Orders to Kill
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20. Memphis Police Department officer Louis McKay standing guard over the bundle dropped in Canipe’s doorway—note the hedge in the upper right corner.
(Photo by Sam Melhorne, Commercial Appeal)
21. The hedge having been cut down shortly after the shooting.
(Memphis Police Department Evidence Files)
22. British Merchant Seaman’s identity card of Sid Carthew in 1964. Raul approached Carthew in the Neptune Bar, Montreal in 1967, offering to sell him guns.
(Author collection)
23. Staged photograph of MPD cruiser pulled up to the sidewalk and clearly visible by anyone exiting the rooming house. Photo taken after hedge was cut thus supporting official conclusion that James Earl Ray saw MPD car and panicked, dropping the bundle. (Memphis Police Department Evidence Files)
24. Cheryl in 1995 executing her affidavit which alleged her acquaintance with Raul and his admission of being the assassin as well as Percy Foreman’s admission to her that James Earl Ray was innocent and that Foreman also knew Raul. (Photo by the author)
25. Loyd Jowers (left)—the owner of Jim’s Grill in 1968 who in 1993 finally admitted his involvement in the assassination—shown here attending a deposition in 1995 in the case of Ray v. Jowers et al with his attorney, Lewis Garrison.
(Photo by the author)
26. Felix Torrino’s house where Raul and associates allegedly regularly met to assemble weapons, and where, according to Cheryl, Raul admitted the killing.
(Photo by the author)
27. Sketch of Percy Foreman which he autographed and gave to Glenda Grabow in 1979.
(Artist: Robert McSorley)
28. Carlos Marcello, former New Orleans crime boss whose empire included Memphis and the Southwest, and who agreed to carry out the contract, ultimately using associates in Memphis and Raul.
(Photo by Christopher R. Harris)
29. Arthur Wayne Baldwin in 1995, former mob associated Memphis topless club owner who was offered two separate contracts (mob and FBI) to have James Earl Ray killed in prison.
(Photo by the author)
30. Special Forces officers at Ft. Bragg including Colonel Henry Cobb (C. O. of the 20th SFG) fifth from left, and General Yarborough ninth from left.
(Yarborough Collection, Boston University)
31. Major General William P. Yarborough (second left) and J. Edgar Hoover flanked by aides Colonel F. Van Tassell (left) and M. K. Hanson (right).
(Yarborough Collection, Boston University)
32. Lieutenant Eli H. Arkin circa 1968, senior Memphis Police Department Intelligence Officer.
33. The formal orders issued to Warren and other 20th SFG Alpha 184 team members.
34. The Illinois Central Railroad Building, as seen in 1968 from the balcony of the Lorraine Motel—20th SFG Alpha 184 team members Warren and Murphy’s rooftop position at the time of the killing. (Memphis State University collection)
35. MPD Inspector Sam Evans in 1989. Evans ran the TACT units and briefed the 20th SFG Alpha 184 team members Warren and Murphy on the afternoon of the killing. (Photo by David Barker)
36. Marrell McCullough of the 111th Military Intelligence Group kneeling over the fallen Dr. King less than a minute after the shooting. (Photo by Joseph Louw)
37. View from flat roof of Fire Station 2 where Reynolds and Norton photographed the shooting and the assassin in the bushes. (Photo by the author)
38. The real Eric Galt as shown in a 1967 photograph from his Top Secret NSA file.
39. Two officers coming down over the wall minutes after the shooting, one identified by Warren in 1994 as being a CIA/NSA operative.
(Memphis Police Department Evidence Files)