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Of arthur hanes' law office. >> according to the prosecutors, the shot was fired from the bathroom and killed dr. king over here on the second floor of the lorraine. >> just south of the rooming house, across the street from the lorraine, is this firehouse. in the back of the fire station, officer redditt set up a surveillance post. >> i call it surveillance. because he couldn't be security. you've got to be surveillance. >> this is the back window now painted over. fire lieutenant george lonakey was on duty that day. >> they had a newspaper across the window. it had peepholes, three peepholes...

Ray on it when it was found outside the boardinghouse. >> the rifle, the one ray bought in birmingham, is on display today. upstairs in the rooming house, now part of the national civil rights museum run by beverly robertson. it's got a scope on the top. >> yes, he had a scope on it. i think he felt he needed a scope, but it was a very short distance. you didn't need to be a marksman or a sharpshooter to be able to hit the target. >> it was an easy shot. >> it was an easy shot. i bet you or i could have made that shot. >> across at the lorraine motel, witnesses had pointed to the back of the b...

Not match this bullet, which killed dr. king, with the rifle ray bought. the bullet was badly mangled upon impact and the markings made by the rifle barrel when the gun was fired fell short of scientific certainty. second, two men living in the boardinghouse could not identify the man they saw running from the bathroom after the sound of the shot. he held a hand to his face. the government's case places the shooter in the bathroom. but police had one witness at the time who did see someone else. solomon jones, king's driver that day, says he saw a man with a white hood over his head in the bus...

>> william pepper says there were military intelligence officers on the roof of the fire station next door. according to him, they took one incredible photo. >> one of the guys, when the shot took place, took his camera and spanned it all the way around to the left into the bushes. and he caught the shooter lowering the rifle. and he said it was not james earl ray. all right? definitively. >> but pepper says he never saw those photos. he says he knew a guy who did, but pepper could never lay his hands on them. those bushes were in the backyard of jim's grill. jim's was a workingman's dive righ...

So as expected, as the soldiers are leaving, they got attacked. >> we rounded a corner, and that's when the first shot rang out. and then there was gunfire everywhere. richard and another soldier and i raced back to the humvee. >> the bullets are pinging off the side of the humvee. >> as i'm between this rock and the humvee, and redden is walking backwards, so the two of us are behind this humvee, i'm walking forward and he's walking backwards filming me and i'm trying to prevent him from falling and then getting run over by the vehicle or shot. >> my mind is racing because we need pictures, b...