Word: assassine
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Same day in Atlanta, the FBI impounded a white 1966 Mustang bearing Alabama tag number 1-38993 and registered in Gait's name. It had been parked near a public-housing project since the morning after King's assassination. The killer is believed to have escaped in a white Mustang, and the FBI clearly thought that this was the assassin's car. It had been bought in Birmingham for $2,000 cash...
Memphis, in fact, was shipping more conjecture than cotton last week. Although Attorney General Ramsey Clark had theorized that the assassin acted alone, rather than as part of a conspiracy, someone had sent false radio reports to Memphis police headquarters in the minutes immediately after the shooting. The messages could have been designed to divert police attention from the killer's escape route...
...whether it was really the murder weapon was uncertain. Clark initially hinted that a ballistic test had yielded positive results. Subsequent reports that the unjacketed slug had been too badly mashed for a definite comparison to be made went undenied. Whether the palm and thumbprints, thought to be the assassin's, were of any help was also kept secret. Other rumors died quickly, such as the one that had a Memphis police officer under secret arrest. Said Assistant Police Chief U. T. Bartholemew: "We're struggling...
...very methodical murderer. U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who descended on Memphis with 75 federal lawmen 14 hours after Martin Luther King was shot, said that the assassin had shed an "unsually large" amount of physical and psychological evidence...
Haughty, dandified Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) is outwardly a London snob and secretly a top British agent. He is also a Russian assassin named Krasnevin who for 18 years has been knocking off other British agents as he knocks down a smashing double salary. Homesick, he begs his Red superiors to let him quit. Nyet: he must go on. And his job is getting tougher all the time. His British bosses have got wind of Krasnevin's existence-though they don't know what he looks like-and they want him expunged. As just...