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Martin Luther King Jr — Part 1
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The store omer, Guy W. Canipe, and-two customers,
Bernell Finley and Julius L. Graham, were in the store at the
time of the assassination. Each was interviewed by the
FBI and described hearing a "thud" which drew their attention,
and as they looked to see what had happened, they observed
the blanket wrapped bundle in the entrance. At the same
time, they sav a man dressed in a dark suit walking rapidly
south on the sidewalk away from the bundle. A few mments
later, they said, a white compact autawbile - possibly a _
Mustang - proceeded north on South Main Street at a high
rate of speed. The male was described as white, approximately
30 years of age with a medium build, 5°10" to 6' tall and
weighing 160 to 180 pomds. (Memphis 44-1987 Sub A sec 1).
The bundle, after being discovered at Canipe's doorway
by a member of a Memphis Police Department Tactical Squad,
first came into the custody of Inspector Zachary of the
Memphis Police Department's Homicide Bureau. Later in the
evening of April 4, 1968, between 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.,
Inspector Zachary delivered the bumdle to SAC Jensen who
inmediately had it flown by agent courier to Washington for
laboratory examination (Memphis 44-1987-610). The bumdle
contained a Model 760 Remington Gamemaster rifle, 30-06
Springfield caliber, and a blue zipper bag. The bag contained
various toilet articles along, with a pair of men‘s underwear
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