When James Earl Ray came to L.A., months before he killed Martin Luther King, he found a place where he fit in
(LA Times Clippers)

The hypnotist called himself the Rev. Xavier von Koss, and advertised courses in `MASTER HYPNOTISM.` He would probably be forgotten now, but his name appears briefly in investigators´ files on the death of Martin Luther King Jr., an accidental witness to history. On Jan. 4, 1968, at his South Bay...