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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

FBI Wanted poster and printer's plate for James Earl Ray for the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968

 File — Box: 1, item: 16
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

The Tom van Riper Collection, 1964-1968, contains materials of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi, as well as FBI posters and comics, in connection to the KKK. Five of the 16 items date to 1964, one to 1968, and the others have no dates. There are several copies of articles, including some from the Klan-Ledger, applications, an unmarked oath, and examination forms for the Klan. There is also a traffic ticket signed by Lee Roberts, a subject of the FBI investigations.

Dates: 1968