTHER KINGS

APPROVER TOM RELEASE.

Date -..19 AUG 1976 .

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TUZCZO EPE 136

LUF A HDE?

1821AI STEADO LONDOHERAELE

RAYAS BRITISH LAWYER MICHAEL CUSENG GAID TONIGIMITHE TIME

LIMITSFOR LODGING AN APPEAL AGAINST RAYED EXTRADITION CHARGE

EXPIRESS TOMORROW$

PIS HAS DECIDED NE TO LODOR CHOSE PAPERO R

HENSATDS

ASKED WHY RAY NAS NOT APPEALING/S CUGENESAID

PREPARED TO SAY AT CHESTSTAGES POSSIBLY TOMORROW

VATE NOT

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CHARGE AND ON THE SUBSIDIARY ARNED ROBBERY

DAYSHIN UNION TO APPEALE

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ELOROT

JULY 2T REUTERS) JAES EARE RATS ALLEGED ASSASSIN OF

PARTIT LUTHER XISG, TODAY COAREERED WITH HIS AMAICAN ATTORMEY

ORE HIS PROBABLE EXIRADITIN TO THE UNITED STATES TORCHROW.

TRAY GEGIDED DECIDED YESTERDAY

POET TO ARPEAL AGAINST-EXTRADITIORS

LACESSIN TAL FOR NIPOTS MURDER USTEEOHISEITE UNO, APRILSA.

ATTORNE TEARIFOR

ME HAS STARRIVED VERELEODAY ANO

HESE 102

ENTORES ASTONTH PRISO WERE RAS VESITED ELS CLIENTERIOST

ITIES TODAY ASER RAY TE SHITATISTHE DAPIRATION

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1138

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08339157 ADD LORDOR LEAD FAYE

AM EXTRADITIONS

CALLAGHAI CAR STES LATE LINE AFTER NIS RIGHT.

PAYS BRITISE, LAWYER MICHAEL EUGENE TOLD REPORTERS LAST TIGAT

CLIENt WOULD

UNGT SAPPEAL THE 0303REE

HE GAVE ANO REASON FOR THE APPARENT CHADOLE LA LEGAL TACZIES.

CADESI IS TEXTRAD LITO UPROCEED IRES RAY COSTEIDED FE DID:

AND CRUDGE ADALEST MIMES

SAID BRITISH OFFICIALS MERE SELIEVED HESZINS FOSAY Topects

THE SAPEST POSSIBLE LEANS OF COVIES DAY CUE OG SRITAIR ONS NATE

SCABSTED DAS TO FLY MIN BACK IN A 0.S.

MENTARY PLANEOT

A GEST EFBASSY OFFICIALY SAID, RAY VILL DISAPPEAR OUT OF

ASTORIA PAISON ANDSARPEAR 13 PERPHIS BEFORE THE PUBLIC EVER

STRAY VASTARRESTEO AZLELATEROU AIRPORT LONDOU JUSE SUNDER.

THE LATE OF NAFON GEORGE SECTO AND CHASED ITH CARRYING A SURGED:

CILADIUM PASSPOST MEDALISON POSSESS TOBIOTA GENOLVER AND ANUBIO

Hot.

BRITISK DETICIALS TOBY DECLINEN COMEDI CHEL HERE TIESE, CHARGES

TOLED BE PRESS20

Neuteas

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3075

DEDOS UNCY IT CHELTERST

ASSASSIN O REVE HARTIS LUZHES

VARES TRARL RAYOUT HSPALUZSED

BAS REPORTED

TED TODAY

TO PERECATEG LET ALONS VITH U.STJUSTLOS DSFARTREST

OPTSLALS O1 HIS EXTRADITION ALTGEM BACH POSTHE

MATTITUDE HAS RETOPTEL DE A PRESS CONPERERCE GILED

HIENET ER

T Ha

ATTOR BOY

SEIO UICEU THIS REFUSAL AS DANESGOS, URONO NIO OUT

ATE EGEI U SOUSUPREN COURT DESISTOES.

8722

TAL RETURO OF TIC NO-RAR- 0LB.1320-200 3H5 U.3

ESTE YESTERDAY VITE EIS SAIVER CRITIE

NEPAL ASATHSTENE

EXTRADITIOR INDES CADERAONIESTE HIDJOLY 20

WAS HADE

MES SAID THE DECISTO TO MOEVE E TRADITION WAS MADE

I PORTO GELINAY BACE TO CIE DAGUAS SCO AS POSSIOLE

STEM VIEU TO COREATT LOG CHATOTHE LADYER CALLEDENI

IPASE DESTEO PRESSE CAMPAIGO ASA TOSTONEM.

ARGE ISAR PRESSES FORTEM YOS HES CLISET

AS DE CONVICTED LUNDERER, O MONSTERO A DEGEFERATE AUDIA

DROS ADIALCT

MAROUTERS USAMAR

FAPAROVTRER

Pente

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TZCZC EPE

330

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15498

NIGHTLEAD, RAYS

DY ARTHUR SPLEGEL MANY

LONDONAS

AT REUTERSTAJAMES EARL RAINIS ANALOUS

NO GET HOME TOL

BESIT CHARGES!

HE

KILLED MARTIN

LUTHER KINGD

HIS LAWYER BAI

TODAY BUT NCHIS AFRAIDNOF BEING

LEFT ALONE

WITH U.S, 'OFFICIALS ON THE EXTRADITION FLIGHT BACKS

ATTORNEY ARTHUR US CHANES OR BIRMINGHAM,

ALAND

SAID ANERICAN OFFICIALS VETOED SEPEATED

REQUESTS TO ACCOMPAN

HIS, CLIENT ON THE EXTRADITIONFLIGHT-TUNION MAY TARE PLACE

TOMORNOW.:

A FORMER MAYOR OF

ARMING HA

CALLED

THEIR

REFUSAL

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MANES REUSED ATONOLAR

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HANGS ALWO COMPLAINED OF THE DIFFICULTIES HE HAD

INTERVIEWING RAY BECAUSE GUARDS WERE ALWAYS PRESENT.

(MORE NO NAA

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E053E

12A7

EASE RESPISE DERIK CARA (A34)

TODAY DRUTIES LOSSE JEES COMORROW,

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NeW YORM Imes - 26 ma y 65

KATH

Legal Tecinicalities

Judge Faquin said that such

CONSECOND TRIAL

Preements a were legal and

plinding in Tennessee. He cited

numerous Tennessee court deci-

Sons in becali of this position

Today's rearing which had

feld the promise of being a

Winge in timonis rules he forus for Rays story that he

vas nothing more than & depe

Ăng Guay

wro pleaded guity because of

Pressure, rever

Not beyond

gal technicalities

WALDRONY

Ar Lia start of the heanas.

ays thie attoreys withdrew

allegations trat Ray's, forser

Percy Foreman oil

Rouston, had broseaten Ray

to pleading guity ve

Judge Faquin offered

rovelopen the i hearing ta

loy Ray to state ris positios,

are attorneys, representing

my ceclined then offers Tres

wowd not explain why the al-

??tons about the pressure had

vathdrawn.

Robert K. Dwyer, the prose.

Cato-stro Just wis morning

Conünued on Page 19, Colums 3

APPROVED

FOR RELEASE

Date

1.9 AUG 1976

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THE NEY YORK TIMES,

RayFcilsin Plea fo; New Trial;

Judge Orders! lim Back to Jail

ontinted from Page 1 Col22 ult heang, under a pos

conviction aco taät allows. Ten

was appointed to the Termaster nassee convices to seek leniencs

Court of Appeals.

was Fre

pared to call Mi. Foresa.

William Bradiord Hue, tre Aà

tarasir Soner indicated

bama author who bought posi

at the 'axyes planned to fol-

cation rights; to Ras

sio.

How at crea courses if neces.

202

Ray had said that,

Dex trial because he had asxec

rightstsales for Mr sue cadrel before: the death of W

MI. Foreman.

Jay Co 10 Eigher cous

Preston Badle, the judge. who!

Escrienced him to 99 years. The

Judge Faquin told Rays Law rege diad three weeks after

the: sentercing and before thei

yers, who included 3 Sorentre of applying for a new trial

of Savannan, Ca, an ostroken ted emiredion NG

racist, that they could ask richer Bur Sudge, Faquin rued that

couts to diece to tale ascause be hed

Ray a new triat

Failing that, res

warai histright do appeal or to

said thes ask for a new trial.

could fie a write Labcas con Ravis expected to be te

pus secking a ten trial by, ar tarred to the penitentiary to

leging fraud of drey coule seek monor: Darning inct

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Dismissed Tennessee Aide

Confirms an Omier to Ray

NASEVILLE, MaY 30 (AP)

Far Avery, dismissed Thurs-

dEgas. Suete Conections Com-

missioner.

confirmed Friday

tar be bad oheres to place in

Just mind any money hidden

22re05rcomGeay came

=3 Interviar with Jin Mitter,

77R5 rado.

newsman, after

The: Nashvilla

•Banner: said the

forcion nes - contained: in

an cooldental

repor to: GoY.

anagion:

in matinue security

Tennessee State Peniten-

serving 99 years arter

Reades sulty to josedegree

minder in the assassination. of

Be Red Dr. Martin Lather Kias

ar E2 Menpbis April 4, 1938.0

MIcs Banner said iat: the re

MESE Paid ME AveR as saying

3e bad carducted larse inter-

priSOn

ied primarily

at solving the

Kuz sayug

-get

iner maicial for

25.

Eric 25-230

asably a book eg

Goverior. Zilngson dismissed

V. Avera Rator a resort by the

Feês

Jo: Polisa,

which was

igoly eritical: of. the entire

gate penai system Dár." Avary

quoted the Gorernor as saying

his dealings with Ray were ine

oasis for

she dismissel

New York Times

I JUNe69

ABPROVED FOR RELEASE

Date Bat 9 ANG 197C

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WASH lOST 3 JAN19

Feasterirad

said

United: States is fast besos.

ing a bazara repsalie" 2=d

"assassinations: are beces.

LEe said the ner corinit-

fee sinately bopes to

icree tae Federal Gorer-

mast into tee zhorough and

acrest incury waion it has

avaided since Nov. 22, 1263."

Mamong the directors us

the continee are Ju GaE-

risce, the Jew Czieans die

Lict attorney wao has been

conducting a inrestigation

Ji Presidazi DezzedT's &

Boot oi Ersierood, Na.

Assass nation Unit

Iousced It. will nave its

Headquarters in Waskington

The execative diractor of

the Committee, is Berrard

-Fersterwald, former counsel

20:7: Serate Iudiciary sub

committee that investigated

wiretapping and eiectronic

surveillance

APPROVED FOR RELEASE

Date 1g autop

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28

te

Ray Dezalsae

PiS,

nean With

cass 02 attorney Percy

Caensa Moê

inal

trial,

Render

Suga

an is unaöle

Ray i

orderati

UA

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to report ages on reste

would be able to viare the

deadline.

BR

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gets trial deadin

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9

69

vers

Nº2

IN LUTHE UNG IC

Q. Doest't ire US. juszice Depariment plan to'arrest.

shorty the men vico franced the assassination of

Marin Lioner King 113-2. YoRye, N.Y. 393/902

A. Two prominent New Crieans businessmen re-

porecly conthouted $25,000 to intermediasias wno

arranged for James tar Ray to murder Martin Luther?

King. These men expected the assassination would

cause a ta be ween blacks and whites in this cour-

try with the avantua! Subjugation of the black popu.

ation

row much me justice Department knows of the

plotand the parsonalises involved is difficuli to tell

at this coint On March 3id, when James Eard Ray

stards inal in Memphis, the plot may begin to un-

fold. Ray, of course, was a pawn of limited intelli

gance, unaware of his true fnancial backers or their

diabolical motivation

AFPROVED FOR RELEASE:

Date 19 AUC 1975

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30-

W/PHAN 311.1969

Author ays lasi S5000

For Maruse rip by Ray

ford Eile on Tedzesday gava raci Look magazine describ

Houston attorney Percy Fore ling Ray's travels and actvities

massoco as toe frai par- prior to his arrest on caarges

sent for a handwritten manu- of murdering: the Rev. Dr.

cript rom Foreman's dient, Varion Luther Jing Jr.

332%

James Earl Pay."

Ray distrissed Hares Nov.

#Huie said it was she last in a 10 and hired Foreman, who

series Moit paynezis more stasequently gained a post

than 530,000" whice were potement of the trial irom

mace. earter to Pay's forcer Nov. 12 will Marcin 3. Hazes:

(counsel, Ainu. Faces Sa, offis understood to have obtained

Birminzican

MONste polia lies to use the checks as pay.

The 20,000 word Eatascript mest of his legal fees

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3.8,1939

413

SOLAREWEL

Costem ou

an encafear, to 1

slariag

=e

Zaran: Diaris Mazer

Loey Bue paid te

ai: personal 23.

Release bas. beet

So Pay 30 lirasca his da

court today

Fermission to se

deen hold under

untess security. Tee peo

SEE PAt 32

=älEs 55059, waich he

used ta Bajo fazace ais de.

5525₴

232e185 a:

== Tas sies into custody

-zedgepped from: the

-=e ce baa testified for 2%

Ee 2a2 3zen subpoenaed, 05

Ja-eater sais week and

silentld to bring with

i= 2 5.000-z0sd handwrittez

=api mrica be received

script as lee basis for the art

23

Discoes man for the rageo

He New York said Loos

bad ricardulest confidence in

e codistazis ready to hela

Mazartar aioui of a satioi

Files and regulations laid

composE Crimizal Couri

Incan Pestos Battle, tee

anto a sit in judgmies

02/3pocial Lawyers Committee

Deanted 257, Battle to zelp

in zarice tea rules on pus

i a zue's magazine ar

cies sara = probable vola-

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seeking aldeierce lawyer on the eve ci

¡eresse, mas setiled soon after

cat procaadina

sea esta-

Frising's deate.

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574296

ght lasi

Bay was arrested in Loscon

Forenzan to take ais case, end

Foren27 won- delays until

332

ated ia:

Las: Jane 3, aiter a worldwide Maren 3 and ther April 7, 02

minat, jailed by Scodard!

e atter ce Jard detectivas ard returned Stounds that be still bad not

co Stengais in secrecy, afier

nad time to stady the

E3ay Britisa lagal proceed-

completely.

Cha jury to garbage workers ia2u at tras Enza, to face a murder charse

Le empazeled and aaca furor| Sme ware on stike Zanis 2e-la De. Jung's deatho%

Stasa als retum, Ray has

Ton a reming corsa caposi

beas keld in a specially ar

ite tea Locaina Jotei, waare morei, air-conditionad coll at

Ster a puma lade casa in-iDr. Jing ras standiz

una te Saeicy County Jail under

sirias orly a daw.wieresses, balcony..og

Vitigst security.

Le source sald, the costchaa The cira dets leader wes

Esist scheduled to go- on

Moald accett à ples oi gulty

i siazing at the motel pezdirg a ital in Noramber, Ray won a'

enareconsend le sententa schedaled conciona marca in pestoneziont alterire fred!

zazz, dia, major, as bis

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Mrs. King Urges

OPALMER 58

Conspiracy robe

ATLANTA, March 10 Dr. Marth Intrer King Jes

widow and his successor said today they. how bettevea

more strongly than ever that a consptracy broughs about

His assassination last Apri

Coretta King and the Rev. Paipa D. Abernalaz, wao

Who Succeeded Dr. King as head of the Southera Chris-

readership confereace.

said the searca ass conchue

perso as they heted.

wii James Earl Ray in a plant

to sill Dr. Kinz

For the moment, me tavel

een sparedy a trial witca

would compei us to relive the

fearfully tragie ereals of his

Geal, But ze realice that this

is bubia, respite, " birs. Subg

said in a statement 3e

Jirs, Kingladded that Mail

concerned. people must press

they

State. of Tennessee and

the

US. Goremment to con

tinue uatil all who are respor-

sible for, this trime bare been

apprehended."

See REACT, AlL, CoL 8

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Mrs. King,

Abernathy

See Plot

REACT, From AL

Earlier, Mir. Abernathy said

that Ray's admission of guilt

strengthens bis belief that

there was a conspiracy.

Both Abernathy and DIrs.

King reiterated their stand

that: the death penalty for Ray

would be contrary..to the

moral and religious convic-

tons of Dr. King ButChe

'Retribution and rengeance

have no place in our beliefs,,

Mrs. King said. Crashe

Ny: husband"believed that

we must separate the man

irom the deed. In that spirit, I

look beyond James Earl Ray

to the racism which pervaded

-and still: poisons - the cli-

mate of America. oster

"It was the real kilier. It in.

cited violence against-a man

wino was the very essence of

nonviolence."

The : Rev. Martin Luther

King Sr., father. of the slain:

civil rights leader, said he had

no comment on Ray's plea. suf

#The Rev. James Orange of

SCLC, who was with Dr. King

when he was stain, said, "I ain

trying to stay: out of this-I

think they sbould set that mad

free." He declined to elaborate."

when: asked why he felt Ray

should be set free, saying. be

bad no further comment

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DANY WORLD 12 MAR49

By TED BASSETT and

CR.T

voRK, MarchilPute orrage mounted deroughout the country today

estraordinarily bries

convicdostata

olycharges of the ki

2586p51 3

rentence yesterday of James

11963 or the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther

acecument, expressed

852

Fecially, by Aromerican seokesmen, reflected

Ray dras only the triggermantos a arge scale conspiracy,

Hand thät the

croceedings Monday in Merpaist

as Ja te conspiracy.

mere; an attempt to cover up other paruc

Dale work,

impressed

aese casess, wired Rep

ud Celer (D.f.Y:), chair-

ire: House. Judiciary

ee urging a fall investi

rial and all pes.

Waring back sporesmen voic-

ing tuss that Ray's trial and

properly

were te Per Palpa D. Auer

Floyd D

Meissics, William L Patterson

222

was Curetta? King.

Mas. Coratia King, Widow Of

the assassinated leader, said: 7y

Te: reaize ahis is but a re

spi

Said Mrs. King. #This

pies do guilty aust cot be ailow.

cu to close toe case, io end zhe

searea for te many fingers that

Salped pull the trigger. ?

Al conserred must press the

sailo: Tennassee and the U.S.

Juve-reat to continue until all

Th6, üre

responsible for. this

crime

hare ween apprecended.

Aó:

call dez can lie consci-

Cantiased on paze 1)

a Me hot nine jo reign the persity of a con

spicy in the murder of Rev. Martin luther King, Jr. Rev. Abemathy said

"The edmission of guitte by Jomes Ear Ray cannot bo allowed to obscur?

Tha fear oss

chaos

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Black leaders demand probe

Ray' sona piords

Concioned itom page 3

human dignity of black mere

The court transcript shows

executive direc-

icans.

RESS.

Pray saying:

alute National Association

Mir Appeats for exposure

don't. want to change any.

in Advancement of Celored:

"The conspiracy involves the

ching taat I have said.

ble, said: "James Earl Ray's

heads of city, state and zanocal!

"I don't want to add anything

essian and the court's action

"governments and those who ara

under it, either.

mancing him to 99 years

a determined thai biac Americans

"The oaly ding I bave to say is;

risument for the murder o

will not attain equality d. 9pp0.-

I den't ezactly accept the tbeories

DreMarta. Luter: King. Jr.

tunity under the exising order,"

o Mr. Clark. In other words, lam

means only that the bigger man

continued: Patterson ""It is

'UT

Jot bound to accapt these cheor:

i tris: monsirous crime bia:s.

doubtedly fortinate that Ray. cas

"¡es of Nir. Ciark's."

been convicted. la a more rielo

been convicted, but that does not

The judge asked him: "You

te: cation; which

close the case of ie murder one

don't agree with whose theor-

mitted virulent. ospasition. to

Dr. Martn Luther, King. Slac

Mies?"

me aspirations a Dr. King and /30

Americans and tieir altes must

Ray replied: Mr Caraie's,

his devale is the real culprit."

extend every effort to espase disc

i Clark's; änd Mr. J. Edgar

Floyd iS. Mekissick, & builder

conspiracy and its menace in the a Hoover's about the conspiracy.

oh star City" and former head

unity of this nation and the pete

Former atorney general Ram

CORE. Said "I think that

Jost cithe American public

of the world." iN,

sey Clark and J. Edgar Hoover

Proceeding according to scribelted cecided less than One day

¿was that James Eari Ray was

In the proceedings Monder ad

aiter the murder jof Reverina

tang but a paisy. Sure de was

Tennessee'S Shelby County Crim

zecording ta defense attorey

rivated in a conspiracy,

inal Court, Memphis Attorey?

conspiracy 2e and 2 a

General P.M: Canale, Ray's at

that: no cot

gatiose racist coaspiracy. in

torney,

Percy: Foremario

Vand

rich the gizaier part of this

Judge W. Preston Batzle paruc-e

=esi copitalstc society.

has

pated: in

the deal whereby: Ray

pleaded guilty and was senténces

Rey Raigh D. Abernathy, who

to 99 years imprisonment, esca?.

siosested Dr. King as president

ing a possible death penalty if be

ca ibe Southerr. Christian Leader-

went to trial

saip Conference (SCLC) said:

The proceedings went accordina,

soile Southeri Christian Lead-

to script, as one reporter pat it.

ensio conference is opposed to

eIn antaction starting even to

capital punishmeat and therefore

• Monday's extraordicaty procesa

as so wish to imposedit upon

ings, the jury was: coeresd into

Bir. Pay. The admission of guilt

accepting the verdict before the

biJames Eari Pay. Cannoi. be

proceedings were begun. The jury

sitorred to obscura the real ass-

was thus made a party to the

ass Marin Luther King, Jr.,

deal, lits right to hear the lei

se cl the greaiest Americans.?

dence violated.

we ever lived. who served black

sWorderiand jestice

and White alike, was a victim of

conspiracy by the zamission

the is 12 aames called room

JamEs

Earl Rage The SCLC is

commities therefore to remain

Ma regular Jury vesire alrezog.oa

aiert and vigilant until fustice is: duty in the courthouse. were

Percy: Forecar.

Spiracy was involved.

This was te theory that Ray

said he caid not accept as fari

crats plea that be was suity:

We ras not requires to accepti

Has part of thardeäl fos his lie

tat be alone was responsible ide

i the murder.:

Pay, inade it Clear, accordine

to the transcript, that. betmas

buying only a guilty: plea, not a

do guilty plea for everyone else.

Judge Battle said: 17 think tie

main question that I want to as

you is this: Are you pleading guit

ty to murder, in the first degree

in tais Case because you killed

Dr. Martin Luthers King under

such circumstances toat it would

mase you legally guilty of marder

In the urst degree under the ir

as explained to you by our larger?

picked and the men brought into

freiad. oni to all on the perpetra-

sonian L. Paterson. Com-

* the courtroom and seated in the

norse leader and chairman of 2 Canale, the : prosecutorona

te forger Civil Rigbts Congress,

them of the deal with the detesse

said that the "urseeming haste

atiorney: and asked. if they would

accept it. Each juror houded/ap

Innich Jomes Lars Ray, the

COm 25300

murderera

of Dr.

provala

taz

in Luther Ring, Jr.

..lfas tried

Foreman, the defense attorney

Convicied is in itset. aimost

asked each juror indivicually

Cable evidence

off the. con-

he would go along with the cast

Donal

caractersec mos-

Each juror agreed.

streas, crlmte.:

At present there

And so, what Lewis Carroll Lad

mission a national scale a con-

presented as Wonderland Justice.

Your answer is sall yes?"

Ray replied: "Yes, sir.

Trenda Ner York Times cor

respondent reported

he moment when the court

Foot satiespecung. Ray torre

datelie agreement toat

been a the works since Feb: zi

passed, without Ray SPresto

¡o: fárd."

Bit the, question which Judge

Barle: ashed, and

§ which

Ray

answered was don te main

pracy to bebead leadership of became the script for Steidy

Finter biacs-led organizations County Courtroase:

Isnting l secure the enforcement

Sentence Irst

alte constricial rights and

Verdict afterward

Did

in question was this:

¿you part of a conspiracy

Dr. Marts Dither Kaug?

persons:

help

cousin

carrying

er CHiDir.

ROVE

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MeAL Liall

mark arenapleye

Cimmerence

mexico se contenclos

of the Bove to Martin Kluti

shortedly arrayed, my avas!

ind raise attired @videspread

MeMPHiS, rom., Mareh:11

given

prison sen.

court orenis in Monphis.

controversy desakr

anld atochy the controverala!

A Somo Nearo loaders chapse

dendors Rallyno

4h0 mens:

anation of braKing lost.pr

to moront

Mrs. King, SCIC Cleared

Disposition of Ray Case

Monday witions neprolonged

Mirs. King, SCLC

Cleared Decision

Kat From 41

ould, haves been felicac

There was also criticism of

tsex

arole in 12ke years

arrangement from suck

Atis keowa

that dining de

papers

as a

The New York

Times, which said the decision!

licate recorations with. coug

Prosecation

ge to air the fail case in puo-

Ray's carrrey

man; asked Judga 15. Presto

Ichwas a Stocing breach of Barde weether de world ei

people. "n

faita with the American| cose, the lgater. sentesce.

Judge Paule reportedy re

Officials Involved in the fused that proposal and sale

case here, however, said the he would impose no less a sere

decision to dispense with theitence than 99 years becausa

guilty plea was

trial in excrange for Ray's uhe crimé was too grezt" a

based 01.2

variety of considerations,

: Prosecutor:

Canala,, record.

in-jing to court sources, also feit

cading the consent of Mrs.|tnat Lee 98-jza- requizazient

King and SCLC leaders. They was categotiable.

said-as Justice: Department

Foremas was in a weck bar

ofacials in Washingtor havelgaining position, jerras: said

said that there: was to evi-because?he."knew the

case

dance polla conspiracy that against Pay was autightY and

could have been presented. Ray migat have goten tre

The agreement, in the judg chair if he had gore to trial

ment of the court officials, ceiore a Jury.

met fine Nation's requirement,

for justice."

Dr. King was shot!

witana.

The approaca to Mrs. Kinglas ke stood on a

ride on tee evening of April

was made, by the

Tennessee the motel at which tha was

her lawyer.: Canalelphis:

also consulted, it was reported

Made round asian

here, directly with officials of rooming house across the

SCLC, the civil rights organi.

cutside

zation Dr. King led at the time

sarcet. om me motel baicory

of his murder emma

led to Ray's eventual ziest in

He (Canale) wanted to get

London on June 8, 1968307213

At the time of his arrest

their general feeling about the and subsequently- there were

widespread: rumors that-Ray

official said "alind you, what had been the instrament of a

the

conspLacy to assassinate Dr

family and relatives about the

King: These rumors sere en

Sentence arrangement, even in

couraged-by: Ray himseit in

routine cases."

13,807*:

mierviews with the i writer

He said Mrs. King Xand

Miliar Eradiord Huia,

trio

althouga "some of the SCLo!story. And at she time of bis

sentencing on Worday, Pay

reserve their, right to claim

oncials said they wanted. to said in court he cosid "not ac-

there wasta conspiracy behind

cept", the oicial theory: ticat

there was no coaspiracy..

Howere so Justice Depart

ter Rays sentencing on ment ocials and the relat

Honday, Virs. King made no!

specific criticism of the ar!

well as: the: Tennessee prose

rangement. She said, "For the cutors, insist that there is zo

omert we have been spared evidence that Ray zad any

2 tial which would compal us

accomplices. =354

to relive the fearfully tragic

Prosecutor Canale said Zat

events of, his death., But we!

li any: evidesce of a cosspira

realize this is but a respite."cy comes to light ste coz.

Sue went on to urge that!

spirators, will be promoti and

both: Tennessee: and Federall

vigorousiy, prosécutad »

authorities continue their, in-

vestigation until all who are

responsible for this crime ara

#Dr. King's successor as head

SCLC,.

David Abernathy, issued

the - Rev. Raipa

similar statemert

Pray's formal plea of guilty

O murder in the first. degree

got him ar 99 year. sentence

which t bars him irom, parole

eligibility until the year 2018,

wen he would; be 90 years

oid si

St

Ithe bad been given ya

straight life sentences ne bi

140B.-

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James Farl Ray is led in chains to State Prison in Nashville

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ay is trees or red in Craies

State P.

stesaco is lei and take

hower

A Farden Russell;

and Siate

Corractions

Correissioner

Avery said Ray would

ted there will.be co

saidate and Russel: had

aaringator some time

safeguard

Cox Ray Stincarcera

en orga rost convic

Dullding

Siel on

se

are

Bele

tormally

athe

of that

determize

will te

any.

Spe

to be made

than the marimum secu

building

very said

aFoid

seid

252 coLda

Qi

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Lastland, Diggs Seek Probe

Of Ploi Aspeci in King Death

By William Greider tae Lorraire Joiel? How did settled Monday, "I don't think

Washlazton 20s: Siall FatEr

Asier: know where his; room it has a strong motivation to

[wo disparate Congressional Tas? now did they now when carry on an investigation."

azures Sen: James 0. Easine has leaving? I'm not acus

"It's very difficult for me,"

land of Mississippi and Negro ing ajore, but it appears to

he continued, "to believe that

nep. Charles C. Disas r. of mue teas somebody inside the

this man (Ray) could have all

lichigan eaca catea yester izatel must have airen iníorma

these. experiences without

day for a deeper look into who bion."

some assistance- the passport,

killed the Rev. Dr. Martinl The Senator said he has

the cars, the money, all the

Lutber-King Jr.

i"20 direct information" on the rest of it. There's never been

Castland, who chairs the Case and Io access to FBI or a satisfactory explanation."

Justice Departuent evidence

cenate, Internal Security Suo I Ray did it, ie was giver

From Hártselle, Ala., author

committee o said he is con-!

Vinced that James Earl Ray information by someone in

William Bradford Huie-who:

bay interviewed Ray: for..a

side that motel, tat's all' i'm

must have had some assistance saying Eastland said. "How

forthcoming book - said thei

in the murder. "I'm assemoung could he come into that city-

convicted: assassin "is." justi

the available evidence," the

smart: enough,: in his crimi.

Senator said. "There are some a white man looking for King?

nal mind, to put everybody on."'

questions in my minder lit couidn't be done. Someone

Diggs, an eightnterm Con had to tel him" Selkid

Huie, who retraced Ray's

gressman: from Detroit, said| Pay's earliest known appear-

story of travels before and alt-

ne is sending a telegram to auce in Memphis was on April

er the shooting, said: 'Ray

President Nison asking him to 3, the cay before the killing,

I "does not want the case to die:

reacivate the Warren. Com-Fuen he cheched into tine

outhe wants the dramatic:

mission or appoint a similar

Botel: The next day be switch:

action to continue. The last:

blue-riobon: group to explore ed to te hoiel irom whica he

thing he. wants is

to: drop

tine death of Dr. King. fact

fired the fatal shot) o

from the public eye."

The civil rights leader was

I Dizas said he also believes

*3/2A545

slain last April, by ar sniper

that a conspiracy. lies benind

Ray Tested on Mingling

while he stood on a motel bat

Dr. Kings deati A full-scale

cozy in Memphis, Tenn. On inrestigation by a presidential

With His Fellow Inmate

Blonday, Ray: pleaded guilty commission "might relieve ten-

and received by prior agree sions" surrounding the tour.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.,

March

12 (UPI) James Earl. Ray is

ment a glyear sentence, but der, be said. asAppea

undergoing six weeks of tests

the, cefendant. told the court?

To asking.

the President to determine whether he will

ne could "not accept" theories ether to reactivate the TVar-

be permitted to mingle with

that'se had no co conspirators her Commission or form one other. inmates. of the Tennes

in the crimes korada

sunilar to it," Diges said. "The

see state prison.

-Eastland said he will have

kinds of doubts that have been

Ray, 41, entered the prison

a stail assistant, gather in- geserated as a resuit of Ray's

Tuesday morning to begin a

own testimony on o conspira-

99 year sentence for the assas-

formation on the case, but

does not plan any subcommit-

tors: leates a very important sination of Civil Rights leader

responsibility to be taken care

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

le bearings or field investi-

0730380

last April 4. He pleaded guilty

gations.!

Diggs said that because the

to escape. a possible death

There; are some questions, Justice Department reportedly

penalty.

said tete:

in my mind," he said: "How was a party to the arrange-

• The prison has 1938 inmates,

did they know King was inl ment by waich Ray's trial wasl824 of whom are Negroes.

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Case

Ra

Me CoS out

2rom

Says

WHIT MAR 69

Ph, es Trial Judge

am convinced now that the

trial would have muddied

our understanding of the

substantial evidence, whics

531

couris

3a5201

established Ray as the ill-

er," the judge said.

*It is an error. to assume

that the prosecution would

nave had a charice to cross

examise Ray abouts nis. fi

rances, or how he escaped

from thes Missouri " State

Ranitentiary, or/about per

таст

BRO

Sons who gave him any aid

before: or after the siayina

of Dr. King.

That assumes Ray would

have taken the stand. I

douse very seriously that

Cerease counsel would have

exchese

Phis

risked placing Ray in such

a position. In fact, as I un

derstands it, this jail, along

mas: been one of the mair

problems between Ray and

various men who haveracted

for the defense. They coun

casta in

seled against it, and he kept

wanting to take the risk

See BAY, 13. Col 2

Case Puzzle Judge

Ray as to Ray's understand

'This

askoisthe agreement and

Mes accompas

whether he was doing this

through the witnesses

of nis tree choice.

appeared and testified to

The law requires only two

tasteliving mou

zings

en, such, as proceed.

King and to the r.

ing,

e the judge said. "One is

cause of death rhe

taarwe present the body of

ride

relaung Ray to thenslay

ney corpus delicti, and the

was stipulated, and;

-220

second is that evidence be

=22

presented establishing that

open court by the State;

this descried the chain

the defendant was involved

eridance: which tycular

with the crime

been introduced wa tri

dosses. 59

sadize

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300170n

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cated

said inTrisas

indicatess

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Roy, Cuse

00 3 11.90 s to Uraranel

3: 3 Goộ 1r25

coming proberty to prevene these as

eared the arguments over orership.

V. Ray's number, 00416, Was

Betched toto the: back of his

of the radio. Ray said $9.75 for itse

aze get There yas some speculation

-radio had o

Kicat be bought the radio to

a te TBI carry mita him on his escape.

evidence i

Sizce secrecy sumourded

ere: discov-

¿ace mathe seared for evidence in rie

at the aer hing case there wias.no way

for anyore ats Missouri State

₫ someone

Penitentiary to know that the

radio contained Ray's in-

5725 12.

sase them mate nuncer. There ware pus-

230 S210.95

a numer issed reports of a radio, but

otted ous rose menuored the etened

-found

numera's.

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WARZHAR

69

Ex-Official

Offers Aid to Ray!

SAVAVNAR, Ga Marco 31 descal caadidate for the Na-

(AP) - The oface

or JoB itionai States Rights Party, has

Fin the past styled himseli-as

Stoner said today that Storer, operal wizard of the Chris

an attoraey with past. connesi

tors with the Ku Mur Kiani.

tias Knizits of the Klan."

and tae Nationai States Rigailie once published a dian

iParty.. will represent, James papez ia Louisville, Xy., and

Earl Rav in his fant for a new!A!

La=a and aulnored a book

trial in toe siaying of Dr. Jiar ea

lited "We Gospei of Jesus

itin Luther King Jr:

= Versus the 'Jews."

3spokesmad, EdzardeS.

Fields, said Stoner is en ronte

Dy automobila. to Vasarille

there he plaas to confer with

Ray Saturday mornirgies

Ray: was. imprisonedala

Wash ville after pleading guilt

in Jiemphis to Riag's slaging

aria: receiving a Soyear sent.

ence. Fields said Signer mas

bired to belp. Ray chase his

plea in innocent and to detens

thin i be vias a destrial:

Fieids said that Pay originalig

nad contacted: Stoner shores

arier Ray's arresi in. London

and that inere had been core.

spondence: between: the ti

since. Fields said that. Siober

foad visited Ray in Memphis.

Stoner, who was a vice pres

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22:

un

Er

W: 23 MAR 69

resented for Plea

Guilty, Lawyer Says

HETI

a bed suits, that Ray intends to

2 a fast masaintend to

sevade ase and deragatory

today"

Peeinges against nim.

Ziemphis police, meantime;

thai

Зет-

said King's murder was So in-

esty caried out tat it was

fred

1730

Cardito beliave there was a

coaspiracy.

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125 Organize

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Pratonal States

P

arEs

→ 2i50 claimed is

information ia

tee

22=

pressure pas ar

Ze endence ia

Easedit läier on

60 H

¿cainformation

are depres

Roy for mon

than mo, bous is the has

nur security section c the

annessee State Passn/226

said be.

"seazed to be in guci

spirits ion a muza in dais partia

war hotel? as

Stozer atse sa notres

ter: Due was Landing sere=

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WASH POST - 26 MAR. GI

Darentars buse

Fonzey 221 Caraie sags Saat

Eager: Percy: Forema

Ra Jes Bal Ray case, ben

te. State it Tennessee don

"Franas. zas: said La'2%

2203:10 ge açout $150,533

as ais Spare of proceeds.

#057 02 9092

Zonear fur serfices

From a probe decender,

Casale said Ra pubie de.

tere in Lag's defense and

Kin.

Wehictor, D. . Viadnesdoy, March 24, 796)

Attorney

Excecis

To Sue National Figures

STAD

Ea. F(UPI)-

would be no likel suits in the

Stoner says he

122852:2

immediate future.

rext

PiecE Bes: civil swis

Storer said he would file the

ca tenal lea dames Earl Ray

suits against the national figures

azaleso razozal agures."

"as soon as I can get icem gre

We sids prica be will. file for l

pared, no later than nest weak."

2s appealing for a new

he see Der a new

He said his action will te

backed: "by undisputed facis ci

such a strong. nature tha: {

5022: ga but won't men-

public: record,"

rather: then re

ten aay radosal organizations

veal the names of the defendants

audes tina"" Stoner said yester-

at the preset time. 2199

Rascaus

a are to has past.

Stoner said that he had been

representing Ray in civil action

comestoss cite tie Ku Kur

"Since last fall; sometime is

Ten an is an avored waite

September or October,": 0525

supramacis, stressed, however

Meanwhile, in Memphis,

bêt he nond soi defend Ray in

Tenn., the $55,000 in reward

EV CASE CESE EEN

money: offered in the slaying of!

Ire: been taking to bir

King which cannot go to the

(Pay) caiy acgut the civil ac FBI-may go unclaimed. ages

Steer said There's an

o-elapping is ta criminal and

Tre newspaper Commercial

civa cassa; sui my interest is is

Appeal, offered a reward of

Le cirl case "ha

$25,000, the Scripps-Howard or-

Storenghad said. Satirday be

ganization (incluing the Mem-

phis Press-Scimitar) offered an-

lone ais rise to Pay in Ternes-

see: State P.son in Nashville )

other $25,000 and the Memphis

that ra posabiy would represent

City. Council annourced a pledge

to underwrite: a total reward ci

Ray. in lal suis against naton-

a magances. Yesterday, how-

$100,000. Later; the city attorney

advised the. council that it is in

Fice For at beva matter of violation of the law to pay a

Sizar indicated therelreward excaeding 55, 000. A

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Suan

CN

cell

25 CHoreys

Eon was fled by three

as

aborteys:

Id 3. Ryan oi Mem-

Storez of Savannan,

ir. of

sseu

stierzey

has;

Previous

iseased

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Kav

Riles:

King Slaying

SECRETS, Aprily

James

=5z2 3

nay tid tray onige

=es 2a

mas deptired di eZecure lage!:

counsel Zarzusa bist 2=

5=3

nating gablicatios cor

Ezie.

Lew aurzays, Pay clemed Ea

Tas Pressured ito plea

gully Sarah: 10 50 =22

visites 1s siend trial

1=2-5250

He ' =22

-315725naEaa

The zarzepage soon

torars, Percys Fares

C-I

S=.

Eue azd ¿ceir coz (Irascal

interasts" aid bad =5 F2253

WASH POST

8 APR 69

-al Cour: Judge Ar-

tam Faoquin must now decide

Tesser the gotion is a proper

Ga sa= die court to consider.

Fairin aproisted to handle

tea case after the death of

Judge Preston Batzle, took no

actor. and declined to. com

=et on the motion no

Sanition S. Burnett, of the

Tezzassee Supreme Court,

has said the oaly way Ray car

seat salier 5 torough a habeas

co-ges petition claiming that

lais sanstitutional rights were

riciated. Burnett imaintains

Ray, waived all rights: toa

Za-zar appeal, such as a new

Za Facquin agrees 3 with

Bazar, ce can dismiss Ray's

=dez: withous scheduling a

bezzing. Ray couid then sub.:

-it is again as a habeas cor

pas pesson and could be

zanted a hearing.

Tea notion filed today was

zaszed an amended motion

a aunew trial. and was

mady a legal follow-up to

two letters containing similar

cca ges Ray wrote Judge Bat-

Ze saiore his death. eve

inTre motions were signed by

ati zeys Richard J. Ryan of

Jamacis, J. B. Stoner, a Ku

Kur Kan lawyer,

from

Savarah, and Robert W. Hill

of Cattazooga.

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WPra APR 69

Me Sat's

2KG7

ALEVELE

Tern(AP)

His Earl Car, has charged ir

Esar as former

saterared de. money than

22s xgct to 2 fas trial

Ray

asked

resierday thatas

Million vorta ca

wisest Lis: biographer,

Wan BEaud Eule di Fart

Parcy Borescam di Ecuston,

ES. Senting ass- year sen

ic Densessee State Prison

Reading guilty to a

caeze in the April a,

Sarag or Dr. Marin Le

The su:

ares ted by Robert

73:20

gs it cir maiters.

25 est her, Dul obtained a

Falcon eader to see Ray

Bara S. very, state

Ecoes, Commissioter, re-

most to les se attorey enter

he prison

KU.S. Diss Cout Judge William

Diane: issued the order after

AraT Sad PickardJ. Ryan oi

Megas, nes is seeiring a rew

siato Bares tre. caly attor

seros recure in the case.

ay Sinis contends he was

Py. Foreman into

Beacon guilty-the same

Comes he ched tasting a new

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REMARKS

108 Press Items

Docs 126-233

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на сот

Sain A cother

Kiling,

martias quoted, by, the

sociated Press as saying that

Feeling there over Ray's

Plea "is ons ot trustra-

source sald that li

been atrial it might

Soma Light on the

22d

suspicion, around

he country teat bay was pare

son aconsciracy.

One who sbarer this suspl

Floats, Sen James O. Eastland

Outs), chairman of the Sen-

ate

Jadiciary Committee. He

sata bis Intamal Security, sub-

committee is investigating the

curier and the possibibity of a

copspiracy.?

SESH

Another who believes there

sease

corson, to Pose

Ziend of Dr. King and the di-

zecior ci the Southern Christ-

= Leadersaio Conference's

Operation Breadbasket' Kin

20.5

Frason's Conmeat

We were told justice was

one by giving a puny, sick

ate man a 99-year sentence

exchange for, the assassina-

of our black prophet,"

Jackson said "Butr far

justice, the American

stra

dicial system would not al

S crocer in ais

For even an insensitive and

empais; last See

incorcered inguiry into the

zudes of a woria leader.

Rep Odgen Reid: (R-v.Y)

Sure Facia in a statement placed 2

zo A do

yesterday's Congressional rec-

ela plea cr

Arthat, the court a 10 ne

Saculd have decided whether

Bay was part of a conspiracy

Pay

ther

COX:

to in Pr. King, "not on the

sal

paris of a few public state:

else In

Featsoy the deferse, but in

hai

bee

cours and py precedures: In-

Fede:al Ex

Crding& examination wand

cross examination, with

s jury

Team

coxmitted not to a pre-arrang:

ed deal with the judge, but

Fattes to hearing the full

story, and making an unbiased

3755

fecgaments.

Date

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WASH POsTe 1969

Cray's Romas s in court

On Pessible Conspiracy

.T=

20-14

war

2=3.

sed

gree

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4%.

Dads

agreed

casa

2=2

Ia-

JUVERNS

Was Reached

ceratoid Seca

Gen

COT 1

203

I to dis

nas Icecis

Afen

weats?

505:

Pay

anca,

gutty pies

defense

Casale

in/a pitia

becausa Gi

Santos

: 35

3.23

BIC:

HOLA

00G 10:E3

ocea

an clien

a rates

2 trial"

fantesti

Jige W.

s scan

52, Were

Tave tand would tot are because

1ca ractallic depcsits on the bolt.

diticaal

casa. Canale's team was building

against him.

Stasion said ta had concluded

dat "May was iucay to get awa

v the skin of his test'h.'

*Vith

zie. trial die to begin

arch. 3, time was running

Scort, ard on Feb. 14, Foreman

won. a request to celay the hear-

ieg, until Aort 7.

Aweek. later,

about Feb. 21;

Foremari shambled: into Can-

ale's third-flcor; oifice and for-

Foreman carried with him a

letter, sigued by Pay, authoriz

Summary of Slaying

Deputy Atty. Gea.

• James

Beasley: bagar writing a. 5,950

Ford Summary of the state's ev-

idence inking: Ray to the slay.

üng,\ to which the defense would

cave to agree.

Four days later, Beasley-Who!

cad interviewed witnesses from

Los Angeles; to Lishon-handed

ter summary to Foreman. Bat

"Two or tarze days later,"

Canale recalled,: Foreman re

Sated with Ray's approval ard

fort insurarce, - that

of Ray's

brothers, John and Jerry. Shes

Then other interested parties,

such as the Justice Department

and people close to king, were

told of the impending move, and

on March 7, Foreman went be

fora Judge Battle to request last

Monday's special hearing-

Better Source Alive

However, the scenario wasn't

quita ready for the finale. As the

earing neared, Ray. develope

second thoughts and fears rip

Died througa tice courthouse that

he would scuttle tise deal.

Foremar spent 2% hours with

Pay last Sunday going over the

sipulations which detailed the

extont of the state's case against

hizza

A St-minute session with Car

ale toat evening tied up any la

dangling thread-acd" Ri

ready for the 230 mile cive to

the red brick Tasnessee, Staie

prison at Nassritie. der

*Catala later summed up wis

he had accepteditce: p'eugt

the first place, toe stare 2

never; insisted on tying alca

tal: case wäer tse deiendant ha

offered to plead guity and'a

cent maximus contren 2.

- Ray

will not is elsist

parole bearing until 150d

• he'll be T1. Ead 2 uy In

dife term, be could ce cgitisa

a parole in ony 121 years

1981. 5

ur Canale said the state cas s

concluced categoxicatutha

Pay was a lore bilar, our

it has zo evidence "at this tire

that he was part oi a conspires

Obviously if Ray was part of

plot, Ray alive is a better sourc

for later intormation then li

were dead:

unspiracy

st dira'

ere: Pay

REY. Dr.

; Starten

I juip a:

Mriod, wail to get so the stres

from tease 23i

at mouid

be raticer avis.

An early.

ride with Day's frien

5 chit za

have:

czen: Cu

places

=55527

JesuEd 30

25- chosen

sides that te

105322

corney

jean-Pay

zai as ta

P: Louse

ECTOSS

Cesa

32d

bad

pis

1 a Such

Pay Z5.

inter

change it for Lie more rowariul

Eut investigators were able to

estaelisia

the Wesebester

toải Ray bea

Lougat was deiec-

HHT

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Washington, D. C. March 15, 1952)

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Fishop Order

do M0ng Kiling

Volded by F31

15:2=5 Tea: (4P) - The

731 Bain Lea witharem, a

Pican cris for Eric Starvo!

Gam, a Bizis gust, Ala, white

=2z, as is ridascale investiga.

ton de the assassination 0: D:.

Scin linear Jing Jr., entered

Tea pates disibuted on the

statemice police teletype net-

word in Fariza last right said

Gat mas cring a white lins

1203. Diesses in Memphis told

=aI.i1 a mida Müstang drive

aray: Eg= ie rooming house

Allabca ise same time the

pisito cia mas seat in Flori-

da, jeda a agenis in Ailanta im.

Insaned a naza shustang tat

E3a v223 I2:266 Sicea last Fri

day a area housing project

Fear tae Caugia state capital

Izazau a Mistake

The message, withdrawn with

te. esplazacon that it was re-

leased by Mistake, describeo

Gali a5 a maize zaie, 35 years

cid, abuz: 5-100t-11

and 175

Foames

ti Sue eyes and

This rotaly matched the de-

serpigs circulated by federal

aucorities ta digat of King's

The Fiorida teletype message

said Gait was last seen driving a

waite 1635 Masang bardico, Al-

assima Lic=sa 1-90923. Birming.

bas toice

said this tag had

been. issued to Bric S. Gait, 2503

Sigazzi ira, Zimingham

Sickers in Spanish

in Austia, la residents woo

fes: ica guice about the aban

cosed thie Jiustang said the

cãi sore da same Alabama li

cease as area out by the FBI

zi core in stckers which said

"Towrisia." Earlier reports indi-

caied

ie investigation

had

sprena so lexico.

A Singtam newspaper, the

Post-Herzia, said residents of

te: rooms house confirmed

they had been questioned by the

FBi. It duded the residenis re-

pred liar had not seen Gall

ior. ator taree montas and

could cot recall what type car he

ins.

12 APR.68

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різм

Ray Threatened

FaTy S. Arery, State Com

missioner of Corrections,

say prisoners in the Stiste

I hare threat-

ened to all James Earl Ray,

tne admitted: murderer of

ine Rev. Di. Alartin Luther

King Jr.

Arery said ford of the

threat came in a teieppone

call and aad a lot to do"

with dis decision to keep Ray

in a maximum security cell

aner his, normal six week

stay, waica was finished at

Be end of April very said

he was told Ray would be

billed i he fas ever taken

from maxiraam security.

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Areads Suit

EViLLE, Tera

zorcers

Gos Jares Darl Far,

servings

tie murder

of the Rev.

S:

that

Ray'st civili rigats

vio

ted cratwo law.

vers and a miter.

rza suithvastated in U.S.

Dicet Cours croPar's lat-

es:

lazjeis, Rogert W. Bill

were tenur Bases, tre first

Peray

coltakeize case;

Forezaze wao re-

placed Faces and. repre

santed Pay when te guilty

Dea was entered, and Wi-f

liamBradiod Hue, Pay's,

biograpee

WAS NEPOST

23 may 69

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? Ray Trial Contempt Cases Dropped

Tana, Play 23

"Ray's first attorney; Rev. James, Bevel, a top of

Featro Z. Hays, a private in clad of the Southern Christi

vestigator; ara. two Memphis

Leadersnip Conference,

carspaper. reporters, Charles

Ray, bound in chains and t

Edmundson of The Commer-

corted by 25 armed guards

cal Appeal, and Roy Hamilton

ci the Memphis Press-Scimi-

Lan: ll-car police caravan, w:

Tar

returned Thursday to u

Shelby, County Jail cell whe

The committee had recon- he lived. from last July unt

-enced contempt proceedings

he entered the state pris

razziast the three others. They

March 11.

70.

S9

z2.4

La balwere George: Bonebrake,

an

Judges Faquin # will

FBi firearms expert, autnor Ray's appeal for a neiv tri

Vilian Bradford Hue andtae lilonday:

WP. 24 MAY 69

ven memphis and a hearing into his conviction

murder.

melon Mart Enther King. Ray seeks anew triates

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153.

Ray hoses Bid

For New Trial

By Paul W. Valentine

Fastica:

MENIPEIS,

Tena:

Mas taked man his attorreys, T. B

26 Jame Earl Ray, #iode Isie Stoner os Savannah, Ga., Rob

aos jeen clouded by the death est J. Em dra 01. Chattadooza

oi the judge in tis case, inta Tens, and Richard J. Ryan, o1

bid today for a ter trial ia:

the assassination Of the Rev. Memphis, Tenn o

Marin Luther Fing jr. Crimi-F

Stoner, saa outspoken

nal Court Judge Ariaur C. Fa Isegregationist, nas repre

quin jr. said today. Bar badi sented Kul Klux Klausmen in

"noringir, roluntante: as

satelligentir? pleaded guityed

the past and ran for U.S. Vice

His attorneys said they #ill

President in 198k on the vitra

appeal the denial by Judge Fa-

tigist National States Rights

guin, sucessor to therlate|Parto uckes

E Rar, 41, Swearing. a

jacket ard pale fellow de, tas isat (bisflegal interests were

pale/and-unsmiling tarouga-subvered.by tee financial in

out tae three-heur bearing Re feresis off irce-lance riter

did' not testig. Baynas ralian

Bradford (Hue and

whisked rom tre courtcom te: tro defense attorneys ear

and -readied for his retura to lier assigned to Ray's case.o

the State Penitentar ial Ray bas charzed that attor-

rasurlle...

Miner Percy Foreman persuaded

Faguin, 4s, granied the presl ain to piead guilty in order to

ecution's motion to dery Rajiaroid a falletrial because at

a: hearing on the nos tial!

¡trial moula have revealed the

issue. He said Bay, Faired his!

rights to appeai or rew trial detais of the case to the pub-

lic aad deaied Hue his exclu•

last March 10 moen Judge Bat-!

sive access to the Ray story 2

tie sentenced' him to S9 jears!

Ray sübmitted copies. of

imprisonment in exchance i0F contracts and letters between

ine gulity plea to the 1953 il-

a mais Poreman, himset and Arthur

• Bate died Biarca 3i cê a

Eanes Sr, Bumingham; Ala.

beart attack,

Tre days, ater.

attorney who aiso represented

Rar bad petitioned aim for-a !

Ray! earlier.The documents

new trial Tennessee law pro showed tbai Fianes had been

vides that new trial motions baid at Jeast $30,000 and that

pending Delore: deceased Foreman demanded a $150,000l

Judges

must de granted auto-fee, much of it from book and

matically. My

imagarine firmsa for. which

Prosecutor

M Jesse

Ciyde Sule was wnting.

Mason argued today, onerer, Today,"Ray's new. lawyers

2i that the Marca 19 procedins taerpectedly swithdrew 2 the.

was not, technicaliz speaking, Foreman-Hanes Sallegations

a trial but a guilty plea hear- from the new trial motion but

ing in which there as no dis. said they may reinsert them

pute over, tae faris. Since later.

there was no orizizal trial. Today's bearing turned in

there can be so mbuon for-a stead. on legal. technicalities.

"new" trial, he said

The, delensa: maintained that

that a guilty plea amounts to a imas. defective

"judgmentir by " confession,"

prosecutors failed to-sign his

from which theze is so appeal

raiver of rigats and because

or review under conion law! Ray did sot respond to one of

Throughout the

hearing. Judge Battle's questions about

Ray, under deavy guard, fareis waether he was "pressured"

into pleading guilty.

WASH POST

Faquin dismissed the argu

menis, noting that prosecutors

29 mAy 6.4

äre cot required. to sign the

waires and that even if: Ray

falied to answer one uestion;

he bad denied being "pres

suredrain other questions.

A transcript oi the disputed

portion shows that Judge Bat-

terasked tro questions in a

row before Ray answered:

oatles Mas anything be

sides tais sentence of 99 years

(been promised to get you to

Plead, guilty? Has anything

else Leen promised sou?

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Hay Loses Bid for New Trial

By Carl W. Valentine

Ho Hai

JaSPHiS, Tent, May

James Earl Ray, whoseifate

has been clouded by the death

of the judge in his case, jost a

oid-today for a new trial in

tse, assassination of the Per.

Martin Lutter King Jr. Crimi-

nai Court Judge Arthur C. Fa-

quia Jrsaid Pay had "know.

inziy, Toluntarily and intelli

gently Pieaded suity en

His attorners said they will

appeal the denial by Judge Fa-

quin, secessor, to then late

Judge He Preston Battle:

Ray, 4if wearing a drab

jacket ard pale yellow tie, was

paie and wasmiling through-

out the saree our bearing. He

did. note testify. Hel was

whisked from the courtroom

and readied for hisireturn to

the & Siate Penitentiary in

Nashvile

Faquia, granted the pros

ecution's motion to deny Ray

a hearing: on the -new trial

issue He said Ray waived his

rigais in appeal or new trial!

last Slarca iD when Judge Bat-l

tie serteaced aim io:99 gears.

imprisonment in exchange for

the suity Dea to the 1963 kill-

Died or Heart Attack:

= 400.239

Bartle died Maron 31 ofFa

heart attack, five days äfter

Rap had petitioned him for a

nex trial Tennessee-law pro

rides: at new tial motions

pendiaz before. deceased

/ judges must be granted auto-

Prosecutor -Jesse vi

. Clyde

Jiason arqued today, however,

that the blarca 10 proceeding)

was not technically speaking

a trial sutra guilty-plea bear-

ing in which taere was no dis

puie

over. lue facts. Sincel

there: was Do original trial,

WASH POST- 26 MAY 69

1207202

there can be so motion for a

James Kart Ray siled back into the Ten

15 United Press International

was denied an appeal Tor a new triant

"new" trial, be said

nessee State Poison ta Nashville alter he the staying of Dr Startin Luther T

Judge Yaquin agreed, noting

that a guilty piea amounts to a

"judguent "byl confession,"

from which there is no appeal

or revier under common law.

Tarongoous the s hearing

Puy, under beavy guard, rarely

taired with his attorneys, J: B

Stoner di: Savannan, Ga, Rob

ert J. FRil 3r., of Chattanooga,

Ten and Ricoard J. Ryan; of

Memphis, Ten

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Outspoken Segregationist

Sioner, 44 lan outspoken

segrezationist: bas. repre

sented Alu Au Klansmen in

the past and ran for US. Vice

President in 195 on the citra-

right: National States Rights

15 Behind Pars: unsuccessful

more today is his contention

that his legal: interesis were

subrerted by the financial in-

teresis oi. freciance writer

William Braciord Huie and

the two defense attoriers ear-

lier assigned to Bay's case

Ray, ras charged that attor-

ney Perty Foreman persuaded

him to piead guilty in order to

avoid a full trial because a

trial wouid bare revealed the

details of the case to the pub-

lic and denied: Hue his exclu

sive access to the Pay story.

Pay submited co pies of

contracis and letiers between

Foreman, himself and Arthur

Hanes Sr,, Birmingham, Ala:

attorner woo also represented

Ray, earlier. Toe- documents

showed that Flanes had been

paid: at Jeast $30,000 and tbat

Foreman demanded a $150,000

fee, much di it from book and

magazine Farms? for t which

Today, Par's new lawyers

unexpectealy withdrew the

Foreman-Hanes His allegations

from the new trial motion but

said they, mas reinsert them

later-s

Legal Technicalities

Today's hearing turned in

stead on legal technicalities

The defense mainiained that

Ray's Marca 10 guilty plea

was defective: because state

prosecutors. failed to sign his

waiver, of rights and because

Ray. did not respond to one of

Judge: Battle's questions about

whether he was "pressured"

"Faquin dismissed the argu-

ments, notinz that prosecutors

are: not required to sign the

waiter and thz eren if Ray

failed to answer one question

he had denied being. "pres

sured" in other questions...l

A transcript oi the cisputed

portion shows tat Judge Bat-

tle asked to questionsin a

row before Pay answered:

Battle: Has anywing te

sides this sentence of 99 year.

been promised.20.5ei.jou:t0

plead guilty? Has: anythi

ase been promised fou?"

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57

King Death Probed

brothers of the zoan. con

Tiered of billing Dr. Slartin

Lather Fing Jratsays FBI:

lagenis questioned him about:

whether a conspüracy was

intoired in the assassination

Sor the ciril rights leaders

eny, Bay, younger broth

Snot admitted assassin

James Barl Ray, Said men

identitying themselves as

FBI agents approached him

ate the jailwherer he was

visiting his brotner.

The elder o Ray, who

pleaded guilty Marca 10 to

Sing's death and was sen-

terced to S9 years, will ap-

pear,at a hearing DIonday

onahis motion for a new

trial

2I didn't tell them any:

thingse Jerry Ray, said, he

told the agents on advice.of

an attorney. "They assed a

question on the conspiracy

statement Itwouldn't an-

Swer it and they threatened

to bring me before a Fed.

geral grand jury They said

if I dian't tals to them, I

would be held in contempty

Lavestigators have main

tained that a conspiracy was

not involved in King's deaths

Asked about the younger:

Ray's report, Special Agent

Robert G. Jensen, lempnis

FBI disitict chief, confirmed

that his a men questioned

Jerry?Ray but would not

comment on. his charge of

threats. "Wete maxing. in.

quiries all the time into

alisorts of; things," he:

said

WASH POST

aSmAY 1961

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Ray Is Refused

Reviere of Denial

Of a Nero Trial

KVOLVILLE, Tean, July 15

(AP) The Tennessee Court of

Criminal Appeais refused to-

day, to teview denial by fa

Memphis judge of a new mur-

eritrial for. James Earl Ray

a te, slaying. of the Rev.

rartin: Luther King Jr.

Presiding Judge Mark A

Walers of Corington ti an-

matter, less than four, hours.

Dejense Attorney J. B. Stoner

of ¿Savarnah, Ga; said... the

ruing will be appealed to the

Siate Supreme Court

Ray pleaded guilty in Mem-

pais Marca 10 to the slaying

lase year o. Dr. King, and was

sentenced by Criminal Court

Judge W. Presion Battle to 99

Jears instate prison. In seek-

ing a new trial, Ray claimed

ce, nes pressured by his for-

mer, Lawyer, Percy Foreman

or Houston, Tes, inio eniering

ine: gulty: plea. Foreman de-

Haied the charge.

WASH POST

1670y 69

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Date -

20 AUG 1970

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THE VASHINGTON POST

Friday, May 30, 1959

Corrections Chief

Fired in tennessee

NASEVULLE, Tenn, May 29 sing Je! "would write in his

i bays is serving a gorear

sition do. gather facts-about term in the Tennessee state:

James Eari. Bay for a book, prison at Nashvilie.

was fired today Dy GuT- 3w

ord Elinzion Hasn

The controversy over Ray

Jas not Avery's first He aiso

Elliozton said oniy

thai; bad been criticized for using a,

Avery was dismissed añer an prison inmale as his chaue

investigation regarding re feur, aad the Icternational As:

cent/erents in the Correctons sociation of Chieis of. Ponce

Departmeate Me reinsed to had issued a highly critical re

answer questions: corcerning

port on the Commissioner's of

the details or the dismissales ace and state prison operas

Avery, said he nad topiars

to write la boox acout Ray, "at:

this time? Relacced "Some

situation, might arise that I

wouid. think it couta be pro-

pridous for me to write an ar

ticle about penology or laves

tigative work mE.

4E159

Bobert, We sul of Crata

rooga, one Of Ray's atorneys;

charged two weeirs ago that

Avery offered to "look after"

Ray if the admited lilier of

the: Revo Dr. Jia tin Luüer

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## Page 215

AATIONIS NEWS

SUNDER

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cacyis Sta:

lay Alone Sum Talks of a Plot

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Date

116 HAR 1953

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## Page 216

Boy is Alone

Plot

Memphis Prosecu. s, Ch

vision Bay as a troubled

man ho, swith col clear

mendate tronia, carspre

toral group, was not com

mited to the idca oscaling

Da/ King ringany specisc

sense unul the lastliew days

before April 4: 1958520444

He did not purchase toe

assassination rifle sunsi

warch 30. He cameto Xem

phis April 3, staying over

night at the Rebel Motel;

good five

riles from the

Lorra

Ine

Motel where Di

King

was staying

BIt

did not take

tipster or

eman

122

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to

tel

Kin

W2

Ra

BIt

Has

the

ne

The

King had

12, rOOm: 305

Fat the Lo

Mülkerty

"Strcet

days

walle

ne

town

to

SUO

collectors

E

com

that

tively

easy fo

say to:

2, locati

I007

house

withea

joking

they Tro

arking

room, under the alias Jöha

MAyillard

He moved, into tackroom

arouad 3:30 p.m. on aprile

At about 5:30 pm, be en.

tered the commural bath

room of the rooming house

whose windows offereda

better view of the Lorraine.

locked himself inside and

waited:

At 6:01 pm DEKing

came into his view on the

0 8

pe

Ifor

sai

Wich Dactr

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Co 27 Cranis

Ray Review

Of His Trial

COVINGTON, Tenn

¡June

26 (UP1)

Chief Judge Mar:

AWalker of the Tennesse

Court of Criminal Appeals has

granted a petition submitted

to him: Wednesday by atbor-

record in Ray's' conviction for

the slaying of Dr. Martia Lu.

taer King Jr.

The Appeals Court will rule

July 15 in Knoxville on

whether it should consider an

appeal by Ray for a new trial

The petition claims that

Judgt Arthur C. Faquin erred

in granting a state request bo,

guash a defense motion for. a

new trial at a hearing in Mem-

phis May 26. The petition says

Faquin: should have allowed

Ray was new trial on the

grounds that presiding Judge

AW. Preston Battle died before

ruling on a new trial motion

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22.

Order Lets Ray Lawyer

Communicate in Person

NASHVILI?, Tend, June, Under the telepione system,

19 (UPD → An atorney for which aad been used only

James Earl Ra7. obtaired a once, Ray is placed in a sound.

Federal court order Wedzes proof roora and Fill must talk

day directing siate prison cia- with him by telephone with a

cials to permit bin to commu. beavy glass partition separat.

sicate vita Ray in person as them teethe

22 GS. District Judge William

rather than by teleptoze."

E Miller ordered a U.S. mar

Aitorney Bovert F. Hill Jrisbal to serve an order on the

of Chattanooga charged Ray is state f'prison warden and

convinced the prison phones corrections commissioner di-

are bugged and that all siate recting them to permit Hill ac.

ments he makes to full are recess to his client within the

corded for ase by te state

isame 300m or ofüce.:

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Ray Is Granted Review

Of Record at His Trial

COVINGTON, Tenn, June whether it should consider an

25 (UPD Chies Judge Mark appeal by Bay for a new trial.

d. Walker of the Teanessee The petition claims that

Court of Criminal Appeals has Juagt Arthur C. Faquin erred

granted a petition submitted jin granting a state request to

to him Wednesday or attor- quash a defense motion for a

neys for James Earl Ray to new trial at a hearing in Mem-

have the court review the triall phis Jíay 26. The petition says:

record in Ray's conviction for! Faguin should have allowei

the siaying of Dr. Martin Lu- Ray: a Lew trial on the

ther King Jr. is as grounds that presiding Judge

: The Appeals Court will rule 7. Preston Battle dica belart

July 15: in: Knoxville! oniruling on a new trial motion.

WASH POST

26 JUNE 69

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6%:

MAY 2968.

MAY. LERNER

' of Conspiracy Envalops Dr. King's Slayics

man cadca

se: lie world rogen But it puts

the faris soi ozy on tee kille:

Jois dennety Nathias

assassination - thatse, bui & comainly artier

the

5=25, among teas

anga si a vas madi

usad hive

bees

cleared up in die

wrath lo toe cold conspiracy.

Thie day o: the loner is probe

wan'

Fros this auge cá visios

mies of many peopie sni

ma; raver be wholly resolved

ably passing,

wacther

deals cov

Thare is aven ihe weird coin-

inink of the creative adventur

criminas convicions, sis jad

ist loner or the lonely assassin.

225

cert andiestate, dis trava's,

Gambay made one disceral

For many things that were

ais

band account

his per-

Lips in d'ani Orlezas, sinicia

once done by individua's, we

casas and ergesianes

¿naders

memories oi Lea

carry over from the Army 10-

Harvay Oswald's siay in that

day the term "Osaration."

Even

I True in ice man,

Pao saez "sick,

Bun i Play is is face tea

se25 t0 all into a Izazingin

patein the tal will a-daa

cry, and de the entatic efforts

portical leadership in-

Siy cool and war again a

Fio, Garison to prove a

volves a "¿cam."

Finiter

5 baiare tse

Naw Orleans conspiracy using

Yet it would be folly to carry

FBi catcices

Ostraid as a "palsy" ard io

this 80 the point of believing:

• I@

until all the evi.

=2202

singie inia goreraad assassia

ever

Coes

that nothing disastrous ever

For May. Gas.

Pramsay Ciark's zariy cascrio

happens except as the resuli of

kilar as

"a lone

• iz igurai and is gaining

e=0a, is isa: it tas a

"zo.

3=93

tentines

TiE SOME

ma s2. Ving as

an with pre-

¿Cia tay

This dozs

n.c:

radis. insed

siz santa

Lare les

reading in tai

H's?

ie.

i: joad with dis com

Fad, Lating

so iow to

¿i ail adds up to a climate of

causpiracy aiong with the cli-

maie of hate. It is well to be :

ice

It seams probabie =ow tat

di can guard against both.

was no: a love zan, and be

Teare is bot violence and there.

may no longar be da ira ria.

is cold violence - the kind

fact,

vico lised

dare were dihers

ia. springs cut of massive

aims for sai pur-

angar ard the kind that comes

ais capture cow would

front

caiculated plan. If one

be intolerabie to dazza, and the

isaá io choose, it is beiter to

inscaied

iv? then

sirise oui from anger than to

cid be to kil hi seicrabe

more in cold blood. One rc-

•c2..

asia

sz caugi, li tey are sui

cais William Blakc's sen-

Resca:

in — and taãi, ioo, is

"The tigers of wrath

possible - his capure sanuic

ne wiser than the horses of

Excavar quite a story.

¡staetion.'

I should deny.

Inevitably,

sinis of abories

curse,

any s22l wiscom to the vio

one

Has in au

lazee that comes out of wrath,

as agains: the esfort of reason,

a conspiracy. The fact is that

one of the strongest elements

in the climaie of violence io

day is the compulsion ta be

lieve that we are surrounded

by conspiracies.

This is the pararoid view of

life-that nothing happens to

us either by chance or through

our own deserts,

but only as

the result of a planned opera-

ton by our enemies. Believing

there is an enemy plot against

tim and his group, the para-

noid personality sirikes

olit- whether in hot or cold

blood — to foil it. Thercby he

adds to the climate of vior

lence,

and

the

tIVO

climatese of violence and con.

spiracy are fused.

Someday tve riay discovcr-

what prompted King's

killer-whether

it was the

srathful violence of a True:

Believer or the cold anger of

violence used as an instrument

for some smoldering paranoid

resentment deep within. In cir

ther casa it is essential that

the assassin be tracked down.

not for the sake of vengeance,

but becauce lve need to knov•

what moves in the minds of

distorted men before we car:

ever achieve even a measure

of reason.

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65.

c1 Y 89.Fi.0r 1.3

CARL T. ROWAN

DIS MAY 29 1963

Trail of King's Killer Loading to Dead End

The

casperace of tae

can't conceive ci due poidca.-

narcolds, peddling has been

mands on the time of the

slaper di De. data Butter

ing tia by sov.".

revealed, top law enforcement agents time has led even some

Kang becases core eerie and

Thus, the reen Tico mere

vincess here bave stared agh-

•FBI personnel to echo earlier

arung mid every passag

clinging doggedy to the deory

ast at the evidence that guards

pessimistic predictions that

Ca?.

ta mag's tier mas

in most prisons are so easily

"they'll

never catch Dr.

Tae D21 225 Edi come up

lozer have tow

into sending almost

over to tre bela: dust a hired

King's killer."

ris a siage meaningui tace

aler planed the murder and

anything into or out of a pris-

@ 1963

of Jarco Dazi Pay, da zum-

Ze escape mencistay.

ca.

Tas li Ray-ü FiEre Lee seem

Sume

investigators

have

resied 22 days ago that the

230

terzatione lapicatoes.

neward

Juay lyng arousd,

FBi bara': so much as a

suing wits sope.

ingly clumsy cluas lett bahind

curcluded thai our penal sys-

just decoys? And treo did the

firing?

ten is cones to the core, and

teey

save sent screams to the

Toe truth is that ise 3B2 has

top of our government that it

Eut lucated a singia trace di

tige time someone planted

Play since he supposedly abai-

a complete overcaul.

doned his raise Mustang in

¿ serious question arises

Atlanta

0a April 5, tae day

sow as to how long the FBI

aiter the Nobel Fize winning

can, or will, continue a con-

legio clergyman mas stain la

Berataly a Lot reveal at a

massire diage had seer set

Ep i Mezco. I mas dare that

Ray bad mei with some char

acers the el 731 and ower

¡sielgense agess i suspeci

involvement ca a foreiga coro

an. But invesdgarrs did zot

mant the surped tipped 0d as

to the iriensit ci toe searca

sonia vi the border.

Eut it cas zerealed zoining.

"We've

covered

Mexico,

Carace.

and to baited States

He a blacken" one rigi-level

"l Pay were

casicated

search

Memphis,

Tezz, ZueL In

King's killer. Aiready, student

fact,

the fBI does to: really

taraoil on scores of campuses

have sold evidenes dat it mas

has dictated the shifting.of

Pay to abacdosed tie car in

considerable manpower to the

Abarta.

waiching of these activities.

But the massire iresüga-

¿on das turned up zore infor-

There are some worrisome

cozzections between rioters on

Pay azd his

ice. varicus campuses. For ex-

farily. The most signiacari-

ample, one of the leaders of

and most galing i

some

the Columbia University dem-

Washingion circes - is icat

orseasons recently showed up

Pay was peddling dope wide

a. American University here,

prison in iRascari State

tying to agitate students into

Penitentary Eros 1ã0 to doril

pusang some

"muscle" into

1957.

their protest.

As te magnuisa ci Ray's

So sais confluence a de

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66•

THE PRESS

REPORTING

The Price of James Earl Ray

Tilliara Bradford Huie boasts of "one

distiaction I guess I've paid more mos

ey to more murderers than any

porter in history." Freelancer Huie has

other distinctons as well, but it is true

that be uses money, lavishly if nec-

assary, to get his story. Nobody

was

ever convicted for the murder of 14

rear-old Emmett Till in Mississippi in

1955, but Huie paid enough to get a

complete account of the crime for Look

mazzaine

Three years ago, Huie dis

siosed the facts in the case of the mur-

der of the three civil. rights workers in

Jasons County. Miss. After. a few

midnight meetings with greedy Ku Klux

a live of crime after dropping the atom

bomb on Hiroshima

Eatherly, Huie

showed, had not even flown in the mis

sion over Hiroshima, and his guilt

feelings developed years later under

the

encouragement

of ban-the-bomb

propagandises.

In recent years, Huie has been pre

occupied with civil rights. As an eighth-

generation

Southerner,

he

feels

obligation toward Negroes,

and he

wants to be proud of his home region,

After many rears of traveling, he now

lives where be was born, in Hartselle, a

town of 8,000 in

north central Ala

bama

There is a decency about pea

ple here," he says. He was happy with

the racial progress that was being made

in Alabama unti

George Wallace be

Kien

informers,

he

reCOD

structed the event for the New

York Herald Tribuna.

ODos agaia, Huie has soown

inat money in the right bands

pays off_ Under the cautious

aye of Attordey Arthur Banes;

James Earl Ray, tbe accused

Kiket of Martin Luber King

Ji, is telling his life story

•to

Hose In exchange,

Huie is

inancing Rav's defense So

far, Huic has not beeh per-

mitted to see Ray, but be has

receited some: 20.000 hand

#itten words, which be is ex-

hausively checking our Ray

may of may not be iasolved,

but Huie

has

becore con-

rizoed that a conspiracy led

to the murder. Huie plans to

publish.

one

aricke

before

Ray's trial next Movember,

ten follow up with a book.

"People don't like this way of

operating," says Huie. "I don't

like it much either. But I don't

HUIE (RIGHT) & RAY'S ATTORNEY

Passion, persistence and self-defense.

koary any other way to get

the truth."

came Goremor. "I suppose the reason

Capricious Exeartion. Besides mon

I keep invoted is that I resent Wals

ey, Huie makes use of a fierce per-

lace's effort to tarn back the clock."

sistence and an equally intense passion

To flaunt that attirade in Alabama is

for the underdog He is an aggressive,

asking for trouble, so Hure takes pres

blunt spoken reporter who makes it

cautions. He and his wife Ruth live in

dear that no one is going to put any-

a house that is designed for

self-de

ding over on him. When he does busi

fense. Every room has an outside exit.

ROSS

with the sordid characters who

Spotlights have been placed on the roof,

sell him stories, he tells them: "One

on the pario, on the lawn.

Many of

damn lie

and the whole deal is off."

them can be turned on at Huie's bedo‹

And few facts in Hur's exposés have

side.

"There are no shadows around

ever been

disproved

this house at night," he says. The house

It took ive years of digging, but he

is also equipped with three Remington

finally uneartbed the details in the case

iot guns, one for the use of guests

of ibe only U.S. serviceman executed

Juie, a crack shos, also has a not gui

for desertion in World

War II.

His

fastened to tbe front seat of his car. "I

book, The Execution of Private Slovik,

try to be prodent, remembering how

tras a fascinating aooount of how the

Medgar Evers was murdered," he says,

military capriciously singled out this pri-

referring to the Mississippi civil rights

Tais, among thousands of deserters, to leader who was shot in the back while

serve as an example. Then they thought

returning home one night.

better of it and husbed up the whole af-

After Huie denounced Tallace on a

fair.

Equally compelling was The His

lecture tour in 1964, the Governor went

roshima Pilot, in which Huie demol

on television to tongue-lash the writer.

ished the myth that B-29 Commander

Getting the message, racists made abu

Clande Eatberly remorsefully turned to

sive phone calls. For four nights, a pro-

TIME, SESTEMBER 13, 896B

cession of cars drove slowly around his

block while Huie stood by the window

with

his riot gun. In July, when a

cross was burned on his lawn, he wired

Governor Albert Brewer, pointing out

that since Wallace is given state pro

tection, his enemies should have it too.

Brewer agreed to give him what be

wanted, and now the local police pra

vide frequent patrolling.

Huie knows that the Ray assignment

is a possibly dangerous one. He hopes

it will be his last. He would prefer to

write novels now that at 57, he feels

time is growing short. He has already

written five, most recently, The Klans-

man, a powerful portrait of a South-:

ern sheriff who is pulled one say by

the Klan, the other way by his better in-

stincts; the Klan wins. Huie also hopes

that movies will be made of some of

his civil rights books. "One of the great

tragedies is that we've never had real-

istic films about race hatred

in the

US.," he says.

At the moment, a small

studio is making preparations to film

Huie's book about the

Neshoba mur-

ders,

Three Lives for Mississippi. Be

fore the film could be made, however,

Huie once again had to go through the

distasteful

experience. of shelling

out

money to scruity Klansmen, who

then

signed releases for portrayal rights. He

is confident that the result will be worth

it. "If films like this are done with the

imagination of Bonnie and Clyde, you

can really move people."

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68.

Ray SoughtHely,

Coing Dificultes'

3ö225=3505

50550323535359120

James

Eai Pay Cesarices is ês a

cause de fared ha

Chitcuites

Fay under tas: exensive

Iental tesis is 1055

aiar

inis secaiè Insuscessiai a

tempico escaja irom ide

• Missouri

Stara

2÷300;

Whes De nas serrica 29

Jears ior arced rossera.

• Tre psycriatis. win stuá-

¿ed Ray, Dr. Eazy Y. Guai-

maz Ji, sait Zuo feit "ais

escape azecapt stas due za

suit di nadue amiasy 21d

teasion mit ia zecà to as.

tually do sanariaz" agost

"He is teariai teat tais

might jead da zore seri

ois dificulties," Gzaias

said di tca 1nzz arcisaá di

Shooting de Per. Di. Biaria

Lüter Ming Ja. oz Abri ti

Siemphis

Із з терот to ie 3is

SOuri Board

•and Pargla, Girinaz da

scribaa Ray as au 03525-

sire,

compulsive persora.

ity," beset by orergowering

fears of ban

He said Fãs feit tia: ED.

tendal dangar coud

warded. of paigo? auing

through cerizia "Litalistic"

acis.

"These varicos fezes cor-

front him fron time io time

and in a typizi casessive

compulsiva mar,

'Le ieeis

thai ha musi do certai

things" to sata siniseli zon

ham, Guturaz said

"For "instante, - ia de

seribes a feelez oi lezz ina:

can be alleviaea i he takes

a glass of matar a is deino.

ing aná sets ii cu tra tes.e

and moves it sacis azá forta

several timas

The report implad tiz

Pay mas driver by lase w-

named fears to sy i0 breas

the

fortrass-like

Zason at Jefferson City, JIo.

Ray Emaly escaped Agri

I, 1957, on his third ay, 3y

zang in a box on tae back

az ourbound bajess.

sici

In te repor, preparad

Fout contas

beiore Pag's

sEcessial. escape, Gualzear.

sald is "basic problem =e

Taires around unat appeais

" se sa increasinaly setese

Essessive compuisiva iread"

CLe 1967 Lajaaa's Dic-

EcaaTy di Psycaiais des

Enes cosessive compuisiTe

sanatior "marked oy rica-

alsa sau by preocupados

mich a sugie Idea or ce

Sz')

Ginkaz noted caat Ray

bad requested an examina-

toa by au independent joy-

caiariss and Guilmai rec

cended approval di tais,

sariao be was in neeá os

Isreciatic help."

Gilmar

геротей

erijazce of delusions, bati

cicadoas 0r paranoid ideas,"

bar zoted a rather deep uso

¿aling obsessive compu!-

Ete personality trend taic

Za das really naver dis

cessed at lengta wii 27j-

cre.

"Tais is not psycicotic in

but severely neu-

Frio, ine psychiatist said

Ea expressed strong doubis

tat Pay was parole maiz-

rizi at that time.

Cunimaa cailed his sub-

jest an- "interesting and

Feider complicated individ-

czi." Ee said Ray used such

ivanical terms as

"solar

piaris, cacbycardia and in-

Jacarial"' in describing his

¿ches and paias.

";Ynes.: we: commented

reat these were rataer large

wards (Ray) reporied toat

ia bad been reading uo in

tee •medical

Literature,"

Ganiman saida

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News Violations

Charged to Four

On Ray Trial

zerppazera, a lamyer and a

Mirara dumire Rave bean 0r.

dered to sent cause way they

scould ai. se hed in contempt

je cour in ridating a ban on

I25S in de cEse di James Earl

criminai Cuori budge W. Pres

Hton Basia, taco is scheduled to

¡bear Pars fia on caarges oi

Ieri Lutcer King

issari

ia sman cause or-

cas yesaray.

Baria orierei tue four men,

ircladies

2a?'s

calaf defense

corsa:,

fora zima Sari 27.

In addizio Faras, those cli-

ed mere Pezzo T. Fays, a pri-

•Taie

derative

working

arà Cearies Eamundson

Deal aid Fuy Baritoa of the

Bengas iness seriar.

Batte ad acãon after receiv-

ing a 'Daian ier contempt"' by

a cartita di seven attorteys

Ze

ne-=á so zonitor what is

cring repertei abcut toe kay

cazz.

Pray is sesaquied to go on

trial Ner. 3.

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Tồ :

7=927 36 166685

ay's sawyer

ays He May

ult Cese

Fanes fa said i suit yes.

Es James Zarl Raysiat-

bat may to baria tais

Fagon, mas retained by

Engad and zad in Men-

this

Eazas was in court gesterday

tee

¡angers remarmarded

¿cai ca 2ré

privace decEra de les in cos-

temps di count on graces they

ariar

prejudicial

¡contacten with ta Ray case

Ray coa:

zed mit

King in

he gais on

128 is

Érisi dov. 12. Re mas arcasted

in Faziard

Con-

Eases;

listengar retained

¿y Banes

¡and retories Ocarles Edmund.!

¡sun Ci ie Cormerical Appeal

and 2oz Familton a ic= Frass-

Scinicar sa cited

Arzistead CaT,

¡ tse mo resorters, toid Bace the

¡guarantzas di iree speece aná a

tea press agains ice guaran

tess di a jair trial

He angead the sensman were

act gabry ander the is and lita

arcardens to te Coistiation.

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-71.-

ZOS ENGaGES PRES

PAUL COATES

20g?

$63

Eric Gale's Trail-and

Come with me along a minding

Some Puzzling Angles

22i=39

curre dia question sai

Wear Dr dartin Buses King was

ISGESSiTAtEL, I TES iN QuETO TaÑE-

Mistal "Tropicana"

Sex, trera I bare many cou

padres.

Among ten are bietca

cist jamue: Lage, ais vite, LamE,

and has stater, Susana Quieroz, Tizo

-anages the Hotei Tropicaza

•Caine day I was laaring, we nada

no Ta get

Be sallite

acd,

cavarzation desi:

==

geig

i dempais aid

Jaza Canizan,

, Baza

te Heardy

.C.

=z=

1424-2

ted

sudaz appazizuca di a

Coa5a Guant cunter tazi ancaored in

2a say and Weosa sadors, area

Triza

rides,

TIZIZ

pasoling

1=ezA sortes

F's sayin5, Dues

to Ferra s the least

Hey piace

= manzà man to ride out

Madio. Daa American colony beze

vay cannisa. Taer'à zonica a

sarange

ireditey and dad out

¿out

Tza:

Leory seans ironical rota

see,

Taila-z

Bria Gait was in Quero

" leared recently fast some larza

weeks airer i lein a coupla cá 232

Eseas visited tee fonz i e Zio

Hoa, daay szowed a ssetca di -ice

vaned man and asited li he cad

sayed were The maragei ramaz.

Higkland 'Avenue,

Birmingsa?.,

Aia.

This, as we zom

3nOw,

is

the

20-

dress of the board-

ing-housa

Jamas Earl Pay?

alias Galt had

rented a r000l in-

til early Octobar

last year.

Employes ci

both hotels

have:

vague recollec

tions of the man,

whom they da

scribe as "quiet,

PER SUR BED. 122

13

but jeay distine:!y

remember his ca

- a 1966 white

Mustarg.

Now,

I find

myseli asking a Ict

di puzzling quas.

tions.

• Why

did Ray-Gali, the mas

accused or plotting Martin Luttar

King's murder, leave Birminghai.

and go to Mexico six montes befora

diemphis?

• And why did an escaped convict

on the lam drive a scite Mustang, a

car that

might have attracied.

attention in Puerto Vailarts? Was it

just bungling, or part of a carefuily:

planned conspiracy?

• Was this really Play-Gall, 0=

sote other man acting as a decoy?

The answers, of necessity, would

just be conjeciure. Bus, in Friday's

colume, I'll espece them

irio-mation zaat he bad jeez ai

Fe gare te agents a registados

card, signed "are S. Gait"

Then,

, ¿ce FBi aez want to ia

Erupinna Zurei and assed Susene E

sce moulá ins tarouga her sacoris

and

Fed Gait's regissados. Tay

said tey jew he had saysd taara

Sta

checked and contrad thai se

rad.

. Oziy, jais ime, be hai rags-

tered is "EFia Cale" mida 20 middla

i diained duplicates ci the regis.

nirsal in Gait had chacked into Ze

2ia da Go: IS, 2937, and liar sovad

to the tropicasa, lisera Le stayed

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- TIENNEUN POST

16 AUG 1963

Ray Book

SEEPHIS

- Tre man

Charged with murder in the!

¿rada of Dr. Miartia Luther

King Jr. has conmacted with

an autaor to write his-biog.

rapisy.

James Earl Pay, awaiting

Lial, on for, 12 bas aied!

retan Bradiord Euie of

Farselle, Ala; who arrived

tara Wedzesday with an

Law J. Fazes, ia Biming-

han aitorney wao will de.

izaù Ray.

Eue said ba also isas a

cunmacs wita Paves ior ma-

ratial to be used ia ta Ray:

siury. He said Pay das given!

hima 10,000 hardwritten

words wish whics to start

sae book

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+748.978

Allomey Says Ray

as Given Him Leads

LONDON (3P) -Jane Sad sassinating Martin Lutker King

Pay's amerina lange talead ja.

aim a Fisa soday ad trim J. Hanes of Birming.

said La 30%

Zai zed other hara, dia, met with Ray for ar

elense a Bry, accesed af as; Handsworth Prison. Hases saic

aiterward- he found the condi

Ecos somewhat restrictive. Hi

said he was rot permitted a

tiErTier in confidence. He an

Hey were separated by a glas:

Tea Alabama lavyar said he

Iss sezincing to build his case

and organiza a defensa. for tse

Say that Puy might be extradit-

sa to stand trial ior the murderi

¿ ica american civil rights

Z2л2r.

"Car meeking was most help-

zast suitful azd kened.

a Fares said. "ie see to

=air each otzer better. He is

=Zazad and feeis good. He is

pariacily rational, sane and lu-

Hares said he plans to leave

icadas tomorrow and did not

Enresea another trip to Britain.

Ea said Ray had been receiv-

in many messages of support

un ise United States and he i

ratill for i He also hasre

THANKS

-INS JUL

beived many offers of help for

Leis defense

6 1968

iet..-

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DEE

TESTICION POSI

22 Jz7 1958

1H 53216

Fo Washingten Marry Ee ozza

FBI Doubts Dr. King a Victim of Plot

By, Draw Pearson and

¡ways seemed in java ezuzahicond not be identified. How.l

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

272r, te FBI has been check- got hold of it by purchasing

Juich Farulerson

Occasionaly Pay slipped ing jary carefully, and one of bootleg excerpts from Boliviau.

It on

$20 tips i bar airis and prusio the roggers answers the de- officials, then piecing the exo:

has expoded ie generaly

stipsion of James Earl Ray.!

cerpts together. A few pages-

All to'i, Pay spent an esti

-:== nãd the same long hair

were missing from the ver."

prevaian: izory that the vi

sever me same. height and the same sion, which

Cer 02 Lue BeY. Da. Diantis Is-

monis Yet during jais ¿me piysical makeup.

friendly publications around.

iser King iavoivad a conspa

se rever neiu a jos, Airer ine!

Ai Jrst the FBI was In-

the world, including. Ramparts-

ise suspect timed to be skeptical. How-

magazine in this country.

The conspiracy theory bas went to Cañada and eventa ever.

rechecking the Alton

Parade magazine's enterpris

¿ong beez bala, as a result ofjaly to bagland waere sealso cans robbery has convinced ing editor, Jess Gorkin, organ-

large amonds of monay seemed so be la de douga de cau that Ray was involved

lized a consortium of publica.

spes: by James Earl Ray, the had pleaty of money to spend and that this was where he

tions that sought to purchase

saspecied sier, and see mas.

un clownes and airpane fare.

gu: me money on which he

the rights to the diary from

zer is minicia de ryas abie to

So ina. big quasion mas: Erad so extravagantly prior to

the Bolivian Government Gor-

tae. United Where did he get ine money? Ee ling murder.

kin sent Andrew St. George, a

Siates, Canaca, sod Europe. It;

For a long lima tra Z31;

The idea that a group con.

bring -em - back - alive

bebered his operatons toyed miin laa possibility that spirad to murder Dr. King and

would aara beea impossible; Pay was inasced ay a traita paid Ray to do. it has sow

without bein iron other cos- supremacy

late the diary and research

To da baa deen dropped.

the story behind it.

were out io boasted to felion prisozars: Joie l: The FBI has also

Actually, some of the other

Dude: DE. King

¡tha: he intended io sara a big aced a British bank robbery

documents captured with Gue-

For insanez, Ray rented al

ise chaside and to Pay.

vara are much more revealing:

saie deposa dus in tha Bir isai he migot ty to collecial Jo:a 2: Arthur J. Hanes, the

than his diary.

He Jugged

aurored Sa-malos bousty Accican lawyer who turned

them around the jungle in a

waterproof jungle pack and a:

Bas Anz 25 ol last Year, and that a business rosa sappeals in Loados to deiend Ray, portable fieid safe made of

bagan passing out'edly had offerad for the deada cas bees connected with var-

crisp s20 blus Be paid Sisaloi Dr. Jing.

loss odder cases, involving ra-

special, high-impact plastic

¿or dancing lessons He also

pad sais is. mailorder paoia i

Source of Honey

cial violence. He was the attor-

The papers included the out.

say darending the Ku Klux

a book Guévara

dida: inor ion to operase.

Now, howaver, da F3I has

Starsoen in the Viola Liuzzo

planned to write on the evolu.:

a rosay thera Ray:

Insuer case, has a flair for

tion of man's political think.

He sicked out mozey or alprobably got his zoney. On publicity and it's believed he

ing, going

back to the ancient

¡basending course, thougi de July 13 the Bana ci Alsoz, la wazi to London on his own.

Greck philosophers; also

sacred to increso in morning i taper Alton, i, Tas ÷0302=

•There is do evidence that he

behind agg Jan. Ee also took a!

D: $22,020. Alia is across ise is being paid by conspirators.

"Passing the Test," which he

course ia jucapicking irom a Mississippi Pirer irom Jus

wrote in the jungle.

13 sour, and it was tros the blis

Che Guevara Diary

The bloodthirsty guerrilla:

Nichigan, maica cost about|souri State Pazizzary that

leader also packed poetry with

Soma authorities have ques.

¡Ray escaped on Apri 23, ISã7,:

His nice diustang

Lazed tre authenticity of the

him to occupy his leisure mo

= 51995, wrisa ba paid in casa

three montes befora the Jing; Cue Guevara diary, which the

ments. His favorite poet ap

IRe drove it iron Merico ii

13 robbery ia disa

parently was Ruben Dario, al:

seralisionary kept before his

The soldup tas pulled of ceasa in the Bolivian mous-

though some verses appear lo

Monuel and irom los Angelby two robbers was moral"aias. We can repori that the

have been written by Guevara :

jes ia New Orizans, and âllstocking suasion Iueir faces, diary is autitentic:

@ 1068, Bellableciano synciento use.

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dependent-minded jurist, Ray seemed al-

most in a. hurry to return to the U.S

Abandoning his effort to appeal a Bnt-

isa extradition

order that seemed

doomed to failure anyway, he was spir-

ited by sight from grimy Wandsworth

3.isoa to Lakenheath Air Base 76 miles

on London for his nonstop flight to

Mempais.

The secret move left his attorney, Ar-

sur V. Hanes, fuming. He had wanted

i go along, said Hanes, because F.B.I.

agenis aboard the U.S. Air Force jet

Fight question Ray (the F.B.l. said that

ie four agents escorting Ray had not

spoken to him). "The case against this

joy is full of holes," sneered Hanes,

"and Ive got a few bombshells that

we'ra going to drop into those holes."

Jiss what they were, Hanes would not

or could not say,

TONJUL

1363

• TRIALS

A Very Imporient Prisoner

With the wrapped-in-cotton care sor-

many accorded in precious art works,

James al Ray was flora to Mempais

125 week to siand trial for the murder

oi Martia Lusher King:

A bullerprodi vesi hang ore, bis plaid

suit and his legs were escased iá 2i-

mored trousering wies be tras lad

hardcufad, irom a firion zimored vaa

irio Sraisy County jail zi dawn. À

sture oi deputies wits fioi goos forced

a defensive perimeter. Ray mas busiled

i0 za aircondioned cat du sea jaü's

inira foor. Heavy sieel pias biock

cel windows Closed-circuit televisica

cameras monitor all movemenis. Prison

trustes who ran elevazors have czan re-

placed by sharif's oñcers.

The Straight Word. Süch massive

Proaction is more than justigad. Ther

is widespread speculation that King's

dead was pioned by conspiraiors to

are stil iree.

"He won'i finiss iat

trial,"

a

Memphis

underworldling

warned lust weak.

"He's soi golg to

gei On

that withess chai and thar's

the straight word."

Alonga it will probably be mont

unil be faces trial beiore Memphis

Judga W. Presion Baizle, a rouga, in

лісні

MENIS LAGO 284

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FBI Finds More Clues

In Search 105h

assessin

MEMPRIS 14P) - 237

King was shot and killed by a

agents have uncovered "very sniper April 4 as he stood out-

substantial"" physical evidence side his motel room here.

as they monk around the clock!

It. the

Memphis

rooming

pursuing every

iad" i ice house from which the fatal shot

search

fer Di. Maria Luicer was fired, Charles Q. Stevens

King Jr.'s assassic, says dry.

Gen.

Ramsey Ciark.

said FBi agents had shown him

"The

FBi is deroing every

two composite drawings of the

possible resource in this investi-

suspected slayer - one a partial

Clark said last nigat.

profie and the other a full face

Trade

& remars impossi

ble

view.

to predict when dhe killer

will

a rested, I remain hope-

Stevens said he could identify

ful that it will be scos."

the partial view, but not the full

One Vieiv Identified

lace view. He said he saw the

gunman flee after hearing a shot

A Justice Degarment spokes fired

from a communal bath-

man said the Statamen issued in room next door to his room. Thele

Washingice

was in response io

-i newsmes's cuenes.

bathroom

wirdow

affords

clear view of the motel balcony.

where King was standing when

shot.

And

at a rooming house in:

Birmingham, residents said FBI

agents

had

about

an

questioned them

Eric Starvo Gait,

white

man

named in an FBI

bulletin

issued, then withdrawn,

in. Fiorida Thursday night.

de.

White Auto Seen

ore

The

message sent over the

state police teletypewriter net-

760

ài-!

work in Florida asked help in

Iccating Galt. It said Galt was:

1bie

Griving a white Mustang.

ates

Witnesses in Memphis told in-

zed vestigators

earlier they saw a

o!-

man

in a white Mustang drive

ma-jaway from the rooming house.

Records in Alabama show that

l a man named Galt bought a 196f

rite Mustang in August, 1967. Othe:

ita- documerts disclosed Galt lister

ce

ais

occupation

as

"merchan:

I seaman,

unemployed," when he

i oil applied for a driver's license in

ion Birmingham

last

September

ust giving the Birmingham rooming

l house as his address.

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•968

THE WASEINGION POST Saturday, April 13, 1968

A3

FBI Tracking

Jobless Sailor

In King Killing

Fion stars Dissaicides

ATLLITA, April 12 - FBI, are working around the clock

agents investigating the

sti-pursuing every lead."

per-slaying of she

Rev. Dr. UPI reporters checking

Martin Luther King Jr. have writa

martime

officials in

been on the trail ci

Eric diobile learned today that

Starvo Gali, listed as an un-lageats,

in

addition to ques-

employed merchant mariner,

ziozing persors at the Bir-

for Dearly a week, Urited

mingcam boarding house, had

Press International reporied

aiso

made a. check of the

coday.

cocks

long

before the Mus-

Galt's name first reached

tang was

found

the public last nighi whea à

Caion Officals Checked

white Mustang aato, registered

spokesman at the

Sea-

to him and resembling

che:

jarers International Union in

that reportedly sped from the the

Mobile said agents had visited

union offices

tWO

days

King assassination sceue, was lago and had gone through au-

found parked in an Atlanta

tomated files, without success,

apartment complex.

tying to set a lead on

No warrani sas been issued

Galt.

for Galt's arTesi,

but it was

Officials

at the National

learned toat the Bi in Miami

Maritime Union of America in

had issued-and then for un-

Mogue said agents had made

explained reasors

had wits-

a similar check there, and the

drawn-a "locale and notiy"

Star Fisning

Company, one of

bulletia on Gali yesterday.

the largest

firms of its kind

in the area, said it also had

Alabama Registry

(been visited by agents.

Agents

also

checked

Galt carried Alabama Licezse

The Mustang registered to Coast Guard files in Washing-

out

number 1-32993. A check wita

curing the day

without

Alabama authorities estao-

ünding any trace of Galt.

This

lished

Gale's

address

raised

as

speculation,

rooming house at 2003 High-

which again officials refused

land ave. in Birmingham,

but

to confirm or deny, that some:

one, 25 early. as last

residents, while recalling Galt,

Septem-

said they had rot seen

since

him

ber, set about to establish cre-

dentials

for a fictitious

November.

Dric

Starvo Galt

In obtaining his driver's li-!

Alabama officials

said that

cense in 1967, Gait Isted his

lat toe time he applied for his

occupation as an unemployed Alabama license,

at

the

age

mercoant mariner.

of 3ô, he claimed to have had

The FBI replied with a a Louisiana license since 1962,

blanket "no comment" to all

but there is no record that he

questions concerning the King ever turned it in.

investigation, but parsons at

the Birmingham

Obtains Tags

house said agenis were asking

The name of Galt

"plenty" of questions

was

about further validated when license

Galt last week

tags

for

the

wiustang

were

This was four or five days obtained under that name on

before the

Mustang was lo Oct 2, 1967, in Jefferson Coun-

cated in Atlanta.

ty,

The only offcial announce.

Ala.

Residents

Atlanta

ments in toe King case have apartinent complex where the

come trom

Attoraey. General

icar was found remember the

Ramsey Clark

driver as a neatly-dressed man

Clark said in Washington wao calmly got out of the car,

today that "physical evidence locked it and walked away.

is very substantial" in the in-

This

description

roughly

vestigation

tailied with one given by oc-

"Waile

it

remains impos-icupants of a rooming

nouse

s sible to predict wen the kill-lia klempois, where the assas-

ver will be

arresied. I remain sin stood in a communal bath

it hopeful that it will be soon,"

land tired the shot that killed

a Clark

said in

sever-line Dr.

statement.

Jing.

The assassin is be-

"The FBI is devot- leved to

have checked

into

ing every possible resource to the rooming house under the

this

Investigation

Agents/name of "John Willard."

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Artist's, sketch

of

811471

pected slayer. At left 1s

the Birmingham room.

ing house that is the last

known address of Erlo

S.7

Galt:

whom

police

linked to a white Mus-

tanga

Min

Atlanta.

At

rightils where, the car

was found

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BROAD TRAIL WITH ELUSIVE END

APR 14 1968

Movements of Kings Killer

Traced Step by Step, But

BY JERRHLAH OLEARY

the

floor and two Mexican:

touristi- carrying

nothing when he renterthe

stickers on the windows.

The FBI can"

room

The presumption is

that during

man who killed King is either

link the car with the events in lemphis.

the nest hours he went outside and got

some things from the Mustang parked

Tradi's luctiest amateur or part of

but renses to say bow:

ally cleTer constracy,

To name Gait is sow believed to ben"

Main Street

SiX

blocks.

away,

lavesagator yesterday as the

an aias. an exhaustive check of almost

sources report; be bought a pair

ot

binoculars from a place called York's

mat for tbe slayer of Dr. Mar-

every conceivable form of record in the

1-17:7957

King Jr. continued

United States has led to a dead end. No

days

ater: the

civll rights

Eric: Starvo

Gait is listed by police

In the half hour before King was shot,

ras slain by a sniper in Mem

departments,

unions, credit of banking

"Fillard"

got

up. from his bed and

Fedeal

Bureau of

institutions or on otber records

locked himself in a communal bathroom

ion fiods itselt in the dilemma

But,

according to Mrs. Payne's der,.

which

has a window facing the balcony

cal evidence

Sx000n,

"Gait"' resembles the man

of the Lorraine.

Willie Anchutz,

#ho

points to the true iden

being sought for the slaying at King:

lived in the ilophouse,

tried to get in

assassin

but his knock was not answered.

dart-haired, dart, neat clotoes; point•:

dsclosed

Ed- Dose

Tbe Alabama Ficense records::

According to Memphis Police Viree-

this much

for Galt are corsidered not inconsistent.

tor Frank C.

Hollomon,

a former FBI

can be reparted about: the evidence in

The application described him as 5 feet:

agent, the distance from the bathroom

band; the man being songst and how he

window to King's balcony is 205 feet 3

prepared for and committed the crime:

Il, 175 pounds, - with bine ernam

brown hair.

Both

descriptions

considered:

down, an easy shot with a telescopic

lose to those given by persons who-rite

Tary bave latent fingerprints taken

Eus: tos. Remington Gamemaster 30.06

sump ribe beliered to have been the -

ssassination. weapon, and from the tel

warpie sight altached to the gun

•. Ibey bare a les white Mustang be-

Lared used as the getaway car.

* Tazy bave hall a duen or more pea.

say the susperted slayer both

siere- and after the fatal sbooting at.

6:01 pra April 4.

• But they do bot not koom vino the

gunsas really is wiere be is, whether

Le was worting alone of. as part of a

consuurary..

t. tbout the Car.

-Andorities have pieced together this

Ised intormation about the car they.

base connected with the case:

a Bring, 30, Sl2, Said a 1966 white

old a 1966 white

Mustang to a man who gave his name

as Base Starvo Galt On

Sept. 6, 1967,

is no id tes at tange and NO.

i moder that tame

and No.

2351317 was mailed to him. On March 1,

1988, Gait requested a duplicate and oDe

DraS

mailed to him at a Birmingham

aw the suspect fleeing from the Mem-

King emerged three times just before

The third time, be mentioned to

the Rey. Samuel Kyles that he was tired

tion given by

5 feet 8 to 5 feet 11, 26 to 33 years of.

age, beat dark clothing.

of restaurants and wanted some "soul

food" Kyles invited him home to dinner

and King said he would like that King

leaned on the balcony rail; talking to his

driver, Solomon Jones, on the grounc

below.: Jones told King it was cold anc

been the murder reapon was traced by

its secial umber to as Burmingnam,

suggested he wear a top coat

Those were his last words. Standing

in the bathtub of Bessie Brewer's dop

house, the killer took aim across a junk-

eitres the suspect or an accomplice.

The man got the Remington by trad-

ing another

gun for it The FBL has

but it can

pile on a vacant lot; over a row of

scrubby trees

on: an

embankment,

squinted through, the telescopic sight

and fired. ME

Soft-Nosed Ballet Used

King was strick in the lower right

javr: by: a soft-nosed bullet which

cursed through his neck, hit his spine

and came to rest in his shoulder: He

The next event linking King's death to

fell to the balcony deck, unconscious

the mystery man occured April 4, a

and bleeding profusely, and was dead

-few bours aiter King's well-publicized on arrival at the hospital:

artival at tbe Lorraine. Motel for a'

Willie Anchutz heard the shot and

-plaming session. in connection with a

looked out his door. He saw a man rush

march

of striking sanitation workers..

handbag and a long object wrapped in a

ay room, dia 306,; at-tbe Lorraine in-* sheet. Änchutz did not get a good look

"That sounded.

trance of the flophouse, ducked into the

doorway of the Canipe Amusement Co.

at 424 South Main, and dropped the rule

and the bag there. The proprietor, Guy

saw him

abandon the gun and

ag, but. did not go outside. Otber wit

nesses said the suspect climbed calmly

into the white Mustang a few feet be

Fort and drove away

Trien she showed him Rooms 4,5 and'*

can easy &- to 10-hour drive from

6-0n the ober side facing the Lorraine

Mestico Trans Stickers

At a post to be tetion d

"Willard" had ino

oried by Galt in the All, douse

as estra ted tom kings body and!

what was found in the bag or what its

A Laboratory examinations showed

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King

Probe Is Quiet, Intense

PP APR 14 1023

3y Gaylord Saal

Tures to say way a is loudig!

Jensen wouldn't even

SPaS, A351 13 (AP) FOr Gai

ine 10 days since tee assas.

Buses Jassen

how many agents have been

Ee Rar. Di. Diar ag22: 2

• casage of te Mera-

sent into Merphis. But in a

in Laden Bing Jr, taa lgies

pais ostice,

more a stained

five-minute period

night, reporters watched 15

saned all

ligan, nigai

da incas reporters.

2e zigan in a corcer suita

All I car say is Do casesert"

agents hurry in or out of the

se repead to a custom.

See SEARCH, AJ, Col 1

Fais sew federa burning.

There, in dices ore looking

de Tide, muddy Elssissipe!

Pires, dozess of FBI ages

save

siited

JarDagE Fat is described 251

Tery scastanda" paysical eri

icezce

coasütices

rais eridence is osticially

sources

some di ica majar items aiz

Jim and fager pissin, 27 06

eliga baz belered io cosi

jain coraing and a.diga-po.+

ened ride mita a telescopie

sigion

In addizon, a waie dias

zang similar to oze sat tel

poredy sped iron the asses

maton sceza bas been im

Been losed $0 27 Eric Starro

Gal, Lasted 25 27 uses

lived in

Birminzaza tas

FBI Takes Over

King Killing Case

SELECE, From A1

lto the investigation, "working

suce taronga ad unmarked around the clock pursuins

Side 2005.

every lead."

aBi agezis care laterviewed

This could mear that inves-

andreds a parsors in diem.

tigators are re-examining the,

I possibility that more than one!

pais, Binisghai, Atlanta and

person was involved is the as

sassination

sensere. Teeg aava taken

over iza raceris di tiro rooma-

They seemed puzzled about

conflicting reports on. thei

•a souses and ai least on

zin shop is Bimingham

nuraber of getaway cars in-

volved and about police radio!

Taey hare posed tarouga do-

transmissions

detailing

a!

cumans in state and local high-speed chase-which ap

governmen, visces taroughout

parently never took place=!

¿aa Souza

through northeast Memphis 30;

minutes after a sniper killed!

(Trasaingion

Post

Stast

Dr. King with a single rife!

Waiter.Parl Faienine re-

shot

One member

of Congress,

Thas cirticized the FBI's probe.

ian, iGO FBI ageris are work

Noting what he called dis

ing on laa casa in tat city

21022)

crepandies

throughout

the

investigation, Rep. Charles W.!

I seems is. ererywhere re-

Whelas Jr.; (R-Ohio), said the

poras so, Ja FBI already

FBI should "set the record

"istraight."

has instrucied them to say

"The handling of the investi

gation and the

efforts to ap

cross de steai from the

prehend the guilty person or

FBi office, spokesmen for the

persons hardly had been reas.

Despiais police insist their de-

usring to a tense and troubled'

pa zest sil

is

working

Nation." Whelan said in Wash-

closely wita Federal agents.

ington.

But from al indicazon, the

But a Justice Department

F3I cas jakes ore: the inves 12 days to make an arrest in

agaton cospleely.

the 1963 slaying of civil rights;

Tre FBI kas maintained si-

leader Medgar Evers in Missis.

lance on all aspecis of the

sippi and more than

five

isresigation, but

Attorney

months to make arrests in the

Geseral. Ramsay Clark issued

1964 murders of three civil

a ay sterent in Washing.

rights workers in the same

tos last rigat tai dropped his

state.

eatar reiesence to done man

Sisteen hours aiter Dr. Ring

sa3 siain Aarl &, Clark said

evidesce "judicates

incividual. Tas

siagle

irvolved.

-There. is so evideace of a

widespread gloi," he said.

In the saver-line statement

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82.

The Smell Of Conspiracy

More-and more the assassination

of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. be-

gins to resemble a well-planned,

coldly-eracuted plot which had its

inception months ago.

What is

more,

the way in which.it was

carried out lends credibility to the

theory that it was a conspiracy.

This is written with some reser

Memphis police car "160." There is

a car 160, but it did not chase a

Mustang the night of Dr. King's

• deata. The radio reports

which.

seemed to be coming from that car;

• were, again appazently,

ahother

plant to draw police off the real

scent.

vations. The conspiracy theory does

THE LINE must be drawn in

not usually. attract us about an

event of this nature. We are no

this kind of speculation, but it ls:

obvious to us that only extremista

tably unmoved by the critics of the

Warren Report on the Kennedy as

of the far right or left child anticis

pate immediate benefit in die ler-

sassination, who seem to believe

ing Dr. King.

The left, by which

that not only was mote than one! we mean agents of China, Cuba or,:

man involved, but that the conspir

possibly, Moscow, were bound to:

acy they envision included every-

kaow that Dr. King's déath would

one from Communists to. the!:

be the signal for rioting and pocket

CLA

insurrectiods in every major Amer-;

Ican, city. They could reason, with

BUT AS the pieces of the piz.

good basis, thät the distürbances

zle of Dr. King's murder fall into

would badly weaken our society's:

fabric, making us even less capable

place and as others refuse to de of dealing with our obligations

so evidence beging. to - weigh-

heavily in favor of a conspiracy

abroad and further polariting the

theory. At the very ledst, it now.

räces at home.

seems evident that this was not an

the tar right could also benefit,

impetuous act by a badly derang-

again assuming angry reaction in

ed man, but the result of a long-

the ilegro community. What the!

range plen.

far right would hope to gain would :

be a kind of semi-military takeover

There is, for instance, the iden-

of this nation in the ñame of law!

tity of "Eric Starvo Galt" He

ant ofder = which again is Hot so!

doesn't exist, apparently; and yes

far-fetched a positility that it can

he began to exist as a person

be automatitally discounted even

around the middle of last yeat.

NOW.

He establisbed an identity, then

carefully used it in building a

Having said this, it is necessary

to restate the qualitication that the ,

trail which has led investigators

nowhere.

first assurtiption - of a lone killer:

acting out his own fisychosly a rea?

There was also the matter of

the rifle so openly dropped near

mains the most probable.

With

every day which passes without art

the flop house from which the

death

artest, sowevet, this assumptlon is

blow was struck. Tö our

drastically weakened. We äre leit

knowledge, no official has yet said

it was the weapon which fired the

with "Eric Strato Galt," a man

who plotted long and hard and

fatal shot

who is still at latze. It smells of

Then there was the fictious

chase

of a: white Mustang" by

organisation and conspirasy, and

the smell grows senger e

"GREENVILLE, MISS.

DELTA DEMOCRAT,

TIMES

E-13,019

S-12,952

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83..

BOOKING KING'S KILLER

Or Maybe Ayn

W/S APR 17 1968

Fleming.

ers

are politicians, bureaucrais,

seli-styled intellectuals who are

¡razeed by airo caciaesars ia

evil and must be destroyed. Gait's

denounces mysticism and glori-

fies reason. His gospel is aboli

tion of the income tax, an end tol!

ing arce vicia?

foreign aid and of social weiiare!"

The zame di ta man listed ca

legislation. At the end, as Gait!‹

da registans cad di

and. his cohorts fly to their At

waite justang car laked io taa

lantis they see New York writh-

staying is

; "Eric Starto Gait"

ing in its last convulsions.

Tie 531 b23 Been acla to ==8

Ernst Stavro Blofeld is thel

aviang to incicia juas any

much-less philosophical villain

suca a persos atas.

of "Thunderball" and two other

AN AYL Pad's LE? Lovel,

"Hin

Fleming novels.

jas Saragged" the leader cia

If the man who murderes

Mizoriy ci peopia de.

King was influenced by the

i scribed as able, creatire and al-

üa-corservative is "joen Gait."

views of the fictional characters,

or even just concocted an alias

from a combination

of the

JamES Bord sioes, ie leading

¡ezemy ci the suis quo is called

names,

an investigator migh

"Exist Starzo Bicizia"

An artist's tuiticial coscepo

Los of Gais

draw the conclusion taat the fu

gitive is a man of some educa

Ayn Rand's zore! Lagies with

tion or affinity for reading. Per

"ca quore:

"W=o is Jian Gait?"

but ice charader retains hid-

rasia] is trai a competent: sons who claim to have seen to

dez lom the reader ior over

He d de ford are vanishing

suspect, before and after ta

hi the boob, as maica time be

male the gresi? inccmpetents.

April 4 assassination, describ

pears and delirais a secree-

are thing over. Ice disappear-

kim

neatly dressed an

"i, deziciaton di suciety that!

anca di the comperent "objectiv.

svell-spoken.

555"" is part on lair plot against

There is some speculation tha

¿e looters and parasites ba-

LuEse.

he is a professional killer, rathe

cause. ree able zen ara con-

than an "amateur." But feder

lerary "Gal" livas in vinosa socisty zust collagse

investigators studying the minut

¿a United States ci tea tutena in:

secure there can re a bealthy

details of the case say tier

maich the excrasay is maystar-i social urder.

is no reason to put snore cri

visig dachaing jEss Pard's

To de icciona" Cal, the loot- dence in one idea, of the otte

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Names Believed Fals

on the rifle also mas purchase

from the gun dealer on March

30::

free his name really is,"

Informed souress said Galt

went to the gun shop on Marct

next day, these sources said; he

returned and said his brothe

had told him to get a 30.06 Rema

Owner of testang

The FBI also said Galt is the

- housing depelop

Agents leared

bought the pest

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ugs stayer

Phony

lame Stalls Search

LANTA-A

115 (UPD:

Fany.

of hina,

an

knew

coranticos ionated today

iroposible

that the mosta wanted man.

in thại Nan Bas Starvo

sain, ottch say without a

cherpes Said Galt

"didn

Gabs never astinty existed nion card

Isy, much about, bus tamily

bit, was caretali contrived

sciss trail grows cold in

Catfairs, only that he, was di-

months, befare, the Rey. De.

Atlanta, here hiss car — a

vorced Be only? talked

Martix Lather King Ir, was white - Mustang similar to about the weather, never.

arisited o

Pare believed toibave been & about palities or racial trou

SAnsbarities

pressed thei

Rused by the sniper in fleeing r-bles

157100273

narch withor i a warrants:

alemphis was found aban

A He said Galtystaed at his

for the mir. Bat they in

dated Awril'5, the morning

rooming house at 2808 High-

attenD. Hing was stain. -es

land are from dug 26:10

may be ai hind setup bai tie Bitingham, i mean

humper the sourca for the while, roorsing house man-

He said that during: Sep

aler, of billers of Dr. Kires gager Reter Nicholas Cherpes

tember, Galt received a pre-

I waterial that invests said be bad identited for

paid packager in. thei mail

tigatorsibam beei zaable th

FBI agents: a sketch of arifrom: Chicago,, He said its

treen his esistence begardi

man known to bim as: Galt;

weighed: 20_ to

25 paunds

Cherpes, 72, told the Bir teas about two fest long and

Tha man maa cauled wim

mingham Ners in a copy.

one foot wide; The nest dar;

selt Gal purobased a ertin

righted interview, that the

Cheries said, Galt told him

it was the wrong: merchar

dise, and be planned to ser

"He was above the aver

it back 229s%

225/2:

roomer, in dress talk CriBe 5 30-06

anne gation as a tunera:

paged merchans paine sen

and appearance, Cherpes hunting tidle, Hounds'f

Reming

the murder siene: an

Lead "He always wore bered, ta be thesi

Bad poniey of the matt

sporty clothes and a tie. He-

Kament ariong bire

was elwas pleasant and reSea SEARCHAR C

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Slaying Suspect

velled Identity

SEARCH, From A1

his

Take deve fer hie to

'"'lest,"

berpes said

¿OHe TOS a DENT INRI LO AJ

shams-and to Bimingbra

and -also a customer."

Светреь: confessed, "2nd

a In October, Cherpes said

Gatt told him be was leaF-

ing for Mobile, Ala, do cect

= job. Gait said be expeited

asked herpes o bottle 3o

Forld.

more elasety...

-544

T Or MA

here may de ate

came from Chiergo. He seid

the envelope tas thin sod

green, with a Chicago pos

Pascagonia ridd it had never

"I was purried for a while!

-hired a men by tart same

where: to mail ti," Oberpes

Gait told Cherpes he

said. "I diin't have an ad

"taking a "long raestion" and

dress. (for Galt) So I beld.: expected to stry: at

the

the letter for @ week,: and

rooming house three or four

perined it"s

months. But he only stayed

susaid it appeared

six weeks, Cherpes said.

letter contained

The only official mention

not. Galt in connection with

FAX

et Baid, he brett

• to

the King investigation was

in an FBI locate and no

tir bulleting issued, and

then withdrawn, in Florida

It said he was 37, 5 foot-1l;

estan x zaat!

a211 5 M

blue jes and

hate It said his seme

Foistarvo-Gat It be

Lassed,

955029.913-831

BAnd: Et58 588. 19.810

Datif shat 2209 8323

a mêt totta ses

the: tides

Siminat

*ask

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-84.

FBi Warrant in King Killing

Accuses Pair of Conspiracy

By JEREMIAH. OTHER

The " nation today was being

flooded with photographs of the

man accused by the FBI of con:

spiracy. in the assassination af,

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. SK

-The FBI broke its long silence

an the search for King's slayer

by filing a federal civil rights

complaint against the man called

Bric Starpo Galt late yesterda

n Birmingham, Ala 1257:212

The warrant issaed on author;

ity of Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark?

says that Gait "and an indi

vidual whore be alleged to be

his -brother'' entered into the

conspiracy on of about March 3

30002:

Police in Memphis, Tenn:, filed

a murder charge against Galt.

The: FBI only charged con

spiracy: because murder is not

a federal offense.

26:1995

King was shot to death on the

balcony of a motel in Memphis

on April 4,-by-a single shot

fired. by a super frum the win

•See GALT, Page, AS

These are the FBI pictures of the man called

Eric Starro Galt. His eyes were closed in the

original photo and an FBI artist sketched

im the open eyes.

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GALT

King Case Warrant

Charges Conspiracy

tizen in Birmingham on Au

a a flopbouse 215: feet (gust 30, 1957. The car's odometen

showed that it: had been driven

the FBE warrant wes the firs

i more then 19,000 miles between

mention of a conspiracy try. airy

the date of purchase and the day!

agency valved in the nation

i was found in Atlanta: 243/

wide man hunt Galt is accused

According to the FBi, Gat

of coispiraty to violate Kig's

Favelede in the Mustang to Los

civil rights

Карова

ingeles; New Orleans; Birming.

Retards totaling $100,000 have

bam, Mexico, Memphis 2d At

Lauta. He was seen in Memphis

on Apol? and & and is known te

have departed: froun

in there for

Allants, the FBI said Be

The Be ivestigation tarne

minformation that Galt

claimed to have been a cook un

koown as. Galt in bopes that the

Mississippi river boats and a

ablic wilknow be able to balp

merchant seaman, although rec.

ocate a man about whom much

ords of maritime unions. coutain

s known, but whose true identi

Do such name. Galt was also

ty: and present whereabouts are

said to be anjayid dancer and

a mystery desper

had taken

dancing: lessons.in

Officials say Tric AStarvi

New

/ Orleans in 1964 and 1965; in

Galt is au alias used in. pur

Birmingham: duriug. September

hase of a white 1965 Minstang

and October: 1987; and in Long

Beach, Calit, from December

1957 to February 1968, 10/5984

Agents have verified that Galt

the fugitive is said to haw

and drove the Mustang to New

mentioned a brother at the timi

Tieans where: he claimed:!

boright a rifle in Birmingtam

ave contacted either an eng

neering or a: contracting firm.

He drove back in bartending in

Los Angeles that led FBLagents

to the pbotograph.

Gatt Dese

Cars described as waite ad

by his own accout, 36 years of

age; although his supposed birth

place of July 20, 1931 is not bori

ule found a few blocks from th

out by records. He is 5 feet 8

scene of King's murder ady t

to: 5 feet 1I inches tall and

The suspect used the Willard

weighs. between -160 and,; 17

alias when be registered at the

pounds. His acquaintances an

flopbouse on April 4 and teok a

witnesses describe him as a Deat

"room which gave a clear view o

dresser of medium build. 29

the door of King's room at the

He has brown hair which he

Lorraile Motel in Mer

wears in a brush cit. His eyes

are: blue or bazel-his, pose isl

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§sarch Widens

In King Slaying

TE= EBI pIRasEd Oe of the

I05 massive mariauats in its

_Eric Starvo

Isa FBI and zunce acgoss the

10

icy acoes the alleged assassin

Can wear die same — probably!

a dias -Ensi arose a week

batei ita tiget d April a as ge

zazad oter the secoze-ficor rail-

g. ds a blasgas zicial, Police

on ta commOs bataroom of a

7-205E LOiEi. 220055 tice stree

Fea BI said Gal: had usec

¿e zanes d Earrey Lowrayer

727 re352re2 25 "Johr

na recent "Johr

case jis tree hows before

Ind Trez 3. Mess, rigit desk

1?.

Memphis told are Asscciated

Drass jastariny tozi a man reg

itated tera unier ine name oi

Eric S. Gait o1 Agit 3, tice day

aring Alabama icerse plate:

Jasican touris. stickers

parsed near the room occu-

a longed to Gait & Wita Mustang

Piss

tatered to care been the

geraway car aber ice slaying.

Ise EDi ceclizad cammeni On

Le case to ta armotal

DiAort a night nate been Galt's:

3 sapposal brotter

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1080-Whon surpeot James art

Бул 1ово-FB1

, Ray, was arrestod in St Louis,

released

"for the robbory of stocery store. mat

Ray - yes

while he

this photo

1966 Another photo of

at Missourt State

here he.

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out!

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Roy. Pr. Martin L

The arouncem

Ramsey Clar

first.

Ray; 40,

29 /from thei

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TSay Galt Is Ray,-

Who Eled Prison in 1967

BARCH, Prom A1

Ten a general discharge

ery sore holdup in Sta

ecatse of ack of adaptabili

and beganya 20 year term

is to muttery service: While

March 17, 1980 arra

Penitentiary, recorus

sentence at hardl;

Harry Laut said bay me

labor tog

being i drunk and s

Iwa abortive: albreaks,

breaking

rest Hoover said

1961 and 1988, before he m

successtal last April when be

He des

Bay as s feet

was believed to have hidden

gas, weighing 163 to

woodend crate sused for

1 pound the bie to co

from the Penitentiar,

miles a

Thện

softhis? body.

as agency, quotes

Harold, Swenson as

The bread arrived in

ận ghạm rooming house,

an a: "wanted"

condition at the farm"s

paster, for

le was caught

gọing over

Bay when be escaped lasti

year, the pamphlet reprtedly?

wall in 1961m/said. Laut

listed two brothers, Jobyr Bay,

and they found him hiding in

ventilator in 1966 sta

of Se-Louis, and Jerry. W.

Aside from his escape ha

Báy, of Wheelings I, United

(Press Interiational reported."

The FBl has denied reports

that it has a brother et "Exic

empt, Ray was: sent to the

state; mental; hospital in Fal

on turn do the be eat:

search for the assassin. sa7

Whet the FRI obtained a

conspire; warrant, against

without any inding of Galt- eater. this week,git

tisorder, haspital off:

charged that Galt "and sa in:

dates a dinduil who he alleged tor be

director Hoover, said

his bepther" entered into a

yewas an enlisted man in

conspiracy to deprive Dr. King

be: US: Army from February, lof hiseinl rights: The EBITe

to?

December, 1848 and

fusedito sive details on the

brother" yesterdays

/UPL also reported that

BI alert was issued Thursday

anita enforcement agen

Luperiat County Calit:

matting Galtside

ni on che that che

en Monday cous

our and Lathan

Pi Centro

Calite

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7.

rant for Eras assa

& Blison Heels

Of King Slayer,

Clark Declares

Horty General. Ramsey evid

o"in investigating the

Fart said jesterday that Fed

Ta agends are chasing "on

issassination seen

& Among ochers items, police

rao on the rus in the assas

recovered a 3005: Remington

sination of the Ber. Dr

Har

pup rifle from the sidewalk

tin I ather Kn

near the flophouse where Dr.

are tear

Kated her parents

the Attorey Generar said

ballistics tests have been com

pleted and such evidence as

they give will be used in cour

that

Clark: indicated: that prose

cation of the casey once an ar

estais made, would be han

aTer

died by authorities in Termes

thin

her State Fo

sses fants tais case pro

secuted parbaps more vigor-

anyone else?

FBI

agentes ha

ecurity watchi

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we. Lavera

working; =on,

i hei: said

"Whether it wih prove to be

a posted Alone Generansa

the correct name remains to

ballisties tests have been cou

be seen. 78854

pleted and such tridense &

Clark said there was still no

they give mill be used in court

evidence that the suspect had

I soon me hope a

•Clark-inditated that prose

any accomplies; He said he

cation of the ease, once an at-

remained optimistic of an

carty arrest tethera

rest is trade, would be -han

The Attorney General said

died by authorities in Tennes

sees

the trail left by the

suspaci

thinks the - State "a

has lengthened since

e Friday.

Tennessee wants this ease pro

Clark said then it had aheads secuted perhaps more rigor-

spread several hundred miles

ousty, than anyone else,"

-be

beyond Memphis suhere. D said MeEtings

King was aain at i

Clark said FBI agents had

Mark declined to say just

been teening-esecurity.satch

where the search for King's

on Dr. King since his 1855 Sel

assassin has led law enforce

ma-talontgomery mirch ?.:

Bot he said the su valle

*We

are tracking down

every lead, every possible

Bead," he said on the NBC

television and radio program,

Meet the Press." "We know

quite a bit more than the knew

two days ago te

knowing the risks," Click said.

•Calling for nationalte

straint; the Attorney General

Socape Understandable F

declared that "it would be sui

29be. Attorney General, Who

cidal". for Negroes to follow

hurried to Hemphis after Di.

Black Powerite spokesman

King-was killed,- called the

slaying a carefully plumed

•Stokely Carmichael's adrice to

srIn: arid retaliate for. Dr.

assault": and found it "quite

King's death-

Riots Unplanned

This has not bappened s?

"He have eridence of one

and the Negro people are com

man on the run," be sodec

mitted to its not happening"

"Thereas no evidence that

Clark said. He said the rioting

more were involved? ne

of the past dew days has been

=Clark sad the farbulence of

"purely."

planned and completely

a pricipe ely dis

the past sureral drysmsses it

imperative, to bring tope ito

organisedan d

Clark urged that all demon

strations including si today's

Poor: People's Camprign that

bald, new FedereT legislation"

•Dr. King had planned to lead

wirected at the problesos in

in" Washington later this

the weeks ahender sin

2 Sen Brooke predicted that

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tion and the risks are great "i

paign is scheduied to begir

bere 'April 22, Its arganizers

have said it will still-be held,

a step endorsed yesterday by

•Sen. Edward W. Broade TR.

Mass.), a member of the Pres

dent's Advisory Commission

i on Civil Disorders:

"It could be a guisent

& memorial to Matin Luther

King," Brooke declared onl

aBS's "Face the Mation.".

Brooke said the riots fallom-

Ing: DI. King's -assessinatior

involved only."en • ifinitesi

mar number of the Negro peo

st

Clark said lan enforcement

officials have obtained a vers

rageubstantial amountof physicall f

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8.%.

King Slaying Suspect

Held Recist:

Drug User

where

James Earl Ray.

Sates a Dese Die Be point i to have gope at

Luther King Jr..

zava toid au-

April 23, 1957; from the Missouri

thorities Ray was a racist and a State Penitentiary in Jefferson

zabitual

l user di amphetamines Cisy

raile in prison, in was leated Ray's far-ranging travels after

today.

ais escage is one of the major

Ray, object of a manhunt that question marks facing investiga-

exteras as far array as Mexico tors.

and West Germany, semad sez-

During the year from the date

tences

in lérois.

Callorriz,

loi ais escape until April 4 when

BEssouri and toe federal geni

King was shot to death in Mer-

tentiary at Leavesmoris,

Han.

Some di tus fellar priscrers

pais,

fern.,

Ray is said to have

nave descried him as an anti-

curseyed 19,000 miles.

He paid more than $2,000 for a

¿cobs and gile magazines.

batencing schools and traveled

The FBI declined comment on froz Birmingham to New Or-

tha accounts of Pay as a radistilears, io California, to Mexico,

and user of gas pills

The FBI

to New Orizars again, then to

aso bad notsing to Atlarta, and finally to Mem

say bout repogis teat his sister, !

pais, investigators say.

Melba

Riyas

o Quincy,

Fe bas been connected with

bach on an a miss here gone ice car and rifle believed ti

Germany

served part of his taree vear

where halaave been used by King's slaye

oy his fingerprints and is wante

Army hica iron eary it unel loy tha FBI on a warrant charg

be

mas gives

general dis-

ing conspiracy in the death o

charge in late 1910 io= lack of King as well as for being a fug

acaptability. to GI Me.

tire from the Missouri priso

Nirs. Ryan said ber brother, system.

now 40, thoroughly enjoyed 2is

Investigators do not know hor

tour of duty in Gamzary. Sce Ray Shanced his purchases, hi

thought it likely be right have day-by-day expenses or his trav

returned there like was tryinglels without any known job dur

to aide.

ing the period aiter his escape

The FBI has prinied Lousands

investigators are hopeful tha

ci wanted posters in Spanish ior widespread circulation of his

paotos and fingerprints, plus the

$1E0,000 in reward money of

tered for his apprehension, will

lead them to Ray. Thousands of

[leads cave been received and all

are being checked out.

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King Slayer's Trail$

•GUATEMALA

Guaaazia

sacret

CITY

police

said E.S. E3E agents

Lavestigzing a

were

report that

James

Eari Pay, suspected

Killer ca Da Jiatin Luther

Tao,

cãa been in

Guate-

- i.

1933

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Poser

MAY 1968

escaped a year ago, or a tront-

view photograph. off the sus

pect:

wth eyesi closed on

which a Bureau. artistsdrew

open eyes

The: FBI refused to

who supplied the new picture

or what role they may already

have layed in the search for

Ray But

The BLa ould not disclose

whether agents had shown the

NW 53216 DocId: 3239782 i

ons who krow

Iwo new photographs of James Barl Ray, sought in the

slaying of Dry King, were released yesterday by the

FBL They were taken in November, 195Lgim Mexico

City, defand ta late Jamary or early Pebruary of this

year in Cabifornia

2 New Ray Photos

Are Issued by FBI

By John P. MacKenzie

Ine BE released yesterday Galt or any other allas, either

two new phojographs of James in Birmingham, Ala, or the

der of the Rev. Dr Maran La

ther King Jr

have alled to identity him

Agents appeared Antisted

rom previous pictures. A Ma

Both new pictures appeared

nat the pictures, one taken in

to:

Alexico last November and the

be candid snapshots, The

one said to have been taken I

other taken in Calfornia in

10033

late January or early rebra

ary, were the best likenesse

set made avallabler or the 40

or drapes

and an

a table 1mp.

year-old fugitive.

Previously the FBI has had

was taken by an amateur:

The la

# California / picture

showed. Ray ingras "business

suite the FBI said, In January

and February the FBI has said

Ray, was attending a Los An:

geles bartending school, The

Mexico p

wear

ictures shows chim

an open collar, light:

colored shirt and sun glasses.

The

FBI has: said: that Ray

traveled to Los Angeles and

Mexico

among other plices,

hite Mustang purchased

gham last Ailgust

oned in Atlanta on

i the day after Dr. King

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(

HOLED UP OR BURIED.

The Ray Mystery Deepens

BY JEREMIAT OLEARY

have given Ray a short ride that

Goes Star Stall Writer Cor

same morning.

James Earl Bay, sought as the

•Beyond

that, point Ray.

slayer-0f. Dr. Martin: Luther

vanished. MA

King Jr, has disappeared as ef-

The FBI. bas. said - nothing

fectively as if the earth bad

about. the progress of its invest

swallowed him, and that: may

gation and has issued only three

well have been the case.

terse press releases. along with

"I be was the hired trigger-

several photos of the wanted

man cica conspiracy the

maD, But from a number. of

chances are very good that he

sources it has been possible to

has been killed to silence him

amass: a considerable amount of

forever," said one-official who

A informatical- about Ray's. life

has been close to the internation

prior to last apol 4n47

al manhunt: for Ray. "But if he

Raywas penniless when be

conceived and carried out the

escaped from the Missouri State

plot alone, he is probably holed

Penitentary at, Jetterson Cy

up somewhere- But where ?e

Mo. on April 23, 1967.006537

Whether be was: a paid gun

On Aug. su, 1967, he turned up

man or a loner, the last trace of

in Birmingham, Ala, rented.,a

Ray: goes back to the morning of

April s, less than 15 hours after

JANES BARF RAY

Safety" deposit bor In toe Bur:

mingham." Trust National Bank

Dr. King was shot to death by a

and: began spending large

sniper in Memphis, Tenn.

sumetime between. 7 and 9 a.m

amounts of money - estimated

airs: Ernest. Payne; who lives

that day. and saw a man be

to total up to $10,000 - 0ver the

in- a: *low-rent: housing project

leved to be Ray park and löck'a

next seven months.

called: Capitol Homes in Atlanta,

white 1965 Mustang. Two Atlantal Where - be obtained the money

Ga, peered out her window cab drivers beieve they may

N3029

See RAY, Page-A.14

Evering

Star

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RAY

Mystery Surrounding

Kings Killer Deepens

Continued From Page A-l

that he spent on the car, his

19,000 miles of travel to Canada,

Mexico.and the West Coast, and

served the = bette

on wine, women and bartending

three years in the West Ger-

lessons is one of the mysteries of

man cities of Bremen, Bremer-

the case. n

haven, Nuernburg and Frank-

FBI agents have located some

furt. He was tried in a refrigera-

persons who describe Ray as a

tion company, the military po

Negro-hating racist and

others

lice and the infantry, but the

who. say.-

he never mentioned

Army finally gave him a general

race, over long periods of time

discharge for ineptness.

202

If he has a profession, it si

Arrests Ateun

that of a notably unsuccessful

small timé boodlum.; So far as

Soon after his release, Ray

turned to crime and was arrest.

the records indicate, every hold-

ed many times from 1949 until

up or robbery be ever tried end-

ed in. disaster for him. He was,

his last sentencing in 1960. His

as the convicts say, a three-time

life pattern was fixed. He be:

came a : loner whose: amuse

loser. 0/0x209

ments centered on bar girls and

Investigators trying to trace

prostitutes. He rarely worked.

the source of his money have

When he needed money .for vod-

been unable to connect him with ka and beer, he stole or took it

any robbery that occurred in his by force. He never married.

year of freedom since his Mis

Fellow prisoners knew him as

souri prison excape 000.

a man addicted to amphetamine;

The basiefederal charge or "pep" pills, an avid reader of

against Ray is conspiracy to vio

"girlie" magazines, a lone wolf

Jate the civil rights of Dr. King, who constantly talked of escape.

while the tennessee -charge fellow prisoner has reported

against him is murder. The con-

Zhat: once when a rumor was

spiracy charge was based on a

circulated in prison that a "busi-

remark attributed to Ray him.

ressmen's group" had offered a

self. He is said to have told a

sl million bounty for the death

Birmingham gun dealer that his

of Dr. King. Ray said, "If I ever

brother had told him to buy the

get out of here, I believe FIl

30.06 Remington gamemaster

collect that. "h

204 71

pump gun: "which has "been

On Aug. 30, 1967, Ray answe

tabbed as the murder weapon.

ered an ad placed in a Birming-

Ray's brothers have been

ham newspaper by William D.

checked out and officials say

Paisley, who wanted to sell his

they have 'not been linked with

1966 Mustang. Ray paid $1,995 in

the chime.or

cash for the car...

•. But investigators have not

At that time, Ray was going

ruled out the possibility: . a

under the name of Eric Starvo

•That Dr. King's murder may

Galt and it was by that alias he

have been ordered and paid for

was known to his Birmingham

by extremists of the right or the

landlord, Peter Cherpes, and to

lett."

Alabama, authorities who issuedi

..• That these plotters, may

him a license on Sept. 6, 1967.

have been either white or black.

This was the start of his beavy

• That: they could have been

spending, although he continued

either domestic or foreign.

to live in cheap rooming houses

The FBI, on orders from Di

and rundown hotels. san Anyt

rector. as yogar Hoover to break

the king, case at any costs, has

traced Ray's life from his birth

Ton March 10: 1928 in Alton: Me.

up tor the morning, ofa

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Trip to Canada

rors reasons unknows, Ray

drove to Canada and spent a few

days in Montreal He lived in an

old hotel and passed himself off

as an employe of Expo-67.

While living in Cherpes' house

in Birmingham, Ray received a

large box of expensive camera

equipment. from a mail order

firm in Chicago

Cherpes said Ray left his

place on Oct. 7, 1967, He drove to

Mexico, where he passed some

time in places like Jalisco and

Puerto Vallarta. He became well

known in the cantinas there and

even had his picture taken with

a Mexican prostitute. (That pic-

ture, showing Galt wearing sun

glasses, was released by the FBI

this week. ) 323200.4

Investigation believe his mo.

Live for going to Mexico was to

buy marijuana but Ray appar

ently also lixed the country. He

told one acquaintance: "When I

make my big score, I'm going to

come down here. and livexon

beans and beer. 20

ade next turned to a Los pin

geles. Where he checked into the

St. Francis Hotel and became a

regular habitue cof the Sultan

Rooin bar of the hotel and other

saloons. The barkeeps and girls

around the Raboit's Foot Club

grew to know nim as a man with

a thirst and a bankrol. say

Still as Eric Starvo Galt, he

remained, in Los Angeles until

March 27, 1968, and left a broad

trail. There was one side trip

from Los Angeles to New Or-

leans with a man named Charles

Stein,abeardedsongwriter

Stein reported that his friend

required him, his sister and his

cousin to sign a petition for third

party presidential candidate

George Wallace in North Holly-

wood, calit. as the price for tak-

inge him to New orleans and

back

Stein recalled that Ray made

one - long distance call from

somewhere in Texas but did not

know who he, called, Stein also

does not know why Ray went to

News Orleans

nor who he saw

there

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Vine in Los Ang

tised in the Le A 2

hipple tabloid,

twith a passionate married

woman." He signed the ad "Eric

S," but Free Press records show

that he used the full alias, "Eric

S. Galt" in paying for the ad. He

also bought a list of five female

names: from the Swinger's Club

of Downey, Calit, for $1 and sent

a letter and picture ai himself to

a Los Angeles girl on Fea. 17.

She gave the Polaroid picture to

the, FBI and it, too, was made

public this week. els

7 723

Using his "Galt" pseudonym,

Ray paid more than $400 for

dancing lessons in Long Beach

and more than $200 for a

course in bartending during his

Los Angeles stay. He paid casa

for both

Birmingham Story

Ray left Los Angeles on March

27-and drove to Birmingnam ar.

riving there on March 29, the

day he made the first of two

visits to the Aeromarine Supply

Cont

NEA

or the first visit he gave his

nameras: Harvey Lowmyer and

augut a Remington 243 caliber

nile, telling the salesman, be

anted to go deer shooting in

Wiscorsin. On March 30, "Low

myer" returned to the shop and

said his brother had told him he

had gotten the wrong kind of

gun, What he wanted, he said,

was a Remington 30.06 Game:

master with a telescopie sight

From there, the deduction is

that Ray went ot Atlanta and got

a room in a boarding bouse in.

habited largely by hippies. Here

he was once again Galt. The FBI

did not find the boarding house

until several days after Ray's

abandoned car was reported

parked in the Atlanta housing

projet on april."

in the vain hope that Ray

might saill be hiding inside; the

FBI staked out the house and

watched it for: more than 24

hours. Then agents dressed in

"hippie". clothes got inside and

found that the quarry had either

filed from the room soon after

Pitching his car: Apal*5 or had

ot returned there at all acr

But the agents found key evi

da television

tethat "Gait? bad gollen in a

ade with a girl iles Arsele:

da city mep of Afartas

dence; the office of the Southern

Juristian Leadership. Conte

ance; the "hippie" house an

the spot where the car had been

abandoned on April 5. 1s 4d/15

Even more important tas a

well-defined fingerprint found on

the map. FBI fingerprint ex

perts were able to determine

that the print was from a right

thumb whereas all: other 26 la-

for classification.

The decision was made to

compare the map fingerprint

with the equivalent points of all

white. male fugitives in the gen-

finger-by-inger

and Ja es lee mean!

was launched.

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= 0 HAY 1958

Carl Rowan

Plot Theory Probed

WASHINGTON Tia ante U.S. i2.

much more upon completion ci the job.

ligence apparats, incinding ie matta?

Ween be returned is kis U.S. racist em-

and the Cartral intelligence Agency, Las

ployers for the final payolt, the teory

now become involved in te restige

goes, he was siais and his body dumped

tion of te murier of Dr. Lain Luca

Thare ageris may never lind it.

Evidence gatiered by FBi agers i

Iterational intailigance agaris have.

one of tee matt mature pauses in la

entered the investigatios, iGnever, ie-

nation's history bas forced serices i-

caise of Ray's raysiaricas trips io Jew

Oztear-and cemain oi the suspect's

vestigation oi trase possialtias:

1. That James Ear Pay, ica alleged

tries out of the country. The FBi re-

assassin, was ice hired klier in a Crisa-

coredly has pinpointed Rag's. more-

Red Caina plot

ments even to nowing maich prostituie

2. Thai the "assassin squad"" of te

he speat which night with in ceram cour-

Soviet sacret police was suesow i-

tries, but it has not yat produced mear-

volved in the piot

inzini evidence oi an inierzazional ploi.

3. Teat Ray was hired indicly by

Bat there is deep suspicion ci a Cuba-

certain black nationaisis wio pad him

Red China piot. The assumption is thai,

with raciey made arailadle by ioreige

if the Cubans had made arrangemenis

to spirit their hired killer out of the

U.S., they very lisay killed him and

Date

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DANY AGENTS

The FBI has had as many a5 2,009

agents warking at cia time, in cupara-

tion miü hundreds li isal pusczIaz

and otter US. intelligezce agents, io

track com every lead-inding La

above possibilities tar tee assassination

was plotted with the lenion ci creating

: internal cazos in the Untzi Sizies

It sarcid be emprasized that de dom-

inaut theory and hope arusy tease

directing the investigation is sill tat

the bailer was a loser who wurdered

Dr. King out of his own Gazy, racit

But this theory loses supportars as

each day goes by mitcou agents tur

ing up any trace of ray, rico is bused

to the murder and murder treason by

fingerprints and batistics data.

FBI agents beliere no loner could

get icod and drink for so long a period

in this couiry witholi, being detacied in

the massive day-and-wigit saarch that

is underway.

WELL, HEELED

Tres pont, added to ti= I07-I5077

fact that Ray had planty di money, bas

given cradibility to the leory that Dr.

King's assassin was a lirad jater.

A zoning fear in fBi circles is that

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dumped him in ice ccean.

LITTLE EVIDENCE

Totally-informed sources tere

hoirever, that there is no evidence whai-

scarer oi invoirement by the Coramu-

Rist party of the United States, or of any

splinter group ci U.S. Communists.

Oze source called the King killing

"oze of the most baiding cases in mem-

ory." He said suspect Ray "just van-

issed in the face cí the damadest FBi

mariunt in ages."

He also theorized taat the slaying and

escape sere so saccotaly organized that

*hey tend to discredit suspicions of black

nationalist involvement-but that "Every

passibility must ba caecked."

The FBI is pouring vast amounts of

manpower and money into the search

because it knows its reputation is at

stake. It also knows that if Dr. King's

biller is not iound all suts of rumors

will arise. Memphis police arcady bave

been accused of plotting the murder,

aed the accusations soon could he wied

ai the FBI or otcer federal agascies.

Some ai those crecting tre invastiga-

tion are openly coping that it will turd

cut to be the work of one man. They

lear the esplosive repercussions if it

turns out that the wurderer tras a hired

killer for waite U.S. racists-or jor a

foreign power.

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*"DAS VERAS SUE

3

JUN 1968

Fle: Bay

Inside

Washington

ROBERTI ALLEN PAUL SCOTT

Clues To Assassination

WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation's massive

probe of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King is taking a possibly

sensational turn.

With James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin, apparently either

outside the U. S. or now dead, FBI agents have increased their surveil.

Tance of several American Communists known to have been closely asso-

cialed with King, including one wiu wrote speeches for him in the past.

This new development was unggered by evidence gathered by the

more than 1,000 agents who have worked on the mysterious King shoot-

ing and by several "tips" and letters sent to the FBI.

One of the most interesting of these "tips" came from an alert TV

viewer and concerns the now famous "Mountain Top" speech King made

on April 3, the night before his slaying, showing a premonition of his im-

pending death.

"If the speech was truly made in Memphis on April 3 as reported,"

the letter pointed out, then how can one account for King stating his age

as 36 (instead of 39) and why does he speak of demonstrating in Alabama

twice during the speech?"

UNANSIERED QUESTIONS

After checking out the time and location of King's final speech;

several of the crack FBI agents assigned to the case decided to begin

seeking answers to a number of their own questions, ircluding:

"If King had personally written that speech, why would he make

mistases like those contained in it-especially the one involving his age?"

"If the speech was written by someone other than King, who was

the author and when was it written?"

5 448

The answers to these questions are considered highly important to

the investigation; since, if another person was concerned in the prepara

tion of that speech, the writer might be able to shed new light on it -

especially those mistakes.

Aiso, if King had received help with the speech, the passages deai-

ing with the civil rights leader's premonition of death would probably

have been fully discussed. King's request to the Detroit police depart-

ment for protection when he visited that city a few weeks before his

death indicated he feared for his life then.

niormation gathered by the FBI on King, prior to his assassina

ion, showed that a secret member of the Communist Party's executiv

committee was one of King's closest advisers and speech writers.

This ghost writer for King prepared many of his most famous

speeches, according to testimony given by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover

during a closed door meeting of a House Appropriations subcommittee.

Since Ray during his trips prior to King's assassination visited the

same city in which this ghost writer lives, the FBI is now investigating to

determine if the two met covertly.

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ALTAN LIE INVESTIGATION

Recent evidence gathered by FBI agents in one of the most mas-

sive probes in the nation's history. has forced serious investigation of

these possibilities:

M. o That somebody close to King or within his own organization

tipped off his assassin as to the civil rights leader's routine on the day of

his slaying.

• That Ray was hired directly by eertain black nationalists who

paid him with money made available by foreign sources.

• That an international Communist "assassin" squad" was in

volved in the slaying.

Because of Ray's mysterious trips to Mexico and Carada shortly

before the assassination, the entire U.S. intelligence operation, ranging

rom the central entengence Agency to the Defense Inielligence Agency

has been pressed into the hunt for King's killer. a

One CLA report indicates that Ray, who is linked to the murder

weapon by lingerprints and ballistic data, may have visited Cuba during

his Mexican trip, according to information furnished by a Mexican air-

ine official.

The FBI assumption is that, if there was a conspiracy to kill King,

those involved made arrangements to spirit their hired kilier out of the

U.S. to Cuba via either Mexico or Canada. Mai

THE CHANGING TIMES SET

Probably the greatest irony of the probe of King's assassination

is that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, one of the civil rights leader's:

severest critics when he was alive, is doing everything in his power to

solve the case.

- On the other hand, King's closest aides in the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference are showing little or no interest in whether the

killer is found. "

When Rev. Ralph Abernathy, King's successor as president of the

SCLC, presented a series of demands to Attorney General Ramsey Clark

for the "Poor People's" campaign none of these called for more inten

sive effort to solve King's assassination:

According to persons who attended the meeting, rothing was said

about King's death or the FBI investigation, although a number of the

poor in "Resurrection City" had urged Abernathy, to press for

vigorous probe.

CAREE

er Congressional supporters of Hoover say there äre a number of

compelling reasons for Abernathy's silence. Most important of these is

King's instruction to key aides of his Southern Christian Leadership Con-

ference not long before his death that no verbal attacks were to be made

against Hoover of the FBI for fear of counter action by the FBI director.

The last time King blasted Hoover and the FBI publicly, these law

nakers pointed out, the FBI director called the Negro leader. the "most

notorious liar" that he had ever known - a statement Hoover has never

"Der reads Scar

At the time, the King-Hoover exchange resulted in a White House

rranged meeting at which the veteran FBI director did most of the

According to an unpublished account given to House Appropriations

ubcommittee members, Hoover frankly told King that if King ever re

eated his unfounded charges against the FBI, everything he knew about

ing would be made public:

After that blunt warning, King refrained from ever repeating his

ttack against either Hoover or the FBI. Rev. Abernathy, who accompa-

ied King to Washington for that meeting with Hoover, adopied the same

olicy.

he boxed portion of this article did not appear in tbe Northera

Irginia Sun for 4 June 1968.

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IN

Outside London's Cannon Row police station here suspect Ray is being held under maxime

The Hunt for a Man of Many

By John Maft

hington Post Btaff Writer

a month, while the

FBI and law enforcemen

Strangely. enough, the

name submitted with Ray's

te entertary ison

They found

photog-

raph, of-Ray (ahas Sneyd)

passport application.#as

which Ray is listed asa fugi

Sand & also that th

travel

that of Ram one George:

road agency had.

BeCUTI

an

foom

"Lisbor

Brussels. He

routine imi

dat author.

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IT BULLS MUS

"200"5

vicU

For a month while the

assport application was

BI Sand laws enforcemem

which

and also that the travel

of Ramon George

tive

Enragency bad handled his-re-

gencies thoughout the

leyd,

who (except for

falso the

name, of a

quest for a flight to London

Inited, States hunted, for

minor difference in the first

man who lives near the real

James

Earl Ray

hel

ving anya, shabby

nam

lẹ)

turned out to be

an

ot

tram Toronto aboard a Bri

officer

tish Overseas Airways Carp.

lowntown Toronto

Ficet on Torontos police

Sridgeman became invoived,

picked

jet It was a return ticket:

#The sectu

Ray

even went to the

ex-

Scarborough, where's the

but as it turned out, Ray

150 knot

for.

its

rge

tent of learning Sneyd's

real Sneyanives, Is abou

was to cash the return por-

olony Sof

merica:

ex

date of birth and the

names

15 mies outside Toronto,

len

tion in London m24.

ätriates

mOS

y youn

of his parents" so

he

could

ar frami the: shabby: Sta

5. He left Toronto cn May 6

who haye

oved. to

¿Canada

get a birth certificate

in

his

week rooming bouse at Os

By coincidence on that date

draitL

name, and use it to get

the

ea-

sington and Queen streets

a Mondar= the ROSP

the 40.ye

old

passport: Yet for some re

where Ray arrived April 8,

steam in Ottawa began is et-

гаур

in

Toronto

nau

mystery

son the appucation be made

four days after the Bev. Dr

haustive search of passport

Fused the first name

he

cits's

"Ra

Martin Luther King Jr. was

files get an

division of the

mon in the Spanish fash

shotgars.

A day after he amrived in

Royal

*Canadiant Mounte

Ion, not "Raymond."

Ray lived at the roomia;

London; Bay flew: to Lisbon.

And when they

"He was a smart cookie"

house until April 19, and

по

a week ago

after

reflected Metropolitan Tor-

during that period went to

picture

had been

dentified on a fraudulent

onto Police Chief Bernard

the Kennedy. Travel Agency

Simmonds"He learned

a

on downtown Bloor street,)

fonta Cheaters

sassport application Ray

lot about that naine

Snerd

one of the major ones in the

There he applied for and

was gone, and few remem-

and we would like very

city. The agency sentphis

received on: May 16 another.

berec

nastieres

much to know how he

did

passport. application.on to

Canadian passport," for ires

# For weeks a team of 10.or.

it marade i

Outawa for him. With it went

sons that are not yet clear.

12 Mounties had sat in Ot

"There's another irony in

pra required adarity wit-53

tawa's Bank street bead-2

the name Sneyd. It's a com

quarters of the External Af

mon one in eastern Ontario,

fairs Passport Office comb

SEE ERE

saying that Sneyd really was

many. being descendants of

a Canadian inte

log through more than 200,-

the United Empire Leral-

Passports due not difficult

RCMP search in Ottiwa and

000 passport. applications

ists who trekked north tot to obtaip in Canada, and in

Toronto had turned up

made in the last year.

Canada like good Tories aft-

" due time Ray's arrived from

enough information to send

They finally came across

•er the American Revolution,

•Ottawa: The issue date was

arr alert to police forces: and

thät give away photograph;

-so they-could continue lit-

April 25. -a

international airlines in Ba

one that had been eluding

ing under. the Britist flag.

3 On April 19 Ray: had 2

the FBihin Washington in

Pride of ancestry among the

moved a few blocks away to

At i1 am yesterday a

its own search through more

UEL matches. that of the

a similar rooming house run".

London Bay- still posing as

than 100,000 applications in

Daughters of The American

by, Mrs. Yee Loo at: 962 Dun-

State Department files

Revolution) 2

des Street: He told her to

Sheyd aired of fight

Within, minutes the RON

To get his passport picture

keep the: room clean but he

was on the phone to Toron

taken Ray used the name.

rarely slept in it, and kept

to, the FBI's haison man in

Paul

Bridgeman, when he

few effects: there. 30220-21

Ottawa was alerted Wash:

went to the Arcade: Photo

When the RCMP checked

lington was called and the

Shop on downtown, Yonge

the travel agency about their

pimpoint search was on

street. That was the name of

efforts

for can applicant

named. Sheyd, they drew as

blank Then they went back

the name. Bridgeman,

wid this. time they were In

and

luck

routine imm

but authoriti

sookout for h

peized 3

1952

robi

Lated PrEt

estioned by Chicago polios ta

bile fleeing a tood drty

one to turo.

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Suspect's Etraauny

Vlight take Months

mes

Lisbon

ven croute to

t through a

ources at ondon Airport and

cotland

Ray awa

a passenger on

British European

A neway

light C75

trom Lisbonk which Ray

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KEL

us: Time 9; 1968

THE WASITINGTON POST.

C9000e

James Earl Ray, acoused of killin

The Many Faces of James Earl Ray

Martin Luther King Je on April 4

The pholog

by tho

relegod prevloudly

nt loft to tho intout on

who oyan skolchod In

Suspect. in Dr. King's Killing Arrested

RAY. From AL

ooming houses. On Apri

i went to a travel agency

ordered Cav

21 day

ursion ticket to-Londo

then Ray?

told

spencer.

officer manag

summe

closed yest

rolled ag:

espondenc

smithing. off

n. New

ersoy

2530.

Kennedy Travel Ag

he was a Canadian

rest, max

ernal Adair

Sharp call

did not have, ay passport

otfered to help him" get

as ils customary in such.

the police

Said:

if search for Dr.

gh Complaints About f'ollee

Negroes. had com

alned that the Memphls po

Immedlate

whe killer

A fidavit Notarized

Shel found him a notary

mpliblic, who routinety thoth

Tired hls affidavitrofacitizen

chip,:

Campaign

Attorney: Gen-

Why no arrest had

regulred, for a passport

Neither Miss Spencer nor the

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WOOL d02 1IA081DHOICY

21-day 0x-

Canadian

assport

mi

got

one

co, sald

Muavt Notarized

found rhin

notary

nely

SUPT.

spencer

Jithe

suspected. day siden

She

maile

the De

che

joi

the 8

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Canada

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photos

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COMI

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no arrest

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the

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the

the

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She madled Rays a

loithe Dopartment of Ex

Attalrain 9

•Du:

Metrono

swagenclegs

The alor pard of yesterday!

as Sootland'

Yard's Detoctive

Chief SuperIntendont Thomas

•Butlor. and Detective? Chlof

Inspector Noel Whompson-

known as the worrible Twing"

Por thelr tennelty in;

trucking

aspects took Tay Into cus.

today. He offered no rosistance.

FBl sources said later that

the & man arrested had det-

"itely been identifted as Ray.

through, fingerprints. The ar

rest

was. requested by the

legal section of the American

Embassy In London

Duplicate Issued

Ray. Is reported to have left

Canada May 6 on, a flight to

London. He then immediately

flew to Lisbon, where he told

the Canadian Consulate, that

he was a Canadian whose pass-

port had been lostior stolen:

He was issued a duplicates sit

Scotland Yard sald that Ray:

arrived back in London on a

flight, from Lisbon yesterday

and was going to travel on to

Bruggels.

* known

ints wore, found

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Ray Sole Killer, US Says at Hearing

LONDON (UPI)-The United wide. It was wrap

Ray

ates said, today James Earl pers.

p.m

for

76 minute lunch pe:

Ray was the "single hand" kill.

ian

er of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"I think It was the same

citizenship ho had roason to be-

Tlod. The mogistrnte Bald nothy forged C

cu hearing would be held next

had:" seenearlier

with

• Mrs.

llove Ray was an American,

It said it had a witness to prove

week.

Brewer (the landlady) in Room

"Hor replled, 'Oh well, yes I

dered

British: lawyer for the Unit

5B. I went back to the window

am' and

Sources closcly. acquainted

•abey

nodded agreement,''

ed. States called in a formal ex-

and looked toward the Lorraine Butler told the court. "te

with the chse said thoy expectod

tion:

tradition hearing for Ray's re-

Motol, I saw a lot of mon and

pollcomen."

Butler said whon ho told the

the hearing to be completed to

turn, to Memphis, Tenn., to inco

dofendant he: believed he was

day. Further legal proceedings

chargos. of the "calculated, bru-

The barrister charged the bun-

Ray the accused suddenly

will follow a decision by the

tal and sensoloss murder"' of the

do the man' carried contained

slumped in his coll

magistrate. British law requires

Nobel Peace Prize-winning civil

the murder rifle, with telescople

*The accused had been stand-

rights leader April 4.

sight, and binoculars. Calcutt

ing up but at this he suddenly

that the Home Secretary concur

07i 85

stra

British barrister. David: Cal-

said

there was strong evidence

slumped: down on; the

seat be

ittons and that hè give

cutt said in historic Bow Street

the! builet that killed King came

nd.nhim

put. his head In hls

the

son hold 15 daysito ap

Magistrate's Court: that finger

from the rifle. He said the Unit-

• hands i

and said. 'Oh, God,

00011

ne magistrate's decision t

prints connoctod Ray to the rifl

ed Stntes aiso had evidence Ray

a momont or so he added I feel

a highor court deciston, on the

ised to assassinate King

purchased the rifle. The rifle so trapped.

The attorney sald U.S. authorl-

was found In a doorway on tho

Houso of Lords Are

Mado No Adimtarione

Logal sourcos sold Ray and

ties: had a witncas who anw Ray

wonter a rooming house bathroom

Colcutt quoted a doposition

Bullor antd, however, the inan

his attorneys could dolay extrn;

ditlon through tho end. of the

overlooking the motel where

from Georgo Boncorako, U.S

In the dock hud made no admis-

King died, heard a shot fired

Dopariment of Justice. finger

sion ho was Ray. Nether, Butler

summor even ll all appoals fall

Ray has libeen held under

from the bathroom and watched

print oxport, that, three finger

said, did he admit guilt to mur

Ray come: out: of the room a

prints tound on the murder riflo

der chargoe concerning King. Ma

21-hours a day Obsctvatton in the

maximum. scourity. wing of Lon

minule Intor.

Its telescople sight and a palr of

The dofondant madon mo nd

Calcutt. Identifled the witness

binoculars found outsido tho

missions of any; kind,"

don'e hands worth Prison, s

& Butler

Ma his Marst. courtiappearance

a8 a. "Mr. Stovons" but did not

rooming house mnichod prints of

give his first name. at

Ray on flle with the FBI.

Junes 10, Rayerwas formally

10.

1043

A Hoard Shot Fired

SAdmiti

lod Boing A mortcan

The hearing recessed at 1:05/ chargod with carrying & loaded

19.02.4

The barrister said the witness

A Scotland Vard detective tos-

said Ray stayed an "unconscion-

tiflod that Ray admitted ho was

able length of timo" the third

an Amorien although ho car-

and last time ho was obsorved

ried atwo: Canadian passports in

going in the bathroom. Ma

the name of Snoyd when he wat

The third time Mr. Stovens

picked up wayn

SKIARAN!

hoard a shot fired from the bath.

Chiof StiperIntendent Thomas

room window,"' Calcutt sald. "'A

Butler sald he saw Ray at Lond

minute later. Mr. Stovons saw a

don Airport the day he was ar

mon coming out of tho bath.

room... Ilo. wns the samo, man

(in the rooming couro da

who bookod accommodatlong'

King was hit as he stood on a

motol balcony. Investigators

sald the shot wns firod from thoP

bathroom window: in the room-

Ing houso across the stroot. on o

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As Ray stood i showing no al

oner'a dock, Caloult lookod at

him and sald: " Thiag tragic

scanths. wus tholylo

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minute later Mr. Stevens saw a

nan coming out of the bath-

room. He was the same, mag

who booked accommodations

in the rooming house. )es

King was hit as he stood on a

motel balcony. Investigaton

said the shot was fired from the

bathreem vindow in the room.

ing house across the street.

oner's dock, Calcutt looked a

himp and said o This tragic

death was the work of this crim

inal.2

Work of "Singre Hand'

Calcult described the crime as

"the working of a single hand."

Today's was the third British

court appearance for the

40-year-old escaped convict from

Missouri since Scotland Yard de

tectives arrested him at a Lon

don airport June 8 and charged

him with possessing false pass

ports and a loaded pistol sE

was traveling under the name a

al Toronto policeman, Ramon

George Sneyd seats

BOne hunred policemen guard

ed Ray at the bearing. He rode

to the court in a black police

paddy wagon 37 are are

Calcutt guoted Stevens as sar-

erng he was certain a shot had

ween shred from the bathroan

gifindow,

because a partition b

mween my kitchen and the bath

oom was very thim par

Sam Man Raming AS

a1 looked timsugh & broker

tel?

chection et the Larame Mon

the Lawyes quoted Stevens

-opened may door and I looked

toward the bathroom. The dow

as open 1 ssaw a man rummin

He, was carrying a bundle which

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7 3 Witnesses Against Kay

Vanish From Memphis

MENDES, Tean, Jure 23

(UPT Taree jer mritesses

against James Earl Ray,

cused of killing tee Rer. Er.

Luther

King,

have dropped. from

sight

and may se in protectiva

custodr.

investigation

sioted today.

A jouria mizzess has bees

confined to a neutal insita.

said the vines so tee

said.

identified.

Brisis?

carrister

Caicust,

David

represezting tae

United

States ioday at as

extradition bearing for Ray

in Londoz,

ioid the couri

that

American authorities

nad = witess a "Mr. Stai

reas,"

1520

bad

seen Ray

exter

the

boarding house

bathroom

that

DE. Jing's

kiter used as a saiper's

2OSt

- Caleutt's disciosara sent

local reporers scurrying io

N.21 26 1952

wer

inserter Chasies Q.

Sterers, rico Res isome to

bare gives suisorides inior-

RagOn concerng me April

.. When

nersmen

reached

tie. Louse

they

found Sterers missing and a

padiods on lis dia roots, to.

à Also missing stere Bessie

Brewer,

former zouse man-

ar, and azoicer occupant

WEte AIcouz wao gaTe Of-

adiais incoration.

31-5.

Brewer and ber hus

basd, Frank, bad. been re-

piered in tie zanager's.off.

The Mac-

122: rooming

noise uniy a few dass" arid

we not know ze Brewers

vi Fire and Polee, said tie

make

to commeri,

SOBARLES

+ STEVENS

3003.122

aime

sen,: questioned about Ste

vens, said be talked to him a

few weeks ago, but "I have

no knowledge of is wherea-

bouis ai die present time."

Jensen

refused to con-

ment regarding AIrs. Brewer

and Anchüiz, expiaining:

"I'm sorry.

I'm restricted

and can

say notaing acout

the case."'

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Ca Have you ever met Dr Martin

wither Are sonal now life?

NO surgent

O Have you ever had ary kind of

tudge against him?

A No sit

O Da sou kit Dr Ma in Luther

Kag.

MONO Sur

WP JUN 2 8 1968

Suspect Ray Denies

Killing Dr. King

LONDON W

Rey Dr

of murdering

id in

magstrate's

ic statement uttered by

Gearg

Sneyd

iS made

enEso

against him

Tele

t Couri

aSka

ShOW

Kulled Dr

torney

id time

not subject

detecuiv

respagastou

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THE YASHINGTON POSI

1 455

Suspect, at latraduion Heart

denise

rule

the puyer

All the

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the print

Sam

the

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U.S. Denies Killing

King Was Political

ONDON CAP, TICAUS

emern ames

outer

Dri Marin

Jenther

litical cr

AFLIC

could not be

extra

to sure

•nai

The murder

at a Larger enterprise

David

ay and toala ike to thank

sent back to

сош t.

echoent:

een

# Stati

the

ed that an offense

litical offense with

mpt. to overthrow

lent of a coun

ssary: tor

Kind of open

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ent

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to

body

Umted States

ment

th

CO

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Brilish Judge Orders

Ray Extradited to U.S.

WRJUL

1-1968

CONDON

the stact

seven.

United

ng

lent

cotland

to

ident the Home se

retary vould decide whethe

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London View of Ray:

Friendless Bungler

NPJUL/ 5 1968,3

LONDON, July An e

said he does not remembe

haustive, Seotland. Yard.

where he stayed

vestigation inta-the Lond

The major find made by

life of James Earl Ray has.

detectives is that a set of

¿ led senior: police officials to

ingerprints matching Ray's

three judgments about him. have turned up on a paper

while here, he was friend

bag thrown to a cashier dur:

less, almost penniless and fo

ing the robbery of a London

highiy accident prone

PA squad of ten detectives

The robbery occurred on:

has been working fall-time

they afternoong of June: 4

on the case of the man ae

when a man wearing sun

cused of killing the Rey. Dr

glasses walked into the

Trustees Saving Bank ong

Martin Luther & Kings Jr:

since his arrest on June 8 at

bustling North: End Road in

London Airport under the

Falbam The man pulled out

name of Ramon George

a gun and said to the

counter clerk, "Put some

Sney d Several thousand

people have been questioned

money in this." He escaped

about: Ray's movements, in

London from. May 17 until 15 pound notes

spond not € 100 5200

sides

Immediately after the rob

One majot blank spot re

bery, the clerk described the

gunman as being about :40

mains. British police still do

not? know where Ray. was

years old, 5 feet 10 inches

staying for the first ten days T

tall,' suntanned with wavy

black hair? and possibly of

after his arrival. But the be

mid-European origin. He

lief is that he was staying in

wore a blue suit and his face

fa cheap and obseure room.

ing house in London, and was not masked. ente

not-in a private, residence.

The bank, ones off: 45

Ray himself has, reportedly

ee BAX- A8, Col3

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Today, July's, 1969

THE WASHINGTON POST

Ray a Friendless Bungler in

RAY, From A1

Ther

are usually only a

branches of London Trus

few names on the fall por

tees, is a small office with

warning list; which is given

to special branch detectives

live, cash windows. It is on att

at every point of entry into

basy shopping street in a Britain. One of the officers

working class district and who had this list was Detec

adjoins. a narrow street. tive Set Philip Birch, who

called Clem Attlee Parade, 223

at 11:30 am. on June 8 was

The white bag left behind

standing next to the immi,

by the robber was turned

over to Scotland Yard's fin

gration desk at building No

2 in London Airport Mr

gerprint. bureau and was

When Ray: came: to the

first dusted with a recently

desk and showed his Cana

developed, chemical used to

dian possport, the immigra

disclose:

fingerprints on

tion officer noticed: that he

paper. It was then put under

bad a second Canadian pass

beat, yielding a clear im

port in his wallet and asked

pression of prints thatle, why. This. was the initial

matched those of Ray. Gad:4:

British police first became

warning-signal that first

brought Ray to the attention

aware that the 40-year-old

American might be in Lon;

Got Sgt. Birch, who, when he

saw the name. "Sneyd" in

don as week before his ar

rest. Scotland Yard was in

mediately he called per, Chie

Inspector Thompson fr

formed : that the Canadian

Ray's-: apparent: careless

Royal Mounted Police: had

-ness in letting: an official

found. that Ray. was travel.

see the second passport is,

ling under: the name: of

felt to be typical of his.

Ramon, George Sneyd and

A proneness to accidents. Po

was London-bound. 4h/F

lice believe that Ray's past

* If Ray had been travelling

record of almost. comically

under an American, pass bungled crimes in America

port, it would have been

and his bebavior during;

easy for police to determine stops in Toronto and Lisbon;

immediately if he had en are consistent with the mai

tered: Britain. But Canadi

adroit London pattern.

ans, as members of the Com

British police-have found

monwealth, are subject to

no evidence that Ray had orl

less: rigorous; immigration

controls. men st

made any friends while bej

was" in. Britains The only

t The Scotland Yard officer

in charge of the case has

time any: witness saw Ray

Swith anyone else during his

been Chief Inspector, Ken-

London stay was on June 44

neth. Thompson, who for 29 the day be left a hotel int

years has specialized in of

Earls Court to find a new

fenses- involving. illegal in"

place. to. stay.

migrants and false. pass

Ray turned up at a YWCA

ports. When ward reached y

hostel.on: Warwick, Way: in:

Thompson, that Ray might

2 Victoria. The hostel, despite!

Bay in Boss Str

pet Court lor ex

be in England, the inspector its name, alsos provides

issued an "all-port warning."

rooms for men,

and the

wides

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London, Scotland Yard Finds

woman at the dest saw Ray, and of the trip he was plan-

with a young blond man ning to make to Brussels,

tion on which Robert Bela.

rest, Ray had about 60

who she. thought was; an was to join up with white

court thrives . although

pounds on himsel

American. Ray. was told that. mercenaries,-- probably in

many interests would rather

If he was a big-time opera:

there: was: po room at the Biafra, which is fighting for

see him dead." Se

hostel, and was-referred: to

independence from Nigeria.

Written in the back fly.

ot, With: powerfuls friends

and a massive bankroll, he

the Pax: Hotel, three doors.!

When be left the Pax

leat of the novel was the cal

concealed it completely dur-

down the same street pis Hotel on June 8, two paper-

culation 42,40 times 6 equals

ing a London visit remark-

When Ray turned up at

back novels were found in

14.40." At the time of his ar-

able chiefly for its banality.

the Pax Hotel be was alone. :

his room.. One was a yellow-

He then spent most of his covered.

Etime: in his room. The only:

thriler;.

"Tangier

Assignment". by. Camerour

mail be receired was a post

Rougrie. It is described by

card from lan Colin, a Daily its blurb: "In a time of Suez

Telegraph reporter whom crises, the Mediterranean,

Ray had called to seek infor-

from Tangier to Port Said

mation about: getting in seethes with. nationalist re

tough with European merce

i narieg.:

volt, international intrigue;

- Mafia villainy and freeboot-

British police believe that

ing contrabandists" Helped

the whole purpose of? his

by. the lovely Sandra Grant,

trips. to London and Lisbon,

this: is precisety the situa

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WP JUL 4 1968

Alabama Autorney

Sets 2d Ray Visit

Wasiaisaas Post Boretes Sentico

LONDON, Jay Earaur I. quest irom Ray on June 25 102

Hanes, the American aitorney an interview with his attorney

for James Earl Pay, is due to a: Mazdsword Prison. The re-

an her or do a day on we e a a t already

see his cliert, wino is facing flow= sack to Alabama.

extradition to

the Trited

Mesawhile, a British news.

States on charges of murder-

paper reported today that

ing the Rev. DI. Martin Lu-

Scotland. Yard has apparently

¡ther King Jr.

linked Bay's ingerprints to a

Hanes spoke by telephoze London back robbery.

today with' Michael Eugene,

The Evening Standard said

Ray's Britisa solicitor.

thai a- bank in the Fulham

Ray had voluntzered a state-

area was robbed sometime be.

meat at his extraditica dear-

fore Juze 3 by a lone armed

ing on Tuesday coolaining

raider,

co made off with

that the Home Office had pre-

about $240. The robber left a

vented him from seeing Hanes, !

paper de5 benind and it was

"now se had employed by let- subsequestly "baked" in the

ter,

when the American a-Yard's fingerprint department,

rived for his first visit on Jure

disclosing srinis that report.

20.

ediy mailed. the. American

Apparently there

mixup.

Tra Home Office as

suspect's.

Yard arcials declined to

serted that it received a re coctim o. deny the story.

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MBI ACCUSES GAIT Sought br

OF. A CONSPIRACY

INDR.KING SLAYING

Allegest a Plot, With Man

He Said Was a Brother to

Violate Victim's Rights

FUGITIVE WARRANT OUT

Hoover Places Suspect in

Memphis at Time of Killing

Two Photos Released

paratited Prers Inter

Man said to be Eric Starvo:

Galt. The eyes were paint-

ed, in by an FBI artist

Text of the T B1 statement

as printed on Page 46.

Original picturesis, below.

By EVERT CLARK

Special to The Hew York Time

WASHINGTON, April 17-

The Federal Bureau of Investi-

gation issued a fugitive war-

Trant today charging Eric:Star-

vo Galt, described as a 36.

year-old "loner,? with conspir.

pacy in the slaying of the Rev

XOr. Martin Luther King Jr.

2: Dr. King's assassin has been

sought since the civil rights

lender was killed by a rifle

bullet on the balcony, of the

Lorraine Motel in Memphis on

The kir BLy said Galt con-

spired beginning about March

29

with la man' swhom he al

Reged

toibe, his brother? to

Majure, oppress, threaten

ntimidater Di. King, The co

spiracy, continued until tuesar

April 5, the agency said.

sema sought as a fugitive on

the charge of having conspired

to Volate De, King steivil rights

in violation

2A1, of the

Thei

conviction

$5,000

tane:

prison sentence

Announce

nent by Hoover

An amouncement bykh Ed-

vely' in

gar Hoover, F.B.L. director, I Mexi-

placed Galt in Memphis.at the

white

ame of the killing and said citizen

he then left for Atlanta

* 4g: 30,

It said that Galt; "who hast car's

used the names of John Willard lustang

Pathar

and Harvey Lowmyer in thee pur-

past," owned the white 1966pr said.

Mustang automobile bearingle Mus-

Alabama

as a dise, mate that

Atlanta one week after the

ssassination.

John Willard was the name

vet in Memphis by. a man

intinued on Page 46, Columa 4

New

York Times

18 April 1968

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RIL 18,1968

CAHT IS ACCUSED

1T770427

Orleans Birm leged other conspirator.played.

OR CONSPIRATE E

ntinued From Page I Coli

ns and claimed be contac

a bulletin was released in Florida

apparently" by mistake; and

who fled from a rooming bous

near the Lorraine Motel just af-

let contracting tie cord lasted that cat, be loe bed in.

ter Dr. King was shot. The man

ing, to theagency.

questioning.

had taken a room in the house,

He left New: Orleans s four

On April 12 the Mustang was

and the fatal shot is believed to

days later and arrived in Los

found in Atlanta: It apparently

Angeles on Dec: 21. The agency

had been parked there since

have been tired from a bath-

said

about 12 hours after the murg

rom: window, there. sv

There was no-explanation ol

had tea, no touch, write the

der It was impounded after

residents of the housing devel

opment: where: it was:: found

the Lowmyes aliass total

The. Mustang found in Ar

ook Bartending Course re

noted F that. it matched.thel

description of the car wanted

lanta resembled one seen speec

hile he was in Los Angeles;

in the murder. Delandey

ing away, from the assassination

Galte

"rook a course at a school

W Thes section of the:: United

States Code under which Galt

areat cher

is accused: states: mas.tey

Sources close to investigator

elf two or more persons con.

in Meniphis said that the Mem

went to the rau

in the free exercise: or enjoy.

ment of any right. or privilege

imagin: New Orleans in 1964

secured to him by the Constitu

and 1965; in Birmingham last

tion, or lawse of the United

States, or because of his hav

rifle equipper

ing so exercised the same; or

"If two or more persons go

December until last February in disguise on the highway, or

on the premises of another;

with intent to prevent or hinder'

He said an F. B. L' ageit had

his free. exercise or enjoyment.

determined; that, that, rifle, and dancer

"Ho Laid to be armend of any right of pilese so

a: telescopic: sight was bought said.

the announcement secured

1082S

"They shall be fined not

from a gun dealer in Birming i It also said intensive investi-more than $5,000 or imprisoned

ham on March 30.1%

gation by the: FB.L had dis-

Missed Suspect Described a

closed that Galt has chimed

not more than 10 years; or

SEP

both.*

Thes amouncement did not

JA Dust

direetty link Galt to the rifle sels and as a merchant sea

Memphis Hopes to Try Galt:

found in Memphis or say that,

& MEMPHIS, April 17 (UPT

the 3006 was the weapon; that

Tennessee: authorities indicated

killed De: King

tonight that they would file

Galt: wes des

bed as- 5 feet

inches

Stall

any information about hin

murder charges; in the assas-

should be: furnished immedi

sination of Dr. King.

"brust cut"

ately to the nearest PB.I of-

"That wil be our immediate

ice, they amouncement added

consideration,? Memphis Fire

The FBI: refused to say

and Police: Director Frank Hol-

loman said in answer to a ques

ma has a median

build,

he F.B.. said. it

bere it got Galts photograph, tion of whether there were

he pictures, show him: in a

Thos

S bave met

him

lark suit and a neat, dark bon

plans to issue a warrant for the

tièn

de

loner

he might have been wear.

arrest-of Galt, a horader

and

say. bis

language and diction

ing a

uxedo at the time One

We look forward to the ap

have a

rural piquality

dand

cture" appeared to have been

prehension of this individual

and his ultimate return to

suggest that he probably does

cut out and placed on a dif Memphis for trial for the mur-

not:

nave: as high:

degree

ferent background, as though der of Dr. Martin: Luther King

education.

the ageacy

said

it migat have been taken rom Jr faMir Holloman: said. es

"Gait was said to, lixe.v

a group picture, such as one

cises would not elaborate on

and countr

letstatements

"His left ear protrudes far-

ther. from his shead than his

The photographs were the

irstito bel comnected with the

although FBI agents

been, showing a: füll-face

of a suspectal to hun

persons alf through

ing in today's

dicate

wha

gate

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Thee man sw

ome the agency

said-Gait, hadgalleged: was: his

brothes is not further iden

tified ms theye announcement

here."

Galt travele

ensively

this count

went:to: M

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Galt Eludes F.B.I. Agents in California; Thousands of

BBY MARTIN: WALDRON

au special to Tur Mentor Thees de

the brother in custody brought a fictitious name, although the

The bureau's photographs of

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 18, Washington.

a denial from headquarters in agency was reported yesterday

Galt have drawn conflicting re

Eric. Stavro Salt, the sus

to have decided that it was.

actions from persons in Bir.

"The FBL has no one in

Agents were searching through mingham, Memphis and Atlan

pected/assassin-oft he Rev. Dr. custody in connection with Dr. the files of Birmingham bail ta, who have told the fb

Martin Luther Kng Jr, appar-

aty eluded the Federal BU

King's slaying? the bureau bondsmen, looking for old bail

that they, had seen Galt-re

"reawat livestigation in Califor

Galt is known to have twice

bonds under the name Galt.

cently.

In his nationwide bulletin for

Most of the, winesses bave

Sia last night, a source, said mentioned a brother in the last the pick-up of Galt, the bureau

said that the photographs did

two months. The fist mention did not mention where Galt had

not appear..to.be.-that.or. the

came when he is reported to

the source said that agents have told a clerk in a Birming-

been born, where he had lived, man they had seen. be

relieved, that they were close,

whether he was married and

Mr. Gambles the Birmingham

to the 36-year-öld Galt after

ham gun store that he and his

what his occupation was.

agent, said last night: thatra

Attorpey General Ramsay Clark

brother plamied ta go hunting-

announced that a warrant had! Agent Joseph H: Gable;

The only schooling mentioned

photograph of Galt was taken

ben isued for Galt's arrest Fr

charge of the Birmingham bu

was dancing lessons and a

in Birmingham last month. To

- When the arrest did not ma-

reau, said in the complaint that

course in bartending. This in-

day, it, was reported, that the

serialize last. night, thousands the rifle found discarded on al

formation was- developed in

photograph came.-from Galt's

ot wanted, posters asking foremphis: Street Dear the scene

California this week.

application at the - bartenders

school.

the public's help in locatinglof Dr. King's slaying had been

2 Alaises Mentioned

29202

Menawhile,, the drivers 1-

Galt were distributed around bought by Galt on March 30,

The wanted poster mentioned

cense division. of. the Alabama

the nation.

1968.3 252:

312092

two aliases; Harvey Lowmyer

ham yesterday by the FBI

Galt was charged in Birming fused todayuito answer ques

The clert at the gui store re and John Willard. (

Highway Patrol said again that

it mailed a duplicate of Galt's

Until yesterday, agents were

driver's license. ta him at a

vita a conspiracy to violate tions about the rifle sale.

still trying to find out at room. Birmingham address on March

Dr. King's civil rights, and was The Remington Arms Com-ing houses in Birmingham of 1, 1968, a date- that the F.B.I

Charged

in Memphis by the pany of Bridgeport, Conn., and Galt had checked into one of said Galt was in California.

istate, of Tenressee with mur-the Memphis police have saidithem in the last few weeks. The

Duplicate License Sought

dering the 39 year-old civil that it was a 30.06 caliber proprietors of 10 of 21 rooming

The Highway. Patrol spokes.

Lights leader with a single rifle Remington rifle with a tele

Shot on April 4-

(scopic sight A

houses checked in Birmingham

man said that a telephone

said that agents had questioned caller, identifying himself as

An unidentified brother off A second mention by Galt of them this week.

Eric Galt, had-asked for a du-

Galt's was said in the F.B.La brother was reported when

There was no mention of a plicate of the original license

complaint to be a co conspira-the was about. to be graduated possible: motive in the F.B.I.

that was issued to him last

tor. No warrant has been issued from a bartenders' school: in complaints al

September.

420028a8

for the arrest of the brother, Hollywood in March He turned The details of the murder

and the bureau has refused to down a job because, he is re-charge filed in Memphis have licate license contained a bill

discuss him

"ported to have said, because he ben kept secret. by the state. A for 25 cents to cover the cost

a, A source in tha bureau. in

police spokesman said there and the: 25 cents was paid

dicated that the brother might

-Have

there san indication that patt detals o tide here and te, The Hit ays patrol

supplied niformation. the FBL. still had not learned would. not bes released until said it received the money on

Speculation that the bureau had whether Eric Starvo. Gait, was Galt was in custody.

New York Times

19 April 68

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Wanted Posters Distributed in Naton

The complaint fled by Mr. such a complaint had been filed weeks? Ta better wait antal i

Gamble read:

*On or about March 29, 1968

os before han. Today she dedined

get back to town, and get a

permanent job.'

at Birmingham, Ala, in the

nied it

Galt telephoned a

northern district of Alabama,

Mr.

said;

weel

Eric: Starvo Gait and an indivi:

clined a job

While taking the bartending

dual whom he alleged to be his

brother, entered: into a con- Acquaintances of Eric Starve

spiracy " which i continued unti

Galt recalled him today a

on or about April 5, 1968, to

pleasant and intelligent but shy

injure; oppress, threaten or. in-

and somewhat mysterious.

ately be located.

timidate Martin Luther King Jr.;

The suspect apparently spen!

a citizen of the United States,

most of last December, January

residing in Atlanta; Ga.; in the

and February in the Los Ange

free-exercise and enjoyment of

les-Long Beach area ot

his: rights secured by the Con-

He took lessons at the Na

stitution or laws of the United

tional Dance Studios in: Long

States, namely: the: rights. to

Beach from mid-December to

freely. travel from state to

Feb. 12, the manager, Rod "Ar-

operating a bar in the Mexican

state.i1.2:

vidson said, paying - $465 in

coast,"yet did not appe

Fito

conducted by the Federal Bu

He completed the "cours

pany them to

reau of Investigation mont

March 2, Mr. Lau said, but de headge

The complaint was sworn to clined a proffered job, saying thista

before United States Commis

I have to leave to see my ported

siöner. Mildred F. Sprague: Last brother. What wold it do for phot

night, Mrs. Sprague denied thatime to work only two or three

Alt's

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FaB las Statement on the Hunt for Galt

Following isit

of a

and: Motel

where Disking

neering or contracting finit.

statement: released bythe

was staying.

ahe let New Orleans on Dec

Federal Bureau of Investiga. st

-Mr. Hoover said that: E.B.I:

sad alived back: in Los

ion yesterday concerning a:

agents determined thatethe Angeles on Dec 21, 19676291

warrant issued for Eric Star--

$ 30106 rifle had been pure

While in the Los Angeles

vo. Gait in the slaying of the

chased from a gun dealer in

Rev.: Dr. Martin Luther King

Birmingham, Ala, on March

area earlier this. year,. Gait

took..a, course at a school

30, 1958 The telescopic sight

of bartending and was grad.

was also purchased from this:

uated on March 2, 1968.-p3

Attorey General Ramsey

dealer. inse. The fugitive is described as

Cars announced: today- that,

The FBI director said

EriCKSta yor Gan KisE being.

that Galt, who has used the

a white male. He is approxi-

mately: 5 feet: & inches.to 5

names of: John- Willard. and.

sought by the fast as a fugi

feet 1l inches tall and weighs

tive ow a Federal charge aris

Harvey Lownyer in the past.

Ing, trom the fatal, shooting

is the owner of a 1956 white

between 160 and 175 pounds.

of the Rey Dr. Martin Luther

Mustang bearing Alabama li

Hesis-said to be, as neat

cense plates, which was lombuild.

dressersand hasra medium'

Kas Me phis, Tenn

cated abandoned in Atlantas

M:3M46.5095,7

on April ta 1968 e

Galt: has brown hair which

Garon April 11, 196840705

tor. Ja, Edgar Hoover

22 Investigation disclosed that.

he wears in a-'brush' cut

stateu that a Federal com

Galt purchased this car from

He reportedly has blue eyes;

plant was filed by the FBId

his nose is straight and nar.

in Birmingham, Ala today

aprivate, citizen in Birming-

ham: on: Aug.: 30; 1967.The

row, his teeth are straight

Carrgug: Galt: withiconspir-

and clean; and he has given

ing to violate the civil rights

Mustang odometer - snowed his date of birth as July 29,

-that it had been dniven more":

of: Dr. King, in violation rof.

than $19,000 miles between

:1931.2002593

Tutk, 18; Section 241 of the

Late August 1967, andyearly.

Seen Nervous. Habit shed

United States Code To

April 1968330

y The F.RI complaint charges

The fugitive is said to have

According

to Mr. Hoover,

a nervous habit' of: occasion-

that fon or about March 29

Galt's travels in the Mustang

1958, in Birmingham, Ala,

ally pulling at an ear lobe:

included trips to Los Angeles,

with his hand. His left ear:

Erie Starvo Galt and an in

uniquals whom her alleged

se mignam, Ala:, and. Mexico;

Calif; New Orleans, La; Bir protrudes farther, from his

to bee mis brother,

entered as well as to Memphis; Tenn.,

head than his right ear.

into: a conspiracy, which con

and Atlanta,: Ga.... Galt- was

According to Mr. Hoover,

tinued until on or about April

reported to; have been in r persons who have met Galt

57:1988, tor injure; oppress;

Memphis: on April 3 and: 4;

describe: him - as a "loner"

threaten? or. intimidate: Mar-

1968, and. to have: departed

and state his language and

tia Lather: King Jr. ins the

from there: for Atlanta exT

diction have a "rural" qual-:

fres exercise" or enjoyment

Bet And Dance A

ity and suggest that he prob

of s rigit secured to him: by

ably does not have a high.

be constitution. or laws"of

Intensive. investigation-by

degree of education. - He is!

the F.B.L. has disclosed: that

he United, States, namely. Galt, has claimed to have

i said to drink alcoholic bever.

the right to freely travel from

ages and has a preference for

state to state, In furtherance

been in Florida as a cook on vodka and beer. He is a fais

of this conspiracy Eric Starvo

Mississippi River vessels and

of. Western and country, mus

i The •Federal statute under

Birmingnam, Air hasn

is and took (dancing lessons: in

which Galt has been charged

Part pine Found

NewcOrleans in 1964; and provides a maximum penalty

31965, in Birmingham between

of : 10 ≤ years. imprisonment

According, to: Mr. Hoover, September and October, 1957,

S. and/or: $5,000-fine: Bond. of

a 3006 rifle eqaipped with and in Loug Beach, Calif.,

a telescopic sight was found from December, 1957, to Feb

$50,000 has bees recom:

.:mended.

minerat

near, a, rooming: house: on

maity, 1968. 59:

# Galt should be considered

Sear Main: Street: in Mem-en Gait left Los Angeles on armed and dangerous. Any

Phie immediately aites, those 5, 1957- and, drove hist information concerning. him

atals shooting os. Dr. King o white Mustangs tor: New. Or should be furnished immedi

silots the tonine Hole contacted either and giote to the nearest T

leans, where he claimed he mately. tg. the dearest. F.Bu

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, TU

31 Huttor RayinDKingskilling Suns rison

Officialsand Others Who knew Him

Just Couldn't Believe It

•BY DOUGLAS EL KNESLAND

Struggled i for words as he

tried to capture: Ray's person.

JE PEPSON CITY, MO, Apn

322 - Prison officials and in-

mates at the state penitentiary

here are. still: stunned that

flames Harl Ray, a convict who

s: escaped a year'ago, has. been

accused? of conspiring in the

slaying of the Rey. De: Martin

Luther King Jr 3e hadn

4. Last Wednesday the Federal

Bureau of Investigation named

Eric Starto Galt, described as

tea 36 year-old Toner."a neat

dresser and avid dancer, as

E conspirator in the assassination

April 4 of Dr. King in Memphis

ads Newspapers with y Pictur

and sketches of Galt: circulatec

behind tbe gray walls of-the

old penitentiary. on the Mis

sour River, but no word of

e recognition was heard along

e the prison grapevine. get

at On Friday; the F.B.I said

Gait was Ray, a 40 year-old

habitual criminal who escaped

from the penitentiary here

-April 23, 1967, after having

" served seven years. of a 20-

year sentence for armed rob

+ bery-=-

5120083

Warden Harold R Swenson

Said in an interview last night;

that tbe-FBI had not notified

Pality, the prisoner started to

and his grandmother. Mrs. Mary

x"I just don't know how. to

Maher. All were: listed atathe

explain, it, he said. "He was

same address

1913. Hicko

just: the type of guy who too!

Street, St. Louis. But the ward

a long time, well, if you didn't

ether any of ten ha shoe

know anybody he knew, well.

"The picture with the bow

tie on. [the FBI. photo of Galt],

ted gay

Aside from

nobody thinks it's him. They

think it's a different, guy alto;

1961 and: 196620

Ray was not a- trouble

gether. We think it's two differ

reg

in prison, His file

ent people altogether. Noce

wed

only A two minir

→ dis

Now. they Ithe prisoners

reports one for try

say they're, just tying to pin

ag, to struggle cigarettess and

it on him because he escapec

other contraband to a hos

from here. They, think they've

ted prison

then

got. to lay it on somebody, so

refusing to

hat-

they're trying to lay it on hin

Sw

T just couldn't believe it my

son: explain

self. If the man did kill tha

man; it had to be for mones

FicHe wasn

warden. we

these peop!

ler,

2531

Tha would be the onlast thing

He didn't seem like the king

fures here

ot guy who would kill anybody

• 10

He was the type of guy you

mase any s

dichiti took withh

Another

asked not t

into the w

office. he

This w

the nature

this point,*

er vons

offinalt

ed; came

nd-floor

foreign to

man: up. to

I said:

didnt a such aayboy on guy

Sa'He-wasn't the type.

to tell you anything about him

self. He never actually did

come out and tell you what

he. did when he was outside

Anytime you'd get in a con

versation with him it would be

Although

about money. A dollar here and

Ky. Ward

a colla talked about, mo

because of

the time. Trying tom figur

the case

way to make aidollar. Just

then things. Mayber

2y7

cy come to Jefferson City to

look at Ray's record or: inter

view prisoners who knew him

Doeso't Shape Upk

"I was: floored." the white

haired warden said. "This guy's

Something for a little bit

and

self it for a little bit m

a guy owed him anythin

es A condition

bug. him all the time He

ievf

was that, the?

inmate

didn't get into fights with them

d not be identified

but he'd hound them."

oner, the

work shirt

Ray did not smoke, the pris

green uniforn open

oner said, and "didn't say any

ass

ned

white T-shirt,

ered th

warden's office hes

thing about girls" although he

liked to read

ords, noting that his work re

parts in food service here were

"pretty (good, Mr. Swenson

who has been in prison: work

nearly: 30 years, mostly. in the

Federal system, shook his head

"He's innocuous, e hey said

"Pennyante. "ega

Noting that the pictures. of

Galt had meant nothing to the

staff: and that there bad been

no reaction from the inmates

the s warden

added, "I. there's

anyone, who'd talk, it's the pris

oners. Once a guy's gone, the

tantlyas

other prisoners

either, ree added.

magazines.

were wor

ering, be explained

did. Ray

show any interest

in dancing

nervously.

why

tioned

was being

seated at a table a front

or Western and country music

which, the FeB

favorites

the warden's dest,

dragging

oly on a cigarette, he slow

Jased.

ANT ABDIC!

ture of 'Galt and

deif that was his-friend

he

hook, his head vigor

sur, not.

he

insist

himilabout

Herwas

21д, 1960

New York Times

23 April: 1968

and

12, 0.0

APPROVED FOR RELEASE

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secrete aper

yagen

way: or the other. "AH

books i

Tout. Be wanted out aryaway, a Some, ques

pizzing for a minute, think:

ing, he went on: ey

, held a note tea i he did say some suge a described by some per-

'I think the President even

est. Body building

liked that book-James Bond-

te tys a lot better, build marion aion ee prisoner

the prisoner

-sons in Memphis was said to

than a lot of people think he added Spent

be younger than 40. letter

he liked James Bond.?' [President has. He did a lot of physical

The man known as Galt i

*I don't believe he'd look

Kennedy was known as a read- exercising, a lot of weight lift-said to have identified himself 40," his prisoner friend said.

er of the late lan Fleming'sing and pull-ups and thingslat-times as an unemployed "I don't believe he'd go for the

spy novels.):

like that" A

merchant seaman

As for politics, the prisoner

Fier

Did Ray. ever talk about what

2u's either. Id say somewhere

Physically, Ray could fit some right around 30."-

said: 104

he would do when he got out? descriptions given of the man

*He just didn't seem to be

"Actually, he: never

Warden Swenson agreed:

interested in it."

talked sought in the slaying of Dr.

But taking issue. with an-

Then

Negroes?. Ei

ich.

much: about outside anyway."King. Records show him to be other description of the mar

the prisoner said. He just about 5 feet 11 inches: tall called Galt, the pregner added

He didn't dislike them. He talked about getting outside weighing between 160 and 170

didn't associate with them

coneEveryone

tats about getting, pounds e

He wasn't what you'd call

a neat dresser in here "n

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Life: 3 May 68

The story of the

accused killer

of Dr. King

This account is written by Associate Ed-

itor William A. McWhirter, from reports

by LIFE Correspondents Gerald Moore;

Richard Woodbury, John Pekkanen,

Frank Leeming Ir. and Ron DePaolo:

His name was Call. Eric Calt.

ERIC GALT. If you did not hear

the name the first time, that was all

right because Eric Starvo Galt was

more than likely to repeat it, again

API

and again, as if he were still trying

PR

to memorize the thing himself. It

O scemed new, out of place, like his

hi manner, nervous and friendly and

NO quickly withdrawn, like his $150 al-

ligator shoes which did not go with

@the mismatch of blue pants, brown

coals and Redi-Ty bow ties, like his

foully stomach which he rubbed wor-

Driedly as if it didn't quite belong to

him. "I knew he was lying about his e

name," says a bar acquaintance, a

songwriter who traveled with him

from Los Angeles to New Orleans:

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"I just knew he wasn't an Eric. He

was too country lo be an Eric."

That is also what the Federal Bu-

reau of

Investigation

concluded

when it identified Eric Starvo Galt.

the accused killer of Martin Luther

King, as no more than a lean, bat-

tered wild-hair, a punk who was a

local nuisance in half a dozen Mis-

sissippi River towns, a convict who

had escaped a year ago in a bread

truck from the bakery of the Missouri

Stale Penitentiary in Jefferson Cily,

just plain James Earl Ray.

Jimmy Ray was a child whose

nose ran all winter, who missed any-

where from 25% 1o 30% of a school

year, flinched when a teacher dared

so much as to reach out an arm

and sat painfully aware that to the

other students in the Ewing, Mo. cic-

mentary school he was just another

member of the family "out there

on the side of that hill without

enough to eat."

He had grown up mean in the thin-

nest of times and the toughest

of places. Born March 10, 1928

CONTINUED

A Character Shaped

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HIH

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LIFE

Vol, 64, No.18

May 3, 1968

When the Ewing, Mo. grade school

gathered for the picture de left in

1938, third-grader James Earl Ray

(ln third

row at left of' girl ili

polka dot dress) pecred hall-hid-

don

OVar

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COY OF ALTON, ILL.

Growing up

lines Earl Ray Was born in 1928

in the house at right in Alton, III.-

the first of many shabby dwellings

occupied by the indigent Ray fami-

ly as they drifted from one Mis-

sissippi Niver town to another, The

presen owner recently gol a per-

mil (above) lo have the roof fixed.

EWING

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Among the. two dozen forme

schoolmates ..and leachers who

identified Jimmy Ray was. Carlisle

Washburn (front row, far right,

who once broke Ray's leg playing

football. Today Washburn (above)

is Ewing's postmaster. Ray is

shown below after his 1959 arrest

in St. Louis for armed robbery

by a Mean Life

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Ray spont his boyhood in Ewing,

Mo. (pop. 324), a somnolent vil-

lage where grass now grows

the,

abandoned railroad (above),

and main street (below) looks pret-

ty much as it always has. In 1941

the lamily moved lo Quincy, Ill.

and Ray, then 16, quit school.

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Kay's sister Susan, shown above in

her high school yearbook, is now

21 and a North Chicago house-

wile. Another sister, Melba, 29,

lives in a $1-a-day room in Quin-

cy, where she keeps a large wood-

en cross (above, right). Their moth-

er, who look the name Ryan aller

her husband died, lies in a pau-

per's grave (right) in North Allon.

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in a series of ramshackle river towns

CONTINUED

in Alton; Ill.; he was the eldest of

nine children of George and Lu-

cille Maher Ray; a Catholic family,

that was to drift from river town

to town. throughout the Depres-

sior. When he was one year old,

the family moved upriver.to Quin-

cy, lll.; when he was 6, they proved

across the

"river to Ewing,"

Mo.;

and when he was 16 and out of

the eighth grade, they

moved

again to Quincy: The sight of thea

large, shiftless famlly? coming.

where work was scarce wäs hard-

ly a welcome one for communities

with already too little to share.

The family even began to think of

itself, with the same carelessness

as the rowns themselves had: they

were identified as the Rayns, the

Raynes or the Raines, either be-"

cause of the way Ray was crawled

out or from confusions with pastir

families. The children cared litle:

in any case and often went lo

school under different names.

Jimmy was the eldest, but he al-

ready seemed to be wearing hand-

me-downs; in rural poverty, no

age is ever old cnough; there is al-

ways somcone before you, Virgily

Oscar. Graves, who was principal

of the Ewing school, recalls Ray:

"He was a rebel. He rebelled

against authority and his approach

lo most of his teachers was very

bad, He always seemed i have

trouble getting his assignments in

on time. But he was a sensitive

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One head-on encounter

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boy."! remember he came up

to

my desk one day wearing patched

overalls and asked whether

thought the other kids would pay

attention to his appearance." *4

The school record was consid-

erably more brusque. James Earl

Ray was only in the second grade

by the time he was being judged

a menace to the Ewing community.

The record declared:

"Attitude toward regulations.

violates all of them.

"Honesty-needs watching.

"Appearance-repulsive.

"Courtesy-seldom

polite."

The Ewing school sysiom also

look note that his teeth were de-

fective. By the lime, he. was 14,

Ray was still in the seventh grade

and had slipped so far. behind so

many classes that everyone's sorri-

est predictlons were confirmed

Ray only tried in endless scraps lo

make up. for what the students, as

much as five years younger, were

doing to him in the classroom.

He was an unmanageable bully.

Once, in a fight over, a piece of

meat. in the cafeteria, he ran a

knife through his brother Jack's

car.. In the sixth grade, he was

caught stealing the class's hot-

lunch inoncy,

"The family had it pretty poor,".

CONTINUED

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Wounded and captured minutes

alter he robbed a Chicago cabbie

o/ $81 in 1952, Ray received emer-

gency treatment (above). Trying

10 escape, he had run into a dead-

end alley, was shot in the arms

and fell through a basement win-

dow. After his release. in 1954,

Ray tried to rob a dry cleaner's in

East Allon, Ill. This lime he lost

his shoes breaking out through the

front window. Police had disabled

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with cops after another

CONTINUED

remembers a local resident. "I've a parents. He has only his broth-

seen the time when they had a a er's example.

sack of potatoes to eat-that's all,

T:, Susan Jane, John and Carol have

just a sack of potatoes.":

now been joined with the rest of

As they grew up, the Ray chil-

the scattered Ray clan in a kind

dren were either to drift off or

of common notoriety. Behind their

to be routinely placed in foster

homes, seldom again seeing an-

i locked sens of pods no, give

other member.of the family. Even

against Jimmy. Ray. But. it. is. not

today, Gerald Ray, a brother, in

clear. which. the. family..members

sists

their father's name

was ki.

hate most: that Ray may have becn

George, while limmy Ray's birth

i responsible for such a hateful act

i certificale shows it was James. An

or that their nelghbors may now

uncle, William E. Maher, of Alton, i

learn the truth of their past lives

says of the, Rays: "We tried low in Ewing and Quincy. Or that, per-

jid stay away from them. They always

haps, after years of obscurity and

seemed to want something."

estrangement, this event may, force

14

Besicles Jimmy, there were Mar-

the Rays together again.

jorle Ray: (who dies as a child

Then there Is Gerald (Jerry) Ray,

after setting herself on fire with a

who says: simply, "Jimmy. is my

box of matches), John, Melba, Car-

brother,". Over the years, Jerry has

ol Jean, Gerald, Franklin "Buzzy"

been in trouble as often as lim-

Delano (who was killed in 1961

my. But Jerry, who lives in Wheel-

when he and a girl friend ran

ing, Ill., loday has grown accus-

their car off a bridge into the

lomed lo their separations and of

river at Quincy; the funeral pro-

the family is probably closest to his

vided one of the few Ray family

brother. "Aller we were grown,"

reunions), Susan lane

and Max.

he says, "about the

ohly. times 14

The father died in 1951, most

could see him was when he was

probably of chronic alcoholis;

visiting me in jail or when I would

the mother in 1961. Or the other

•visit him. One or the other of us

a surviving Rays of Quincy, Melba

was in Jail most of the time. Jimmy

Ray was in a succession of foster

wrote me a lol."

homes and today spends most of

Jerry is, with his brother, a lel-

her lime in the lobby of the de-

low

professional

("A grocery

caying Virginia Hole On Oak

CONTINUED

Street, Occasionally, she goes lo

her $.30-a-month room upstairs lo

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store," he says, "Is worth maybe

the remainder of the building sim-

$200, but a supermarket is worth

ply collapsed around them. The

about $1,500'), so he can be cool-

Rays left Ewing soon afterward and

dy analytical about the King case.

James Earl Ray, who was then 16,

As he told the FBI when discuss-

little more than a lown nuisance

ing his brother's motives: "Well,

and an uneducated school bully,

look at it this way. Jimmy es-

drifted off to join the Army.

caped. He had served seven years

Ray's service record is erratic

of a 20-year sentence. Because he

but blunt enough about the fail-

escaped, he would be facing flat

ure of the following two years. If

time ll they caught him plus more

there was anything more miserable

line on him for escaping. He

for Ray than competing with boys

would have to steal while he was !!

five years younger, it came in deal-

out to support himself so he knew

"ing with men his own age. There

he would get rapped extra for were enough battles to make his

that. A deal with a lot of money

!"' Army career look like a Golden

would have looked pretty good lo

Gloves circuit instead of a tour of

a man in that circumstance. He

• duty spent mostly in Germany, as

sure didn't have any love for col-

an infantryman and military po-

ored people, but ! know

he

• liceman. Finally he was handed a

wouldn't have put himself in a S

general discharge in December

spot like

. this

unless there was

1948 that cited Ray's "ineptness

something in it for him."

and lack of adaptability to mil-

itary service."

He lost a factory job in Chi-

their

Jast winter in Ewing,

cago, had a car repossessed in St.

the Ray children had spent most

Louis and used up a bank account

of their time in bed for lack of in Alton before heading for Los

heat in the home, which had only

Angeles in the fall of 1949. It was

a dirt floor. They began tearing

there that he began to commit an

out the inside of the house to use

almost clownish series of crimes,

for kindling until, in early spring,

angry and desperate. As a hapless

and headstrong" victim of a de-

pression that seemed to be lifting

everywhere but where he was,

James Earl Ray would have been

as effective if he had sellled for..

kicking tires. As it was, he chose

lo hold up grocery stores.

# Ray first tried lo steal a type-

writer from a cafeteria office in

L.A., but was discovered by an as-

sistant manager. He got away but

only after dropping his Army dis-

charge papers and a bank savings

book. Even so, lie stayed around

the neighborhood until a parking

lot attendant recognized him and

called the cops. With no record,

only 21 and an Army veteran, Ray

was given a 90-day term.

"Every time he came back here,

he got into trouble," says his un

cle, Bill Maher, in Alton. And the

Alton police chief, William Peter-

son: remembers

the passing

through of James Earl Ray with a

special loathing: "He was a dirty

neck, the kind of criminal who

gets into all kinds of trouble, hates

and has no respect for the law."

But if Ray blundered, got caught

and returned only to lose another

day, he did so with persistence.

On May 6, 1952 he tried rob-

bing a cab driver in Chicago of

$71 but was

again discovered,

chased by policemen down a one-

way alley; when he refused lo

surrender, one of the patrolmen

fired a shot, hitting him in both

arins.

Ray fell through a base-

ment window, cutting his face

open.

He was found guilly and

sentenced to two years in the

state prison. On March 12, 1954

he was released..

Allempting lo break into a dry

cleaner's in East Alton, Ill. on Aug.

28, 1954, he lost his loafers as he

kicked out the front windows. The

police began arriving and Ray

turned, in stocking feet, to run

across the broken glass, through

i thickets and over the 'railroad

tracks. The police stopped to dis-

mantle the distributor on the en-

gine of his parked car. Ray circled

back and tried to start the motor,

but he took off again as the po-

lice converged. He tried again and

then a third time to return to the

car, both times failing to start it;

finally, with his feet slashed and

bleeding, he ran some. five miles

to a relative's house.

A spell of high living with a roll of 20s

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his getaway car so Ray ran live

miles home in badly cut stocking

leek-only to be arrested anyway.

East Allon Police Chief Harold Rig-

gins (lop lell, standing in front of

cell Ray occupied) recalls Ray's

habil of flinching when he lold a

lie "as though he'd been slapped

around a lol and. was afraid of

being hit." Captain Ebert Crimes

(left remembers him as "a man

who had no use for anything"

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cross whitch

sho has painted red, white and

blue and lettered "ruggod cross."

She once walked it down Maine?

Street in Quincy, "I made is," she

says,

"to keep. my sanily. Alter

what happened lo Kennedy and

the war and all. : I had to turn

1o Jesus.""

Susan Jane, who will be 21 ihis

- week, never bothered to see Mel-

ba, although she lived only a few

miles away from the Virginia Ho-

lel until 1965. She was a hospital

cafeteria worker, secretary and go-

go dancer until marrying an ex-

bandleader who now manages a

hamburger delve-in In North Chi-

cago. Susan failed even to roc-.

•ognize Jimmy's picture

in tho

newspapers.:

John, the next eldest after Jim-

my Ray, has also served prison

lime, for burglary. So far, he

hasn't been heard from. Carol is

now a St. Louis housewife who

called a relative to say she was hor-

rified and too ashamed 1o think

of even leaving her home. Max,

17 years old, is living with foster

In 1959

Ray and a partner held

up Mrs. Mary Wegener (above) in

her Allon grocery. "I can still feel

his gun

in my back," she says.

"He was a vicious guy." The part-

ner was caught but Ray got away.

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ADE YOU A

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MEMBERE

L BAR

DO DRINKS

I LIBRA

Those in Los Angeles who gol lo

know James Ray as Eric Call last

winter remember him as a loner

with plenty of cash. Songwriter

Charles Stein (bollom lell) de-

scribes how "he kept pulling out

20

those fresh 20s and never counted

• his change." Tomas Reyes Lau (up-

per left), lo whom Ray paid $245

- for a four-week barlending course,

found him an apt pupil: "Self-con-

fident with good hand coordina-

tion." By contrast Kathy Norton

(right, one of his dancing instruc-

lors, remembers him as "clumsy"

and socially inept. Bo Del Monte

(above), bartender at the Rabbit's

Foot Club where Ray ollen spent

his

evenings"" drinking

'i50-cent

screwdrivers, calls him "a meek

kind of man"-except for the night

he got into an argument with à

woman about the race problem

and loudly denounced all Negroes.

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In March 1955, Ray was arrest-

ed with a partner for passing

forged money orders and sen-.

tenced to Leavenworth Peniten-

tiary, where he was released Iwo

years and nine months later, in

carly 1958.

, was not until Aug. 7, 1959 that

Ray Had his first success-an $800

grocery store holdup in St. Louis.

He and his pariner both escaped.

Encouraged, two weeks later they

chose a market in Ray's old neigh-

borhood in Alion. It was hardly a

smooth operation. The wile of

the' market

owner remembers:

"Al first, I thought he was fool-

ing around and so l starled tell-

ing him about God and then he

pulled the gun. That was all there

was. He chased people all around

the store. He just ran around like

a wild man." But the pair

800

$2,200. Their escape, however, was

50 rushed that Ray forgot lo shut

his car door and fell out as he

Iswerved the car sharply around a

corner. The car crashed and Ray

Hed, leaving his partner behind.

In October, Ray returned lo St.

Louis with a new accomplice 1o

hold up a second market there. But.

this time, they got only $190 from

a cashier and then were followed

by a customer who gave police a

running account as they switched

cars. Their new car was laler seen

parked in front of Ray's rooming

house. As the police entered the

building, they spotted Ray and or-

"dered him to halt. He turned and

ran to his room; one of the cops

followed and hit him over the

head with his revolver. Another

boarder happened by and, taking

advantage of the distraction, Ray

stood up and began to run. A.pa-

trolman fired a single shot and

Ray surrendered. It look a fury

only 20 minutes to sentence him

to 20 years in the Missouri Stale

Penitentiary. That was the last time

James Earl Ray stood trial.

Ray, however, was not quile

spent. After the verdict, Earl A.

Riley, a depuly sheriff, remembers

that he "had taken the handcuffs

off one of his wrists when Ray suc-

denly grabbed my arm and swung

me around against the cell bars.

While I was on the floor, he tried

10 kick me in the head, then he

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HAROLD SWEY

Warden Harold Swenson (above)

of the Missouri penitentiary from

which Ray escaped a year ago rales

him as "striclly a small-limer." But

Ray's brother ferry, 32 (left), Is con-

vincee his brother "had a deal"

alter he got out and was "onto a

lot of money." Jerry, himself an ex-

con, was also a prime FIll suspect

in the King case until he estal-

lished that he was at work. In

Wheeling, Ill. when the murder

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broke loose and ran to an eleva-

lor," where he was caught.

For the next seven years in pris-

on, Ray distinguished himself only

by a series of solitary escape at-

lempts which earned him the nick-

name "The Mole." For this quiet,

angry figure the ventures were per-

haps a source of amusement, per-

laps a way to do precisely what

the skinny schoolboy in Ewing,

Mo. had always wanted to have

happen-lo rebel, be recaptured

and revoll again. "Hey, kids, il's

THE MOLE!" Once he tried lo

scale a wall and was knocked un-

conscious when his makeshift lad-

der: collapsed; another time, in

1966, he hid for two days in a ven-

tilator shaft, then crawled lo a

rooftop only to have a guard spot

his hands coming up over the lop.

He was trying lo escape with

$4.15, razor blades, a broken mir-

ror and a bag of assorted pills.

Then, exactly a year ago, he final-

ly did it.

In the curiously lit world that in-

cludes a sleek, bleached strip of

North Hollywood, Eric Starvo Galt

might have seemed 34 or even 28

years old, depending on the shade,

the lime of day or how close he :

was silling to the bar lamp at the

Rabbil's Foot Club. Call, who was

40, looked like a man learning 1o

From a grocery store bandit caught by a hidden

In the act of holding up a st.

Louis grocery in 1959, Ray and ac-

¿ complice Joseph Austin were pho-

tographed by a fixed-locus cam-

era normally used lo identify

check cashers. Austin unknowingly

stood in front of the camera (left)

before he and Ray rifled the cash

register of $1,200. Then he lol-

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was committed.. The Rays. uncie,

William Maher (below), an Alton

painting, contractor, ' remembers

James as "the kind of guy who

only turned up when he

want-

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swing; last November, he went on

a marijuana-buying junket to Mex-

ico.: "Sharon," one of his ball-

room dance instructors, had sug-

gested to the girls at the National

Dance Studios in Long Beach that

her pupil had developed a crush;

he trembled, she said, when he

stood 100 close. But Galt fled In

his white Mustang after only an

hour on Go-Go Night, and for.

Quincy or Ewing or Shelbina, Mo.,

he had never mixed with the big

boys from

Kansas City and

St.

bartending school instead:

Louis..

"He's innocuous," said the

James Earl Ray had rever had

warden. "He's penny ante.".

his picture among the f'big

deal;

S That is, James Earl Ray, Slight'

ers" in the warden's album in the

and round-shouldered;

Missouri State Penitentiary. In Pris- flinched, smiled a crooked, pri-

.:un, like any kid from Alon.or

vale grin and sometimes even

seemed to. walk on a slant, was

once penny ante: But, says the

FBI,, on April 4 in Memphis; at

the moment Martin Luther King

died, all the bills for the Mus-

tang, the shoes, the daricing les-

sons and

sons and a $150 30.06 Remington

and maybe the bitter childhood

—came due.

camera to the most hunted man in the country

lowed Ray out. (center) as both:

sluffed their pockets. At right, a

policeman holds their hats, lost in

the escape. Arrested two months.

later. for another robbery, Ray was

convicled and sentenced 1o: 20

years In the Missouri penitentäry

He was serving this term when he

escaped last year and vanished,

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GUE:AN

RAY'S ODD ODYSSEY

King's assassin hid, is an insurance ad-

cialty was botching his getaway.

juster who is shorter and slighter than

After heisting $190 from a St. Louis su-

Ray's S-ft. 9-in., 175-lb. frame, but looks

permarket in 1959, Ray left tracks that

not unlike him. Paul Bridgman, an edo...,

the most flat-footed. cop could follow:

ucator, and Ramon George Sneyd, a

he even parked a car used in the stick-

policeman, whose names Ray used af-

up outside his lodgings. That was char-

ter he arrived in Toronto, are both 35

acteristic of Ray, whose most profitable

and have Ray's build. Police are still

known caper, grossing only $2,200; was

puzzling over how they were chosens

bungled when the escape car crashed.

In the Library. On April 16, Ray

The cruelest of his convictions was for

paid $8 for a Canadian passport in the

the $11 stick-up of a Chicago cab driv-

name of Sneyd. "He blended into the

er in 1952..

wallpaper,"

recalls Lillian - Spencer,

After he escaped from the Missouri

manager of the Kennedy Travel Bu-

State Penitentiary in 1967, Ray's style

reau, who handled the simple decla

changed; he seemed to have become a

ration that Ray signed. affirming that

cum-laude graduate in -criminality.

he was a Canadian citizen. Next day,

Flush. with unaccustomed cash and as-

on Miss Spencer's say-so, Travel Agent

tute at espying loopholes in the law's

Henry Moos notarized the form and for-

vigilance, he rambled across the: coun-

warded it to Ottawa.

try using a collection of. aliases Then,

Ray was also aware.of Ontario's lack-

after a 30'06 bullet killed Martin Lu-

adaisical procedure for issuance of birth;

ther King Jr. in Memphis on April 4,

certificates and mailed off $2 money Ör-

spurious radio messages sent Memphis

ders for certificates for both Bridgman

RIVERS & FAMILY

police, chasing the wrong: way after:

and Sneyd. For these, he needed the

30R 31

a hourian counterpart

Ray's 1966 white Mustang. M

maiden names offtheir: mothers." AD-

From that day, until a British de-s

nouncements of their births- in library

the war and on integration although,

tective politely questioned a: Brussels-

copies of old newspapers supplied the

as the son of an impoverished. tur-

bound passenger at London's Heathrow

information Ray required.

pentine distiller from: Gumville, he has

Airport. on June 8, Ray eluded a world- Ray never collected, the birth cer

voted frequently for Lyndon Johnson's

wide professional manhunt fortified by tificate mailed back for Bridgman

Great Society programs.: His constit-

a $100,000 reward for his capture. Last

who, as Ray apparently learned, 'al-

vents

were not unsympathetic 18

week, with the accused assassin- im- ready had a valid passport. On April

months ago when be proposed that the

mured in a maximum-security cell. in 18, the fugitive got a phone call' and

U.S. "flatten Hanoi and let world opin-

Southwest London's Wandsworth pris--"

next day moved three blocks away to a

ion go fly a kite."" In 1948-he cried

i on, policemen unraveled the nexus. of

Chinese-run. boardinghouse on Dundas

that Harry Truman's anti-lynching bill

plastic faces, borrowed identities and

Street West, where he had rented a

would "lynch the Constitution," and as...

bogus papers- that he had woven for

room. in advance for. 39 a week from

late as 1956 was defining N.A.A.C.P as

two months across two continents. Not:

Mrs. Yee Sun Loo. On May 2, Ray

the National Association for the Ad-

Canadian Pattern, Four days after

picked up his new passport and paid

vancement of Communist Propaganda.".

King's murder, Ray had hightailed

$345 in cash for a return excursion

Hero's Style. Only once in the past

across the Canadian border, and was

flight to London. Four: days later, he

have the First District's Negroes 43%

renting a S10-a-week room

from. Mrs.

left. Canada.

cheer a mandidate

of the population challenged the chair-

Fela Szpakowsky on Toronto's polyglot

"Nice Guy." On May 8, Ray flew

man. Rivers trounced their 1950 can-

...Ossington: Avenue. Just why Ray chose

from London to Lisbon, perbaps in the

didate, a Negro attorney, in that year's

Canada: is not entirely clear, but, al-

hope. of a payofi, perbaps in an at-

Democratic primary. This year, in the

most surely, one reason was the knowl

tempt to contactrecruiters for white

aftermath of Martin Luther King's as-

-edger-widely circulated among convicts

" mercenary fighters in Africa, or else to

sassination, another Negro attorney,

in the: U.S.— that it is ridiculously easy:

George Payton-Jr., 39; decided to try.

to get a Canadian passport. All that is

POLICE YAN CARRYINC

Scraping together the : $2,000 registra--

needed is the gall to ask for one and'a

tion fee with loans from relatives, Pay-

birth certificate-and the certificate is

ton attacked Rivers as a "warmonger

пої strictly necessary.

1 ....

and superbawk," stumped for a $2 mini-

•.In a consistent if bizarre pattern over

mum wage, expanded social security,

several: months Ray had appropriated

and liberal federal housing programs.

four aliases from Toronionians, all from

/ Almost inexplicably, Rivers, who :

men -who live around the-suburb of

wears his silver mane in the style of

Scarborough and bear varying: degrees

his South Carolinian hero John C. Cal

of. likeness to Ray, In July: 190%, Ray

houn, ran scared; plastering Charleston

took the name of Warehouse Supervi

with billboards and TV spots. Ten days

:sor Eric St. Vincent Galt, 54, whose

before the primary, -Rivers arranged to

have 15 members of his committee flock

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to Charleston- along with Admiral Hy-

man Rickover to inspect a Polaris mis-

sile facility and laud Mendel.

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The militant campaign was hardly

necessary. Last week Rivers' Democrats,.

vo Galt:

along. with several thousand Republi

cans who crossed party lines, gave the

chairman 65,842 votes against 18;883

nor Payton: The G.O.t. will not ever

bother to oppose Rivers in November.

lada,atf2,-the name used by the man

who rented the room in: Memphis 13

paces/away from the bathroom: where

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trym to reach *the white-supremacist

breäsawiy

state of Rhodesia, which

maictains a mission in the Portuguese

capital. Indulgent officials, spotting

a

discrepancy between the spelling of his

name "Sneya" on his passport and his

adopted signature. nevertheless allowed

him to pass "like any tourist."

Husbanding his funds, Ray checked

into the third-rate Hotel Portugal, hung

out at cheap bars, and even: wheedled

a $7.02 discount on a prostitute's rou-

tine $1755 fee for half an hour's dalli-

ance. "He was a nice guy," declared

Mana, a comely adjunct to the Texas.

Bar. Ray-Sneyd also obtained a new

passport from the Canadian embassy

SNEYD:

by pointing out that his surname was

BRIDGMAN

GALI-:

misspelled on his original document

A way to blend into the wallpaper.

On May 17, Ray flew back to Lon-

don; finding anonymity in. one of the

hustled back to a cell. Meanwhile, U.S.

always a loner in prison,

'killed alone.

city's 5,500 hotels and back-street room-

Assistant Attorney General Fred Vin-

ing houses. His tracks. become visible

son Jr.: began the slow, tortuous pro

?.-

Ironically, after skillfully eluding cap

ture for so many weeks, Ray can be

again: on. May: 28, when he: checked

cedure of extraditing- Ray to. face a

said. to have botched his

last getaway.

into-the SS-a-night: New Earl's: Court

possible death: sentence: for murder or

He apparently left Lisbon in a hurry be-

Hotel. On-June 5, after telephoning the

nish the last 13 years of his 20-year cause he sensed that the police were

London Daily Telegraph.to inquire

Missouri sentence for robbery. Fighting:

on his trail. But under a

"60-year-uld

about mercenary forces in Africa, Ray.

all the way, Ray's lawyers could delay

treaty with the U.S., Portugal-which

was again on the move, holing: up in

his return to the U.S. for months.r"r

abolished the death penalty in 1867=

the unlisted Pax Hotel; run by Swedish-

Help. & Conspiracy. Ray's elusive

will

not extradite any criminal sought

bora:Mrs.-Anna. Thomas,: 54: For the :-

odyssey could not fail to suggest that

on a capital charge. Senhor Ray could

• next three days, Ray never left his room :

he had had help. Where did the money:

for more than 20 minutes, and refused

come from (at times he flashed a roll

2 have stayed there indefnitely.

to emerge for four telephone calls,; two,

of S20 bills)? This, of course, galvan-

Building a Biography

of thes from an airline.. On June 6,

ized the artisans of conspiracy theories.

The accused assassin of Robert Ken-

Ray again telephoned the Telegraph's

To Crime Buff Truman Capote (In:

nedy sat passively in his 12-ft. by 12-ft.

Jan: Colvin, asking about mercenaries.:

Cold Blood), it seemed conceivable that

• maximum-security: cell at. Los Angeles

Colvin offered to send him an address

Ray, as well as Lee Harvey Oswald in

County's Central Jail for Men, reading

"in Brussels.'

Dallas and Sirhan Sirhan in Los An-

works on theosophy. Meanwhile, 'bits

The search that caught up with Ray

geles, might all be cogs in a single,

-and pieces: of Sirhan Bishara. Sirhan's

started when the FBI-taking into ac. ..:

stupendous murder machine. The kill-

personality and past began falling into

count ibe easy passport procedure in

ers, Capote suggested on NBC's Tonight

place. Most of the insights came with

Canada-asked the Canadian police to

-show, might all-have been intensively

last week's release of testimony taken

go through their passport applications.

trained, brainwashed triggermen: of.a

by the grand jury, which had convened

They combed 300.000 of them and

type envisaged by Novelist Richard

the day after Kennedy died.

tipped off Scotland Yard to Sneyd's

Condon in The Manchurian Candidate;

Vincent T. Di Pierro, college student

true identity. Held on charges of pos-

their purpose could be to drive the

and part-time waiter at the Ambassador

sessing false passports and a loaded .38

U.S. to its knees by assassinating pub-

Hotel, recalled seeing Sirhan at the mo-

revolver, Ray's first appearance in Lon-

lic persons-a theory, Capote claimed,

ment of the murder. "The minute the

don's famed. Bow: Street Magistrate's that was once expounded by 19th cen-

first two shots were fired," testified Di

Court lasted 82 seconds before he was

tury Theosophist Helena Blavatsky. (Sir-

Pierro,

"he still had a very sick-looking

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han, Capote noted, asked for a copy

smile on his face. That's one thing-]:

of: Madame Blavatsky's The: Secret

can never forget that." indie

Doctrine soon: after his arrest.) 1221

Three others in the serving kitchen

More plausibly, Capote argued that

where. Kennedy was shot also testified

a cheap crook with Ray's dismal rec-

to seeing Sirhan, who crouched on a

ord of bargain-basement villainy could

tray rack and asked repeatedly if the

not have. traveled so far without ex. Senator would come that way. But it

tensive help from experts. In Capote's

was not the innocuous-looking. Jorda-

. view, Ray was the low man in an elab-

nian that attracted attention; it was a

orate and many-tiered plot-the pigeon

svelte, mysterious girl in a polka-dot

paid to leave his fingerprints on a rifle

dress, who was seen joking with the ac-

- and

then decoy pursuers away: from

cused and who reportedly. later rushed

King's real assassin: The plotters. al-: past stunned campaign workers shout-

lowed Ray to live, Capote hypothesized,

-ing, "We shot him!" Though a number

because he had no knowledge of the

of publicity-hungry females

turned

conspiracy's inner core:

-24:

themselves in to police, a worldwide

: Botched : Again..'Law-enforcement

woman hunt had failed to uncover-the

men working on the case tend to dis-

count such theories. A senior Justice

Mixed Bag. Another witness claimed

Department lawyer is conducting an un-

that he had seen Sirhan at a suburban

dercover

search for leads to a plot

gun club twelve hours before: the as-

among Memphis underworldlings; but

sassination. Contrary to range. policy,

local police and FBl agents- who first

which calls: for a pause between shots,

hunted the suspect as a member: of a

Sirhan snapped off. up: to 300 rounds

conspiracy-are working: on the as-

in rapid-fire succession with an Iver

surption that: Ray, a known racist and

Johnson .22-cal revolver, the same type

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as that used in the killing. Thể Los An-

giles Gounty Coroner testified that Sena-

fense. sought to.counter the. conspiracy

tor Kennedy was struck with three bul

charge by claiming that tie: fiver were:

kought the third landed in bacaoy.

acting as individuals: (the jury agreed

in Raskin's case), and that their ap

the right armpit, near the second. - The

proach was a form of free speech. 32d

Shots had apparently been fired at point:

r Coffin: greeted: the sentence witha

blank range, at least one of them only.:

droll. "I think they have confused the

two or three inches from the victim. 1*2

lightning bugs with the lightning." Of

The weeks also produced: a mixed:

the guilty four, draft-age Ferber stands

bag. of claims.-from people who said

to lose least from the verdict While ap

they. had some-special knowledge: Of

pealing the case;. he is a free man; had

the sullen defendant: A former: Castro

he been let ofi, he would have faced int

commandant, José: Duarte of Miami,

mediate induction. Presumably, Ferber

said he had scuffled with Sirhan a

would have refused to serve, and there

month ago in Los Angeles: when he

by become liable for prosecution under

heard Sirhan tell a group of leftists:

the Selective Service Act. 2

"What the U.S. needs is another Cas

T.250. Xh9e

tro." In London; Journalist Jon Kimche,

MARYLAND

who is known mainly for his sensation:

al anti-Arab diatribes; wrote in the Eve

Death of a Company Town &3G

ning Standard that Sirhan had returned

Tiny Daniels, Md. (pop. 381), is one

to the Middle: East twice, in 1964 and

of the last examples of that almost var

1966. The story. was flatly. denied by

ished bit of Americana, the company

the- FBI and State Department. In fact,

town, which once ranged from Western

the peripatetic Sirhan to whom Kimche:

mine and lumber settlements to South

was alluding may be an American cit-

ern cotton camps. Somehow, Daniels,

zen named Sirhan Selim, Sirban, ten

PIE CORES INNES A SONO

pestled: in-a wooded hollow along.a

years older than the accused and no

Kamikaze, yes; hara-kiri, nosey

back /road eleven: miles, west of Baks

kin; who frequently

visits the Middle

East: Car

the slow taking away of our existence"

timore; has managed to survive. Iis com

Every Scinfilla While all this second

through racial amalgamation. Appealing

pany, store; company houses;. compa

guessing: was going on, Los Angeles

to Negroes to improve their own lot

py-dominated churches. and company

mill-its raison d'être all remained in

oficials were diligently scrutinizing. ev-s

rather than die in all-out conflict with

cry scintilla off evidence, mindful. of

the white man, Innis adds nonetheless:

tact in the age of the megalopoliss.cgcds

the : 1963 messamade by their coun

"We believe that if we must die; it will

ex/ Intact, that is,-until last month, when

terparts. in Dallas. Twenty-three of

not-be by hara-kiri but by kamikaze

the : C. R. Daniels textile company,

take as many with us as we can.'

which wholly: owns the 128-year-old

LA's top cops have been assigned full

community, started, demolishing it in

ome to the case, while a special three:

By accepting Innis' incendiary view,

man legal team, whose members have.

CORE alienates not only whites but

line with a decision made last. year that.

it was too expensive to maintain.: The "

handled 200& homicide cases for the

black moderates as well. Thus it joins

DiA's office, will make sure that nei-

the Student Nonviolent Coordinating

S15-million-a-vear mill operation will

ther Sirhan's rights nor potential evia

¿Committee and the Southern Christian

be unaffected by the policy, since most:

Leadership Conference in a

of those losing their homes are too set.:

militant

dence is perjured. Interviewing the de

in their ways or: too old-t0.look for

fendant are two court-appointed psy.

Shine to tie teft.

_new jobs. A good number of the 94 dis

chiatrists. A trial date will be set at a

placed families, accustomed to living in.

June 28 hearing, and Sirhan will plead

TRIALS

their: own-homes at $16-a-month: rent,

either guilty, no contest, not guilty, or

Cost of Counseling A

may be: forced to move into: Baltimore

not guilty by reason of insanity.

3 6212.

> Pediatrician Benjamin Spock, who is

public-housing. projects

:4224-2e0785%

Although probably justifable on ecoss

more concerned these days? with pac- nomic: grounds, the, death of Daniels

SPONSOR RACES

*ifists than pacifiers,: seemed openly to

creates a sad and unusual: social prob

Black Separatist

seek arrest in hopes that he could even-

Integration has been the aim of the

tually test his crusade against the Viet

lem that has prompted several groups

Congress of Racial Equality since CORE

Nam war before the Supreme Court:

to try, unsuccessfully, to save it. Somet

-Last week at Boston's Federal District

large families and- retired couples will

was born in 1942, its intramural squab

Court, he moved closer to that goal.

undoubtedly wind up on food stamps

bles have never been concerned with An all-male jury pronounced Spock,

and welfare. Oliver Overington, 74, rem

the principle of desegration but with 65, guilty of conspiring to counsel and

tired from the mill in 1960 and lives

its pace. Two years ago; Flovd Mc

*abet young men in evading the draft.

with his wife on a company pension offs

Kissick replaced Founder James Farm-

$6.25 a month and $1,800 a year in sor

Also found guilty: Yale: Chaplain Wil-

er because he was not moving rast

liam: Sloane. Coffin Jras44, Harvard

cial security. Though their Daniels

enough. Last week McKissick, in turn, Graduate Student Michael Ferber; 23,

house had minimal facilities (no-hots

was supplanted byra more aggressive

running water), the Overingtons had.P

Reutenant COREs? new chief, how-

and Writer Mitchell Goodman; 44. The taken pains with the painting and pa-

ever, advocates rigid separation of the

fifth member of "the Boston Five," Mar-pering and were convinced that they

Erases.

mined Forehan sout:

is aanient aide oater: White House

would live there the rest of their lives.

Roy Innis, a Harlem-honed black-na-=

The trial, which - gained notoriety

Last week they moved to a $75-a-month

tonalist, wil-formally: replace McKis from Spock's presence, had dragged

apartment which they can ill-afford.

sick next month at CORE's convention

A At the other end of town lives Rich-

on for 19 days, and "would. probably

in Columbus. Imis, 34, is a bearded

ard Landacre, 62, with his wife and

manifesto maker who-holds that "sep

have lasted longer had not 85-year-old grandchild. He makes $1.60 an hour ate

aration of unlikes is the natural condi-

Judge: Francis J. W. Ford pushed the the mill, spends much of his leisure

pace: by regularly growling, "That's ir

lion of society,"and says: that blacks relevant The plethora of evidence

time working in his large vegetable gar

den. "We're both sickly," says Mrs. Lan-

over the achievement of nationalistic ob-

generally favor nonviolence, but "not gathered by the prosecution included lite dacre. He takes nine kinds of meda

jectives." He professes a fear of gen

erature and statements, as. well as /a-icine/and me five? Where will they

film of a draft-card burning attended

go? "I guess well just fnd a room

by some of the defendants. The de

she says resignedly, "and sit there.

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THE NEWAYORK 1

IMES, FRIDAY APRIL 20

Galt Trip From Coast to New

Or

2230

BY MARTIN WALDRON

Galt drove straight through tojhe lives in Hollyw

Speedl to Int dew york Illnes

New Orleans without stopping been questioned num

LOS ANGELES, April 25-

for the night. Galt, he said, by F.B.I. agents about

James far! Ray, accused byldrank many cans of beer antripthey are now se!

the Federal Bureau of Investi- the way.

gation of conspiracy in the

murder of the Rev. Dr. Martin

"We would stop and get a the, key to this

six-pack and he would drink may have? paid

Luther King It.; was reported it while he was driving" Mr. Stein said H

for

to have driven last December Stein said. 35 Ar

He would not elabo

from: Los Angeles to New: Or-ll Mr. Stein said that Galt Te

Mrs. Rosas" said

eans to talk business with ported having talked to the ma that she was interri

"a man with an Italian name."

he had driven almost. 2,000 eral hours yesterday

Charles Stein a bearded song miles to see. Mr. Stein added

"They asked me a

wnter, said that he had madel that. dalt seemed to belthings, like did I E

the trip with Eric Starvo Galt, "pleased."

Galt was capable of

said by the F.B.I. to be an

"He wanted toleave and she said. "Everybody i

alias of Ray's. Mr. Stein said drive right back:to Lös Angeles of murder, but I dos

in an interview that Galt had Mr. Stein said.

told him the man's name, but Mr. Stein, who once lived King pre

the Eric Gait, I knew

I don't remember right now int New Orleans, said that he: Mr. Stein said tha

what it was.

had prevailed on Galt to stay spent 535 for gasoline

"But it was a man with

1 an

over for a couple of days while but that Galt had no

Italian name

and he either

he visited relatives. '

lived on the industrial canal

Records at the Provincial

worried about moner.

In New. Orleans.

in New Orieans or he had a Motel in New Orleans showed took Galt to meet M

business there,

sister, Mrs. Marie

• There are

scores. of busi- Dec.

nesses but no residences on theja 512-a-day room. aNge

tures released by the

New Orleans industrial canal,

Mr. Stein said that he andiray, an escaped cor

which is part of the Mississippi his widowed sister, Mrs." Rital Missouri did not ap;

River port facilities.

Rosas, 30 years old, with whom those of Gattin/

Compalint Filed

Dr. King was fatally wounder

by a rifle bullet in Memphi

April 4 A complaint filed y

Joseph F. Gamble, FBI agent

in Birmmgham, said that Gait,

with an "alleged brother," hac

conspired to violate Dr. King's

civil rights. *Candyie

A: week ago, 'm discussing

the trip he had taken with Gait

Mr. Stein said that Galt had

driven to New Orleans as a

favor to Mrs. Rosas to pick up

two of the widow's daughters,

who were staying in New Or:

leans with relatives. 13r

Mr. Stein said that Galt had

agreed to make the trip if mi.

Stein and his sister woald sign

a petition seeking to gef the

name of former Gov. George C

Wallace of Alabama onathe

California ballot as a Presi

til candidate 5052 gig

Mrs. Rosas said that she

her brother had signed the Wal

Lace petitions because they

both, from the Deep s

26. Apr 68

not because they had w

a favor from Galt

2 MIS. Rosas said that

had been discussing his ear

posed- trip to New Orlear

a Hollywood bar where?"

worked She said she badatol

him about her two daughters

in New: Orleans and that he

had invited her to go with him

and bring them back a

On Dec." 15, when the: trip

was to begin, Galt came by

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FRIDAY

PRIL

1968

From Coast to New Orleans Recalled by

Companion

Galt drove straight through to be lives in Hollywood, have

The bureau has said that it similar requests had been made

New Orleans without stopping been questioned numerous time found that Galt and Ray were through, United States diplo

for the night Galt; he; said, iby F.B.I agents about the fi

& by drea yany cans of beer on tripthey are now saying i am

the same person through finger- matic missians in a number of

resti-the way.

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"We would stop and get a the key to this. thing,

Mr Stein, 38, said that he

fartin six-pack and ber would drink may have -paid, for it."* Mr.

could not disclose all the de

umber Stein said.

orted i/white be as dry. Mr. Stein said hot

tails of his conversation with

He would not elaborate.

Galt during the trip to New

Or-larMr. Stein said" that? Galt

Mrs. Rosas said last night

Orleans: He said that he: had

th ported having talked to the I

that. She was interviewed sev, an ofter from a magazine for

=e.

he had driven "almost 2,000 eral hours yesterday by agents. exclusive rights to his story

song miles to see: Mr. Stein added

"They asked me all kind off

Mr. Stein said that Galt had

made, pleased. seemed to be

things, like did I think Eric stopped several times in Texas

Galt, pleased.",

Galt was capable of murder

e an He wanted to leave and

on the way to New Orleans tỏ

she said.: "Everybody is capable

make long distance telephone

said drive right back to Los Angeles of murder, but I don't believe

calls:

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the Eric Galt I knew shot Dr

"but Mr Stein, who once. lived King A

international Hunt Opens

now it New Orleans, said that he? Mr. Stem said that he hac

CHONG KONG, April 25 (UPI)

had, prevailed on Galt: to stay spent $35 for gasoline and food

-The F.B.L. has begun an in-

anjover for a couple of days while but that Galt had not seemed ternational search, for informa.

rither he.visited relatives. 35p455r

worried about money.. a

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canal Records at the Provincial :

In New Orleans, Mr.: Stein James Earl. Ray. The United

ad a Motel in New Orleans showed

I took Galt to meet Mr. Stein's States Consulate General issued

said, that Gait stayed three days, sister; Mrs. Marie: Lee Mrs. a statement today saying that

busi. Dec, 17 through Decs 19, in Lee said today; that the pic- the bureau has asked assistance

a theia S12 a day room. 6l

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and Ray--an-escaped convict from publicity." to information about

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Ray Complains

JASETILLE,

32=25

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varnis inat germining Ray

io since wiia ofcer prison

jeopardize

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take

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Luther jina's assassin"

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and unwral punishment

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Court Tells Ray's Jailers

Not to Enforce laleness

NASHVILLE, Tan (AP) - A/bad

to

ask for

federal judge has ordered state pecitentiary,

anything in a

that

prison oificials to fud something never get it.

way

you'll

to

occupy

Jamies

Earl Ray's

W.

tice while serving a 99-year sen

S. Neil, the penitentiary

warden,

tence for Slaying Dr. Martin Lu

suggested

that

Ray

ther King Jr.

might help guards serve food to

Aiter a rearing yesterday on

citer convicts in maximum se

Pay's petition for release irom tocial

curity and lend a hand with jani-

duties within

the maxi-

manus security confirement,

¡U.S. Dist Cout Judge William

mur security kuilding.

E.

tiller told prison cincials to!

Judging by Ray's expression,

come up suit a plaa incorporat-

he was

less than satisfied with

"TECTERtOn, nort and exer-

the proposal.

cise" for the prisorer by Jan, 12

"Enforced idleness can

Pay,

who

pleaded guilty last

criel

be

punishment," Miller said,

Marc': 10 to ice saiger Slaying of

"particularly

when it is only to

King,

testited be

would rather

protect him from bodily harm."

the passialisy

of

being!

Ee said he would reserve final

killed by another convict than to judgment until he reviewed the

spend "99 years in solitary."

prison officials' plan.

Viewed as luauman

He conterded

that the condi-

tions di maximum security con-

ficement amouted to cruel and

incuman treatment in violation

si his constiational rights

The state opposed Ray's bid

for

permission to mingle with

ciner prisosers, contending

his

life migot be endangered and his

chances for escaping would bell

greater.

Ray sceat almost two hours on

the witness stand, describing life

in his âx9-foot call at the peni-

tendary cere.

Judge Jiller asied Ray what

kind of sork be would like to

perforza.

"I woulon't mind doing dishes,

digging ditches

anytaing," Ray

replied, adding mai he preferred

"to

ce

cas."

outside

as

much

as li

Silent on Specide Job

Ray did not specity any partic- H

ular job, however, saying "It is!t!

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WS APR 2 8 1968

FBI Checks Canadian Lead

In Search for King's Killer

By JERUVIAH O'LEARY?

heavily on the fact that more information, but because it has

The search for the suspecte

5150,000 rewards has been impossible to account for

been offered for, information

the amount of, money he spent

Killer of Dr. Martia Luther King

Jr. now has branched into Cana:

leacing to arrest of the fugiave.

from the time of his escape from

They

also are worsing 1ong, 1967; until last April 45

the Missouri prison on April 23,

s. to check out the hundreds

This develooment came after

the Federal Bureau of Investiga

of tips that have poured t/fram

bon received information that

people who think they haye seet

the suspect.

James, Earl Ray, sought as

Ther FBI has done a vacuum-

King's assassin visited Montreal

sweeper job" of collecting infor

last. July and August during the

mation about Ray? his habits,

Expo 67 fair, The FBI declined

asual haunts and acquaintances:

They are now in the position of

comment and provided no de

knowing rearly everything about

tails as to whom the 40 year-old

Ray except his whereabouts and

suspect might have seen in Can

whether beswas working alone

ada or the purpose of his visit.

or as trigger-man for a conspira.

Ray, escaped from. the Mis

- Some? officials are leaning

souri State, Penitentiary at Jef-

more and more to the theory

ferson City, Mo., in April 1967

that Ray was paid to= shoot

and bought a 1966 white Mustang!

King not on the basis of solid

in Birmingham, Ala, in August:

7 No information is available on

his means of transportation be-

an ento date eat: Germany

also are considered possible bid-

ing places. Ray is known to have

a visited Mexico after purchasing

hit the Mustang picked up by the

FBI in Atlanta the day aiter the

ins

April 4 slaying in Memphis. Ray

he

had a long tour of duty in West

Germany when be was in the U

ge

S. Array from 1916 to 1948. 9

is

More: than three weeks after.

sti

the assassination: officials are

d

indicating: that the trail is cold:

Investigators have been banking

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WP APR 2 7 1968

ABI Discounts Conflictin

By Gaylord Shaw

Although, the dEB

now insists the

FBIshas said.

the car. was

man it seels is Ray, it has not amend

FBL officals are quietsuryig to

conspiracy

Galte Bütza

nuraber,

{COI

plaint against

Knew Galt say he does

piays cown contradictory descriptions

Ga

that: Galt& had con

Smo

Reporters showed copies of the

ofite appearance and babits of James

an wanduathe, alleged

released picture of Galt to the

B

Ray, alias: Eric Starvo Galty the

elus

to be his brother

to, violate Dr. King's

mingham witnessesy and to resider

ve, escaped. convict charged with

vil, rights to change, the name to

of the Memphist rooming house.

the

or the Reve Dr. Martin

kay:

which the fatal shot was fired. Almo

ing di

The

La enlisting thel public sa help. in

all said the photo didn't resemble th

discrepancies have fueled, spec

the manhunt the y3l has distributed

man they saw.

Vation

actual

that

napsa

Ray and Galt

thousands, off flyers Thes tirst set

Varying ages have been given

as for thatstwo

ars Galt's name

the second RayS.

the hinted man, from 25 on up.

used thei

name Galt

Ling

rofithe case con

FBI said Galt save his age as 8

been is,

said Ray 1s 402012

But EBI

ош

Insisted that Ray and Gatt

were scattered on the:

Estimatess of the fugitives

have ranged irom 5 feet & to

White 1966 Mus

his weight from 160 to 175 pounds

there's only one person

ents

Simpounded there

eyes have been described jas

said one official

King was slain They

blue or hazel, his hair as either D

his angerprints and we

batt fell out of the

or sandy.

STOWAW HO:

hen agents opened the door, The

PAn FBI otficial brushed, off

THE WASHINGTON POST: Saturdar April 27 1968

A3

Reports on King Suspect

trying descriptions, saying you rut

native of lilinois, had no Southern ac

sto this every imer fite humans na

Money

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money freely

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dress

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hours before

had ai Souther»

amate who knew Rayin

emptentiary said Ray, a

dance

FBI

Galt gradua

romka acos

Angele

bartendings school

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March,

thi

EBL said. Reporters, determined th

at this same time a duplicate driver

it you

license, was mailed to Galt at the Bi

a few cents,

mingham rooming house

death

Dr: Donald, BiPeterson

superin

dancing The FBl said Galt.

tendent of a Missour state hospital

fax of westem, and country;

where: Ray was examined for si

and Sis said, to bean. avid

weeks in. 1966, saia, Wex didn't find

The inmate, said Ray rever

anything to indicate: he. was a kiler

eds any liking for music or

or had tendencies to killin

The penitentiary warden,

Harold

FBI said Galt took dancing

Swenson, said he remembered Ray.

in New Orleans in 1964 and

Te's odd, but t won't believe he did

ut after reporters pointed out:

it (killed Dr. King) until its proven."

is un prison, these two years

But in Dalton, Gas a former celk

icials said the statement should

mate, quoted" Ray as once saying he

ad"reportedittook dancing

would be willing to kilDr. King cor

a si million bounty.

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Tourist Quizzed

In King Slaying

Receives Apology

HERMOSILLO, Mexico (UPI)

hem hunt for a suspect in the

Slayng of Dra Martin: Luther

King it has been released

with abologies by state authori:

BICA SKY

Daniel D. Kennedy, 42, nar

beenpatrested, Wednesday in a

on cate on Nest An and.

questined for 12 Lours before

-than two hours after his arrival

yesterday im Hermosillo. Kenne-

Edy. left police headquarters say-

ing be wanted to continue his

trip to Guaymas, a small fishing

and resort town on the Pacific

coast about 80 miles south of

Hermosillo.

American Vice. Consul Arnold

Denys in Hermosillo said Kenne

dy has been "completely elimi

nated" as; a suspect through a

thorough, checks by, Hermosillo

judicial police of his back-

eques and ingerpries.

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MAY 1368

CARL T. ROWAN

King Murder Hatched Abroad?

•Tee eatire U.S. intelligence

apparatus, including the mili.

ties that the assassination was -en $10,000 in advance to mur

plotied with the intention of

tary and the Central Intellis.

der King with a promise of

creaing internal chaos in the

gezce Agency, has now

United States.

much more upon completion of

coma involved in the investi-

the job. When he returned to

It scosid be emphasized that

gaion of the murder of Dr.

tie dominant treory-and

his U.S. racist employers for

the final payoff, the theory

hope among those directing

goes, he was slain and his

Evidence gathered by FBI

agents in one oi the most mas-

sive probes in the ration's his

icy sas forced serious investi.

gatica of these possibilities:

1. That James Earl Ray, the

alleged assassin, was the hired

iller in a Cuba-Bed Caina

plor

2. That the "assassin squad"

or the Soviet secret police was

saxenow involved in the plot

3. That Ray was hired indi-

rectly by certain black nation

alists wro paid him with

morey made available by for.

eign soleces.

Tre FBI has had as many as

2,000 agents working at ore

time, in cooperation with bus-

dreds of local policemen and

ober U.S. intelligerce agerts,

to track down every lead.

inciding the above possibili-

the inrestigation is still that

body dumped where agents

the kiter

was a lober who

may never find it.:

murdered King out of his own

International

crazy, racist views.

intelligence

But sais tzzary loses sup.

agents have entered the inves

porters as each day goes by

tigation, however,

because of

miscut agents turning up any

Ray's mysterious trips to New

Orleans-and certain of the

trace of Ray, wico is linked to

tie murder and murder reap-

suspect's trips out of the couns

on by ingerpriats and ballis.

try. The FBI reportedly has

tics data.

pinpointed Ray's movements

FBI agents believe no longer

even to knowing which prosti

could get food and drink for so

tute he spent which night with

long a period in this country

in certain countries, but it has

Fritzout being detected in the

not yet produced meaningful

massive day-and-nigat search

evidence

of an international

that is under way.

plot.

This point, added to the now

But there is deep suspicion

snown fact that Ray had plen-

or a Cuba-Red China plot. The

ty of money, has given credi.

assuraption is that. if the Cu-

bility to the taeory that King's

bans had made arrangements

assassia was a hired killer.

to spirit their hired killer out

A growing fear in FBI cir-

of the United States, they very

cles is that the biler was giv

likely killed him and dumped

him in the ocean.

Totally informed

sources

here say,

however, that there

is no evidence whatsoever of

involvement by the commu

nise party of the United States,

or of any splinter group of

U.S. Communists.

One source called the King

killing "one of the most bas

fling cases in memory."

He also theorized that the

slaying and escape were so

smoothly organized that they

tend to discredit suspicions of

black Nationalist involvement

- but that "every possibility

must be chocked"

The FBI is pouring

vast

amounts of manpower and mo.

ney into the search because it

knows its reputation is at

stake. It also knows that if

King's killer is not found all

sorts of rumors will arise.

Some of those directing the

investigation are openly hop.

ing that it will turn out to be

the work of one man. They

Tear the esplosive repercus.

sions if it turns out that the

murderer was a hired killer

for white U.S. racists or for a

foreign power.

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BY BERM LAD GAT ZEP

associated Dress Triter

no all points bulletin issued

to stoo

James Earl lay the nighi

he shot and killed Ic. Martin

Iuther Ling Jr. and lied Memonis

In alinhite 1906 mustang•

cost:

Folice thiel Henry Lu, BRo ja

months had the impression that

an autonatioralarm had been broadcast, confirmed in an exclusive

intertiea that no such bulletinas issued.

The ridestread bellei among lan enforcement officers-and

consequenily the public-that a bulletin had been issued and that

Parihad apparently escaped micalease in spite of it contributed

to the suspicion that he mizat have been part of a conspiracy

rainer teen a lone killer-e

The judge in Rays trial said in an interview afterward he was

mystified over. hon Ray eluded, the roadblocks that would have:

bean established following an all-points alert. A hearing on

Ray's motion for aner trial is scheduled Lor May 26•1

since there was no bulleula

there were no roadblocks or

checkootats established at ue nearest escape routes to

nelgacoring arranses and mississippijor in Georgia, Alabama,

Missouri, Louisiana, south Carolina, Virginia or Kentucky O

anywhere.

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6oThe first Menpris police radio transmission mentioning a white

Mus tang nas logged at 6:11 1.0 April 4,41968, 99 said a Shelby

county anticly mith inticate mowlease of the state's evidence.

King nes shou at 6:01 rom. Ray apparently was on the street u

and on his nay mithin minutes. Had he begun his flight in thes

Bas tang as late as 6:05 pomo, by 6:1ll he would have been on the

Menchis arkansas. Fridge leading to arkangas or no more than 10

minutes anay. Iron we mississippi stave tine.

Chier In, in eclaining the railure to issue an all points:

calletin; sald:

*BAt this time,

mime did not know for sure or have

are tate tate trait as been laste and baa sually

mill @tradite. Otherwise, the receiving states are not going

to act en 1t:99

note explanation, given by demphis police as mell as police

oiriclais in other areas, was that the local situation was hectic

and tense and thai authorities mere concerned about rioting and.

In ais wial beiore the late Judge no Preston Battle, Ray

men a ge year sentence larch 10 under an agreement to plead

guilty. Rey later recudiated the agreement and following Judge

Battlers death, mas granted a heering on his motion for a ner

t121. 7

During a series of exclusive Interviers just before he died

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Geranay, 42030111ght- 450

elone, the escare seem miraculous a see som

he got iron here to atlantal in that raite Mustang mith an all-

points bulletin out..r Reys aindoned lustang was

still bad the impression that tere had been such a bulletin:

da spokesman lor the virginia State Folice said:

t*Te cassed on an all-points bulletin.?? Georgia informants

said tey couldnt renemberle spectic message but somebon we

men there nas a lustang. South Carolina sources said the

details were non blurred cut aire definitely remember an all~

points bulletin...g

Eutuin none of these states er antrothers,

were there any.

musual or maaroutine camol

actions, such as the setting up of

roadblocks.

Chiet Iu at 21rst seemed certain lan alarm had been

mozacast to neigaboring states. Eel explained: a

•ste have a direct telerace line to the Shelby County

sheritis olice Its auiratic rcedurel to call the sheriffs

CiliCe• 99 1899

The sherifis oilice has tronay radio communication with

the tennessee Highway Patrol and stete police in Arkansas

and Mississirl. Thats how, according to Chiei lux, the

adjoining states mere alertedl

But Sherli Hillian 3. Worris, questioned about his role

the night of April 4, saias.fa

*[never received any ccammication that night regarding a

white lustang or any request to transmit an alert to any

other police agency.?"

the Tennessee Highnay Pawrol recorted. that it logged a

statewide broadcast at 5: 2010 Basson the alert for a

late model Hus tangs,:

But no roadblocis mere established noradid the patrol issue

an all points to other areas. a

$ The reasca me did not rut out an automatic all-roints is

that the Menchis Police Department, dia not request it, 9%

said a bizanay ratrol spokesman.

Cow was the tennessee Higoney Patrol Informea 2

Irank C. Hollomar,

although neis not certain

and that

se in ture notified flingion. me Lemphis police log indicates

that at 6:26 polo, there was a message, Car 100, contact GoT.

alington by pace. Car 100 Is Eollomans.

armour ald contact the governor. ""I recommended that he

Inmediately alert

the lational Guard for dispatch to Menchis

in case oi disorders I also recommended that the State Highway

Patrol be alerted lathe sane assignment...9

Arnow asgured a blockade mould be established.

there is a blockade systen that has all been planned out

and goes into effect on a single signal, so he said.

When Police Chiel lux was apurised of some of this

iniormatic, he checzed records, then said:

You are correct. There was nob an all-points bulletio put

out on the nhite wustzag.??

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He mens leatures = ver

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the erine suscect in a hoar radio broadcas

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den les he made the or occast.

Enever did at, on he said intan exclusive interviers

rove: 14020

12 he can, authorities will have another riddle to untangle

ce one they can say beyeda reascharle doubt that the broadcast.

resta coat and tazubiller vanessarl Ray was in no may connected

acous the broadcast.

ce scurlous call sivasa frantic description of alrite Mustang

to siz oiles east of the shortest, quickest route out of Menpis the

route Pay actually took in al 1955 white Mustang.

Te suspec unor is a collese restan au a school far tro ni

Heals home, he hastbeen aues tioned by Memphis police and the

FBI. Butthe bederal Cominicatioes Commission-to the surprise

leas tone no commissioner serecchas made any inquiry

ded inebeen placed agalast the student.

in me aoraitory oi sis school, he at first reuse

to discuss

police interest in hin. Ee agreed only alter an ezchange

long distance telephone calls to his family. and aly

Lawyero He

agreed to talk sich cae mders tanding he would not

ce laentil

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ne said, nervously shliting about

nI aone like, the ict for anyoody else thinking. 52

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i donet like your coming alter

any nave rolice concenicated on you? 22 he was asked.

I don banon why.

ear don ot mon may they

Chere are other ham radio operators in by

tals out of my mind or

cane to me. havenst been able to

Mutaoraties were able to s

le clue as to the probable location

the wensmitter because or details provided by two main sources:

a 25 rear old steam?itten no nas receiving the broadcast in ai

ais red Malibu convertiple

andRa, i repairman who is a ham operator.

These is sone con?lict in their recorts. The steamiitter in

15. Is sure I vas receivias ironia mobile unit because of the:

azte, streng anorthesignal, changed. 99g

one ly many nose sobrique on the air is tily Fite, 29 said

we messages cane irona cared case station

and, added:

'I monitored that iron the beginning to the sign oif. her:

is nore to it but noon tell the full story until the u.s.

surrene Court has James harl Pay Birnly under lock and key. There

as something unmom, and m married about the unkrown. ? He

reused to say anymore.

Altcouge the student is plentered and worried,

he apparently

nots radio cormunication, and the problen of anyone non trying.

to crove then the take uroaacest began. Location of a transmitter

can be determined men theselis a simal on which tro receivers

can naxe a rize But the raise broadcast lasted only 12 minutes

at ry 71g,

I was at home taat nights? the student said. t was never

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ng the shite lus tang with the man?

ene res Some interier ence and the

mena socione three or four times

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alice castoned at a traflic light,

dilered, I have a man on the radio

ke

el Hus tans ith the man who shot

may and che ratrolman who was riding

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turnea up the voluelso wed the other oilicer could.

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we laforration coning oven the clizens band radio to the police

is catcher o

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request for, a reviewe

Ray, inho entered a guilty quea marca 10 co the slagag oi. king

wes reruged a ner trial war 2olby raguino The judge ruled the :

edmitted slayer is not entitle to 2 nen trial since he voluntar 1ly

entered the guilty plea to Zing's death.

me attorneys move friday to bring the raguin decision uy

Ior rerlen could take the case to the western division of the

Zennessee Court of Criminal areals.

managuin denies the reatest

That detect eat see plane to elate court

blocks dom the appeal, Pra said, other legal routes are ope

ay currently is serving hisis Jean sentence in the state prison

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Date

1C AUG 1976

HH: 53216 / DocId: 3

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