Report Khe Sanh Siege Broken by Yanks SEE STORY BELOW Clearing, Colder HOME Gradual clearing, windy and THEDAILY colder today, high in 50s. Clear Red Bank, Freehold and cold tonight, low in 30s. Long Branch FINAL Sunny and milder tomorrow. I 7 (Sw Detaila, Page 2> *' Monmouth County** Borne Newspaper for 89 Years DIAL 741-0010 VOL. 90, NO. 196 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1968 TEN CENTS Press Search for Dr. King's Assassin As Nation Grieves, Violence Flares MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — the Army and Air National young white man, who wit- floor room between 3 p.m. and room of a gunshot wound in the Authorities pressed a manhunt Guard of Tennessee and or- nesses said was dressed in 3:30 p.m. Thursday. "The shot neck." today for the killer of Dr. Mar- dered 4,000 troops into Mem- white and was driving a late was fired from a common As newsmen ran for phones, tin Luther King Jr. whose as- phis and the same number in- model white car. bathroom which was at the end a lone Negro woman sank into sassination yesterday touched to Nashville. A curfew, first Sheriff William Morris.said of a hall on the east side of a chair in the waiting room off Negro violence in a num- clamped on Memphis after a the fatal shot apparently was the building," he said. and put her head in her hands. ber of American cities and King-led march turned into a fired from a "flop-house" fac- Police did not disclose the "I didn't have to go back there brought a national outpouring riot last week, was reimposed. ing the front of the motel. Po- name the man signed when he to find that out," she said. of grief and sorrow. King was in the city prepar- lice said a .30-.06 Remington checked in. They said they Memphis police said they King, 39, leading advocate of ing to lead another march in rifle and a suitcase were found found a palm print on the rifle gave chase to a white automo- nonviolence and a Nobel Prize support of the city's 1,300 in the doorway of a building and it had been flown to the bile immediately after the winner, died in a Memphis striking garbage collectors, adjacent to the rooming house. FBI in Washington. shooting. State police in Ar- hospital last night less than an most of whom are Negroes. "The back window of this King was rushed from the kansas were later asked to hour after he was shot in the His party was about to go out flop-house faced the front of motel to St. Joseph Hospital look for the same car. neck by a white gunman while for dinner when King walked the motel in which Dr. King where he was wheeled into the Two men were picked up by standing on the balcony of his onto the motel balcony. was staying," Sheriff Morris emergency room at 6:16 p.m. police in the area of the shoot- motel. "And then we heard what said. "We feel the assassin His head was wrapped in a ing but were released after President Johnson led the na- sounded like a shot," said the crouched in a second-floor win- towel and an oxygen mask was questioning. tion in mourning and tribute. Eev. Andrew Young. "I dow, sighted through some over his face. In Washington, the FBI said In a nationwide television and thought it was a firecracker." trees and fired the shot that The. only sound came from it had begun an investigation radio appearance he called The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who killed Dr. King. the resuscitator which was of the shooting at the specific upon "every citizen to reject was standing beside King, said "He got a straight shot," pumping oxygen into his dying request of Attorney General the blind violence that has the civil rights leader's only Morris said. "King was stand- body. The stretcher disap- . Ramsey Clark. struck down Dr. Martin Luther utterance after the shot was, ing on the second floor, lean- peared behind the swinging "We exerted every human ef- King." "Oh." ing over a failing in front of double doors and his aides fort to prevent it from happen- But violence flared in Mem- "The bullet exploded in his his room. He was talking to leaned against the walls and ing," Holloman said. A Mem- phis and the convulsive reac- face," said Ben Branch. "It two men on the ground. When wept. phis newspaper, The Commer- tion reared also in Nashville, knocked him off his feet." the shot hit him, it knocked Died at 7 P.M. cial-Appeal, offered a $25,000 KING'S LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE — Dr. Martin Lu- Newark, Washington, Boston, Man in White him backward. Officers heard The official announcement reward for the killer. ther King, who was fatally wounded by an assassin's New York's Harlem and Bed- Solomon Jo- ;, King's chauf- the shot." came at 7:30 p.m. when Paul Knew of Danger bullet last night in Memphis, Tenn., is shown during his ford-Stuyvesant and more than feur, said a "man in white Trace Suspect Hess, assistant hospital admin- King had talked on the eve a half-dozen smaller towns and clothes" ran from the scene. Memphis Police Director istrator, read this statement: of his death about the possi- last public appearance Wednesday night at Mason cities. Police in Tennessee and Ar- Frank Holloman said the sus- "At 7 p.m. Dr. Martin Luther bility of violent harm, but said temple in Memphis. (AP Wirephotol Gov. Buford Ellington alerted kansas were looking for a pect checked into a second King expired in the emergency (See SEARCH, Pg. 3, Col. 1) Local Reactions The Clicfies of Brotherhood By JANE FODERARO ing into," said a Reformed Branch, National Association equally tragic for white," he able." He said he had been in The slaying deeply affected minister. for the Advancement of Colored concluded, "and if they don't touch with headquarters all community leaders in Mon- "Racism on the part of a People, said, "It is a terrible realize it, they will come to evening, but indicated that he mouth County. For the most Negro is even worse than rac- day. TheassinationofDr. King see it's so." didn't "expect anything" in the part, their reactions went be- ism in white man," from a may turn out to be an event In Asbury Park, Police Chief way of trouble. yond the cliches of brother- Negro preacher. paralleled only by the assassi- Thomas Smith, who became hood. Then there were those who nation of President Kennedy in the first Negro to head a po- Richard Johnson, a member After they said it was shock- said very little, but said it it effect on our country. The lice department in Monmouth of the Red Bank Planning ing. devastating. .tragic, tearfully. murder of Dr. King is the deep- County with his appointment Board, said, "Whoever put his they conveyed how it touched Stafford Thompson presi- est tragedy black people have this year, said the assassina- hand to this deed doesn't real- them personally. dent of the Red Bank Area experienced recently. It is tion was "practically unbeliev- (REACTIONS, Pg. 3, Col. 3) "I'm embarassed and ashamed," said a Red Bank attorney. "I imagined they would try to harm him this summer — I LBJPlea: Reject Violence didn't dream it would come so soon," from a Negro minister's WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres- President as saying he would should, carry on business as i tonight of Dr. Martin Luther WIDOW OF SLAIN RIGHTS LEADER _ Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., heads for her wife. ident Johnson, postponing Viet- decide later whether to go usual lest he seem callous in I King. home in Atlanta Thursday night shortly after her civil rights leader husband was shot "We can see in Dr. King a nam policy talks in Honolulu, ahead at this time with the the face of an act which Vice "I ask every citizen to reject and killed in Memphis, Tenn. Holding umbrella is Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen. Woman modern-day Christ," said a remained in Washington over- Honolulu meeting. President Hubert H. Humphrey the blind violence that has Catholic priest. night after appealing to all Johnson's initial uncertainty said "brings shame to struck Dr. King who lived by at left is unidentified. (See Story Page 3) (AP Wirephoto) "I'm very upset. I feel I Americans "to reject the vio- appeared to be dictated by at our country." nonviolence." can't say anything against vio- lence" that brought death to least three considerations: Call Off Dinner Harking back to his dramatic lence because black people are Dr. Martin Luther King. —If the President immediate- . Humphrey spoke at a Demo- announcement last Sunday that being forced into violence," Johnson told a national tel- ly announced outright cancel- cratic fund-raising dinner he was withdrawing from the said an NAACP youth worker. evision-radio audience Thurs- lation of the Hawaii con- which Johnson had planned to 1968 presidential race because Violence Breaks Out "Entirely too many firearms day night he had delayed de- ferences, this could be inter- address until he got word of he wanted to heal deep divi- are being purchased in the na- parture for Hawaii until today. preted as a sign of panic and sions within the nation, John- the Memphis assassination. The son said: tion — there should be federal He had planned to leave in the perhaps the very violence he dinner was called off after legislation," said a police chief.