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³¹⁶ 'Senator, our time together': Georgia Davis Powers, I Shared the Dream, p. 227.

CHAPTER 21

A ROOM WITH A VIEW

³¹⁷ 'Oh, I'll come back later': FBI interview with the New Rebel Motel laundress Sadie McKay, conducted on April 11, 1968, by Special Agent John Bauer, out of the FBI's Memphis field office, Hughes Collection.

³¹⁸ 'beer house': James Earl Ray's testimony in House Select Committee on Assassinations (hereafter HSCA), Appendix Reports, vol. 1, p. 101.

³¹⁹ 'Soon it will all be over': Interview with James Earl Ray's brother Jerry Ray, in McMillan, Making of an Assassin, p. 299.

³²⁰ tumbledown rooming house: My description of Brewer's flophouse is drawn from multiple sources, including Memphis Police Department crime scene photographs, newspaper and magazine accounts from 1968, and Memphis Police Department and FBI interviews with Brewer and her rooming house guests, as well as my own visits to the rooming house, which is now part of the National Civil Rights Museum.

³²¹ 'Got any vacancies?': My account of Galt's checking in to Brewer's rooming house is primarily drawn from FBI interviews with Brewer, especially the initial bureau interview conducted on April 5, 1968, by Special Agent Robert Boyle, Hughes Collection. I also relied on a number of Memphis Police Department statements: 'Statement of Mrs. Bessie Ruth Brewer,' April 4, 1968; 'Statement of Jewell G. Ray, Captain of the Memphis Police Department,' April 17, 1968; and 'Statement of James Vincent Papia, Lieutenant with the Memphis Police Dept.,' April 16, 1968. Finally, I drew from my own interviews with Jewell Ray on February 13, 2009, and with James Papia on March 2, 2009.

³²² Charlie Stephens: FBI interview with Stephens, conducted on April 4, 1968, by Special Agents John Bauer and Stephen Darlington, Hughes Collection.

³²³ Grace Walden: FBI interview with Grace Stephens, conducted on April 4, 1968, by Special Agents Bauer and Darlington, Hughes Collection.

CHAPTER 22

THE MAN IN 5B

³²⁴ ordered a mess of fried Mississippi River catfish: My account of King's last meal comes from Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 437. See also Abernathy's testimony in HSCA, Appendix Reports, vol. 1, p. 32, and Abernathy's oral history in Raines, My Soul Is Rested, p. 468.

³²⁵ they demanded ten thousand dollars: Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 432.149

³²⁶ 'Hosea, no one will be on our payroll': Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 622.

³²⁷ 'I don't negotiate with brothers': Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 760.

³²⁸ Cabbage stormed out: Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 432.

³²⁹ 'Got any binoculars?': The passage concerning Galt's purchase of binoculars at York Arms sporting goods store is largely drawn from the initial FBI interview with Carpenter, conducted on April 5, 1968, by Special Agents Robert Goodwin and Ralph Liewer. I also relied on the Memphis Police Department statement 'Ralph Meredith Carpenter, Salesman, York Arms Company,' April 9, 1968, Hughes Collection.

³³⁰ back at their surveillance post: My account of Redditt and Richmond undertaking surveillance work from inside the fire station is largely drawn from the Memphis Police Department statements 'Edward E. Redditt, Detective with the Memphis Police Department,' April 10, 1968, and 'Ptm. W. B. Richmond, Inspectional Bureau,' April 9, 1968, box 5, Posner Papers, Gotlieb Center, as well as my interview with Richmond, December 30, 2009.

³³¹ They all sat around joking: Author interview with Georgia Davis Powers, May 7, 2008, Louisville, Ky.

³³² decided to call their mother: Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 438; Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 622.

³³³ 'He really sensed': Author interview with Georgia Davis Powers.

³³⁴ 'Senator, you like soul food?': Ibid.

³³⁵ Where you been all day?: Young, Easy Burden, pp. 463-64.

³³⁶ full-scale pillow fight: Ibid., p. 464.

³³⁷ Elizabeth Copeland: Copeland was interviewed by Memphis FBI agents on April 5, 1968, FBI, MURKIN Files, ME, sub. D, sec. 1, p. 18.

³³⁸ Peggy Hurley: The FBI interviewed Hurley on April 5, 1968, FBI, MURKIN Files, ME, sub. D, sec. 1, p. 3.

³³⁹ Once inside 5B: Details about what Galt did inside 5B are primarily drawn from the Memphis Police Department and FBI investigations of the room immediately after the assassination. His binocular straps were found on the floor; the dresser had been moved away from the open window; the straight-backed chair was placed in front of the window.

³⁴⁰ At that moment, King was inside the room with Abernathy: My account of King's last hour is adapted from multiple sources, including Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, pp. 438-39; Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 623; Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 765. See also Abernathy's testimony in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 1, p. 30.

³⁴¹ Magic Shaving Powder: Frank, American Death, p. 66.

³⁴² 'Billy, we're not going to get real soul food': Kyles's recollection of the late afternoon he spent with King and Abernathy at the Lorraine is primarily drawn from his interviews for the Insignia Films documentary Roads to Memphis, produced for the PBS program American Experience.

³⁴³ Richmond, watching through his binoculars: Memphis Police Department statement, 'Ptm. W. B. Richmond, Inspectional Bureau,' April 9, 1968, box 5, Posner Papers. I also relied on Richmond's report to the Inspectional Bureau of the Memphis Police Department, dated April 4, 1968, and signed 'W. B. Richmond,' Hughes Collection.

³⁴⁴ George Loenneke: FBI interview with Loenneke, conducted on April 13, 1968, by Special Agents Edward Quinn and Shields Smith, Hughes Collection. I also consulted the Memphis Police Department statement 'George Loenneke, Lieutenant at Fire Station #2,' box 5, Posner Papers.