Word: quitman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only a few months ago, hardly any one much cared how Charles Quitman Stephens, 57, chose to lead his life. An unemployed bulldozer operator, Stephens drew a veteran's modest pension from the Government, lived alone in a room rented for $10 a week in downtown Memphis, and had a reputation for drinking. Stephens would have continued to attract small notice had he not been present in his rooming house on the afternoon that Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death while standing on a motel balcony a few hundred feet away...
...first time, the U.S. revealed a witness who recognized Ray from FBI photographs as resembling a man he spotted in the rooming house during the afternoon of April 4. Charles Quitman Stephens, 46, in an apartment next to the bathroom, heard the shot. "I went out and saw a man running," Stephens said in an affidavit. "Although I didn't get a long look, I think it was the same man I saw earlier...