 Good evening to you. Welcome to Channel 5's Eyewitness News Central. Last week there was a report that a Rock Hill man had become somehow involved in the Martin Luther King murder and tonight Michael Brown is here to tell us that there is a new twist to it. Michael? Patrick, the latest reports thinker John Kaufman of Imperial is the man who paid James Earl Ray to kill Martin Luther King. Now Kaufman was short stocky and walked with a limp, which fits the description given to the FBI by a Rock Hill man who claims that Kaufman offered him money to kill King. Now Kaufman lived in Imperial on Highway 67. We went there today looking for his wife. We were told that she's in Washington again, probably before the House Subcommittee on Assassinations. Some local people told us there were many rumors about this place, plus an old hotel that Kaufman once owned nearby. One man told us buyers allegedly shot pornographic stills there. Another said he entertained lavishly there, including some local politicians. We found a couple of people who told us what they thought of him. He was a regular person. You know, he didn't quiet man kind of do everything himself and not really, you know, talk about regular things, fishing and stuff like that, never anything to do with anything. What was your impression of him? Pretty good really. You know, like I said, when I was a kid I went there and swam in the pool and he treated me all right, never had any problem with him. You saw him when he first got out of jail several times. How did he impress you? Would you saw him? What did you think about it? Well, I was curious because I knew he had been in jail and wanted to know what kind of person he was. And he was an old man in poor health, about all I could say for him, kind of quiet and didn't cause much stir in the community. Now, Kaufman was convicted in the late 60s, of course, on federal drug charges. He died a few years after that. We talked with the lawyer who handled his estate for his wife. He said that Kaufman considered himself to be quite a wheeler dealer, but left little in the bank to back it up. Kaufman apparently didn't excite too many people until he allegedly got rather involved in a plot to kill Martin Luther King.