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ORDERS TO KILL -- THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MURDER OF MARTIN LUTHER KING

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PHOTO GALLERY, PART 2

11.  The "throwdown" gun bought by James Earl Ray and found in a bundle dropped in a doorway on South Main Street, alleged by the State to be the murder weapon.  (Memphis Police Department Evidence Files)

12.  The area behind the rooming house and Jim's Grill, after the cutting of the brush and showing both wings of the rooming house with the alleyway in between.  (Memphis Police Department Evidence Files)

13.  View from the balcony of the Lorraine where Dr. King was standing when he was shot, looking across Mulberry Street to the area behind the rooming house and Jim's Grill.  Note the eight foot retaining wall with a large tree branch hanging over the edge.  (Memphis Police Department Evidence Files)

14.  Frank Holloman circa 1968, Director of Memphis Police and Fire Departments in 1967-68.  (Memphis State University Collection)

15.  The death slug in three fragments, taken in 1992.  (Author collection)

16.  Autopsy photograph where the death slug is plainly visible just beneath the skin under Dr. King's left shoulder blade.  (Memphis Police Department Evidence Files)

17.  James Earl Ray and the author preparing for the television trial in a counsel's interview room at the Riverbend Maximum Security Prison.  (Photo by Jean Obray)

18.  Frank C. Liberto, Memphis produce dealer initially implicated in the assassination by John McFerren.  Photo taken in 1978 in Lavada Whitlock's restaurant which Liberto frequented on a daily basis.  (Courtesy of Sunday Express)

19.  Nathan Whitlock, to whom Memphis produce dealer Frank C. Liberto admitted involvement in the assassination.  (Courtesy of Nathan Whitlock)

20.  Memphis Police Department officer Louis McKay standing guard over the bundle dropped in Canipe's doorway -- note the hedge in the upper right corner.  (Photo by Sam Melhorne, Commercial Appeal)

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