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CHAPTER 37

THE MURKIN FILES

⁵⁸⁷ 'It was a huge operation': Author interview with Clark, Oct. 8, 2009, New York City.

⁵⁸⁸ 'We are continuing': Memo signed by J. Edgar Hoover, MURKIN Files, sec. 2, which the author viewed on microfilm at Stanford University.

⁵⁸⁹ 'A racist': DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 233.

⁵⁹⁰ 'Tips' arrived from all points of the compass: All these various leads are taken from the opening weeks of the manhunt and are in the MURKIN Files, sec. 2.

⁵⁹¹ 'Shoot the son-of-a-bitch': See Frank, American Death, p. 143.

⁵⁹² woman in Memphis called Holloman's office: From a Memphis police report investigating the footage taken by WMC-TV Channel 5, the NBC affiliate in Memphis, dated April 10, 1968, box 5, Posner Papers, Gotlieb Center.

⁵⁹³ call came from the Mexican consulate: Memphis Press- Scimitar, April 19, 1968.

⁵⁹⁴ white male American tourist: Frank, American Death, p. 188.

⁵⁹⁵ Mrs. John Riley had been thinking: This passage is drawn largely from 'Capitol Homes Stirred Up by That Mustang,' Atlanta Constitution, April 22, 1968.

⁵⁹⁶ president was signing into law: See Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 421, and Dallek, Flawed Giant, p. 534.

⁵⁹⁷ Brown's Theatrical Supply Company: See Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 154.

⁵⁹⁸ Arcade Photo Studio: Ibid., p. 152.

⁵⁹⁹ convoy of bureau sedans: Here I relied on a compilation document of FBI interviews with tenants at the housing project titled, 'Capitol Homes Interviews,' Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰⁰ 'There must have been a billion of 'em': 'Capitol Homes Stirred Up by That Mustang.'

⁶⁰¹ Every inch of the impounded car: This passage is largely drawn from the FBI analysis of the Mustang, in 'Report of the FBI Laboratory, April 19, #44-38861,' Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰² Theodore A'Hearn: FD-302 report of A'Hearn's April 11, 1968, interviews at Cort Fox Ford in the compendium document 'Los Angeles Investigations,' Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰³ Thomas Mansfield: FD-302 report of Agent Mansfield's April 12, 1968, interviews at the St. Francis Hotel, in 'Los Angeles Investigations,' Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰⁴ Lloyd Johnson and Francis Kahl: FD-302 report from the interview conducted by Johnson and Kahl with Pinela at Home Service Laundry, in 'Los Angeles Investigations,' Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰⁵ George Aiken: FD-302 report from interviews conducted at the National Dance Studio by Aiken, in 'Los Angeles Investigations,' Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰⁶ 'Yes, Eric Galt was a student here': FD-302 report from interviews conducted at the International School of Bartending by A'Hearn and Raysa, in 'Los Angeles Investigations,' Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰⁷ Donald Jacobs: Ibid.

CHAPTER 38

CANADA BELIEVES YOU

⁶⁰⁸ disguised themselves as hippies: Frank, American Death, p. 172.

⁶⁰⁹ 'Take the door off its hinges': Ibid.

⁶¹⁰ a few telltale artifacts: FD-302 report filed on April 17, 1968, by the FBI agents Harry Lee, John Sullivan, Roger Kaas, and John Ogden, which enumerates and describes all the items found inside Galt's room.

⁶¹¹ William John Slicks and Richard Ross: This passage is drawn from the FBI's FD-302 report of the April 13, 1968, interview conducted with Stein by Slicks and Ross, in 'Los Angeles Investigations,' Hughes Collection.

⁶¹² Tomaso had sharp recollections: FD-302 report of the April 13, 1968, interview conducted with Tomaso (a.k.a. Marie Martin) by Slicks and Ross, in 'Los Angeles Investigations,' Hughes Collection.

⁶¹³ handwritten sign: McMillan, Making of an Assassin, p. 285.

⁶¹⁴ John Ogden and Roger Kaas: FD-302 report of April 14 and 15, 1968, interviews conducted with Garner by Ogden and Kaas, Hughes Collection.

⁶¹⁵ 'we were numb': Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 348.

⁶¹⁶ Abe Plough: See Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 489.

⁶¹⁷ 'After Dr. King was killed': Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 345.

⁶¹⁸ ''I am a man'--they meant it': Reynolds, quoted in Beifuss, At the River I Stand, pp. 346-47.

⁶¹⁹ 'We have been aggrieved': Memphis Press- Scimitar, April 17, 1968, p. 1.

⁶²⁰ 'We won': Newsweek, April 29, 1968, p. 22.

⁶²¹ Sun Fung Loo: The FBI's summary of Ray's activities while in Canada, in the MURKIN Files, 4442-4500, sec. 57, p. 61.

⁶²² wrote to the registrar of births: A copy of Galt's request for Ramon Sneyd's birth certificate is in the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 5, p. 15.

⁶²³ Lillian Spencer: This passage concerning Spencer at the Kennedy Travel Bureau is drawn from 'King Murder Suspect Held--He Hid 1 Month in Metro,' Toronto Daily Star, June 8, 1968, p. 1. I also relied on RCMP interviews with Spencer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Files, Hughes Collection.

⁶²⁴ 'I thought it was an odd name': Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 155.