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aay ane ae 7 Ae re eg om tenn be largely sheer iucx; it covid have taken days. We accept the explanation that the fingerprint search was a normal next resort after normal lead procedures were exhausted. -_ Second, the task force views the evidence pointing to the guilt of James Earl Ray as the man who purchased the murder gim and who fired the fatal shot to be conclusive. It was possible for the task force to create a well documented history of James Earl Ray fram the moment of his escape to his capture in England, using the investigation - reports in the FBI files and to corroborate and fill in essential details with Ray's own statements (admissions) in his letters to author William Bradford Hule. From this chronology, from the laboratory proof, and fran Ray's judicial admissions it was concluded that he was the assassin, and that he acted alone. We saw no credible evidence pro- bative of the possibility that Ray and any co-conspirator were together at the scene of the assassination. Ray's assertions that someone else pulled the trigger are so patently self-serving and so varied as to be wholly umbeliev- able. They become, in fact, a part of the evidence of his guilt by self-refiutation. Third, we found that conspiracy leads (aliunde Ray’s versions) had been conscientiously rum down by the FBI even -108-