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About the time Gait flashed his money at the dancing school, he took a songwriter named Charles Stein on a two-day trip to New Orleans in the Mustang. While passing through Texas, Gait made several long-distance telephone calls from pay booths, and so insistent was he on repeating his name that Stein surmised that "he was establishing a fictitious identity." Once they returned to Los Angeles, Stein saw little of Gait, but is certain that he made at least one more trip to New Orleans...
...Fatal Day. On April 3-the day before King was murdered-Gait registered at Memphis' Rebel Motel, and his Mustang was seen parked near Room 34. Clerks said that Gait made no telephone calls through their switchboard, but the lights in the room stayed on all night. Next day John Willard-an alias used by Gait-rented Room 5 in the sleazy rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel, where King was shot...
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...
...American Motors' Javelin, a Mustang-like model, has been the vital difference between corporate profit and loss. A.M.C. has increased its share of the market from 2.92% in 1967 to 3.2% for the first six months of this model-year. Of the two intermediate models, Rebel sales are off from last year, and Ambassador is also down slightly...
...build (roughly 165 Ibs. and slender) and accent ("He spoke just like any other Memphian," i.e., with a drawl). Other witnesses recounted in detail how a man of that description ran from the rooming house at the time of the shooting (6:01 p.m.), leaped into a white Mustang with no front license plate (all Tennessee cars have two), and then "laid rubber" up the road. Those clues-plus a total reward offer of $100,000-seemed more than enough to turn up the killer...