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There's no way they would run the same playbook twice. On 04/04/1968, Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. stepped onto the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee at 06:01 PM. Authorities say a single 30-odd-six rifle shot struck him in the jaw and neck, one shot, one kill.
The police also find a bundle near the crime scene containing a Remington Model 760 rifle, binoculars, and personal items tied to one James Earl Ray, an escaped convict from Missouri. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover quickly pronounced Ray to be a lone, racist, hate-filled assassin and there were no co-conspirators, no second shooter, and no larger plot. Didn't something like that happen just recently?
Years later, the FBI and also the House Select Committee on Assassinations both admitted they could never conclusively match the fatal bullet to Ray's rifle. So in other words, the single most important piece of forensic proof tying Ray to the murder does not actually exist.
And then there were the contradicting eyewitnesses. This is from the Washington Post: some witnesses, including then New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell, said that they saw a man moving in the thick bushes behind Jim's grill, which is near the crime scene, but in a location not where Ray was said to be. Then they say, for reasons unknown, Memphis Public Works employees cut down the bushes and destroyed a possible crime scene the very next morning. As always, when you follow the evidence or lack thereof, things just stop adding up.