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>> i asked her who was renting this room, and she went and got a receipt book and gave me the name. and if i remember right, john willard or something like that. i went down to the car and put out a broadcast on john willard in a white mustang. >> information we have on the subject is a young white male well dressed, possibly in a late-model white mustang north on main street. >> it was already too late. the police dispatcher, vince 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 argum...

Parked his white mustang in a low-income housing project in atlanta and headed for the bus station. within 48 hours of king's death, ray had reached toronto, canada. he rented a room in an immigrant area near downtown. james earl ray wrote -- >> the woman couldn't speak hardly any english. the man not much better. i never gave a name as they never asked me for one. >> ray read through old newspapers for birth announcements and chose this one from 1932, ramon sneyd. ray, posing as a government official, phoned the real sneyd. >> he told me he never had a passport, so i decided to get a passport...

Motel where dr. king had been shot. >> he went to find the landlady. >> i asked her who was renting this room, and she went and got a receipt book and gave me the name. and if i remember right, john willard or something like that. i went down to the car and put out a broadcast on john willard in a white mustang. >> information we have on the subject is a young white male well dressed, possibly in a late-model white mustang going north on main street. >> it was already too late. the police dispatcher, vince hughes. >> main street was not cordoned off for probably two minutes. >> the first insti...

Passport, so i decided to get a passport in his name as his picture would not be on file at the passport office. >> the fbi thought at first king's murder was a conspiracy. harvey lowmyer bought the rifle, john willard rented the room. eric galt drove the mustang. when the fingerprints and the strands of hair showed they were the same man, the fbi issued this warrant for eric starvo galt. then, sifting thousands of records, the fbi matched those fingerprints with an escaped con from missouri, james earl ray. it began a nationwide manhunt for ray. the next day, ray left toronto for montreal, tr...

0 the firehouse ran down the slope toward the motel. fireman george loneky reached the fallen king. >> the whole side of his right jaw was gone. >> i took a crushed cigarette houfts hand. he didn't want kids to see him smoke. and i took the package out of his pocket. i have them in my possession. i have a handkerchief where i wiped a bunch of blood off my hands. >> i couldn't feel a pulse beat or nothing, and i knew that he was done gone. >> so he probably never even heard the shot. just ahead, the evidence left behind. >> i knew it was a rifle. it was a hunting type rifle. >> and the doubts...