Charles J Stein

Charles J. Stein, May 29th 1929 - January 16th 2003, a rebuttal.
You could not convince any of his friends or any of the people who knew Mr. Stein that he was racist or bigoted in any way.
This is a compilation of known facts about his brief and fatefull relationship with the man accused of killing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as experienced by his friends and relatives who knew him best during the turbulant civil rights era of the sixties until his death in 2003.
It all started in 1968 in Los Angeles when James Earl Ray was introduced to Charles Stein by Mr. Stein's cousin Mimi Tamaso, who worked as a cocktail wiatress on Hollywood Blvd. Ray told Mimi that he had to go to New Orleans to pick up some money.
So, Mimi introduced Ray to her cousin Charlie Stein who coincidentally was planning to pick up his nieces in New Orleans.
After meeting Ray, Charlie agreed to give Ray a lift to New Orleans.
Once in New Orleans Charles Stein gave Ray a ride to pick up some money from an F.B.I. agent named Raul ...

...to be continued.

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Permanent location of the recording of Charles Stein talking about James Earl Ray:

http://www.archive.org/details/DeathbedConversationWithJamesEarlRayAssociateCharlesJ.Stein