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

553 "This man, in the full prime":Lawson, quoted in Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , pp. 473-74.

554 "I noticed how worried":Huie, He Slew the Dreamer , p. 149.

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555 Coretta Scott King wore a bittersweet smile:My account of the April 8 march in Memphis is adapted primarily from page-one articles in the Memphis Press-Scimitar , the Memphis Commercial Appeal , the New York Times , and the Atlanta Constitution . I also relied on newsreels in the Mississippi Valley Collection. See also Beifuss, At the River I Stand , pp. 340-43; Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , pp. 474-82; Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , pp. 458-60; and Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. , pp. 327-29.

556 "The people were kind":Dexter Scott King, Growing Up King , p. 53.

557 "We gave Dr. King what he came here for": Memphis Commercial Appeal , April 9, 1968, p. 1.

558 "Each of you is on trial today":Flyer prepared by Lawson, quoted in Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , p. 476.

559 "once you reach Main Street":Ibid., p. 478.

560 "the spilling of one man's blood":Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , p. 458.

561 "I guess it was my mother": Memphis Commercial Appeal , April 11, 1968. See also Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , p. 475, and Beifuss, At the River I Stand , p. 341.

562 Now the agents pulled their bureau sedan:This passage about the FBI's initial investigations at the New Rebel Motel is based largely on my own interview with the former FBI agent Stephen Darlington, May 15, 2009. I also relied on FD-302 reports of the interview Agents Darlington and Bauer conducted at the New Rebel on April 8, 1968, Hughes Collection.

563 made his way down to the offices:My depiction of Galt's efforts to gather aliases in the reading room of the Telegram is primarily adapted from Ray's own accounts in Tennessee Waltz , p. 84, and Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 99. Other accounts suggest he actually visited the newspaper microfilm archives at a public library in Toronto. See also Posner, Killing the Dream , p. 240.

564 "I'd read somewhere":Ray, Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 98.

565 "Teenagers are adopting":Royal Canadian Mounted Police Files, a compendium of police investigations into Galt's movements while in Toronto, Hughes Collection.

566 brief expeditionary detour:See Posner, Killing the Dream , p. 240.

567 "Until we have justice": Memphis Commercial Appeal , April 9, 1968, p. 10.

568 "Mayor Loeb will somehow be dragged":Reuther, quoted in Beifuss, At the River I Stand , p. 343.

569 "It's not the quantity":The entire text of Coretta Scott King's speech in Memphis is reprinted in her memoir, My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. , pp. 344-47.

570 "If Mrs. King had cried":Honey, Going Down Jericho Road , p. 481.

571 "When Good Friday":Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. , p. 345.

572 Neil Shanahan and William Saucier:This passage is drawn from the FD-302 report of the April 8, 1968, interview that Shanahan and Saucier conducted with the rooming house proprietor, Peter Cherpes, Hughes Collection.

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573 For three and a half miles:My depiction of King's funeral in Atlanta is drawn primarily from newspaper coverage in the Atlanta Constitution and the New York Times that appeared on April 10, 1968. I also relied on photographs and other displays at the King Center in Atlanta. Finally, I consulted memoirs of participants, including Young, Easy Burden , pp. 477-78; Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , pp. 460-65; Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. , pp. 329-36; Martin Luther King Sr., Daddy King , pp. 190-91; and Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings , p. 203. I benefited from Risen's vivid account in Nation on Fire , pp. 205-13.

574 had suggested that King arranged:See Risen, Nation on Fire , p. 208.

575 "leaning toward each other": Newsweek , April 22, 1968.

576 "There was a powerful mood":Ibid.

577 "I believed in your father":A letter I viewed in January 2009 from a collection of correspondence on exhibit at the King National Historic Site in Atlanta.

578 "if they catch the guy":Ibid.

579 "There were many fingers": Time , March 21, 1969.

580 Galt was in his room on Ossington Avenue:My account of what Galt did in his room on April 9 is primarily drawn from newspaper and magazine interviews with the landlady, Mrs. Feliksa Szpakowski. See especially O'Neil, "Ray, Sirhan--What Possessed Them?"

581 nightclub called the Silver Dollar:Ibid.

582 "time to play detective":Ray, Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 99.

583 "Yes, hello":My account of the telephone conversation between Ray and Bridgman is derived both from Ray's own recollection in his memoirs and from Toronto police interviews with Bridgman in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Files, Hughes Collection.

584 Paisley's place of work:This passage is drawn primarily from the FD-302 report of the interview that Shanahan and Barrett conducted with Paisley on April 9, 1968.

585 "If you are going to do something illegal":James Earl Ray statement to investigators, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports , vol. 9, p. 430.

586 "I make bold to assert":King eulogy by Benjamin Mays, quoted in the Atlanta Constitution , April 10, 1968, p. 1.

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587 "It was a huge operation":Author interview with Clark, Oct. 8, 2009, New York City.

588 "We are continuing":Memo signed by J. Edgar Hoover, MURKIN Files, sec. 2, which the author viewed on microfilm at Stanford University.

589 "A racist":DeLoach, Hoover's FBI , p. 233.

590 "Tips" arrived from all points of the compass:All these various leads are taken from the opening weeks of the manhunt and are in the MURKIN Files, sec. 2.

591 "Shoot the son-of-a-bitch":See Frank, American Death , p. 143.

592 woman in Memphis called Holloman's office:From a Memphis police report investigating the footage taken by WMC-TV Channel 5, the NBC affiliate in Memphis, dated April 10, 1968, box 5, Posner Papers, Gotlieb Center.

593 call came from the Mexican consulate: Memphis Press-Scimitar , April 19, 1968.

594 white male American tourist:Frank, American Death , p. 188.

595 Mrs. John Riley had been thinking:This passage is drawn largely from "Capitol Homes Stirred Up by That Mustang," Atlanta Constitution , April 22, 1968.

596 president was signing into law:See Kotz, Judgment Days , p. 421, and Dallek, Flawed Giant , p. 534.