to raoul. >> again, the mysterious raoul. james earl ray had always insisted a man named raoul, or someone else, must have left ray's belongings behind to frame him. >> i think i was taken advantage of, i was the -- some people use a different word, they use duped and all this stuff. >> in 1997, cnn's larry king asked james earl ray about this. >> what were you doing with the rifle that day? >> i'd been part of a project with a guy named raoul for about eight or nine months. >> smuggling? >> the rifle was supposed to be at this place for more of these projects in mexico and some type of arms deal. >> there's no question that raoul existed and does exist. >> armed with so much information, pepper wrote a book. >> it was me who first read william pepper's book and