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
in this fbi interview, the seller said ray paid him in cash, mostly 20s. he paid that guy $2,000 in 20s, that would be a lot of money. there s another dot connected to the bank of alton. reporter: detective john light thinks that money came from the robbery. if so, enough to keep ray on the run for another year. $30,000 back in 1967 was a lot of money. but james earl ray claims the money came from the mysterious raoul. never a last name. he just called that name raoul. that s the only name they called him. ray got an alabama driver s license under his alias, eric starvo galt. he registered the mustang under the same name. with this new license plate and his new identity, ray left for mexico. this is james earl ray that fall in puerto vallarta where he spent much of his time with a prostitute. by mid-november, ray on the right moved on to los angeles and settled into a low-rent hotel on hollywood boulevard. he took dancing lessons and bar tending lessons, but perhaps mor
seller said ray paid him in cash, mostly 20s. he paid that guy $2,000 in 20s, that would be a lot of money. there s another dot connected to the bank of alton. detective john light thinks that money came from the robbery. if so, enough to keep ray on the run for another year. $30,000 back in 1967 was a lot of money. but james earl ray claims the money came from the mysterious raoul. never a last name. he just called that name raoul. that s the only name he ever called him. ray got an alabama driver s license under his alias, eric starvo galt. he registered the mustang under the same name. with this new license plate and his new identity, ray left for mexico. by mid november, ray, on the right, had move on to los angeles and settled into a low-rent hotel on hollywood boulevard. he took dancing lessons and bar tending lessons, but perhaps more significantly, he did this.
goes to the open door. all of a sudden she sees lloyd running toward her carrying this rifle, still smoking. pepper says lloyd jowers didn t actually shoot dr. king. he helped get rid of the gun as a favor to a mafia connection who came to see him. and gave him $100,000 and said, your place is going to be needed for the killing of that nigger, king. pepper believes the mafia was in cahoots with the federal government and local police who wanted king dead. jowers told him as much. it was planned in his place, there were logistical meetings there with police officers, and he was given a role to do in terms of the gun being out there, taking the gun, eventually turning it over. 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.
sudden she sees lloyd running toward her carrying this rifle, still smoking. pepper says lloyd jowers didn t actually shoot dr. king, he helped get rid of the gun as a favor to a mafia connection who came to see him. and gave him $100,000 and said, your place is going to be needed for the killing of that nigger, king. pepper believes the mafia was in cahoots with the federal government and local police who wanted king dead. jowers told him as much. it was planned in his place, there were logistical meetings there with police officers, and he was given a role to do in terms of the gun being out there, taking the gun, eventually turning it over. 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