Hampton Sides - Hellhound on His Trail - The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. And the International Hunt for His Assassin

180 in 1964, two garbage workers were killed:Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , p. 2.

181 "He was standing there": Memphis Commercial Appeal , Feb. 2, 1968.

182 Earline Walker:Branch, At Canaan's Edge , p. 685.

183 Elvis Presley--whose wife, Priscilla, had given birth:Guralnick, Careless Love , p. 288. See also Branch, At Canaan's Edge , p. 685.

184 "I am so lucky":Goldman, Elvis , p. 404.

185 "This you can't do":Beifuss, At the River I Stand , p. 40.

186 Henry Loeb III was a garrulous:My sketch of Loeb relies on biographical details adapted from "Profile: Henry Loeb," a comprehensive, two-part article that ran in Memphis magazine in January and February 1980.

187 he called them "nigras":The Memphis Commercial Appeal reporter Joe Sweat, quoted in Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , p. 119.

188 "the world's least likely revolutionaries":Wills, "Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case," reprinted in The New Journalism , ed. Tom Wolfe, p. 392.

189 "This is not New York":Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , p. 117.

190 Lawson had studied the tenets:For a good biographical sketch of Lawson's earlier days in the civil rights movement, see Halberstam, The Children .

191 "You are human beings":Lawson, quoted in Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , p. 211.

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192 King fell into an argument:Frank, American Death , p. 90.

193 "I don't play with them anymore":Ibid., p. 91.

194 Abernathy woke up in the dead of night:This anecdote from King and Abernathy's trip to Acapulco is adapted from ibid., pp. 91-92, and also Abernathy's testimony in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports , vol. 1, pp. 33-34.

195 "a team":Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , p. 478.

196 another letter from the FBI:See Branch, At Canaan's Edge , p. 708.

197 "You see that rock out there?":Frank, American Death , p. 92.

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198 "Your brain and nervous system":Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics , p. 17.

199 "The automatic creative mechanism":Ibid., p. 37.

200 "Don't think before you act":Ibid., p. 169.

201 "When you change a man's face":Ibid., pp. vii-viii.

202 Galt visited a prominent plastic surgeon:My account of Galt's visits to Hadley's office is drawn from the FBI's initial interview with Hadley, conducted on October 2, 1968, out of the Los Angeles field office. See also Huie, He Slew the Dreamer , pp. 119-21; McMillan, Making of an Assassin , pp. 285-86; Frank, American Death , p. 311; and Ray's own version in Tennessee Waltz .

203 "I casually told him":Ray, Tennessee Waltz , p. 68.

204 "The ears":Ibid.

205 "in a position":Ibid.

206 "I'm a fairly observant person":Hadley, quoted in Huie, He Slew the Dreamer , p. 121.

207 "The government is emotionally committed":Branch, At Canaan's Edge , p. 717.

208 "I've seen hatred":King's comments were reported in the Los Angeles Times , March 18, 1968, and also reproduced in Huie, He Slew the Dreamer , p. 123.

209 official postal service card:"Investigation at St. Francis Hotel, Hollywood, California," compiled by the FBI's Los Angeles field office. Here I relied on the FD-302 report of an FBI interview with the St. Francis Hotel manager, Allan O. Thompson, conducted on April 12, 1968, by Special Agent Thomas G. Mansfield.

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SOMETHING IN THE AIR

210 "You are demonstrating":My account of King's March 18 speech in Memphis is drawn from the Memphis Commercial Appeal; from news footage of the speech captured in the PBS documentary At the River I Stand; and from secondary accounts in Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , pp. 296-303, and Beifuss, At the River I Stand , pp. 193-96.

211 The Lorraine had long been popular:My sketch of the Lorraine's history largely comes from the National Civil Rights Museum Web site, clippings in the Memphis Commercial Appeal , and Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , p. 442.

212 The old part of the lodge:Wills, "Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case," reprinted in The New Journalism , ed. Tom Wolfe, p. 395.

213 "the King-Abernathy suite":See Abernathy's testimony concerning the Lorraine Motel in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports , vol. 1, p. 32.

214 "seeming so modern":Young, Easy Burden , p. 460.

215 Flamingo Motel:My account of Galt's stay at the Flamingo Motel comes from the following sources: Huie, He Slew the Dreamer , pp. 130-31; Posner, Killing the Dream , p. 219; McMillan, Making of an Assassin , p. 289; Ray, Tennessee Waltz , p. 70; and my own visit to the motel in Selma.

216 Nature ... had gone on strike:Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , p. 323.

217 "We've got a perfect work stoppage":Beifuss, At the River I Stand , p. 205.

218 "Well, the Lord has done it again":Ibid., p. 203.

219 "It had never snowed":Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , p. 309.

220 He located a rooming house:My description of Galt's Atlanta rooming house is based on several accounts in the Atlanta Constitution and on FBI FD-302 reports of interviews with his landlord, Jimmie Garner, conducted on April 14 and 15, 1968, by Special Agents John Ogden and Roger Kaas. See also Huie, He Slew the Dreamer , p. 132.

221 "Every time I look at Atlanta":Reed, quoted in Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic , p. 283.

222 "wouldn't have to answer":Ray, Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 89.

223 "this place was just infested with hippies":FD-302 report of the Ogden and Kaas interviews with Garner, the FBI Atlanta field office.

224 looked "like a preacher":Blair, Strange Case of James Earl Ray , p. 139.

225 "to bone up":Ray, Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 90.

226 One of his circlesA description of the markings found on Ray's Atlanta map are in the FBI summary report of Ray chronology, MURKIN Files, 4143, sec. 52, p. 34. See also Frank, American Death , p. 172, and Posner, Killing the Dream , p. 220.

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"MARTIN LUTHER KING IS FINISHED"

227 "losing hold" of his faculties:Garrow, Bearing the Cross , p. 609.

228 "just wrong":McKnight, Last Crusade , p. 66.

229 "All the police would have to do":Beifuss, At the River I Stand , p. 220.

230 "Make the crowds stop pushing!": Memphis Press-Scimitar , March 29, 1968, p. 15.