Can anyone confirm or deny that (with verification)?
King was with his mistress, Kentucky state senator Georgia Davis when he was shot. In fact, his handlers scrambled to make her go away as the media converged upon the Lorraine motel.
An absolutely outstanding book, Hellhound on His Trail details the final days of King's life and the world-wide manhunt for his killer, a small-time crook and aspiring pornographer who went by the name Eric Starvo Galt --but the world would later know as James Earl Ray.
By the time of his assassination, MLK was a has-been. A Time magazine poll didn't even list his name in the top ten most influential Americans. Many blacks, particularly younger ones had given up on "that old preacher" King and were gravitating towards the more militant black power leaders like Stokely Charmichael and Huey Newton. King was washed-up, womanizing and drinking too much while trying to plan a "million poor march" on Washington DC --an endeavor many of his increasingly fewer supporters believed was a quixotic pipe dream.
In April 1968, King was a fading star. James Earl Ray changed all that.
I will confirm and verify your understanding.
It's a unanimous and anonymous group of sources that must be projected and protected, and therefore can not be relived or revealed {but for the right amount of cash I'd consider selling them out}. heheh