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WALKING BUZZARDS

¹⁷⁹ At the wheel of the big truck: My account of the deaths of Robert Walker and Echol Cole is largely drawn from the news story in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Feb. 2, 1968. See also Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, pp. 1-2; Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 30; and Branch, At Canaan's Edge, pp. 684-85.

¹⁸⁰ in 1964, two garbage workers were killed: Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 2.

¹⁸¹ 'He was standing there': Memphis Commercial Appeal, Feb. 2, 1968.

¹⁸² Earline Walker: Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 685.

¹⁸³ Elvis Presley--whose wife, Priscilla, had given birth: Guralnick, Careless Love, p. 288. See also Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 685.

¹⁸⁴ 'I am so lucky': Goldman, Elvis, p. 404.

¹⁸⁵ 'This you can't do': Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 40.

¹⁸⁶ Henry Loeb III was a garrulous: My sketch of Loeb relies on biographical details adapted from 'Profile: Henry Loeb,' a comprehensive, two-part article that ran in Memphis magazine in January and February 1980.

¹⁸⁷ he called them 'nigras': The Memphis Commercial Appeal reporter Joe Sweat, quoted in Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 119.

¹⁸⁸ 'the world's least likely revolutionaries': Wills, 'Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case,' reprinted in The New Journalism, ed. Tom Wolfe, p. 392.

¹⁸⁹ 'This is not New York': Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 117.

¹⁹⁰ Lawson had studied the tenets: For a good biographical sketch of Lawson's earlier days in the civil rights movement, see Halberstam, The Children.

¹⁹¹ 'You are human beings': Lawson, quoted in Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 211.

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ON THE BALCONY

¹⁹² King fell into an argument: Frank, American Death, p. 90.

¹⁹³ 'I don't play with them anymore': Ibid., p. 91.

¹⁹⁴ Abernathy woke up in the dead of night: This anecdote from King and Abernathy's trip to Acapulco is adapted from ibid., pp. 91-92, and also Abernathy's testimony in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 1, pp. 33-34.

¹⁹⁵ 'a team': Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 478.

¹⁹⁶ another letter from the FBI: See Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 708.

¹⁹⁷ 'You see that rock out there?': Frank, American Death, p. 92.

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FACES ARE MY BUSINESS

¹⁹⁸ 'Your brain and nervous system': Maltz, Psycho- Cybernetics, p. 17.

¹⁹⁹ 'The automatic creative mechanism': Ibid., p. 37.

²⁰⁰ 'Don't think before you act': Ibid., p. 169.

²⁰¹ 'When you change a man's face': Ibid., pp. vii-viii.

²⁰² Galt visited a prominent plastic surgeon: My account of Galt's visits to Hadley's office is drawn from the FBI's initial interview with Hadley, conducted on October 2, 1968, out of the Los Angeles field office. See also Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, pp. 119-21; McMillan, Making of an Assassin, pp. 285-86; Frank, American Death, p. 311; and Ray's own version in Tennessee Waltz.

²⁰³ 'I casually told him': Ray, Tennessee Waltz, p. 68.

²⁰⁴ 'The ears': Ibid.

²⁰⁵ 'in a position': Ibid.

²⁰⁶ 'I'm a fairly observant person': Hadley, quoted in Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 121.

²⁰⁷ 'The government is emotionally committed': Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 717.

²⁰⁸ 'I've seen hatred': King's comments were reported in the Los Angeles Times, March 18, 1968, and also reproduced in Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 123.

²⁰⁹ official postal service card: 'Investigation at St. Francis Hotel, Hollywood, California,' compiled by the FBI's Los Angeles field office. Here I relied on the FD-302 report of an FBI interview with the St. Francis Hotel manager, Allan O. Thompson, conducted on April 12, 1968, by Special Agent Thomas G. Mansfield.

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