Hey guys, welcome back to the Conspiracy Podcast. What up, yo? Thanks for hanging out with us again. That’s right, part two of Martin Luther King Jr. God, still can’t get over how much of a badass that guy was. I know, he was good. You got to go back and you got to listen to the stuff, listen to being able to like do what he did with all of, at 35. But at, hey, at 35 and with four kids. I know, and, and just being like all of the people that are threatening, [bleep], kill you. No, he had a, he had a goal, or like a, all that hostility, he had a purpose.

Yeah, he had a purpose and nothing can stop it. It was so strong. He was like, doesn’t matter, I don’t care. And like those are the type of, those are like the, those are the, like there’s, there’s only a couple generational people that you get. Yeah, every like generation who are like, no, you can’t, whatever you want. Yeah, like people say Elon Musk, kind of the same way, it’s like with making Tesla. I mean, yeah, well, well, Tesla, I don’t know, we’re going to put him in the same C. I’m saying, no, he’s not in the same category. He’s not the same category, but like a type of person, because like the reason I say this, like Tesla, Tesla didn’t make money for 12 years.

Yeah, like I, I would have been like, year or two, I’m like, I’m out, [bleep] peace. No, but what I like about him is he doesn’t give a [bleep] about what people say about him or talk about, or like who’s trying to boycott him or whatever the [bleep]. It’s obviously different time, different situation, and like obviously he’s not even in the same realm of MLK, as a, as a human being. Yeah, yeah, but you know, in 2023, he’s one of those people that people, wow, like holy [bleep], this guy is a [bleep] generational guy, you know? I hear you, they’re not the same, they’re not even [bleep], not even remotely.

I just want to make a, I want to make a statement, they are not even remotely close to the same. Hear what you’re saying, but, well, we’re not going, no, no, I hear the words that you, hear the words, it, coming out of my mouth, I come to stab you after this episode. So we got to finish episode first so we get the content. Yeah, then you’re getting, uh, okay. So if you have not listened to part one, go back, listen to part one, right? There’s a, there’s a story involved. Actually, forbid you, it’s, I forbid you from listening to this episode if you haven’t listened to.

Stop listening to it. Yeah, don’t do it, don’t listen to this, don’t listen to this episode. That’s right, because we are now going into what is considered the national, it’s the National Archives, and it’s called the findings on the MLK assassination, and this was what was put together by the FBI. What, a trust, comparable, comparable to the JFK. What was that, Warren Commission? Warr commission, the Warren Commission was held by, you know, it’s like a congressional thing, and they’re like, yeah. So you remember, we had talked about in the previous episode, one of the biggest investigations to that date. Yeah2 million, $2 million, 3,200 investigat, and this, this is the result in the report of that.

Okay, yeah. So as I go through this, as you guys do, go ahead and shoot the holes. Oh, I will. And you know, that’s, that’s my only, that’s my purpose here, to literally make, er, yeah. So, no, well, this one I didn’t write, right, this is taken from, this is from it, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. So, and it starts off with a short bio of James Earl Ray. Oh yeah, sure. Like this, why, I like, when we did the JFK, I liked going back into Lee Harvey, cuz I was like, this is the, I mean, got the most weird, the weirdest [bleep] guy, like could have ever imagined.

He’s like a [bleep] charact, he’s a cartoon character. And when you guys have time, go listen to the JFK, cuz we did five hours. Yeah, JFK, those are good, those one of our most popular ones too, very in-depth and in that sort of thing. So, um, you know, here we go, James Earl Ray. Yes. James Earl Ray was born on March 10th, 1928, in Alton, Illinois. The Ray family moved a few miles to Missouri, in Bowling Green, 1930. 5 years later they moved to another town in Missouri where Ray received his elementary school education. Thumbs up. And that’s the last schooling he ever did. At age 16, Ray moved back to Alton, where he lived with his grandmother.

He worked in the die room of the International Shoe Tannery in East Hartford, Illinois. A [bleep] shoe Tannery. In December of 1945, he was laid off. Dude, what if he worked at, it seems like he worked at the same place that, uh, the dad from Jumanji [bleep], the shoe, the shoe place. I mean, that’s, I know, it’s like a weird, weird drop there, but it’s, it’s in the Jumanji universe. This is in the jumu universe. Yeah, that’s right, at the shoe Tanner. Yeah, but now, don’t, here’s the weird part, okay? So he was laid off in December of 45, now if you know your history a little bit, we, you know that that’s the end of war.

Yeah, that’s the end of World War II, right? He was, 6 weeks later, he then decided, oh, I’m going to enlist in the Army, at the end of the war. Smart play, like the biggest war of all time, he didn’t get, he didn’t get drafted, so he’s like, I’m an list. Yeah, that’s right. So all the guys, all the guys come back and they’re like, [bleep], [bleep], and he’s like, I’m going list. So he joins the Army and he was then stationed in West Germany, where he was discharged a, years later, due to drunkenness and breaking arrest, in ineptitude and lack of adaptability. Too many, he, too many hea wiis.

So he was discharged in December of 1948, from being a drunk [bleep]. Yes, and he contributed nothing to the war. He contributed nothing to anything, actually. Can you imagine joining the war, December 45? Hey guys, they’re like, we did it, V for victory. I know, there’s like [bleep] parades and [bleep], he’s like, I did it. Yeah, they’re like, how do you have, no, there’s no, like there’s no badges, there, nothing on. Yeah. Anyways, so after his discharge, Ry returned to stay with his grandmother in Alton, Illinois, and he embarked upon a life of odd jobs and many, many jail sentences. Solid. So he worked for a place called dried in rubber, he was laid off in 49.

He then went to LA, he was arrested because he robbed a cafe. D, this guy’s serial robber. Y, he was sentenced to 90 days. He then did his time and then he was released in LA in the spring of 50. He traveled back to Illinois where he worked until 52, then he decided he needed to Rob another place, so he robbed a, he robbed a cab driver of $12. On, in 1952, he was found guilty of that and incarcerated at the State Penitentiary and Juliet, and later State Prison Farm in Pontiac, until he was released in 54. Ray then moved to Quincy, Illinois, in 1955.

Quincy, dude, Quincy’s a super small, I have one of my, you know, the peeps, yeah, one of my clients is in Quincy. Really, in Quincy, Illinois? It’s Quincy, it’s really small town, and then like they’re about 45, 50 minutes from St. Louis, so like they’re near, the near the Missouri border. Yeah. So March 7th, 1955, Ray and an accomplice named Walter broke into a post office. Dude, he’s like a serial [bleep] criminal. Jesus. He stole 66 postal money orders, as well as a validating stamp. Oh, Val, valid, he’s like, bro, we can validate [bleep], validate the stamp. Maybe that’s, I got the passports, validate the show.

Yeah, we’ll steal the stamp so we can validate [bleep], going forward, insane, switch. Yeah, the two men fled to Miami, but then were, of course, arrested in Missouri on their way back. They keep going back to like the scene. Yeah, he was arrested, he pled guilty to the robbery, and on July 1st, 1955, he was sentenced to 45 months in lenworth. Damn, okay, it’s 45 months. So in 1959, federal, you know, like, like federal, federal, you touch somebody’s ma, fedal, federal, federal off, you steal a stamp, federal off, 45, 45 months. Yeah, 45 months plus, it’s like strike eight, I, plus it’s, they’re literally like, yeah, it’s your seventh felony, like Jesus, put him in prison.

Uh, he was paroled from lenworth in 1959, he then decided that, in, I don’t know, later on in the year, he decided to Rob two grocery stores. I’m just going to rob another place, in St. Louis and one in Alton. He was eventually captured for the St. Louis robbery in 1959, and then he began serving a 20year sentence at Missouri State Penitentiary. Jesus Christ. During his time, he attemped Ed to escape in 1961, and in 1966, following the second escape attempt, he was examined at a state hospital to see his capacity, you know, like his mental capacity, of which he was determined capable of standing trial.

April 23rd, 1967, okay, okay, he escaped from Missouri State Penitentiary. This guy, this gu, [bleep], this guy’s like Sean Conor in the Rock. But, but that’s when he escaped, escaped? Oh, he’s like, I’m out, fully, like he got out. And over the following 12 months, he traveled between Chicago, Montreal, Birmingham, La, Atlanta, and on April 1968, he posed as John Willard and he rented a room near the Lorraine Motel. O, and that day is when MLK Jr. was assassinated from the second floor balcony. Okay, so they’re saying that he was, he had been on the run for a year, and then, happens, he was an escape prisoner, there’s no way, he, he’s, he escapes prison, he’s like, MLK is going to die?

Like, I, I just don’t think that’s, that’s on his mind, instead of, I need to not be, get caught and go back to prison, as opposed To like, I have to kill Mar. So after, after a lot of the podcasts I listen to and a lot of the audiobooks and stuff like that, there was one argument that was brought up at this point, which was, you’re an escape convict, right? So usually escape convicts, they go away from things, they’re, they’re avoiding, avoiding high traffic. Okay, MLK is what, the highest trff profile? Top five, dude, top one. RFK. Yeah, but like L B Johnson, at that time.

No, but at that time, it’s the, it’s the most controversial, most talked about, most [bleep], like you go stay into a, h, a rooming house next door. Wait, but did he know that, or he just happen to find out? Out, well, they’re saying, they’re saying that heed, yeah. And some, and somehow he’s able to acquire a weapon. But the AR, the argument against it, the argument against it is, what kind of escape convict does this? No. Zero. No, in the history of escape convicts, zero of them do this. Because also, also MLK was escorted by Memphis police everywhere. Oh, for sure. So he had, he had police, you remember the timeline of his death?

Yeah. He went to, he went to the hospital within, and a police escort, a police escort to the hospital. Yeah, that means that there were police watching. They were there, they were like, they were probably staying, you do that, staying in the same boarding house that [bleep], he staying. You remember the episode we did on, uh, Princess Diana? Oh my God. Yeah, yeah, took an hour and a half. Oh dude, [bleep]. Yeah, then, yeah, for the princess, and, know, she’s like a [bleep], she’s the most important person in the whole country. Yeah, and they’re like, well, traffic’s, traffic. Point being is, the point being is, there, cops, ever?

Yeah, yeah. And so why would, why would an escape convict go to the, the, The Hot Spot? It’s also like, I’m sorry, but like, how would an escape comant have the means to like plan this whole [bleep] murder? Escape. Yeah, so there we go. And so, on May 7th, 1968, the Shelby County Criminal Court named James Earl Ray in the indictment for the first-degree murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. The international Manhunt happened, we went over that in the last episode, and it culminated him being arrested at Heathrow Airport in London, and then extradited to back to Memphis. Yeah, of which, remember, he play guilt, he, and then he, that’s right.

I want to know, where did this whole rodesia thing come from? That, is that something he had said? That’s where he says, and that’s where his tickets showed that he was going. Okay, I didn’t, I didn’t know if that was like someone just like guesstimated that, like, oh, he’s trying to go to rhia for, you know, the racist [bleep] Hall of Fame. I don’t, a good question, and there’s, there’s some conjecture of, uh, why he was going there. Yeah, a majority of the evidence is just that he had tickets there and he was trying to get on that boat. Okay, and it was just constantly like trying to get there.

I would, I’d actually be interested to see if like maybe, like what if like rodesia was like a no extradition State? Possibly. Yeah, yeah, possibly. Yeah. So with Ray’s background, his criminal record, his trial, his conviction, his Escape, everybody in the country was like, this is the guy. Well, and which I don’t, he’s an escape convict, a psychopath, oh, we got him, we extradited him from another country, you know, like that became trial by media. And I, and and I don’t blame them, because like, look at his track, look at his rap sheet, I mean, my God, I mean the guy is like a career criminal.

Yeah, so it’s, it’s an, it’s an easy, it’s an easy, it’s an easy slam D case, but it’s fishy. So the FBI says, the FBI says that they did an exhaustive, they use the word exhaustive, investigation. Yeah, they exhausted a lot of funds, [bleep], a lot of tax money. But here’s what they say, and this is how they Define exhaustive, is 20 days of public hearings, three days of testimony of Rey himself, right, uh, and then no trial. Oh, exhaustive, no trial, no trial. You know what’s exhaustive? 2500 public speaking events, that’s [bleep] exhaustive. That’s right, true, that’s, and MLK did a [bleep] smile on his face.

So here are the results of the investigation and the committee that determined that James Earl Ray fired the shot that killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and they do it in summary bullet points, okay? And what we’re going to do is, we’re going to do, there seven points, we, we go through the points and then we’ll talk, and each one, does that make sense? Okay, point one, Dr. King was killed by one shot fired from in front of him, okay? So he’s on the, he’s on the balcony, he’s on the balcony, and so he’s got, okay, one shot. Now, point number two, the shot that killed Dr.

King was fired from the bathroom window at the rear of a rooming house, which was basically across the way, at 422 half South Street, Memphis, Tennessee. But I thought I hit him, like, in the right side of the neck, like in the neck? That’s right, it did, yeah. In the last episode, you, you said it was the neck and the face. The face, so maybe it was the face, little bit downward, it seems like it was like right downit down little bit, then it was, no, if it cut the ne, the neck, or neck through the face. Well, he was on a balcony, so he’s got of shot a tiny bit of an upward angle.

Yeah, so it’s like tiny bit of a side, I was, yeah, like from the side, but up, up through the side, like through here, and like out through the [bleep] jar or some [bleep]. Okay, Point number three, James Earl Ray purchased the rifle that was used to shoot Dr. King, and transported it from Birmingham, Alabama, to Memphis, Tennessee, where he rented a room at the 422 South Main Street, and moments after the assassination, he dropped it near 424 South Main Street. But the thing is that, that the gun was PCH purchased under supposedly one of his aliases, supposed, correct. Y, so that’s a little, and where was it purchased?

I forget, you remember, it was in Birmingham. Marine, uh, Co, but, but in, in Alabama, right, in Alabama, Birmingham, no, but that is under a different name, under a different name, under an alias. And, mean, a similar, this is like, this is literally, this is the JFK assassination Playbook right here, he literally did the same thing, learned [bleep], Macy’s, they learned Macy’s catalog, under a [bleep] under a different name. He did, he got the, he got the shittiest gun World from, and I was just thinking too, I was like, you know, obviously, supposedly leey osor was a sharpshooter, yeah, right? This Escape ComEd gu never shot a gun in his whole [bleep] life.

Well, you don’t know, he’s in the Army, he’s in the Army, yeah, but he was drunk at the whole time, we have beer, he did not fire a shot, beer, that’s, that’s the only consistent thing with this, the beer cans, that’s only consistency. Point number four, of the committee, it is highly probable that James Earl Ray stalked Dr king for a period immediately preceding the assassination. Highly probable, when he’s on the run from the, exactly, correct, when he’s on the Run, he’s like, I think I’ll do some stalking. Very correct, of the most, of the most famous man in the world, while he’s surrounded by police, he’s totally right.

Point number five, James Earl Ray fled the scene of the crime immediately after the Assassin. Supposedly, supposedly, he could have already been, that would make sense, but is he fled right away? No, thing is, they didn’t, they, they just said there was a young white male, yeah, right, there was never, that was the only description given. But my thing, he was already on the Run anyways, yeah, so it wouldn’t be weird that he was already like trying to get into a different state. Totally. So I’m saying that there was a possibility that he was already like leaving, he wasn’t running, but he was just on the Move anyways.

He was already running, he’s running, he’s running, running for a year, he’s been running from the cops for a year, he’s still running, he never stopped running. True, I like that, I like that. Yeah, okay, Point number six, James Earl raised Alibi for the time of the assassination, his story of a man named Raul and other, basically the evidence is not worthy of belief. I mean, I understand that, it doesn’t seem worthy of belief at all, it seems to like total [bleep]. Okay, the fin, yeah, the final point, the final Point number seven, James oay knowingly, intelligently, involuntarily, plad guilty to the first-degree murder of Dr.

MLK. Yeah, but then he said, no, see, my thing is, like, I get it. So those are the seven points. It’s really easy, if you’re that dude, they’re like, they’re going to put you to death if you don’t play guilty, they’ll kill you right now, you’ll be [bleep] dead. And you remember, he went through two attorneys, and they were like, you’re not going to make. Yeah, and then, and but then he gets Jesse Jackson, the [bleep] civil rights attorney, and he’s like, he didn’t do it. That’s when I was, yeah, and, and, and ketta, he didn’t do ita’s, like, I mean, that’s to day, I mean, that’s a two most credible mother [bleep] you could, that’s a good point, unless Al Sharpton comes out and he’s like, he didn’t do it.

Oh my God. So there you go, those are the seven points of the investigation, that was, that was their exhausted seven point, bu, obviously they’re trying to, that cost us $2 million, exhaustive, they’re trying to be succinct, you know, where they put it in the point and stuff. So, so let’s just take them up one by one. Sure, okay, take one by one. Right, so the first one was, Dr. King was killed by one shot fired from in front of him, which is odd, because if it went Through his neck and his face. It’s hard to like, if you see the photos, this is not a Jonf Kennedy shot, this is, meaning it’s not far.

Oh, okay, it’s, there’s a, there’s, you remember those hotels where you would pull up your car? Yeah, they still exist. But yeah, they’re motels. Yeah, you drive up, and you know, there’s a balcony, and la, that’s what it was. But my thing is, standing on the balcony, that’s where M was, but a building just on the, on the, on the next, next to it? Oh, across the street? No, this is a shot you or I could make. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, very easy to do. We trying to say about my shot? No, but, no, here’s the thing, it’s like, remember, remember, have you fired a gun, dude?

I’m [bleep], I’m a great shot, just kidding. Um, my thing is like, remember when we were going through, obviously we’re referencing JFK a lot, but remember that, when, when, uh, Lee Harvey attempted to kill the general, yeah, and he was like, like 38, 38 ft away, and he like, and he’s a sharp shoo, like miss, and the GU, like sitting in the window, like kill me, and the shot is like one in a million. Yeah, yeah, from the window, through the tree, while he’s moving, literally motion, like a tornado, adrenaline, like the statistically most inaccurate gun ever manufactured, everybody’s doing magic fingers [bleep] up. Uh, okay, so, you know, let’s just take this up.

Killed by one shot fired from in front of him. So he was staying at the Lorraine Motel and he was on the balcony of room 306 with Dr. Ralph abery. He was struck by the bullet at 601, leading to his mortal wound. Dr. Jerry Francisco of the medical examiner conducted the autopsy, and he determined that King’s death resulted from a single gunshot wound to the chin and neck, affecting the spinal cord. Oh damn, oh, okay, okay. Critics question the thoroughness of the tosy, leading to a panel of forensic pathologists reviewing the evidence. The panel concluded that Dr. Francisco did not dissect the bullets path during the autopsy, due to concerns about the body’s deformity and the funeral.

Oh, oh, so he didn’t like want to get in there and dig, and like, because they’re going to have an open casket, I guess. That’s, yeah, that’s right, and you can actually see photos of the funeral in his open casket. Well, maybe, maybe Mr. Francisco is Raul. He didn’t want to, he didn’t want to dis the path. But those, uh, extra forensic pathologists also confirmed the accuracy of, at least, that a single gunshot did kill him. Okay, yeah, yeah. The bullet entered Dr. King’s face, fracturing the jaw, exiting the lower face, re-entering the neck, and causing severe damage to vital arteries in the spine. The forensic pathology panel determined that the wounds matched a Remington Peters bullet fired from High Velocity rifle, at a distance.

Okay, the committee concluded that Dr. King’s death resulted from one shot fired from in front of him. So this leads into, this leads into point two, which is that the, the shot was fired from the window at the rear of a rooming house, which was across the way. Okay, yeah, forensic pathology couldn’t provide precise directional trajectory data. Okay, so they, they can’t say what angle he was shot at from, and this was due to the lack of bullet path section during the autops. He could have been shot from like a helicopter. Yeah, like, lit, part of, part of the problem, it had to come from like in front.

Well, we know it’s in front of him, yeah, helicopters can be in front, but it wasn’t from the top down. How, we don’t know, there was no precise trajectory [bleep] analysis. Okay, fine, there’s no helicopter, Sean. Also, what they’re saying is, is that they didn’t know if he was like this, they didn’t know if he was like this, or if his arms were up, or if he, who knows what he was doing at the exact moment, so I think it’s important information. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, right? I mean, look, if they couldn’t provide, like, what if, what if the actual trajectory of the bullet was from like over here, and like, like they’re like, well, how could he be in his apartment and shoot him from way, you see what I’m saying?

It could, it could put some holes. Here’s the only part that is a little confusing to me, the autopsy panel suggested the shot came from Dr. King’s right and above, and it was consistent with a downward trajectory. What, be right and above? So, so looking out over the balcony? Yes, the shot came from right and above, that means he was like, he was like on the roof. Yeah, so downwards, see, that’s my point, I’m like, if he’s in his thing and he like dips down the alleway, it’s not like he could be like up, and he’s like, that’s the confusing part, because, because, remember, in the first episode we talked about how it, yeah, was up, almost, it was a little bit up, I think, he was on a balcony, but they keep saying we didn’t know if he was like laughing up, but it still wouldn’t be, it wouldn’t come from an upward trajectory.

You know, well, we don’t, to your, maybe he was doing a hand, he was doing a handstand. No, but to your point, like, we don’t know the trajectory, they didn’t [bleep] study that, because they were like, oh, we can’t, we shouldn’t do it. So, uh, Cougle and Pool’s engineering used scientific measurements to analyze the crime scene, of which witnesses testified that Dr. King was on the balcony, but the survey suggested possible locations for the assassin, such as the bathroom window or in the bushes, etc. But the problem is, all the eyewitnesses Chang their stories, uh, that’s, that’s why witnesses are not reputable, I know, you know.

So if you do a 100 witnesses, each of them 9 different stories, say a little different, yeah, exactly. They h heard Two Shots, yes. Additional evidence, like indentation in a bathroom wind cell and a scuff marks in the bathtub, suggested the bathroom as a potential firing location. However, the committee couldn’t confirm or deny the cause of the indentation or eliminate alternative possibilities, so they just said, we can’t, sorry, it’s, it’s a motel, there’s indentations everywhere, the whole thing is a [bleep] indentation. So while the scientific evidence alone didn’t pinpoint where the assassin was located, the combination of witness testimony and scientific data suggested that it was the rear of the rooming house as a likely firing location.

Okay, that’s fine, leading them to conclude that the shot that killed Dr. King was from the bathroom window. I would like to see, I wish I had like a little model, I know, where I could see some photos, and it does give you a little bit more like aope where he was shot, how he was shot, cuz what’s funny enough is, he stayed there the night before, and he, there’s a picture of him on the balcony in the same spot. Picture of MLK, MLK. Okay, yeah, but it’s just the day before, yeah, and it, it’s just kind of eerie, oh yeah, you know, because he was doing the same thing, he was like leaning over, [bleep], and you know, that sort of thing.

Point number three, James R. Ray purchased the right that was used to shoot Dr. King, transported it from Birmingham, Alabama, to Memphis, where he rented a room at South Main Street, and moments after the assassination, he dropped it near 424. Remember the bundle he dropped, like an i me, it’s like a care package, like evidence package. Yeah, here’s package of evidence, here’s my fingerprint, here’s my seen, here’s everything that you need, a little like, like jizz in like a little napkin, like fold it up, like I’m going to think the FBI needs this. It’s also like, I also was thinking, I was like, man, it’s back in this time, back in the, you know, oh yeah, you could, it’s amazing what you could do with zero dollars, you can [bleep] travel the country, rent millions of hotel, like buy weapons, and you have like eight names, and you have, no, you can get infinite passports, it’s just like, what the [bleep] is going on, the good old days, literally, it’s like, get away with, I have a hard time getting through TSA, I know, I have all the proper documentation.

Yeah, so Dr. King was killed, per the reports and per the autopsy and all that stuff, he was killed by a Remington Peters 30 OD 6 rifle, and the committee found that James Earl Ray purchased this rifle on March 30th, 1968, in Birmingham, Alabama. The rifle found moments after the assassination, in front of the canopies Amusement Company, match the type that could have fired the fatal bullet. I love how they like, could, they literally put could, there’s literally, there’s like, they can’t give you, we’re not sure. Yeah, Ry, Ray did admit to buying a 30 out6 uh, rifle, which was corroborated by witnesses who were at the, the gun shop, the aerom Marine.

Ray used an alias named Harvey low during the rifle purchase, and the name John Willard, to rent the room at the rooming house. He rented room 5B, which offered a view of the Lorraine Motel. Witnesses saw a man fitting Ray’s description fleeing with a bundle in hand that may or may not, not have contained a rifle. I, fitting his description, it’s like white man, the bundle, that’s him, the bundle, the bundle was then recovered by police and contained a rifle, ammunition, and all those other items that we talked about, couple beer cans, blood sample. So here’s what they found in the bundle. The committee confirmed that raised fingerprints were on the rifle, of course, they were on the binoculars, of course, they were also on a Slitz beer can, delici, and then remember, he had a newspaper, yeah, and the newspaper was like perfectly open to Dr.

King’s hotel, so stupid, and the fingerprints were on there, and meanwhile he’s like fleeing the law. I just can’t get over, I just can’t not think about that. A firearms panel examined the ballistics, but they couldn’t conclusively link the rifle to the fatal shot. No [bleep] way. And this is The biggest, they couldn’t, m, they couldn’t match the rifling. So this is the biggest thing that they couldn’t match. How can the match the rifling? Because they said that the bullet in MLK’s body was too deformed to match it up to the, the rifling. The rifling, that’s [bleep], what, that’s [bleep] [bleep]. But later on, in a testimony, one of the lawyers said that the, the bullet was fine.

Okay, yeah, according to the lawyer, yeah, like, of course they’re going to say that. I don’t know, this is sketch. This is, so this is the biggest conflict in this case, it’s like there’s no ballistics, and you, you would think that, like, you would think they found the rifle and then they had the guy and he was shot and the bullet was in his body, how else do you want it? I mean, I mean, literally, what else do you need? You would think that they would just be like, yeah, it was a match, like it’s like everything’s right there. They, they could, you think they just like shoot like to shoot one into like a water ball pit, and like, oh, here it is.

It’s, uh, or remember JFK, like they, dro the bullet on thing, oops, find the bullet, a perfect bullet, it’s a mat, I know, it’s like still, it’s not even fired, it’s like, it’s like the, like, this is it, we didn’t find fingerprints, but we found Lee Harvey’s seen on it, on the bullet, seen on the bullet, he had to do the bullet, the bullet was mangled, but the seen was intact. It’s [bleep] ridiculous. A firearms panel examined the ballistics, but they couldn’t exclusively linked the rifle to the shot. That’s so sketch. However, they determined that the rifle could have been the one that fired it, they would, they wouldn’t count it out.

But the thing is, if they would have, if you actually look, like how many rifles could, like the number is probably so dramatic, it’s like this and two and a half million other rifles could have fired the shot. So, and then this is what they say, now keep in mind, remember, I’m reading this from the committee’s report, yeah, combining the evidence, including Ra admission of guilt, fingerprints, witness testimony, and the possibility of that rifle being the one that fired the fatal shot, the committee concluded that Ray bought the rifle, transported it to Memphis, shot Dr. King, and then abandoned the murder weapon at the scene.

But he, he waited till he was three states away to get rid of his film equipment, with had nothing to do with the murder, it doesn’t make any sense, it’s so stupid. He literally like dumps his film equipment, legit, like three states, like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, I got, uh, I got my, my rifle and my seen in one hand, and then, and then I got, I got my Canon photo in my other hand. Okay, let’s do, let’s dump the SE, let’s dump the SE in, let’s dump the seen, and then we’ll take this to cross state lines, it makes no sense.

It’s like, especially from a dude who’s escaped prison like six times, you think even have like a little bit of brain power, he is all about escape, he’s all about escape. Okay, point four, and they say, they say it is highly probable that James R. Reay stalked Dr. King for a period immediately preceding the assassination. I know it’s like this is all, this is all like hearsay, highly prob, immedately, like, so what, a couple hours, like, well, that’s not’s jump, not stalking. This is consistent evence suggested that Ray likely pursued Dr. King from LA to Atlanta and eventually to Memphis. LA, what, the stalking likely began around March of 68, when Ray left Los Angeles.

Ray’s decision to leave California was planned, as he had discussed his travel plans with acquaintances from the bartending school and submitted a change of address, with foring address, to Atlanta before leaving LA. Wait, wait, wait, wait, who, hold up, hold up, he submitted change of address while on the run, from, from the police? He escaped prison and he submitted a change of address, he’s, he’s like, oh, for my mail, true. He literally escaped prison, went to bart school, what the [bleep], that’s true, why do you change your address while you’re escaped from prison? It’s a change of, I just want to get my ID, I like, but no, he did it under an alias.

Well, you sure? Does it say that? Oh yeah, well, I mean, you’re now you’re just adding in, we’re assuming, we’re assuming he did that, this guy was a king of alias. I’m assuming he did that under an alias, it doesn’t say, in the assumption, I, I was thinking the same thing. It doesn’t say in the report, but it do sound a little funny, the guy lally escaped prison, he’s like, you need my, for my mail, like, I don’t want to deal with a DMV and [bleep], like change of address, you’re an escape convict, it’s like, he’s like, I still got two weeks left in my bartending school, yeah, like, what the [bleep]?

Insane. Um, although Ry, uh, denied knowing he was going to Atlanta, in evidence indicated his interest in tracking Dr. King’s activities. Yeah, whatever. Yeah, what evidence? They say here, probable stalking continued when Ray went to Selma, Al, Alabama, of which there was a famous march where Dr. King was there, which is Selma, Alabama. So Rey explained for being in Selma was deemed unconvincing, as it deviated from logical travel routes, and he just made up an excuse to be in Salma, of which the investigation states that he was actually just stalking. Well, I mean, just as a point, I mean, the guy clearly never takes logical travel routes, yeah, going to London and Brussels and [bleep], like, I mean, the guy is [bleep] all over the place, like, guys, yeah, but my thing is like still, I, I, I just, there’s not consistency, it’s all over the map, no, over the, there’s no, there has been not one definitive piece of evidence, everything is that he’s there, everything is probable, it could have been the gun that he, or that he was likeing him and planting, just the fact that he was there is the only thing that’s, that, that’s supposedly proven, everything else is he was probably stalking him, probable, highly probable, the gun, a lot of the stuff is the gun might have been used, there’s not one like, I know czy is, they can’t give one like hard piece of evidence.

Why this episode exists, because that’s why the conspiracy is there, is because it’s the most slip shot. It would be way different, but think about this also, back in the day, like there, not like today where you have so much like, true, but dude, they were convicting [bleep] with, with, he did it, back in the day, yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s true, and the fact that like they didn’t have one thing, they could have been like, yeah, if they were like, it was the rifle, that would even make a huge difference, he bought it, and probably the rifle, probably he was probably stalking him, probably, let’s make the most educated gu, [bleep] it, let’s put, put him in, 99 years, put him in the maybe, in the maybe category, we going to go maybe.

So the committee concluded that Ray did return to Atlanta, based on evidence including a payment to his landlord and different laundry receipts. Ray likely left Atlanta for Memphis after learning the news that Dr. King intended to go to Memphis, he likely left, likely, in Memphis, Ray checked into a motel called the New Rebel on April 3rd, he later moved to a rooming house that was adjacent to Lorraine Motel. Okay, see, why would you do that, CU he’s on the run from the police, why would you do that, when you had a newspaper too, saying that this is where, stay the same hotel room, motel room, why, what, say that, why, why wouldn’t you just stay at the same hotel?

He had a newspaper that said MLK was staying at the Lorraine Hotel, exactly, so why wouldn’t he just stay there in the first place, I guess is the question, yeah, why would he just like go there? Yeah, instead he’s like, I’m, I’m G to throw him off the sand, throw off the, I’m going to leave, I’m going to leave all the evidence on the ground, yeah, and he’s like, by the way, I’m an escape convict for a year, like, like literally, he’s a mastermind and he’s like, leave all the evidence. The way, by the way, does that happen nowadays? The what, people escape from prison and we don’t know about it?

[bleep], no, no one [bleep] escapes from time, you heard, like, no, never, like this dude has escaped from prison. Yeah, I mean, no, never. So the committee found compelling evidence of Ry’s intent to monitor Dr. King’s movements. Rey selected a room at the rooming house offering a view of the Lorraine Hotel, he purchased binoculars on April 4th. Wa, wait, sorry, he say he selected the room, do we have, do that is that proven, that did he actually select the room, or they were, you were in room 5B, [bleep], get the [bleep] out of my face, know that, that would be, that would be a big thing if he, if he actually picked the room with the view, it adds, it adds more like he’s actually making them, I feel like this was, uh, dived into, and I don’t have the data on, were like probably pick, I probably, I feel like I did read about this, and I don’t remember that information, but that’s a good, that’s a good point, it’s a really good point, yeah.

Ray selected a room at the rooming house offering a view of the Lorraine, he purchased binoculars on April 4th, circumstantial evidence suggests that Ray tracked Dr. King’s movements from LA to Memphis, indicating cumal, indicating prep for the assassination. And that’s the end of point four. This, this is circum, dud, I literally this entire thing is avoid being sued. Yeah, this, this entire thing is literally, don’t, don’t say anything was actually happening. Point five, James Earl Ray fled the scene of the crime immediately after the assassination, the committee concluded that James Earl Ray shot Dr. King from the bathroom window on the second floor of the north wing of Bessie Brewers rooming house.

After the shooting, Ray fled the building carrying the bundle containing a weapon and other items. Wait, let, you dropped it. Well, hold on, cuz I was looking at the pictures of the, the, the, the hotel where he’s saying at. Okay, so if he shot him from the second balcony, or the second floor, yeah, and Dr. King was on the balcony, then where does the upward trajectory come in? Correct, cuz the balcony, that, if you see the picture, the balcony of, yeah, exactly, it was like same level, but they were saying, we don’t know where the trajectory was, we don’t, we don’t know if it was up, down, even, like, and we don’t know if he was leaning back forward.

At least according to this, we can say that he was in the second floor and his room was on the second floor. Room was on the second floor, how the [bleep] did he get to the alleyway without no one seeing him, like dip, you know what I’m saying, he’s like right there, like, like, what the [bleep]? All right, keep going. After the shooting, Ray fled from the building carrying a bundle containing the weapon and other items, he dropped it in the entrance way of the canopy Amusement Company. Evidence indicated he dropped it at the foot, at the, at the feet of, indicated that Ry then drove north in a small white car, identified later as a white Mustang.

In the police radio broadcast shortly after the assassination, described a white Mustang with a single white occupant as the suspect that was fleeing the scene. Yeah, I mean, that’s kind of loose though, single white occupant. That’s the, literally Ray, Ray is the one that said he had a getaway driver, true, he said he was, he said he was getaway driver. Oh yeah, yeah, so, uh, take all the other things that were occurring, then Ry apparently drove for 11 hours from Memphis to Atlanta, where he abandoned the car, picked up laundry, what, that he had like chilling there, like waiting, hly packed belongings at Garner’s rooming house, and then fled north to Canada.

Rais flight alone provided substantial corroboration for his involvement in the assassination. During interviews, in a public hearing, Ry denied being at the rooming house when the shot was fired, but admitted leaving Memphis in the Mustang shortly after 6. Okay, Ray claimed that while returning from a service station, he saw a police roadblock near the rooming house, leading to his instinctive fear of police, as he was in escape convict, yeah, exactly, and concern, I’m afraid, yeah, cuz you’re [bleep] running, and his concern about Raul’s gun running steam in Tennessee. uhhuh, Ra’s is a gun Runner. Now Ray drove south toward New Orleans. New Orleans, nyin, nyin, planning to contact Raul’s associates.

He asserted being unaware of Dr. King’s death until later in the journey. Some, he’s like, who’s Dr. King? Somewhere south of Memphis, Ray turned on the rad, heard reports of the assassination in the police searching for his white Mustang, and he was convinced that Raul was involved, and he feared a nationwide manhunt, so he decided to get the [bleep] out of there and head to Atlanta first, and then to Canada, throwing everything out of the car, including his photography. His photography, because he was an avid photographer, on the run from the police. That’s right. I had like, where’s he getting the money for photography? Women, where’s he getting the money to drive anywhere?

Where’s he getting for gas? Like, where the [bleep] is this money coming from? Also, why did he refer to himself as a getaway driver, or, yeah, that’s interesting, that is actually interesting. Well, his, his concept was that Raul was doing a gun running scheme, and he was going toway driver of the deal, which he didn’t know it was an assassination. That’s right, that’s right, oh, that might be actually interesting. Hey bro, I’m gonna sell some guns, you just be, you’re GNA be The Driver, you’re gonna be the driver, and then I do the deal, and you don’t see anything, I’m sitting there down the street.

Or maybe, maybe there’s no maybe, like imagine, he’s like, s, or nothing happens, no, imagine he’s sitting in the car, he’s like, in the car, white dude kills him, okay, drops the bundle, that like somehow they got finger, white dude, just a random white dude, and then literally he’s like in the car, and like he hears gunshots and everyone’s freaking out, he’s like, drive away, drive, drive, drive, drive, he’s just like drive, and there, nobody in the car with him, it’s just him, and he’s like, what the [bleep], I got to get out of here. It really, pretty easy to him, be like, what, yeah, I drive away, [bleep] yeah, [bleep] gunshots, dog, [bleep], get out of here, this a bad part of town.

So, point number six, now you guys ready? James ear rais Alibi for Raul and other, allegedly, whatever, are not worthy of belief. So James earol Reay, the alleged assassin, presented an alibi in his defense, and he claimed he was, so did you say a shashan, the alle, the allegis. [Laughter] Sash, m, so he, so he presented an alibi defense and he claimed he was not present at the crime during the assassination. He initially told his attorney and others that he was blocks away at a service station, attempting to fix a flat tire on the, uh, white Mustang. They didn’t have like receipts for that? They have receipts for [bleep] everything.

I know, they have receipts for his coffee and like [bleep], point. Point, later, he changed his Al Alibi to a gas station story after replacing his attorney. Oh, okay, so the attorney’s like, got to be some part of, part of this committee’s problem was that his inconsistent alibi raised doubts, especially that he planned to go to trial, and then take the stand, and then changed it, and then he found it perplexing that he would withhold it from his original attorney, and then it just, don’t me around, the guy is, is wor, the guy is not helping his case at all, he’s definitely like ultra flip-floppy, he said he canads guilty, unpad guilty, he says different [bleep] to different people.

The committee determined his story to be false when they interviewed the owners of the Texico station that he said that he went to, and they said they never saw a white Mustang. Okay, yeah, so they said, that’s the first, that’s the first definitive piece of evidence we’ve had. This entire, incredible, the only legit evidence. So Ray then built his defense around a character that he called Rul, whom he claimed directed him through various stages leading up to the murder. This involvement was Raul, extended from the purchase of the murder weapon to renting a room at the, the rooming house in Memphis, where he alleged that a gun deal was going to take place.

This is literally, this is, this is it’s, is JFK with like a different, it’s like literally with different, different character names. Yeah, additionally, additionally, Ry asserted that Raul guided him to buy the binoculars, even, you need to see, get the binoculus. Here’s the main problem with the Committees, here’s the main problem with the committee’s, like, report, about not, not their report, but their, their problem with the Rowl story, there’s not one piece of evidence, there’s not one witness who says they know a Rowl, true, there’s no witness, nothing, to a, there’s no Rowl anywhere in any, nobody saw two people in the Mustang, there’s nothing.

So there’s no, but if, but if you want to say that there’s no evidence that says that he [bleep] shot, at the beginning of his St, probably, maybe, at the beginning, educated guess, on, at the beginning of, at the beginning, the law, educated guess, I know, right, at the beginning of, uh, Ray’s story, he says he was a blonde Latin to, and later on, he said he was a sandy-haired Latin, uh, well, Sandy and blonde similar, if he was like redhead Latin, I’d be like, committee’s investigation failed to support any evidence whatsoever of witnesses or anything. I mean, R seems like full, seems like [bleep], yeah, I mean, I agree, I agree that Raul seems, additionally, if he did purchase it, there were no fingerprints anywhere of this person named row, including in the murder weapon.

When you say he did purchase it, you’re talking about row, or R? Apparently, per Ray, he claimed that Rul told him to buy the binoculars and the rifle. Well, told him to buy, so, so he bought it, but he was, he was told to buy by Ru, so obviously R, there’s no fingerprints of on anything, there’s no nothing, there’s no witnesses, Raul instructed him, correct? Yeah, I’m not saying I don’t, I still don’t believe Raul existed, I, I feel like, yeah, I don’t either.