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How did Earl Ray know the motel room he was staying at?
Based on my personal experience, anything is possible. He was just the fall guy for a greater conspiracy.
Like most motels of its period, rooms at the Lorraine Motel were accessed externally by outside common ways. How difficult would it have been for someone, anyone, to have simply scouted for a bit to discern which room was King's ???
QueEx


I realized that you don't believe in the lone gunman theory, neither do I. I'm just looking for "something more" than mere speculation. I'm sure we're not about to solve the mystery here, but mere idle speculation just doesn't challenge very much.
QueEx
Well a little more then speculation...
Here are some facts:
Dr. King NEVER stayed at the Lorraine Motel he ALWAYS stayed at the Holiday Inn in Memphis (better security). Someone in his inner circle changed his hotel from the Holiday Inn to the Lorraine Motel. Someone in his inner circle moved his room from the first floor to the balcony. Someone in his inner circle made sure he had a dinner engagement at a proscribed time. Someone called off a security detail there to protect Martin. Someone got him onto that balcony alone so a sniper could hit him. I.e <font size="3">there was an agent working in Kings inner circle. Who?</font size>
The King family filed the suit against Loyd Jowers, a retired Memphis businessman who claimed on national television six years ago that he paid someone other than James Earl Ray to kill King in Memphis in 1968. Jowers claimed he became involved at the behest of a friend who was working for a Mafia boss in New Orleans.
It took the jury 59 minutes to come back with their decision that exonerated James Earl Ray, who had already died in prison. The jury found that Lloyd Jowers, owner of Jim’s Grill, had participated in a conspiracy to kill King. The evidence showed that the conspiracy included J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, Richard Helms and the CIA, the military, the Memphis police department, and organized crime.”
The jury found Jowers was liable in King’s death and that unnamed others, including government agencies, were involved. It awarded the King family $100–the token amount requested in the suit. And the King family said the verdict justified its belief that a conspiracy was at the heart of the assassination