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⁶⁵⁸ 'the greatest nonviolent demonstration': Young, quoted in McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 84.

⁶⁵⁹ 'the idea of rebirth': Young, Easy Burden, p. 481.

⁶⁶⁰ Lurleen Wallace's body lay in the rotunda: Carter, Politics of Rage, pp. 320-21.

⁶⁶¹ electric lines, water lines: For plans and preparations for the Poor People's Campaign, see Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, pp. 500-506, and Young, Easy Burden, pp. 484-85.

⁶⁶² 'one of the bigger tasks': McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 85.

⁶⁶³ 'hurt the president-- deeply hurt him': Ramsey Clark, quoted in McKnight, The Last Crusade, p. 110.

⁶⁶⁴ 'Mecca for migrants': Ibid., p. 87.

⁶⁶⁵ 'one of paranoia': Clark, Crime in America, p. 235.

⁶⁶⁶ The Ray clan had a hundred-year history: For background on the Ray family, I relied largely on McMillan's psychological study, Making of an Assassin, and documents in the McMillan Papers.

⁶⁶⁷ cannibalize their own house: Posner, Killing the Dream, p. 85.

⁶⁶⁸ 'I made it to keep my sanity': Life, May 3, 1968.

⁶⁶⁹ 'He liked being clean': Newsweek, April 29, 1968.

⁶⁷⁰ William Duncan and James Duffey: FBI interview with Jerry Raynes conducted in Center, Missouri, by Duncan and Duffey on April 17, 1968, FD-302 report, Hughes Collection.

⁶⁷¹ 'He was thinking all the time': McMillan interview with Jerry Raynes, March 20, 1969, box 1, McMillan Papers.

⁶⁷² 'those people will poison you': Ibid.

⁶⁷³ 'All politicians are thieves': Ibid.

⁶⁷⁴ 'I don't hate niggers': Ibid.

⁶⁷⁵ 'People try to get too much out of life': McMillan interview with Ray's father, Oct. 20, 1969, box 1, McMillan Papers.

⁶⁷⁶ ship bound for Angola: Ray, Tennessee Waltz, pp. 86-87.

⁶⁷⁷ second floor of the Hotel Portugal: My descriptions of Sneyd's hotel and its Lisbon environs are drawn from O'Neil, 'Ray, Sirhan--What Possessed Them?' and my own visit to the hotel in July 2007.

⁶⁷⁸ Gentil Soares: In this section I chiefly relied on FBI reports prepared in collaboration with the Portuguese International and State Security Police in Lisbon. These reports include interviews (with customs officials, hotel personnel, nightclub employees, and prostitutes who had contact with Sneyd) conducted in Lisbon on June 8-12, 1968, and distilled in a thirteen-page document titled 'Lisbon Files,' Hughes Collection.

⁶⁷⁹ Gloria Sausa Ribeiro: Ibid.

⁶⁸⁰ 'He did not know any Portuguese': Ibid.

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⁶⁸¹ 'What appealed to Jimmy about Hitler': George McMillan interview with Jerry Ray on April 1, 1972, box 5, McMillan Papers.

⁶⁸² 'was unreasonable in his hatred': Rife, quoted in McMillan, Making of an Assassin, p. 147.

⁶⁸³ 'retirement plan': This passage concerning Curtis is primarily drawn from 'Raymond Curtis Interviews, Whitfield County Jail, Dalton, Georgia,' box 1, McMillan Papers. See also McMillan, Making of an Assassin, pp. 175-85; Frank, American Death, p. 183; and Posner, Killing the Dream, p. 136.

⁶⁸⁴ John Sutherland: The passage here on Sutherland and the alleged fifty-thousand-dollar bounty to kill King is chiefly drawn from 'Evidence of a Conspiracy in St. Louis,' House Select Committee on Assassinations (hereafter HSCA), Final Assassinations Report, pp. 359-75. I also relied on the testimony of Russell Byers in HSCA, Appendix Reports, pp. 177- 310.

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⁶⁸⁵ declared open for business: My passage on the Poor People's encampment on the Mall is primarily drawn from daily coverage in the Washington Post throughout May and June 1968, as well as from McKnight, Last Crusade, pp. 107-39; Risen, Nation on Fire, pp. 235-36; Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, pp. 494-539; and Young, Easy Burden, pp. 477-92.

⁶⁸⁶ 'plague after plague': Abernathy, quoted in McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 130.

⁶⁸⁷ 'Resurrection City was flawed': Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, pp. 503, 516.

⁶⁸⁸ 'megalomania': McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 116.

⁶⁸⁹ 'just another fish-fry': Ibid., p. 126.

⁶⁹⁰ 'Ralph was frustrated': Young, Easy Burden, p. 490.

⁶⁹¹ 'The gray skies poured water': Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 517.

⁶⁹² 'document such things as immorality': Hoover memo quoted in McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 128.

⁶⁹³ 'some grotesque soap opera': McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 134.

⁶⁹⁴ 'almost a perfect failure': Ibid., p. 107.

⁶⁹⁵ 'Lincoln smiled kindly': Clark, Crime in America, p. 236.