10. Young interview.
11. Branch, At Canaan’s Edge, 184.
12. Lischer, Preacher King, 163.
13. Andrew Young, panel discussion, “Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter,” January 16, 2013, Carter Library and Museum, Atlanta.
14. Frady, Jesse, 224.
15. Ibid., 226.
16. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 430.
17. Candadai Seshachari, “The Re-Making of a Leader: Martin Luther King’s Last Phase,” Weber: The Contemporary West 10, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 1993).
18. Frank, American Death, 39.
19. Ibid., 40–41.
20. Logan interview, 4.
21. Ibid., 1.
22. Ibid., 3–4.
23. SCLC Charter, appendix to FBI memo from J. F. Blandi to W. C. Sullivan, January 4, 1962, Sec. 6, Martin Luther King Jr. FOIA file, 4.
24. King, “I See the Promised Land,” 5.
25. Clayborne Carson, Martin’s Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Memoir (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
26. King, Where Do We Go from Here, 141.
27. Ibid., 173.
28. Martin Luther King Jr., “Showdown for Non-Violence,” Look, April 16, 1968, 24–26.
29. Logan interview, 6.
30. FBI memo from G. C. Moore to William Sullivan, March 11, 1968, citing a report, Martin Luther King, Jr.—A Current Analysis, Martin Luther King Jr. FOIA file.
31. Frank, American Death, 39–40.
32. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 591–92.
33. Belafonte, My Song, 328.
34. Martin Luther King Jr., “The Power of Nonviolence,” speech at the University of California at Berkeley, July 4, 1957, Journal of Christian Encounter/Intercollegian 75, no. 8 (1957), 8–9, in Woodruff Library.
CHAPTER 13: THE STALKER
King, Why We Can’t Wait.
1. Sides, Hellhound on His Trail, 305.
2. Frank, An American Death, 175.
3. William Bradford Huie, He Slew the Dreamer: My Search for the Truth About James Earl Ray and the Murder of Martin Luther King (Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, 1997), 26.
4. Ibid.
5. James Earl Ray, HSCA staff interview, Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, Petros, Tennessee, March 22, 1977, HSCA, vol. 9, 17.
6. Posner, Killing the Dream, 85–86.
7. Frank, An American Death, 176.
8. Memo from Springfield, Illinois, FBI office to J. Edgar Hoover, August 1, 1969, HSCA Exhibit F-622, vol. 7, 422.
9. Posner, Killing the Dream, 108.
10. Ibid., 78.
11. Ibid., 102.
12. Ibid., 90–94.
13. George McMillan, The Making of an Assassin: The Life of James Earl Ray (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976), 111–12.
14. Posner, Killing the Dream, 98–100.
15. Ibid., 104–5.
16. Percy Foreman, testimony, April 4, 1974, HSCA, vol. 5, 335.
17. Posner, Killing the Dream, 109–10.
18. Ibid., 123–24.
19. Robert Blakey statement, November 10, 1978, HSCA, vol. 4, 195.
20. McMillan, Making of an Assassin, 228–29.
21. James Earl Ray testimony, March 28, 1977, HSCA, vol. 9, 262–63.
22. Summary of prosecutor’s opening argument, State of Tennessee v. James Earl Ray, Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, 3/10/69, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, 4.
23. Staff report, HSCA, based on interview with Manuela Aguirre Medrano, November 1, 1978, HSCA, vol. 4, 158–59.
24. Ibid., 111–13.
25. Staff report, HSCA, November 10, 1978, vol. 4, 112–24, 158–59.
26. Percy Foreman testimony, HSCA, vol. 5, 95.
27. Staff report, HSCA, vol. 4, 122.
28. Evidence summary by US Representative Walter Fauntroy, November 9, 1978, HSCA, vol. 4, 5–6.
29. Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, 136.
30. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 408.
31. Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, 138.
32. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 408.
CHAPTER 14: SUMMONING DR. KING
Martin Luther King Jr., “All Labor Has Dignity,” ed. Michael K. Honey (Boston: Beacon Press, 2011).
1. Cody interview.
2. James Lawson, interview transcript, July 8, 1970, tape 244, series X, 60, SSAP; Tines report, 42.
3. Warren interview.
4. Rogers interview.
5. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 362.
6. Abernathy, Partners to History, 147.
7. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 47.
8. Ibid., 185.
9. Ibid., 47.
10. Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (New York: Ballantine, 1958), 204.
11. King, Where Do We Go from Here, 149.
12. Edward E. Redditt, field report, to Memphis Police Dept., April 4, 1968, Exhibit F-299, HSCA, vol. 4, 205–7.
13. Arkin, Civil Disorders, 42.
14. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 359–60.
15. Ibid., 358.
16. Interview by the Commercial Appeal, posted online April 1, 2008.
17. Ibid., 431.
18. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 430–31.
19. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 363.
20. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 432.
21. King, “I See the Promised Land,” 279.
22. Lewis, King, 51.
23. Belafonte, My Song, 247.
24. Andrew Young and Kabir Sehgal, Walk in My Shoes: Conversations Between a Civil Rights Legend and His Godson on the Journey Ahead (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 154.
25. Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963–65 (New York: Touchstone, 1998), 541.
26. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 432.
27. Clayborne Carson, e-mail to author, May 17, 2015.
28. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 433.
29. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 417.
CHAPTER 15: FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP
“Palm Sunday Sermon on Mohandas K. Gandhi, Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church,” March 22, 1959, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, https://swap.stanford.edu/20141218225655/ http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/primarydocuments/Vol5/22Mar1959_PalmSundaySermononMohandasK.Gandhi,DeliveredAtDext.pdf.
1. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 364.
2. King, “I See the Promised Land,” 279.
3. Kyles interview.
4. King, Stride Toward Freedom, 59.
5. King, “I See the Promised Land,” 279.
6. Martin Luther King Jr., “Our God Is Marching On,” Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965, in Washington, Testament of Hope, 227.
7. Lischer, Preacher King, 232.
8. King, Parting the Waters, 65–66.
9. Notebook of Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Collection, Woodruff Library.
10. King, “I See the Promised Land,” 286.
11. Schulke and McPhee, King Remembered, 59–60.
12. Frank, An American Death, 89.
13. Martin Luther King Jr., “The Drum Major Instinct,” February 4, 1968, in Washington, Testament of Hope, 266–67.
14. King, My Life with Martin Luther King, 284.
15. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 452.
16. King, My Life with Martin Luther King, 292.
17. Cody interview.
18. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 368.
19. “Power, Prescience of King’s ‘Mountaintop’ Speech,” Weekend Edition, National Public Radio, January 14, 2007, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6854154.
20. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 433.
21. Frady, Jesse, 226.
22. Jackson, Commercial Appeal video.
23. Kyles interview.
24. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 368.
CHAPTER 16: LONG NIGHT
Georgia Davis Powers, I Shared the Dream: The Pride, Passion and Politics of the First Black Woman Senator from Kentucky (Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press, 1995), 225–27, 173.
1. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 427.
2. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down,
