</s>FBI ATLANTA FBI BIRMGHAM 954 AM URGENT 4-10-63 JGA TO DIRECTOR, ATLANZA AND MEMPHIS FROM BIRMINGHAM 44-1740 P MURKIN; CR; 00 MEMPHIs. FOR INFORMATION OF ATLANTS, BIRIMINGHAM ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON ERIC STARVO GALT. BIRINGHAM ATEMPTTING 1967 TO DETERMINCE SOURCE OF INCOME RECEIVED BY GALT DURING AUGUST, ONE NINE SIX SEVEN. IN VIEW OF POSSIBILITY GALT, MAY HAVE RECEIVERED A WESTERN UNION MONEY ORDER IN BIRMMINGHAM DURNG AUGUST, SIXTYSEVEN, ATLANTA IS REQUESTED TO CONTACT OFFICIAL AT C AND S NATIONAL BANK, ATLANZA, AND MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR AGENTS TO REVIEW MICROLFM RECORDS OF WESTERN UNITED MONEY ORDERS CASHED IN BIMMINGHAM FROM ON OR ABOUT AUGust ONE FIVE, SixtySEVEN. THROUGH SEPTEMBER ONE, SixtY- SEVEN ., FOR INFORMATION OF ATLANTA, C AND 5 NATIONALBANK ACTS AS CLEARING HOUSE FOR WESTERN UNION MONKEY ORDERSON CASHES IN SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. GALT'S ADDRESS IN AUGUEST, SixtiesEVEN, WAS TWO SIX ZERO EIGHT HIGHLAND AVENUE, BERMINGHAM. ATLANTIA REQUESTed TO EXPEDITE LEAD AND SUTEL RESULTS. END VSC feal 44-2381 S3 SEARCHED. INORED. SERIALIZED. FILED. FBI ATLANTA APRIL 1968 ADRATLANTIA Dutnellis care Tuchet Pm 2005 RELEASE UNDER E.O. 14176

Summary: The documents detail FBI communications regarding leads connected to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. On April 9, 1968, an envelope addressed to the FBI in Miami, Florida, contained a note instructing "Get Tommy Nash, Jr., in the Grange, Ga. You will have King's killer." The envelope was postmarked Miami Beach on April 7, 1968, and received by the Miami Office on April 8, 1968. The FBI requested fingerprint and handwriting comparisons from the laboratory and directed the Atlanta Division to investigate Tommy Nash Jr. as a potential suspect. Additional teletypes from April 10, 1968, mention a thermo-seal marking machine sold by Dick Bristow in Gainesville, Florida, with ties to laundries in the Southeast. The FBI was instructed to contact Bristow for customer lists. A separate lead references a credit bureau in Albany, Georgia, with a name phonetically matching "Lowweyer," potentially identifying Capt. Donald L. Lohmeier, a Marine Corps officer with prior connections to Albany and Vietnam.  

Key People: Tommy Nash Jr., Dick Bristow, Capt. Donald L. Lohmeier, Helen (wife of Lohmeier)  
Key Locations: Miami, Florida; Memphis, Tennessee; Gainesville, Florida; Albany, Georgia; Jacksonville, North Carolina  
Key Events: FBI investigation into potential suspects linked to MLK's assassination; request for fingerprint and handwriting analysis; inquiry into thermo-seal machine sales; credit bureau check for phonetically matching name  
Key Organizations: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Marine Corps, Textile Marking Machine Company, ThermoSeal Marking Machine Company

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