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SEARCH FOR KING ASSASSIN BROADENS
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 4/12/68. Houston _Chronicle_ headline and subhead:
LAUNDRY-MARK CLUE ID'S ASSASSINATION SUSPECT
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 4/14/68. Miami _Herald_ subhead:
RIOT DAMAGE ASSESSED IN WAKE OF KING ASSASSINATION
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 4/15/68. Portland _Oregonian_ headline and subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 4/19/68. Dallas _Morning News_ subhead:
HUNT FOR KING ASSASSIN "#1 PRIORITY," HOOVER SAYS
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 4/20/68. New York _Daily News_ headline and subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 4/22/68. Chicago _Sun-Times_ headline and subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 4/23/68. Los Angeles _Examiner_ subhead:
SKID ROW MURDER VICTIM DURFEE REVEALED AS LONG-SOUGHT RAPIST-KILLER
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/7/68. New York _Times_ headline:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/10/68. San Francisco _Chronicle_ headline:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/14/68. Los Angeles _Examiner_ subhead:
SEARCH FOR KING ASSASSIN SHIFTS TO CANADA
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/15/68. Phoenix _Sun_ subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/16/68. Chicago _Tribune_ subhead:
HOOVER SAYS KING ASSASSINATION "NOT A CONSPIRACY"
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/22/68. Washington _Post_ headline and subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/26/68. Cleveland _Plain Dealer_ subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/26/68. New York _Daily News_ subhead:
RAY DESCRIBED AS "AMPHETAMINE ADDICT-LONER"
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/27/68. Los Angeles _Examiner_ subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/28/68. Los Angeles _Examiner_ subhead:
LAPD LINKS VICTIM TO RECENT RAPE-MURDERS OF THREE WOMEN
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/28/68. Portland _Oregonian_ headline and subhead:
MOVES CAMPAIGN TO CRUCIAL CALIFORNIA TEST
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/29/68. Los Angeles _Times_ subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 5/30/68. Los Angeles _Times_ subhead:
RECORD CROWDS CHEER RFK'S PLEDGE TO END WAR
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 6/1/68. San Francisco _Chronicle_ subhead:
RFK SETS BREAKNECK PACE IN CALIFORNIA CAMPAIGN
(Lake Tahoe, 6/2/68)
The hole-up:
Wayne Senior's cabin / four rooms / secluded. Up mountain roads. Wide views and trout streams.
Home for now. Home since Memphis.
He had a scrambler phone. He had a food stash. He had a TV He had shit to sort out. He had time to think.
Let's wait. The Feds will get Jimmy Ray. LAPD will give up on Durfee.
Bob Relyea had his hole-up. Bob had some shack near Phoenix. Wayne got better lodging. Wayne made phone calls. Wayne watched TV.
The Feds traced Ray to England. The search tapped out there. They'll get him. They'll kill him or bust him. He'll give up "Raul." They'll say you're crazy. They'll say there is no "Raul."
The TV spieled news. Wayne Senior called daily. Wayne Senior spieled gossip.
I work with Carlos now. Carlos said he got some tapes. Mr. Hoover sent them. The tapes scared him. Bobby K.'s out to fuck us. Let's clip him fast.
Wayne Senior tattled. _See what l know?_ Wayne Senior bragged.
Fred O.'s gigging it. He runs the new shooter. Pete B. runs backup. Wayne Senior gloated. _I'm an insider_. Wayne Senior bragged.
Pete killed some kadre men. Pete klipped loose ends at sea. Carlos told me that. Wayne Senior tattled. _Your daddy hears things_. Wayne Senior bragged.
The kadre biz was a shuck. The Boys fucked the Cause. Carlos told me that. Wayne hashed it out. Wayne came to this: I just don't care.
He watched TV. He caught the war. He caught politics. Wayne Senior puffed. Bobby's a dead man. I'll set Nixon up with the Boys.
Wayne hashed it out. It felt felicitous. Wayne grooved the details. Wayne foresaw the balance.
King's dead. Bobby soon. Shit will peak and resettle. The Poor People's March tanked. The riots upstaged it. Fools popped their rocks and resettled. Chaos is taxing. Fools tire quick. King's death let them roar and resettIe. Bobby will go. Dick Nixon will reign. The country will roar and resettle.
The fix will work. Peace will reign. His type will run things. He saw it. He felt it. He _knew_.
And:
_You'll_ step up. You'll get _your_ piece. You _know_ it. You're making calls. You're listening. You're _thinking_.
He called Wayne Senior. He let him talk. He let him tattle and puff.
Wayne Senior said this:
Littell will retire. I'll get his job. I'll span Howard Hughes and the Boys. Dick Nixon and _me_. Dick and the Boys-shitfire.
Wayne listened. Wayne prompted. Wayne dropped soft tell-me-mores.
Wayne Senior said:
I ran Maynard Moore. He was my snitch. I bankrolled most of Dallas. I sent you there. I got you close. I bought you history. You killed Moore-_didn't you?_-you _lived_ history.
Wayne dodged the probe. Wayne rethought Dallas. Moore and the bankroll were old news. The hot news was contempt and hubris.
Dallas derailed your life. Dallas killed your wife. Dallas almost killed you. Wendell D. was there. You weekended with him. Cut to your last rendezvous.