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"Hellhound On His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt In American History" raises some interesting points about James Earl Ray.
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132887822/following-the-trail-of-king-assassin-james-earl-ray
Within seconds, Memphis police officers were on the scene, trying to determine who had killed King. Remarkably, Ray was able slip away.
"He ran down the stairs, took a left and turned — and he was running toward his car, which was a white Mustang parked on the street, when he saw some policemen," Sides explains. "He had to do a very impulsive thing: He ditched the weapon. Everything needed to solve that case was in the bundle with the weapons and various other belongings that he had there. But if he hadn't done that, he would have been caught immediately with the weapons in his arms. So he jumped in the car and took off."
Two months later, the FBI tracked down Ray in London, where he was taken into custody and extradited back to the United States. How Ray was able to evade a worldwide man hunt, and whether he had help in doing so, are questions that linger in Sides' imagination.
"I think he had some help along the way," Sides says. "How did he gather all of the alias [that he used during the manhunt]? There are plenty of unanswered questions."
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=132887822
Well, for two months, he managed to evade the FBI, which despite Hoover's antipathy for King, was actively investigating this, throwing all of the resources they could into it. He finds his way to Canada because border crossings were easy there, and then he figured out how to get a passport and airline ticket out of the country.
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