</s>PAGE TWO. FROM COLUMBIA, S.C ., NAME NOT RECALLED, MENTIONED AS POSSIBLY HAVING STOLEN RIFLE, UNSUB MARINE FRIENDLY WITH ONE DAVE PARISH WHO PISKORSKI RECALLES AS HAVENG RESIDENCE IN EITHER GA ., OR ALA ., AND PISOKORSKISI RECALED AS HAWING RESIDENCES IN ETHER GA .- OR ALAA .- AND THEY OFTEN WENT ON WEEKEND LEAVES TOGETHER. SHORTLY BEFORE PISKORSKI'S RELEASE FROM ACTIVE DUTY AND WHILE TALKING WITH PARISH, PARRISH TOLD PISKSORSKi, HE WAS CONCERNED RE UNUSB MARINE SINCE IN CONVERSATION WITH PIRRISH, HE HAD MEDIONED HE WAS GOING TO KILL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. PISKSOKISKI ADVISED IN BULL SESSIONS DURING THEIR SIX MONTHS TRAINING, UNSB MARINE STATED HE HAS HAD ONCE SHOT A NEGRO AND HAD OCE ONCE RUN OVER A GEGRO WITH HIS AUTO. PIKSOKSI DESCRIBED THIS INDIVIDUAL AS HAVING DEEP-SEATED PREJUDICE AGAINST NEGROBE PEOPLE. ON INSTANT DATE, DAVID CAVANNAUGH PARISH. NINE SEVEN ONE THREE RED LANE DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, ADVISID HE WAS ON ACTIVE DUY WITH MARINE CORPS, CAMP LEJUEUNE, N.C. ., DURIN DECEMBER, SIXTYSIX. HIS FRIEND'S NAME IS HUGH CRADOCK, JR. (PHONETIC) .- 80% NAME IS HIGH CRADDOCK, J.R. PHONETICO .- WHOSE RESIDENCY OF CHARLESTON, S.C .., ADDRESS UNKNOWN, BUT CAN BE LOCATED THROUGH TELEPHONE DIRECTORY. PARRISH ADVISES CRADLOCK ADMITTED TO HIM HE STOLE MATE FOURTEEN RIFE WHILE AT CAMP LLEJUNE. CRADDCOCK ALSO EXPRESSED HIS HATE FOR NEGHOLES AND MADE STATEMENTS ABOUT KILLING MARTINS LUTHR KING. HE DESCIBED CRADDOCK AS WHITE MALE, ABOUT SIX FEET, LIGHT BROWN END PAGE TWO. 2025 RELEASE UNDER E.O. 14176

Summary: The text contains fragmented historical FBI documents from April 1968 related to investigations into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., including references to suspects like Herman Eugene Patterson, Chuck Bradford, and Jim West. It details phone calls, vehicle registrations (e.g., "JP-7033" license plates), witness accounts, and locations in Tennessee and Arkansas. The documents also mention Executive Order 11058, which governs the release of federal records after a specified period. Unrelated or corrupted content includes phrases like "DISCIPLESHIP ADMINISTRATION - C-" and "NUCLEMISM," which appear disconnected from the main investigation.  

Key People: Herman Eugene Patterson (notorious drunk with criminal history), Chuck Bradford (anti-Negro suspect with rape/drug trafficking record), Jim West (ambiguous connection to assassination), Willard Denfield, William Rose, Charles Jackson (linked to Little Rock, Arkansas), Adam Hunt (cab driver), Howard Lewis (service station operator).  

Key Locations: Shelby, Tennessee; Memphis, Tennessee; Knoxville, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; Little Rock, Arkansas; Highway 64 in Arkansas.  

Key Events: Surveillance of suspects, phone calls from Charlotte to Shelby on April 4, 1968, witness accounts of a white car fleeing the scene, attempts to verify connections between suspects and the assassination, plane sighting near Highway 64 in Arkansas, and references to Executive Order 11058.  

Key Organizations: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Civil Service, local courts in Shelby and Knoxville.

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