</s>PD-302 (Rev. 4-15-64) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date 4/12/68 1 SADIE MC KAY, 853 Buntyn, Laundry Woman, Rebel Motor Hotel, 3366 Lamar Avenue, Memphis, was contacted at her place of 3666 employment and advised that she was not working on April 1, 1966. She said she was working on April 4, on April 3, 1966, She said that she worked on April 1. a list of all charges that have checked out of the hotel from the desk clerk. She does this was upon arriving at work at about $100 a.m. the desk Clerk. She also said that the hotel is located at the rooms about $200 a. m. the lines of the laundry room where she enters the room she strips all the lines off the beds in the rooms, she takes the line to the laundry rooms where she proceeds to takes in the line from the laundry Room where she entered the remembers knocking on the room off the bed and see if she was still in the room on the could strip the linen from the still in her room so she could check and see it anyone was like a male who was answered the door and lettered and said she has collected the linen and would come back later. She went went on the other rooms in the hotel and the occupation of Room 34. She added the room to remember the room. She could not remember any specific cars that were parked in front of Room 341 on any specific car that were marked in the front of the room 34 on to any of the cars that she added that she could not never went into Room 34 on April 3. 1966, she added the hotel. She had added that the room went into the room from April 4. 1966. But SARA LOVINGS, who was maid on duty that day would have gone into the door to her it. She was shown artist's conception drawings drawn at Memphis, Tennessee, and Birmingham, Alabama, and stated at heather of the men in these have drawings looked familiar 139 4/11/68 4/1/68 at Memphis, Tennessese File # ME 44-1987 on SA JOHN W. BAUER /bbs /bbs Date dictated 4/71/68 by This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is learned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. 2025 RELEASE UNDER E.O. 14176

Summary  
The text comprises declassified government records related to the investigation into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) on April 4, 1968. It includes FBI internal reports detailing evidence collection, witness interviews, forensic analysis, and coordination with local law enforcement. Key elements include physical evidence such as clothing, a bullet fragment, and laundry tags linked to the Rebel Motor Hotel where MLK stayed. Forensic findings describe the trajectory of the fatal gunshot wound, which severed the spinal cord at the C7 level, causing immediate death. The documents also reference photographic documentation of the Lorraine Motel and surrounding areas, as well as soil samples collected for analysis. Coordination between the FBI, Memphis Police Department, and other agencies is noted in securing evidence and conducting interviews.  

Key People  
- **Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.** (victim)  
- **Det. E. S. Berkley** (retrieved MLK’s belongings from his body)  
- **Frank Brewer** (landlord of a rooming house near the Lorraine Motel)  
- **Drs. Sprunt and Francisco** (pathologists who conducted the autopsy)  
- **Phil A. Cannale** (District Attorney General, Shelby County)  

Key Locations  
- **Lorraine Motel** (site of MLK’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee)  
- **Rebel Motor Hotel** (where MLK stayed; laundry tags linked to a machine used there)  
- **422 S. Main Street** (rooming house near the Lorraine Motel with a window view of the motel)  
- **Memphis, Tennessee** (primary location for investigation and evidence collection)  

Key Events  
- **April 4, 1968**: MLK was shot and killed at the Lorraine Motel.  
- **April 4–11, 1968**: FBI and Memphis Police Department collected physical evidence, including clothing, bullet fragments, and laundry tags.  
- **Autopsy conducted on April 4, 1968**: Pathologists documented fatal spinal cord injury and internal hemorrhaging.  
- **Witness interviews**: Hotel staff and rooming house landlords provided details about MLK’s movements and the layout of the area.  
- **Evidence transport**: Items were sent via American Airlines to Washington, D.C., for FBI Laboratory analysis.  

Key Organizations  
- **FBI** (led investigation, coordinated with local agencies)  
- **Memphis Police Department Homicide Bureau** (collaborated on evidence collection and witness interviews)  
- **Shelby County Medical Examiner’s Office** (handled autopsy procedures)  
- **Textile Marking Machine Company** (analyzed defects in laundry tags linked to the Rebel Motor Hotel)

MLK Declassified Files

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