</s>FBI MEMPHIS FBI EL PASO 1145 AM 4-16-68 URGENT JPM TO DIRECTOR AND SACS JACKSONVILLE. ST. LOUIS, MIAMI AND MEMPHIS (ATN) INSPECTOR JOSEPH A. SULLIVAN) all serial 7.7 FROM EL PASON (157-186) "P" 3P 72.37476.4 V/MURKIN. 15. Hamilina mak with Ray. RE SUSPECT DAVID (NMI) HAWKINS. MRS. HARLEY HERRALD, NINE SEVEN FOUR CORNELIUS STREET, EL PASHO, TEXAS (PROTECT IDENTITY), ADVISED THAT AT SIX THIRTY-FIVE PM APRIL SEVENTEEN. SIXTY-EIGHT), SHE RECEIVED A PERSON TO PERSON TELEPHONE CALL FROM ONE DAVID CMMI (HAWKIN), HERRALID SAID SHE KNEW HAWKS WHEN BOTH IN ARMY IN GERMANY FIFTY-FIY-FIVEL THROUGH FIFTEY-SEVEN, AND HAD BEEN CORRESPONDING WITH HIM BY MAIL SINCE THAT TIME. DURING CALL HAWKINS SAID WE WAS ON THE RUN" AND WAS LEAVING NEW ORLEANS MORNING OF APRIL EIGHTEEN, SIXTH-EIGHTH, AND WOULD ARRIVE EL PASTO. TEXA, IN TWENTY-Four HOURS. HERRALD ASKED WHAT HE WAS ON THE RUN FROM AND HE REPLIED "YOU MIGHT SAY FROM THE FAMILY." WHEN ASKID IF HE WAS IN TROUBLE, HAWKING REPLIED 'I WILL TELL YOU TO BE GET THERE." MODE OF TRANSPORTATION NOT KNOWN, BUT ASSUMED TO BE AUTOMOBILE. SEARCHED 157-18L-67 END PAGE ONE To JK 11:52 AM, Initialed by BJN SERIALIZED 1 INCLUDED: To JL 11:59 AM, Initiated by JJR SIRIALIZEO: To M 12:08 PM, Initialized by HTF FILLED APR 181968 To WA 12:18 PM, Initialed by CAB FBI-EL PASo 2025 RELEASE UNDER E.O. 14176

Summary: On April 19, 1968, Attorney General Ramsey Clark announced that the FBI had identified James Earl Ray, an escapee from Missouri State Penitentiary, as Eric Starvo Galt. A federal complaint against Galt was filed in connection with the fatal shooting of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The FBI's fingerprint analysis revealed that Galt and Ray were identical. Ray, 40 years old, had been reported missing from Jefferson City, Missouri, since April 23, 1967, after being incarcerated at Missouri State Penitentiary on March 17, 1960, for a 20-year sentence related to armed robbery and operating a motor vehicle without the owner's permission. The announcement was made under Executive Order 14176.  

Key People: James Earl Ray, Eric Starvo Galt, Ramsey Clark, J. Edgar Hoover  
Key Locations: Missouri State Penitentiary (Jefferson City, Missouri), St. Louis, Missouri  
Key Events: FBI fingerprint identification of Ray as Galt, Ray's escape from prison in 1967, filing of a federal complaint against Galt for Dr. King's assassination  
Key Organizations: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Missouri State Penitentiary

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