escape, he would write me a code letter. >> what would a code letter look like? >> code letter is you read every seventh word. if he underlined his name twice, that means read every seventh word. >> see the signature with the two lines underneath it? now read every seventh word. >> place to bury articles. >> this is a letter james sent jerry before he did escape from the tennessee state prison in 1977. he also smuggled out a wish list of what to bury, cigarettes, boots, ponchos, whiskey. what was the whiskey for? >> just to keep warm while he was out there. >> seven inmates went over the back wall. >> jerry hid a bag of supplies in the woods but james couldn't find it. >> he told me if i hadn't dropped that bag they would have never caught me. >> instead james earl ray was captured in just three days. his last days of freedom ever. in the spring of 1998, james,