Martin Luther King Jr. FBI Files - Vol 2: Assassination - Jacksonville Mississippi FBI Bureau Files

Martin Luther King Jr. FBI Files - Volume 2: King Assassination - Jacksonville Mississippi FBI Bureau Files 

3,333 pages of Jacksonville Mississippi FBI Bureau files related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., files dating from 1968 to 1977.

The files document the FBI’s investigation of leads and possible suspects in the April 4, 1968 assassination of King. The Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that James Earl Ray was the sole assassin of King. Includes documents concerning individuals some believe were complicit in the assassination of King, including Donald Nissen, Leroy McManaman, William Kenneth Knight and Don Sparks.

Highlights include:

Accounting for the whereabouts of Jacksonville and Mississippi residents who were bombing suspects, subjects having a propensity for violence, and current and former members of the Ku Klux Klan at the time of the assassination.

Early mentions of James Earl Ray refer to him by the alias Eric Starvo Galt.

Interview of people in Mississippi associated with Ray.

Memorandum concerning evidence from the assassination and information about Ray, sent to the Jackson Bureau.

Memorandum on accounts given by Henry Sero of 1964 conversations between him and James Earl Ray while they were inmates in Block B of the Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP), Jefferson City, Missouri.