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Is true or not, because james earl ray said it, i would say it's a pure toss-up. >> when a police team stopped for a rest break at this firehouse, patrolman gene douglas was left in a car outside to monitor the radio. >> i heard a noise, like a shot, well, it was more like a rifle. that's when everybody inside the firehouse started running out saying "king's been shot, king's been shot." >> douglas reached for his radio mic. >> 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 bund...

A police squad taking a break at the firehouse ran down the slope toward the hotel. fireman george loneky reached the fallen king. >> the whole side of his right jaw was gone. >> i took a crushed cigarette out of his 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 somewhere now. i have a handkerchief where i wiped much blood off -- off my hand. >> i couldn't feel a pulse beating. 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 ...

Claims he saw something in the bushes. but when he was interrogated, that story just didn't hold up. >> no one in king's inner circle saw anyone over there. that's what they told police the first night, and we got the same answers 40 years later. did you see anyone? >> no. >> not a soul? >> i did not. >> medical examiner dr. jerry francisco performed the autopsy that night. >> dr. king was killed by a gunshot wound to the head and neck. >> standing where martin luther king fell, he explained. >> the bullet entered at this location of the jaw, passing through the jaw, through the neck, ending u...

Dislike for martin luther king jr. >> personally? >> it was a personal dislike. >> lewis believes hoover's hatred blinded him to dr. king's dream. >> i think j. edgar hoover was convinced that martin luther king jr. was a threat to the order of the american society. >> yet, king was unmoved by the fbi's truly dirty tricks. >> he saw this as part of his life, just the way he would have to live for the rest of his life. still ahead, military spies on the rooftop. >> they said they wanted to take pictures. >> and the fatal moment. >> he probably never even heard the shot. indulge in the pleasur...

It was the bundle left at this doorway that would send james earl ray to prison for the rest of his life. for many people, it's been a mystery. why was it dropped and by whom? for an answer, let's start again with that night 40 years ago. upstairs in the boarding house that evening, charles stevens was in his room next to the bathroom. >> i heard what i thought was a shot. there was a loud explosion. >> he saw a man walking quickly away down the hall. >> he had a package underneath his arm. the package was about yea long. >> the man ran down the stairs and turned south on the sidewalk. suddenl...