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Homes tenants (including Mary Bridges) who saw the Mustang and its driver. I also made use of 'Capitol Homes Stirred Up by That Mustang,' Atlanta Constitution, April 22, 1968.

⁴⁸⁵ United Cab Company driver: FBI interview with Stephens conducted on April 12, 1968, by Special Agent Thomas J. Barrett, Hughes Collection.

⁴⁸⁶ 'This is one of the darkest days': Abernathy's comments at the morning press conference at the Lorraine Motel were reprinted in the Atlanta Constitution, April 6, 1968.

⁴⁸⁷ had hired a public relations agent: Kenneth R. Timmerman, Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2002), pp. 9- 10.

⁴⁸⁸ 'To prostitute and lie': Bevel, quoted in Frady, Jesse, p. 230.

⁴⁸⁹ 'was somehow in shock': Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 449.

⁴⁹⁰ Shanahan walked through the door: FBI interview with Wood, conducted on April 5, 1968, by Shanahan out of the Birmingham field office. Shanahan's FD-302 report of the interview, along with a copy of the receipt showing the rifle's purchase, is in the Hughes Collection.

⁴⁹¹ 'He wasn't drunk': FBI interview with DeShazo, conducted on April 7, 1968, by Special Agents Robert Barrett and William Saucier out of the Birmingham field office, Hughes Collection.

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⁴⁹² At the FBI Crime Lab: My passages here concerning the FBI lab's initial examination of the bundle from Memphis are primarily drawn from 'Report of the FBI Laboratory, FBI, April 17, 1968, Evidence Recovered in Front of 424 So. Main St. April 4th, 1968,' Hughes Collection. I also relied on 'Scientific Report on the Subject of Analysis of Fingerprint Evidence Related to the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by the Fingerprint Panel,' House Select Committee on Assassinations (hereafter HSCA), Appendix Reports, vol. 8, pp. 109-21.

⁴⁹³ esoteric profession: For a good overview of the history, lore, science, and shortcomings of fingerprint analysis, see Michael Specter, 'Do Fingerprints Lie?' New Yorker, May 27, 2002.

⁴⁹⁴ Frazier spent the morning: 'Testimony of the Firearms Panel,' HSCA, Appendix Reports, vol. 4, pp. 78-111.

⁴⁹⁵ Annie Estelle Peters: This passage on Galt's picking up his laundry in Atlanta on the morning of April 5 is primarily drawn from the FBI's initial interview with Peters, conducted on April 16, 1968, by Special Agents Charles Paul Rose and Robert Kane working out of the bureau's Atlanta field office. The FD-302 report of this interview is in the Hughes Collection. I also relied on Peters's testimony in HSCA, Appendix Reports, vol. 3, pp. 302-514.

⁴⁹⁶ 'satisfied there was no unusual activity': Ray, Tennessee Waltz, p. 80.

⁴⁹⁷ wad of bills: Ray, in his book Who Killed Martin Luther King? says, on p. 100, that upon his arrival in Toronto the following day, he was 'down to $1,200 or so.'

⁴⁹⁸ dashed off a short note: My description of Galt's actions at the rooming house on April 5 are primarily drawn from the FBI's interviews with Garner, conducted on April 14 and 15, 1968, by Special Agent Roger Kaas of the bureau's Atlanta field office. FD-302 reports of these interviews are in the Hughes Collection.

⁴⁹⁹ 'There was so much to do': Garry Wills, 'Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case,' reprinted in The New Journalism, ed. Tom Wolfe, p. 393.

⁵⁰⁰ 'The body appeared unblemished': Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 448.

⁵⁰¹ 'We all wanted to be there': Young, Easy Burden, p. 469.

⁵⁰² 'It will spoil the makeup job': Wills, 'Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case,' reprinted in New Journalism, p. 394.

⁵⁰³ 'I wish it was Henry Loeb': Ibid., p. 395.

⁵⁰⁴ 'Why'd this happen to you': My description of the public viewing at the R. S. Lewis Funeral Home on the morning of April 5 is drawn from the Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 6, 1968, as well as from Beifuss, At the River I Stand, pp. 315 -16.

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⁵⁰⁵ 'I thought it was a provocation': Author interview with Clark, Oct. 9, 2008, New York City.

⁵⁰⁶ 'What a message that was': Ibid.

⁵⁰⁷ 'To see these men': Roger Wilkins interview, Roads to Memphis, an Insignia Films documentary produced for the PBS program American Experience, WGBH, Boston.

⁵⁰⁸ 'gracious in a Southern kind of way': Ibid.

⁵⁰⁹ 'He was just about out on his feet': Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 325.

⁵¹⁰ 'I had not a scintilla': Holloman's testimony in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 4, p. 332.

⁵¹¹ 'All of our evidence': Clark's comments from his Memphis press conference were printed in the Memphis Press-Scimitar, April 5, 1968, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 6, 1968.

⁵¹² 'In view of Mr. Hoover's': DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 229.

⁵¹³ 'courageous and calm': Wilkins, Man's Life, p. 212.

⁵¹⁴ 'a bloated and faded version': Ibid.

⁵¹⁵ 'We'll do everything we can': DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 229.

⁵¹⁶ 'We aren't so much concerned': Andrew Young, in Roads to Memphis.

⁵¹⁷ 'Why, it's sitting right out there': FBI interview with Capitol Homes tenants in 'Eric Starvo Galt, Bureau File #44-38861' prepared by Special Agent Alan G. Sentinella of the Atlanta field