i also felt i could establish i was at a service station during the time when martin luther king was shot. this is the only time james earl ray has ever testified publicly under oath. he described the mystery man he called raoul at a 1978 hearing of the house assassinations committee. he was approximately 35 to 40 years old, 5 9 , with dark hair and a red tint, and he spoke with a slight spanish accent. john campbell was the final prosecutor who fought all of ray s appeals. he maintains the biggest problem with the raoul story was it kept changing. why are you convinced there s no raoul? he started out as a red-haired french canadian. by the time we get into the late chapters of the story, it s raoul and he s from central america and he s a cia operative or gun-runner or god knows what. nobody was ever found to place a raoul with james earl
has been shot at the lorraine. douglas called in that first alert. then he got out of the patrol car. i came out here and started running down this way. okay. so you start running down this way. why this way? when i heard the shot, i couldn t tell exactly, you know, where it was coming from. i didn t see any other place that it could have come from. see the older green mustang parked by the lamp post on this day just as we re walking by? that s where james earl ray s white mustang was parked that evening. did you see anything? i didn t see anybody or any cars moving or anything at that time. this is the corner where he dropped the bundle, right? right. because the doorway is set back from the sidewalk, anyone there would have been hidden from the officer s view. where do you think he stopped approximately running? i would say probably about this far. so what is that, 20, 30 feet? uh-huh.