Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. And the International Hunt for His A

CHAPTER 18

TARGET PRACTICE AT SHILOH

²⁸³ 'You must have a goal': Maltz, Psycho- Cybernetics, p. 37.

²⁸⁴ dropped off a bundle of dirty clothes: FBI interview with Annie Estelle Peters, manager of the Piedmont Laundry, conducted on April 16, 1968, by Special Agents Charles Rose and Robert Kane. The Piedmont Laundry's ledger and receipts were taken into evidence.

²⁸⁵ hide his snub-nosed .38 revolver: Ray claimed he buried the revolver in the rooming house basement, which had a dirt floor. Ray, Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 91.

²⁸⁶ found a secluded place: Ray told his first lawyers, as well as the journalist William Bradford Huie, that he pulled off the road near Corinth, Mississippi, and test-fired the new rifle. See Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 140, and McMillan, Making of an Assassin, pp. 297-98. Years later, before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Ray changed his story and said that although he indeed drove through Corinth, Mississippi, he never test-fired the rifle.

²⁸⁷ 'smoking jungle': Bierce, quoted in Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic, pp. 166, 170.

CHAPTER 19

TORNADO WARNINGS

²⁸⁸ 'It was an ordinary goodbye': Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 314.

²⁸⁹ 'We have a celebrity': Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 428.

²⁹⁰ 'Nobody's going to kill you': Ibid.

²⁹¹ 'We have not fully made up our minds': Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 403.

²⁹² 'If I were a man': Ibid., p. 402.

²⁹³ 'We are fearful': Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 4, 1968, p. 1.

²⁹⁴ 'Martin fell silent': Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 429.

²⁹⁵ 'Well, we are not going to be stopped': Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 269.

²⁹⁶ Lucius Burch: For a good overview of Burch's multifaceted career, see the fine anthology Lucius: Writings of Lucius Burch.

²⁹⁷ 'Dr. King': Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 271.

²⁹⁸ 'I had no second thoughts': Ibid., p. 272.

²⁹⁹ holding up binoculars: Memphis Police Department official statements, 'Edward E. Redditt, MC, 37, Detective with the Memphis Police Department' and 'Ptm. W. B. Richmond, MC, 27, Inspectional Bureau,' box 5, Posner Papers, Gotlieb Center.

³⁰⁰ 'This is the wrong place for you': Ibid.

³⁰¹ 'People started looking at us': Ibid.

CHAPTER 20

NOT FEARING ANY MAN

³⁰² Galt coasted into the parking lot: FBI interview with New Rebel Motel desk clerk Henrietta Hagermaster, conducted on April 11, 1968, by Special Agent John Bauer, out of the FBI's Memphis field office.

³⁰³ He got a haircut: Ray told the journalist William Bradford Huie that on April 3 he got a haircut and bought a shaving kit at a Rexall drugstore in Memphis. Stickers from the Rexall drugstore were later found on several of his abandoned items. See Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 142.

³⁰⁴ a six-pack of Schlitz: Several unopened Schlitz beers were later found among Ray's abandoned belongings and, on the basis of Mississippi state liquor tags affixed to the cans, were traced to a bait shop in Southaven, Mississippi, near the city limits of Memphis.

³⁰⁵ 'the kind of place where more or less legitimate people's around': 'Staff Report: Compilation of the Statements of James Earl Ray,' in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 3, p. 226.

³⁰⁶ Galt put his money down: FBI interview with Hagermaster, conducted on April 11, 1968, by Special Agent Bauer.

³⁰⁷ 'Ralph, I want you to go speak for me tonight': Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 430.

³⁰⁸ 'Something is happening in Memphis': My depiction of King's 'Mountaintop' speech at Mason Temple is drawn from Memphis television newsreels, newspaper accounts, and the documentary film At the River I Stand. I've also leaned on accounts in Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 433; Branch, At Canaan's Edge, pp. 757-58; Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, pp. 415-24; and Beifuss, At the River I Stand, pp. 277-80.

³⁰⁹ 'it seemed like he was just saying': Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 424.

³¹⁰ 'It seemed like he reached down': Interviews with striking sanitation workers present at Mason Temple, from the documentary Roads to Memphis, Insignia Films, for the PBS program American Experience, WGBH, Boston.

³¹¹ 'I was full of joy': Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 425.

³¹² Ivan Webb: FBI interview with Webb, conducted on April 11, 1968, by Special Agent Bauer, out of the FBI's Memphis field office.

³¹³ 'He was like a kid again': Interview with Kyles, Roads to Memphis.

³¹⁴ 'Senator!': Author interview with Georgia Davis Powers, May 7, 2008, Louisville.

³¹⁵ 'I didn't idolize him': Ibid.