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416-J, James Earl Ray, was convicted of armed robbery.

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King referred to George Wallace, governor of Alabama, "perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today..." in an interview with Dan Rather.

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416-J was preparing for his escape. April 22, 416-J shoved himself into a bread box, successfully escaping prison.

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The citizens of Memphis celebrated the thirty-third annual Cotton Carnival. However, the "old world of Delta cotton was in serious trouble." Workers were being replaced with machines, forcing families to move to Memphis.

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Eric Galt checked in to the Hotel Rio.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was in Frogmore, South Carolina. There, his civil rights organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was having its annual conclave.

Eric Galt (James Earl Ray) was in Puerto Vallarta. On November 19 he moved to Los Angeles. On November 27, Galt paid a visit to a clinical psychologist.

George Wallace began his effort of gathering sixty-six thousand signatures for his fight for presidency.

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King gave a press conference announcing the start of his Poor People's Campaign.

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MLK proceeded with his plan to lead his Poor People's Army to Washington. J. Edgar Hoover kept a close eye on King due to his belief of King being "an instrument in the hands of subversive forces seeking to undermine our nation."

J. Edgar Hoover spent most of his time trying to dig up dirt on King. Whether it was personal or public.

Galt began having an interest in racial politics.

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Galt visited a hypnotist to learn how to hypnotize.

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Robert Walker and Echol Cole both were brutally killed in the back of a garbage vehicle.

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Eric visited a plastic surgeon and got nose surgery.

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MLK delivered a sermon titled "The Meaning of Hope" at a church in L.A.

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Martin Luther King boarded the flight at Newark to Memphis for the sanitations workers campaign.

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Most of the clubs that used to be famous where shut down like The Daisy, The Palace, The Monarch, P. Wee's saloon, Club Handy and so many more.

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Galt walked into the Long- Lewis hardware store in Bessemer, Alabama to buy a rifle.

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The same morning, King held the emergency meeting about everything going on not only in Memphis but also everywhere else around the states. They agreed on little that morning.

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President Johnson wanted to announce or was thinking about announcing to the nation that he was withdrawing from the 1968 presidential race.

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King had vowed to return for a few days in Memphis for a peaceful demonstration down Beale Street.

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Galt threw a few belongings together and was about to head to Memphis

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Ralph Abernathy went to pick King up to head to the airport to leave for Memphis.

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The same day King had his speech for the rally at the Mason Temple.

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Eric Galt was staying in the New Rebel Motel which is not to far from where King was staying.

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King was getting ready for dinner but Galt had other plans he was preparing his rifle for something not good at all.

at 6:01 Galt put his finger on the trigger and then all of a sudden there is a loud noise that comes from the bathroom of the rooming house that Galt was staying at.

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Martin Luther King got shot and Eric starts running away immediately.

Martin got shot in his face at the velocity of 2,670 feet per second. It didn't take very long for everyone to realize that he had been shot.

Galt Emerged on the street at 6:02 p.m. That is when Galt started his getaway plan.

At 6:09 King was put in the ambulance and was raced off to the hospital.

At 6:15 he was wheeled into the hospital.

At 6:20 Coretta King got the phone call that king had been hurt very badly and that he might not make it. Also Doctor Rufus Brown had told Abernathy and claim that King probably wasn't going to make it but Dr. Brown wasn't going to stop trying.

At 6:30 The Neurosurgeon Dr. Gioia and he also claimed that there is nothing he can do but he won't stop trying.

At 6:45 King was wired to an EKG machine.

At 7:05 King was pronounced dead.

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Eric was sold the pale yellow 1966 mustang by a man named William D. Paisley. Paisley recalled the conversation him and Galt had. We find out he had an expired drivers license that was from Louisiana and the fact he was not a fan of the light yellow color for reasons he did not say.

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Eric Galt applied for a Alabama drivers license. The detectives were looking for a Alabama license plate.It was later confirmed that he was driving with the license plate that they were looking for.

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This is the year that fingerprints were categorized by the Henry classification system which was developed by Britain.

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A man named Budd Cook Jr. was a garage service specialist who had paperwork on Eric Galt, helping the investigators to get closer and closer to finding Kings killer.

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The day Martins Autopsy took place:

9:00pm - Abernathy and Loretta, clarified and consented that this was Martin's body.

Around 9:30pm - Dr. Francisco started his autopsy report

11:00pm - Kings body was put into a hearse

11:15pm - Kings body arrived at the mortician and they began their work on him.

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The Airplane Lockheed Jetstar shot down. On that plane were people determined to find the killer of Martin. Those people were, Ramsey Clark, Cartha Deloach, and Roger Wilkins.

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Eric Galt decided he needed to give up his mustang since it made him look like a criminal. The White mustang was their only lead, so Eric knew by selling it he would have a better chance of not getting caught.

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Galt was driving in the direction of Detroit. Galt was on the move a lot considering the fact that he was practically hiding from the whole world.

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The Poor People's Campaign March was happening. Many people started calling it "Black Tuesday". This date was to honor Martin Luther King. When this march happened, many people saw Martin as a hero, so his name took some parks, buildings, highways, and neighborhoods.

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The investigators knew that Martins killer lived in apartment 5B. Ramsey Clark had a whole room dedicated to the hunt of his person. They were looking for a person who applied for a tourist permit the day before Martin got assassinated. Unfortunately by the end of the day, they still did not have a clear report.

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Galt decided that he wanted to change his passport photos because he just altered his physical appearance.

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Thomas Mansfield went to the St Francis hotel to get more clues about Galt. There, he spoke to a man named Allen Thompson. He knew Eric Galt and told Mansfield lots of information like how much he paid for rent, his physical appearance, and the day he checked out of the hotel.

Lloyd Johnson and Francis Kahl were speaking to a woman named Lucy about Galt. Lucy owned a dry cleaner. She said he was a regular, but he never left his phone number or address. He did not ever wear work clothes, impling once again that Galt was most likely unemployed.

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Eric Galt was looking for a new identity. He bought a new makeup kit, changed his hairstyle, bought glasses, and changed his outfit style. After he killed Martin he knew that he could not fit the description of the wanted man.

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Tom Ware, who was the Rompage manager, bargained using duckbill pliers. He did this by buying these pliers at a very cheap price and slapped his stores name on them and they sold very well. They had a theory that maybe Martin was a consumer of these pliers which meant he could have lived in LA. This contributed to the potential finding of Martin's killer.

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The FBI impounded Eric Galt's Mustang taking samples of dirt, fibers, hairs, and dirt samples.

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The FBI managed to track Eric Galt back to the dance classes he took when he lived in LA.

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The FBI found Eric Galt's bartending school and contacted his instructor and managed to get the first photo that the FBI had of him but his eyes were closed.

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The FBI managed to find the rooming house Eric Galt stayed at in Atlanta by tracing mail he had sent to the locksmithing school he was attending.

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The FBI found Charlie Stein who Galt had traveled to New Orleans with and the FBI got any evidence from Charlie they could.

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The garbage workers in Memphis managed to get the raises they wanted ending the garbage strike in Memphis.

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Eric Galt applied for a passport under the name Ramon George Sneyd which was the name he had stolen from a Canadian man.

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The FBI released the name Eric Galt and his picture from bartending school to the public and tried to make a second picture of what he would look like with his eyes opened.

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Eric Galt was caught Jay walking in Canada almost blowing his identity and he destroyed the ID he still had from when he was Eric Galt.

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The name and photo of Eric Galt made it on almost every American news station and paper.

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The FBI reasons that Eric Galt must be an escaped convict by how he is always on the move.

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The FBI matches Eric Galt's fingerprint to the print of James Earl Ray.

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The FBI released the Name James Earl Ray to the public and it was broadcast.

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The FBI interviewed the brothers of James Earl Ray asking if they had contacted them recently or if they knew what he had been planing.

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James Earl Ray got his birth certificate for his identity as Sneyd.

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The Sneyd passport had a typo with the last name being Sneya.

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Even with the Messed up passport Ray was able to land in London.

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The poor peoples campaign was approved to use a sixteen acre strip of land near the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial to set up their camp.

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The FBI found James Earl Ray's father that had abandoned the family and was said to be dead and questioned him.

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James Earl Ray flew to Lisbon, Portugal to try and find a way to South Africa but he needed more paperwork to go so he gets stuck in Portugal.

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The Poor People's Campaign's Resurrection City was finished being built and everything started great but began to lose momentum fast.

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The FBI began to search Canada for signs of Ray by looking through passports issued in April.

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James Earl Ray begins to run low on money and had to go back to London.

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Rain started and went on for two weeks worsening the Poor people's Campaign's resolve.

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James Earl Ray tried to rob a London jewelry store but was stopped and ran away.

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The Canadian government found James Earl Ray's passport under the last name Sneyd and found that he had gone to London.

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James Earl Ray tried to rob a bank and got away with only 240 dollars but he ended up leaving behind a note with finger prints on it.

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Senator Kennedy was shot and hospitalized and later ends up dying and it hurts The Poor People's Campaign's moral worsening the effort.

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The government puts out the name Ramon Geroge Sneyd to all people at travel points and tell the to look out for the passport and that if he tries to travel that they need to detain him.

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The Policed in London find out that James Earl Ray had traveled to Portugal but he later returned.

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James Earl Ray tries to fly to Belguim but is stopped and brought into questioning.

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James Earl Ray was arrested and put in Cannon Row prison and awaited trial for extradition and was later transfered to a different prison and awaited trial.

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James Earl Ray was put on a plane to be sent back to the United States.

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James Earl Ray was put in a prison cell in the United States finally back in Memphis and awaited his trial for the assassination of Martin Luther King.

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James Earl Rat pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in prison

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Edgar Hoover died.

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George Wallace tried to run again but was paralyzed from the waist down by an assassin.

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James Earl Ray escapes prison with other prisoners by making a ladder over the wall.

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James Earl Ray was brought back into custody.