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⁷²⁷ 'Some Americans': Ibid.

⁷²⁸ 'Nothing Ray did': DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 256.

⁷²⁹ 'was a loner': DeLoach testimony in HSCA, Appendix Reports, vol. 7, p. 28.

⁷³⁰ 'Truth be told': DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 257.

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⁷³¹ 'Look, they got me mixed up': This exchange between Sneyd and Eugene is recounted in Frank, American Death, p. 201.

⁷³² 'Yes, I'd like you to call my brother': Ibid., p. 203.

⁷³³ Patriotic Legal Fund: Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 181.

⁷³⁴ Alexander Eist: The passages concerning Eist and his time spent with Sneyd in London are drawn from a lengthy interview with Eist conducted at Cambridge, England, on August 4, 1978, by Edward Evans, chief investigator, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 3, pp. 264-84.

⁷³⁵ 'He seemed absolutely mad about publicity': Ibid.

⁷³⁶ 'There's no way': Ibid.

⁷³⁷ Sneyd was met by four FBI agents: Custody Log, James Earl Ray, July 19, 1968, Aboard USAF Plane C135,' MURKIN Files, 4901-4982, sec. 66, pp. 178-81. See also Posner, Killing the Dream, pp. 55-56.

⁷³⁸ At 3:48 a.m.: My depiction of Ray's arrival in Memphis is largely drawn from the Memphis Press-Scimitar, July 19, 1968, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal, July 20, 1968. See also Frank, American Death, pp. 223-34.

⁷³⁹ 'They're getting out of the plane': DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 254.

⁷⁴⁰ 'ring of steel': Ibid.

⁷⁴¹ Morris had arranged: Frank, American Death, pp. 228-34.

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⁷⁴² two hundred inmates: My reenactment of Ray's prison escape is drawn primarily from newspaper and magazine accounts from June 1977--especially the Atlanta Constitution, the New York Times, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Nashville Tennessean, and the Washington Post. In-depth stories in Time and Newsweek, both appearing on June 20, 1977, proved especially helpful. I also consulted Building Time at Brushy, a semi-fictional memoir by the prison's warden, Stonney Lane. Finally, I found James McKinley's interview with Ray (Playboy, Sept. 1977) extremely useful.

⁷⁴³ 'Ray's hot': New York Times, June 12, 1977, p. 1.

⁷⁴⁴ 'Ray is smart like a rat': Foreman, quoted in Newsweek, June 20, 1977, p. 25.

⁷⁴⁵ 'funny in the head': McKinley, 'Interview with James Earl Ray,' p. 176.

⁷⁴⁶ 'Raoul does not and did not exist': Time, June 20, 1977, p. 17.

⁷⁴⁷ 'You always have it': McKinley, 'Interview with James Earl Ray,' p. 86.

⁷⁴⁸ 'convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt': Abernathy, quoted in the Washington Post, June 11, 1977, p. A10.

⁷⁴⁹ 'engineered to see that Ray': Time, June 20, 1977, p. 14.

⁷⁵⁰ 'I hope they don't kill him': Martin Luther King Sr., quoted in the Atlanta Constitution, June 13, 1977, p. 19A.

⁷⁵¹ Sammy Joe Chapman: This passage involving the bloodhounds is largely drawn from my interview with Sammy Joe Chapman, Sept. 2009. I also relied on 'How the Mountain Men Did It,' Time, June 27, 1977, pp. 11-12, and 'Back in Cell: Ray Brought to Bay by Two Bloodhounds,' Washington Post, June 14, 1977, p. 1.

⁷⁵² 'For a 49-year-old man': 'How the Mountain Men Did It,' p. 11.

⁷⁵³ 'It's disappointing being caught': McKinley, 'Interview with James Earl Ray,' p. 94.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

City of Memphis v. Martin Luther King Jr. et al., April 3, 1968. Hearing proceedings.

Federal Bureau of Investigation. MURKIN Files. King Assassination Documents, FBI Central Headquarters. Viewed on microfilm at Stanford University's Cecil H. Green Library.

House Select Committee on Assassinations. U.S. Congress. Investigation of the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.: Appendix Reports, Vols. 1-13. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.

------. Investigation of the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.: The Final Assassinations Report. New York: Bantam, 1979.

State of Tennessee v. James Earl Ray. Shelby County Criminal Court, div. 3, Tenn., 1969. Proceedings.