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>> if this was a big conspiracy, he would have been murdered shortly after this. he would have been taken out and buried somewhere and we would have never found him. the fact that he lived all these years tells me there wasnt a conspiracy. when we come back -- >> he wanted to get away. >> the one mistake that caught a killer. >> and he dropped that bundle. had it not been a policeman or anybody there, he would have been gone.

Saying "kings been shot, kings been shot." >> douglas reached for his radio mike. >> we have information king has been shot at the lorraine. >> captain ray raced out of police headquarters heading to the scene. there, on south main street, he saw a bundle abandoned in the recessed doorway of a record store, right below the rooming house. the store owner told him two customers saw a man run by. >> there was two black gentlemen in there that had told him that a white fellow had dropped it there, a...

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Hughes. >> main street was not cordoned off for probably two minutes. >> the first instinct had been to cordon off the lorraine hotel. most shootings involve arguments at close range, so police raced toward the victim, and precious time was lost. >> in the 25 years i spent on the police department, that was the only occasion i can remember where we had a sniper. >> murders committed by complete strangers are incredibly hard to solve, unless the killer makes his own mistakes. not only did that ri...

>> this, too, was left in the doorway beneath the boardinghouse. >> his prison number, i believe, is scratched on here. >> rays hair would link him to the bedspread. then there was this in the bundle. so this laundry tag from his shorts -- >> yes. >> -- was traced back to him? >> exactly, exactly. >> james earl ray would eventually admit almost everything, except killing king. his brother, jerry ray. >> he dont deny that he didnt rent the room. he dont deny he didnt buy the gun. the only thing h...

Bundle, this one. its a big bundle. in this picture, its giant. >> its a huge bundle and very incriminating in the end. >> james earl ray left no fingerprints upstairs in the rooming house. ray has acknowledged he would put band-aids on his fingertips before a crime so he wouldnt leave prints. but in that bundle was this rifle and on it a thumb print, rays left thumb. on the binoculars, the same thumb print. also in the bundle in memphis, this beer can. again, with a print from his middle finger...

There would have been hidden from the officers view. where did you think he stopped approximately running? >> i would say probably about this far. >> so what is that, 20, 30 feet? >> uh-huh. >> douglas turned back when other officers called to him. he never saw ray or anyone else hiding in the doorway. yet had that bundle not been left behind, james earl ray might never have been identified or caught. >> if it hadnt been the fact that he came out of that building not knowing there was a policema...

Theres not one witness who has talked about a man coming in to get a spare tire fixed. >> i dont know for sure. i dont know if nobody admitted that he was in there or not. >> when you talk about the bundle, your brothers fingerprints are on it, there are binoculars in there, his underwear. >> beer cans. i think a couple beer cans. >> the green blanket that he admitted bringing up to the room. >> yes. >> who would have had access to all those things? >> the guy that called himself raoul that was ...

There was a memphis policeman outside, near the doorway. patrolman gene douglas left to man the radio in his squad car. >> we have information that king has been shot at the lorraine. >> douglas called in that first alert. then he got out of the patrol car. >> i came out here and started running down this way. >> okay. so you start running down this way. why this way? >> when i heard the shot, i couldnt tell exactly, you know, where it was coming from. i didnt see any other place that it could h...

Working class families and the elderly in michigan. raising taxes on working class people and the elderly in michigan in order to finance hundreds of millions of dollars to give away to business. they mean cutting programs that help poor people heat their homes. that is an obama administration proposal by the way. they mean declaring a financial emergency making the budget way worse with a bunch of corporate giveaways and then cutting money from programs for the disabled like in florida. this ec...