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This directive soon became national in scope with SAC's in all FBI Field Offices being ordered by teletype on April 7, 1968, to participate and conduct a top priority investigation under their personal supervision. This meant all leads were to be afforded immediate, thorough and imaginative attention and all possibilities from such leads exhausted. Also, 24 hours was set as the period after receipt of a lead within which the investigation and reporting must be completed. All SAC's were to bear personal responsibility for any failure to handle the investigation (HQ 44-38861-153) . c. Progress of the Investigation. The breadth of this top priority investigation 1s repeatedly evidenced in the Murkin files. All informmt sources - racial, security and criminal - were immediately alerted and contacted for information. The KKK and other hate groups as well as individuals know to have violent proclivities were checked. The files were checked for prior threats against Martin Luther King, Jr. (HQ 44-38861-2649). Name checks were contimuously being made on Selective Service records, city and telephone directories, drivers license bureaus, motor vehicle divisions, financial institutios, credit records, criminal and civil records, marriage licenses, public utility rolls, wmions, cannon carrier passenger lists and mre (e.g. HQ 44-38361-233). (1) Bessie Brewer's Rooming House. Key information was developed early at Bessie Brewer's Roaming House whence ~48-