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⁶²⁵ found the laundry service: FBI interview with Estelle Peters conducted on April 16, 1968, by Special Agents Charles Rose and Robert Kane, FD-302 report, Hughes Collection.

⁶²⁶ fingerprint raised from a map: '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, Appendix Reports, vol. 13, pp. 109-21.

⁶²⁷ 'Our net was beginning to close': DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, pp. 242, 247.

⁶²⁸ 'All I can say': See Frank, American Death, p. 124.

⁶²⁹ FBI announced that it was issuing a warrant: A copy of the warrant, with accompanying shots of Galt/Ray adapted from his bartending school photo, is in the Hughes Collection.

⁶³⁰ jaywalked across a busy street: Ray discusses the jaywalking incident in both of his books, Tennessee Waltz, p. 84, and Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 99. See also Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 158.

⁶³¹ shredded his driver's license: Ray, Tennessee Waltz, p. 84.

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⁶³² 'the man without a past': These characterizations are taken from a variety of media sources immediately after Galt was identified--including the Memphis Commercial Appeal the Washington Post, the Atlanta Constitution, Newsweek, and Time.

⁶³³ 'No, that's not him': 'Eric Galt, Alleged Brother Conspired to Assassinate Dr. King, FBI Declares,' Atlanta Constitution, April 18, 1968, pp. 1, 29.

⁶³⁴ 'I just don't know': Ibid.

⁶³⁵ 'was a two-dimensional cutout': Newsweek, April 29, 1968.

⁶³⁶ 'Fiction wouldn't touch it': Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 16, 1968.

⁶³⁷ 'destroyed the production plants': 'Who Is Phantom Fugitive? Reporters Put Together Facts,' a special 'Task Force Report' in the Atlanta Constitution, April 22, 1968, p. 8.

⁶³⁸ 'He is the man who killed': Mrs. Szpakowski's conversation with her husband concerning Galt is recounted in Frank, American Death, p. 316.

⁶³⁹ 'All the signs were there': DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, pp. 241-42.

⁶⁴⁰ 'Les, we have pretty good evidence': The conversation between DeLoach and Les Trotter is recalled in DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 245.

⁶⁴¹ 'we're under tremendous pressure': Ibid., p. 246.

⁶⁴² 'We're getting there': Ibid.

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⁶⁴³ 'He came with a suit on': Loo, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 10, 1968.

⁶⁴⁴ Sneyd sat at the crowded bar: Posner, Killing the Dream, pp. 244-45; Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 160.

⁶⁴⁵ 'He was a dirty little neck': Peterson, quoted in Life, May 3, 1968.

⁶⁴⁶ thumbnail sketch: This information concerning Ray's prison history is primarily drawn from FD-302 reports of the FBI's interviews with Ray's former prison inmates at Jefferson City, in the voluminous compendium document St. Louis Files, Hughes Collection.

⁶⁴⁷ 'raise' the numerals: See Shaw, 'Are You Sure Who Killed Martin Luther King?'

⁶⁴⁸ agents soon found a brother, John Ray: My description of the FBI's initial contact with John Ray is primarily based on FD-302 reports of interviews in St. Louis Files, Hughes Collection.

⁶⁴⁹ 'seal his lips forever': Interview with John Ray conducted on May 2, 1968, by Special Agents Jack Williams and Patrick Bradley, FD-302 report, Hughes Collection.

⁶⁵⁰ 'What's all the excitement about?': The FBI's initial interview with John Ray, conducted on April 22, 1968, by Special Agents Harry C. Jun and Robert Hess, FD-302 report, Hughes Collection.

⁶⁵¹ John Ray would boast: See Ray and Barsten, Truth at Last, p. 109.

⁶⁵² 'hottest man in the country': Jerry Ray, quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times, May 3, 1968.

⁶⁵³ 'He sure didn't have any love': Jerry Ray, quoted in Life, May 3, 1968.

⁶⁵⁴ 'A supermarket': Ray, quoted in McKinley, 'Interview with James Earl Ray,' p. 134.

⁶⁵⁵ found him in the rear of the store: For a good account of the incident at Loblaws, see Frank, American Death, p. 317.

⁶⁵⁶ beheld a rotund man: Ibid.

⁶⁵⁷ 'I should have pulled a holdup': Posner, Killing the Dream, p. 249.

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