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    1. I Findings of the Select Committee on Assassinations—Continued
    2. D Agencies and departments—Continued
    3. 5 The Warren Commission—Continued
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    5. (b) The Warren Commission failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President. This deficiency was attributable in part to the failure of the Commission to receive all the relevant information that was in the possession of other agencies and departments of the Government
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    6. (c) The Warren Commission arrived at its conclusions based on the evidence available to it in good faith
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    7. (d) The Warren Commission presented the conclusions in its report in a fashion that was too definitive
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    8. II Findings of the Select Committee on Assassinations in the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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    9. Introduction The civil rights movement and Dr King
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    10. A history of civil rights violence
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    11. Equality in education—the 20th century objective
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    12. A new leader emerges
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    13. A philosophy of nonviolence
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    14. 1960: The year of the sit-ins
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    15. 1963: A year of triumph and despair
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    16. The road to Memphis
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    17. The last moments Memphis Tenn. April 4 1968
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    18. A James Earl Ray firedoneshot at Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
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    19. The shot killed Dr King
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    20. (a) Biography of James Earl Ray
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    21. (b) The committee's investigation
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    22. 1. Dr King was killed by one shot fired from in front of him
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    23. 2. The shot that killed Dr King was fired from the bath room window at the rear of a roominghouse at 422½ South Main Street Memphis Tenn
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    24. 3. James Earl Ray purchased the rifle that was used to shoot Dr King and transported it from Birmingham, Ala. to Memphis Tenn. where he rented a room at 422½ South Main Street and moments after the assassination he dropped it near 424 South Main Street
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    25. 4. It is highly probable that James Earl Ray stalked Dr King for a period immediately preceding the assassination
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    26. 5. James Earl Ray fled the scene of the crime immediately after the assassination
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    27. 6. James Earl Ray's alibi for the time of the assassination his story of "Raoul, and other allegedly exculpatory evidence are not worthy of belief
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    28. (a) Ray's alibi
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    29. (b) Ray's "Raoul" story
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    30. (1) Conflicting descriptions of Raoul
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    31. (2) Absence of witnesses to corroborate Raoul's existence
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    32. (c) Preassassination transactions
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    33. (1) The rifle purchase
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    34. (2) Fingerprints on the rifle
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    35. (3) Rental of room 5-B at Bessie Brewer's roominghouse
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    36. (4) The binocular purchase
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    37. (d) Grace Walden Stephens
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