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

648 agents soon found a brother, John Ray:My description of the FBI's initial contact with John Ray is primarily based on FD-302 reports of interviews in St. Louis Files, Hughes Collection.

649 "seal his lips forever":Interview with John Ray conducted on May 2, 1968, by Special Agents Jack Williams and Patrick Bradley, FD-302 report, Hughes Collection.

650 "What's all the excitement about?":The FBI's initial interview with John Ray, conducted on April 22, 1968, by Special Agents Harry C. Jun and Robert Hess, FD-302 report, Hughes Collection.

651 John Ray would boast:See Ray and Barsten, Truth at Last , p. 109.

652 "hottest man in the country":Jerry Ray, quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times , May 3, 1968.

653 "He sure didn't have any love":Jerry Ray, quoted in Life , May 3, 1968.

654 "A supermarket":Ray, quoted in McKinley, "Interview with James Earl Ray," p. 134.

655 found him in the rear of the store:For a good account of the incident at Loblaws, see Frank, American Death , p. 317.

656 beheld a rotund man:Ibid.

657 "I should have pulled a holdup":Posner, Killing the Dream , p. 249.

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658 "the greatest nonviolent demonstration":Young, quoted in McKnight, Last Crusade , p. 84.

659 "the idea of rebirth":Young, Easy Burden , p. 481.

660 Lurleen Wallace's body lay in the rotunda:Carter, Politics of Rage , pp. 320-21.

661 electric lines, water lines:For plans and preparations for the Poor People's Campaign, see Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , pp. 500-506, and Young, Easy Burden , pp. 484-85.

662 "one of the bigger tasks":McKnight, Last Crusade , p. 85.

663 "hurt the president-- deeply hurt him":Ramsey Clark, quoted in McKnight, The Last Crusade , p. 110.

664 "Mecca for migrants":Ibid., p. 87.

665 "one of paranoia":Clark, Crime in America , p. 235.

666 The Ray clan had a hundred-year history:For background on the Ray family, I relied largely on McMillan's psychological study, Making of an Assassin , and documents in the McMillan Papers.

667 cannibalize their own house:Posner, Killing the Dream , p. 85.

668 "I made it to keep my sanity": Life , May 3, 1968.

669 "He liked being clean": Newsweek , April 29, 1968.

670 William Duncan and James Duffey:FBI interview with Jerry Raynes conducted in Center, Missouri, by Duncan and Duffey on April 17, 1968, FD-302 report, Hughes Collection.

671 "He was thinking all the time":McMillan interview with Jerry Raynes, March 20, 1969, box 1, McMillan Papers.

672 "those people will poison you":Ibid.

673 "All politicians are thieves":Ibid.

674 "I don't hate niggers":Ibid.

675 "People try to get too much out of life":McMillan interview with Ray's father, Oct. 20, 1969, box 1, McMillan Papers.

676 ship bound for Angola:Ray, Tennessee Waltz , pp. 86-87.

677 second floor of the Hotel Portugal:My descriptions of Sneyd's hotel and its Lisbon environs are drawn from O'Neil, "Ray, Sirhan--What Possessed Them?" and my own visit to the hotel in July 2007.

678 Gentil Soares:In this section I chiefly relied on FBI reports prepared in collaboration with the Portuguese International and State Security Police in Lisbon. These reports include interviews (with customs officials, hotel personnel, nightclub employees, and prostitutes who had contact with Sneyd) conducted in Lisbon on June 8-12, 1968, and distilled in a thirteen-page document titled "Lisbon Files," Hughes Collection.

679 Gloria Sausa Ribeiro:Ibid.

680 "He did not know any Portuguese":Ibid.

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681 "What appealed to Jimmy about Hitler":George McMillan interview with Jerry Ray on April 1, 1972, box 5, McMillan Papers.

682 "was unreasonable in his hatred":Rife, quoted in McMillan, Making of an Assassin , p. 147.

683 "retirement plan":This passage concerning Curtis is primarily drawn from "Raymond Curtis Interviews, Whitfield County Jail, Dalton, Georgia," box 1, McMillan Papers. See also McMillan, Making of an Assassin , pp. 175-85; Frank, American Death , p. 183; and Posner, Killing the Dream , p. 136.

684 John Sutherland:The passage here on Sutherland and the alleged fifty-thousand-dollar bounty to kill King is chiefly drawn from "Evidence of a Conspiracy in St. Louis," House Select Committee on Assassinations (hereafter HSCA), Final Assassinations Report , pp. 359-75. I also relied on the testimony of Russell Byers in HSCA, Appendix Reports , pp. 177-310.

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685 declared open for business:My passage on the Poor People's encampment on the Mall is primarily drawn from daily coverage in the Washington Post throughout May and June 1968, as well as from McKnight, Last Crusade , pp. 107-39; Risen, Nation on Fire , pp. 235-36; Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , pp. 494-539; and Young, Easy Burden , pp. 477-92.

686 "plague after plague":Abernathy, quoted in McKnight, Last Crusade , p. 130.

687 "Resurrection City was flawed":Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , pp. 503, 516.

688 "megalomania":McKnight, Last Crusade , p. 116.

689 "just another fish-fry":Ibid., p. 126.

690 "Ralph was frustrated":Young, Easy Burden , p. 490.

691 "The gray skies poured water":Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , p. 517.

692 "document such things as immorality":Hoover memo quoted in McKnight, Last Crusade , p. 128.

693 "some grotesque soap opera":McKnight, Last Crusade , p. 134.

694 "almost a perfect failure":Ibid., p. 107.

695 "Lincoln smiled kindly":Clark, Crime in America , p. 236.

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696 Charles J. Sweeney:My depiction of Sweeney's task force is drawn from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Files, Hughes Collection. See also Posner, Killing the Dream , p. 43.

697 Doris Catherine Westwood:Westwood statement in the sixty-three-page compendium document Scotland Yard Files, Hughes Collection.

698 Maurice Isaacs and his wife:This passage is drawn from various accounts in the London papers--including the Times and the Telegraph --and my own visit to the jewelry store address near Paddington Station. I also benefited from an interview with the Isaacses' son, Vincent Isaacs, June 27, 2008, London.

699 Robert Wood:From Royal Canadian Mounted Police Files, Hughes Collection.

700 Ian Colvin:My recounting of Sneyd's calls to Colvin is primarily drawn from Colvin's article "Dr. King Suspect Here 3 Weeks, Mystery Calls to the Daily Telegraph," London Daily Telegraph , June 10, 1968, p. 1. See also Frank, American Death , p. 320.