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

⁴⁴⁷ 'I thought I was going to get away': Ray, quoted in Ayton, Racial Crime, p. 143. See also Frank, American Death, p. 390.

⁴⁴⁸ 'I had to drive slow': James Earl Ray, '20,000 Words,' quoted in Huie, Making of an Assassin, p. 145.

⁴⁴⁹ 'I knew that the car could be hot': Ray, Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 97.

⁴⁵⁰ 'I just wanted to get rid': Ray, Tennessee Waltz, p. 80.

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POWER IN THE BLOOD

⁴⁵¹ 'King wouldn't make a decision without him': Hosea Williams, quoted in McKnight, The Last Crusade, p. 108.

⁴⁵² 'flashbulbs still blinked': Wills, 'Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case,' reprinted in The New Journalism, ed. Tom Wolfe, p. 393.

⁴⁵³ 'sleepwalk through the night': Young, Easy Burden, p. 467.

⁴⁵⁴ 'had received, through letter or telephone': Abernathy's testimony in House Select Committee on Assassination, Appendix Reports, vol. 1, p. 19.

⁴⁵⁵ 'We can't let Martin down': Bevel, quoted in Young, Easy Burden, p. 468.

⁴⁵⁶ 'They got him': Ibid.

⁴⁵⁷ 'I touched the pillow': Georgia Davis Powers, I Shared the Dream, p. 233.

⁴⁵⁸ 'This is Martin's precious blood': Frady, Jesse, p. 232.

⁴⁵⁹ Withers took several shots: Frank, American Death, p. 109.

⁴⁶⁰ wiped them down the front of his shirt: Young, quoted in Frady, Jesse, p. 232.

⁴⁶¹ 'There's nothing that unusual': Ibid.

⁴⁶² 'composed but dazed': Atlanta Constitution, April 5, 1968, p. 1.

⁴⁶³ King had not written a will: Kathryn Johnson, 'Dr. King Leaves Little-- He Gave It All Away,' Atlanta Constitution, May 13, 1968, p. 1.

⁴⁶⁴ 'If something happens': Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 452.

⁴⁶⁵ 'but there was something a little different': Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 2, 1978.

⁴⁶⁶ 'just to do any little menial thing': Belafonte, quoted in Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King Jr., p. 322.

⁴⁶⁷ 'Mommy, when is Daddy coming home?': Ibid., p. 321.

⁴⁶⁸ 'No, darling': Ibid.

⁴⁶⁹ Dr. Jerry Francisco: Biographical details and physical descriptions of Francisco are adapted from Memphis Commercial Appeal clippings and my interview with Francisco, Jan. 20, 2009.

⁴⁷⁰ 'somehow looked more dead': Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 445.

⁴⁷¹ 'This is the body': Ibid.

⁴⁷² 'It might tell us something': Ibid.

⁴⁷³ 'giving the appearance': Memphis Police Department document, 'Martin Luther King Homicide No. 3367, Supplement #5, Re: Consent for Autopsy and Autopsy,' p. 2, Hughes Collection.

⁴⁷⁴ 'More than any case': Author interview with Francisco.

⁴⁷⁵ 'I felt very safe': Ibid.

⁴⁷⁶ 'This is a well developed': Francisco's autopsy report, Hughes Collection.

⁴⁷⁷ 'Every light in every store': Wills, 'Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case,' reprinted in New Journalism, p. 390.

⁴⁷⁸ 'tens of thousands of Americans': Graham's reaction to King's murder, and the other reactions reproduced in this passage from various international figures, are taken from White House newswires, Situation Room memorandums, and State Department telexes received on April 4 and 5, 1968, Johnson Presidential Library.

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A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS

⁴⁷⁹ Lockheed Jetstar taxied: My account of the initial trip to Memphis made by Clark and DeLoach on April 5 derives from multiple sources. I especially relied on DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, pp. 228-30, as well as my own interview with Clark, Oct. 9, 2008, New York City. I also gained valuable insights from Wilkins, A Man's Life, pp. 211-12, and Risen, Nation on Fire, pp. 95-97. See also DeLoach's testimony in House Select Committee on Assassinations (hereafter HSCA), Appendix Reports, vol. 7, pp. 18-117, as well as Clark's testimony, HSCA, Appendix Reports, vol. 7, pp. 120-63.

⁴⁸⁰ fugitive named John Willard: DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 228.

⁴⁸¹ Now he opened his briefcase: Wilkins, A Man's Life, p. 212. See also Risen, Nation on Fire, p. 95.

⁴⁸² 'At daybreak I stopped for gas': Ray, Tennessee Waltz, p. 80.

⁴⁸³ location he had scoped out: FBI agents later discovered that the map Ray left behind in his Atlanta rooming house bore a circle on it, presumably made by Ray, at the location of the Capitol Homes project--which seemed to indicate that he had investigated the location prior to abandoning his car there.

⁴⁸⁴ Mary Bridges: My depiction of Galt's abandoning his Mustang at the Capitol Homes project on the morning of April 5 is adapted from varied sources. I especially relied on a thirty-four- page FBI report titled 'Eric Starvo Galt, Bureau File #44-38861' prepared by Special Agent Alan G. Sentinella of the Atlanta field office, filed on April 18, 1968, Hughes Collection. This report contains a detailed description of the Mustang's location and condition (with accompanying photographs) as well as interviews with the various Capitol