|
The Memphis Police Department (MPD) in 1968 |
| Frank
C. Holloman |
former
FBI agent and Director of Memphis Police and Fire
Departments |
| J. C.
MacDonald |
Chief
of police |
|
William O. Crumby |
Assistant Chief |
| Sam
Evans |
Inspector-head of all Special Services including the
emergency tactical units (TACT) |
|
Don Smith |
Inspector in charge of
Dr. King's personal security in Memphis in the 1960 |
| N. E.
Zachary |
Inspector-homicide |
| Eli H.
Arkin |
operational head of the intelligence bureau |
| J. C.
Davis |
detective in the intelligence bureau |
| Emmett
Douglass |
driver
of TACT 10 cruiser on afternoon of April 4, 1968
|
| Joe B.
Hodges |
patrolman/ dog officer |
| Barry
Neal Linville |
homicide detective |
|
Marrell McCollough |
undercover intelligence officer assigned to infiltrate the
Invaders |
| Ed
Redditt |
black
detective seconded to intelligence bureau |
| Willie
B. Richmond |
black
intelligence bureau officer |
| Jim
Smith |
officer assigned to Special Services and detailed to
intelligence; later attorney general's investigator
|
| Tommy
Smith |
homicide detective |
| Jerry
Williams |
black
detective |
|
The Memphis Fire Department in 1968 |
|
Carthel Weeden |
captain in charge of station 2 |
| Lt.
George Loenneke |
second
in command station 2 |
|
William King |
fireman station 2 |
| Floyd
Newsom |
black
fireman station 2 |
|
Norvell Wallace |
black
fireman station 2 |
|
The Judges |
|
Preston Battle, Jr. |
Shelby
County Criminal Court trial judge in 1968 |
| Joe
Brown, Jr. |
Shelby
County Criminal Court trial judge in 1994-95 |
|
The Prosecutors |
| Phil
Canale |
Shelby
County District Attorney General in 1968-69 |
| John
Pierotti |
Shelby
County District Attorney General in 1993-95 |
|
James Earl Ray's Lawyers |
| Arthur
Hanes Sr. & Arthur (now Judge) Hanes Jr. |
James
Earl Ray's first lawyers |
| Percy
Foreman |
James
Earl Ray's second lawyer |
| Hugh
Stanton Sr. |
court
appointed defense co-counsel with Percy Foreman in 1968-69
|
| James
Lesar |
James
Earl Ray's lawyer in the early 1970s |
| Jack
Kershaw |
James
Earl Ray's lawyer in the mid 1970s |
| Mark
Lane |
James
Earl Ray's lawyer from 1977 to the early 1980s |
|
William F. Pepper |
(Author) chief counsel 1988 to present |
| Wayne
Chastain |
Memphis attorney-defense associate counsel 1993 to present;
Memphis Press Scimitar reporter in 1968 |
|
The U.S. Government |
|
Executive Branch in 1967-68 |
| Lyndon
Baines Johnson |
President |
| Robert
S. McNamara |
Secretary of Defense |
|
The FBI in 1967-68 |
| J.
Edgar Hoover |
The
director |
| Clyde
Tolson |
associate director; close friend and heir of J. Edgar Hoover
|
| Cartha
DeLoach |
assistant Director |
|
William C. Sullivan |
assistant director in charge of Domestic Intelligence
Division and expansion of COINTELPRO (Counter-Intelligence
Program) operations |
|
Patrick D. Putnam |
special agent seconded to U.S. army Assistant Chief of Staff
for Intelligence |
| Robert
G. Jensen |
special agent in charge (SAC) Memphis field office
|
|
William Lawrence |
special agent in charge of intelligence for the Memphis
field office |
| Joe
Hester |
Memphis field office special agent in charge of coordinating
the Memphis area investigation |
| Al
Sentinella |
FBI
special agent in the Atlanta field office who controlled
SCLC informant James Harrison in 1967-68 |
| Arthur
Murtagh |
FBI
agent assigned to the Atlanta field office in 1967-68
|
|
The CIA
in 1967-68 |
|
Richard M. Helms |
Director |
|
U.S.
Army in 1967-68 |
|
OFFICE OF CHIEF OF STAFF |
| Gen.
Harold Johnson |
Chief
of Staff |
|
ARMY INTELLIGENCE |
|
Brigadier General William M. Blakefield |
Commanding officer United States Army Intelligence Command
|
| Major
General William P. Yarborough |
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence ("ACSI")
|
|
Gardner (pseudonym) |
key
aide of 902nd Military Intelligence Group |
| Col.
F. E. van Tassell |
Commanding Officer, ACSI office security and
Counter-Intelligence Analysis Board ("CIAB") |
|
Gardner's aide (pseudonym) |
Gardner's aide-his number two |
|
Herbert (pseudonym) |
staff
officer ACSI's office, Pentagon |
| Col.
Robert McBride |
Commanding officer 111th Military Intelligence Group, Ft.
McPherson, Georgia |
|
20TH
SPECIAL FORCES GROUP (20TH SFG) IN 1967-68,
HEADQUARTERS, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA |
| Co1.
Henry M. Cobb, Jr. |
Commanding Officer |
| Major
Bert E. Wride |
second
in command |
| Capt.
Billy Eidson (dec.) |
Alabama contingent |
| Second
Lt. Robert Worley (dec.) |
Mississippi contingent |
| Staff
Sgt. Murphy (pseudonym) |
Alabama contingent |
| Staff
Sgt. Warren (pseudonym) |
Alabama contingent |
| Buck
Sgt. J. D. Hill (dec.) |
Mississippi contingent |
|
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSY OPS") |
|
Reynolds (pseudonym) |
photographic surveillance officer |
| Norton
(pseudonym) |
photographic surveillance officer |
|
The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
|
| Louis
Stokes |
Chairman of the HSCA |
|
Richard Sprague |
former
Pennsylvania prosecutor and first HSCA chief counsel in 1976 |
| Robert
Blakey |
chief
counsel of the HSCA 1977-79 |
| Walter
Fauntroy |
Chairman sub-committee on the Assassination of Martin Luther
King, Jr. in 1976-79 |
|
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Officials In
1967-68 Who Were Witnesses To Significant Events Or On The
Scene |
| Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
president |
| Rev.
Dr. Ralph D. Abemathy |
vice
president/treasurer |
| Rev.
Andrew Young |
executive vice president |
| Rev.
Hosea Williams |
chief
field organizer |
| Rev.
James Orange |
field
organizer |
| Rev.
James Lawson |
Memphis representative who invited Dr. King to Memphis
|
|
The Invaders in 1967-68 |
|
Charles Cabbage |
|
| Dr.
Coby Smith |
|
| "Big"
John Smith |
|
|
Charles "Izzy" Harrington |
|
| Calvin
Taylor |
|
|
Other Significant Figures |
| Lavaca
(Whitlock) Addison |
owner
of a restaurant frequented by Frank C. Liberto in 1978
|
| Willie
Akins |
friend
of Loyd Jowers |
| Amaro
("Armando") |
cousin
of Raul |
| Walter
Bailey |
owner/manager of the Lorraine Motel in 1968 |
|
Clifton Baird |
Louisville, Kentucky police officer in 1965 |
| Arthur
Baldwin |
Memphis topless club owner in the 1970s |
| Myron
Billet |
occasional driver for Chicago mob leader Sam Giancana in the
1960s |
| Kay
Black |
reporter for the Memphis Press Scimitar in 1968 |
| Ray
Blanton |
Governor of Tennessee in 1976 when Ray escaped from prison
|
| Earl
Caldwell |
New
York Times reporter at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968
|
| Carson
(pseudonym) |
associate/friend of Sgt. J. D. Hill of 20th SFG |
| Sid
Carthew |
British merchant seaman who visited the Neptune tavern in
Montreal in 1967 |
| Cheryl
(pseudonym) |
acquaintance/associate of Amaro ____ and his cousin Raul
____ from 1962-1979 |
| Joe
"Zip" Chimento |
Marcello New Orleans associate and coordinator of Marcello
weapons trading and gunrunning in 1967-68 |
| Chuck
(pseudonym) |
six
year old boy in 1968, alledgedly sitting in parked car on
Mulberry Street at the time of the shooting |
| Morris
Davis |
FBI/DEA
informant in 1968 and HSCA informant/researcher in 1977-78
|
| Daniel
Ellsberg |
former
defense department specialist who released the Pentagon
Papers |
|
Hickman Ewing, Jr . |
former
U .S. attorney and chief prosecuting counsel for the
television trial of James Earl Ray |
| April
Ferguson |
associate of Mark Lane in 1978 and defense co-counsel for
the television trial of James Earl Ray |
| Marvin
E. Frankel |
former
U .S. federal District Court judge and judge for the
television trial of James Earl Ray |
| Eric
S. Galt |
employee in 1967-68 at Union Carbide Corporation's Toronto
operation with U.S. government Top Secret security
clearance; the identity used by James Earl Ray in 1967-68
|
| Lewis
Garrison |
Memphis attorney for Loyd Jowers |
|
Memphis Godfather |
Carlos
Marcello's principal associate in Memphis |
| James
Harrison |
SCLC
controller in 1967-68 and paid FBI informant |
| Ray
Alvis Hendrix |
eyewitness who left Jim's Grill ten to fifteen minutes
before the shooting on April 4, 1968 |
|
Kenneth Herman |
Memphis private investigator |
| O. D.
Hester "Slim" |
friend
of Ezell Smith |
| Frank
Holt |
trucker's helper employed by M. E. Carter in 1968
|
|
Charles Hurley |
Memphis resident who picked up his wife in front of the
rooming house on the afternoon of April 4, 1968 |
|
Solomon Jones |
Dr.
King's driver in Memphis in 1968 |
| Loyd
Jowers |
owner
of Jim's Grill on South Main Street in Memphis in 1968
|
| Jim
Kellum |
Memphis private investigator for the defense |
|
(William) Tim Kirk |
inmate
at Shelby County Jail 1978, and at Riverbend Maximum
Security Prison in 1992-present |
|
Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles |
Memphis minister |
| James
Latch |
Vice
president of Memphis LL&L Produce Company and partner of
Liberto in 1968 |
| Frank
Camille Liberto |
President of LL&L Produce Company in Memphis in 1968
|
|
Phillip Manuel |
investigator for the Permanent Sub-Committee on
Investigations of the United States Senate in 1968
|
| Carlos
Marcello |
New
Orleans, mafia leader in 1967-68 |
| John
W. ("Bill") McAfee |
Memphis photographer covering Dr. King on assignment from
network television on April 4, 1968 |
| James
McCraw |
Yellow
Cab driver in 1968, driving on the evening of April 4
|
| John
McFerren |
Somerville, Tennessee businessman and civil rights leader in
1968 |
|
Sheriff Bill Morris |
Shelby
County Sheriff in 1967-68 |
| Red
Nix |
Marcello organization contract killer |
| Oliver
Patterson |
FBI
and HSCA informant in 1977-78 |
| Paul
____ |
Yellow
Cab driver in 1968, driving on the evening of April 4 |
| Raul
____ |
shadowy figure whom James Earl Ray met in the Neptune Bar in
Montreal in July 1967 |
| James
Earl Ray |
the
alleged assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who has as
of March 10, 1995 been in prison for 26 years |
| Jerry
Ray |
youngest brother of James Earl Ray |
| John
Ray |
younger brother of James Earl Ray |
|
William Zenie Reed |
eyewitness who left Jim's Grill ten to fifteen minutes
before the shooting on April 4, 1968 |
| Randy
Rosenson |
man
whose name was on a business card found by James Earl Ray in
the Mustang in 1967 |
| Jack
Saltman |
Thames
Television producer of the Trial of James Earl Ray in 1993
|
|
William Sartor |
Time
magazine stringer and investigative reporter, died
mysteriously in 1971 |
| Bobbi
Smith |
waitress at Jim's Grill in 1967-68 |
| Ezell
Smith |
employee at a Liberto family business in Memphis in 1968
|
| Betty
Spates |
mistress of Loyd Jowers in 1967-68 and waitress at Jim's
Grill |
| Dr.
Benjamin Spock |
pediatrician, author, political activist and potential "ice
president candidate on a proposed King-Spock ticket in 1968
|
Gene
Stanley
|
former
U .S. Attorney and Knoxville lawyer for Randy Rosenson in
the 1970s |
|
Charles Quitman Stephens |
422-1/2 South Main Street rooming house tenant in room 6-B
and State's chief witness against James Earl Ray in 1968
|
|
Maynard Stiles |
deputy
director of the Memphis Public Works department in 1968
|
|
Alexander Taylor |
senior
Florida intelligence officer in 1968 |
| Steve
Tompkins |
Memphis Commercial Appeal reporter in 1993 |
| Ross
Vallone |
Houston associate of Carlos Marcello in 1967-68 |
| Louie
Ward |
Yellow
Cab driver in 1968, driving on the evening of April 4
|
| Nathan
Whitlock |
son of
Lavada (Whitlock) Addison who met Frank C. Liberto in 1978
in his mother's restaurant |
| John
Willard |
alias
used by James Earl Ray for renting a room at 422-1/2 South
Main Street on April 4, 1968 |
| Glenn
Wright |
prosecution co-counsel in the television trial of James Earl
Ray |
| Walter
Alfred "Jack" Youngblood |
U .S.
army Vietnam Special Operations Group operative, pilot,
intelligence agent and mercenary |
