Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin (74 page)

²²³
"this place was just
infested
with hippies":
FD-302 report of the Ogden and Kaas interviews with Garner, the FBI Atlanta field office.

²²⁴
looked "like a preacher":
Blair,
Strange Case of James Earl Ray
, p. 139.

²²⁵
"to bone up":
Ray,
Who Killed Martin Luther King?
p. 90.

²²⁶
One of his circles
A description of the markings found on Ray's Atlanta map are in the FBI summary report of Ray chronology, MURKIN Files, 4143, sec. 52, p. 34. See also Frank,
American Death
, p. 172, and Posner,
Killing the Dream
, p. 220.

CHAPTER 15
"MARTIN LUTHER KING IS FINISHED"

²²⁷
"losing hold" of his faculties:
Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, p. 609.

²²⁸
"just wrong":
McKnight,
Last Crusade
, p. 66.

²²⁹
"All the police would have to do":
Beifuss,
At the River I Stand
, p. 220.

²³⁰
"Make the crowds stop pushing!":
Memphis Press-Scimitar
, March 29, 1968, p. 15.

²³¹
"If you were black":
Thomas, quoted in Bond and Sherman,
Memphis in Black and White
, p. 123.

²³²
"Turn around!":
Honey,
Going Down Jericho Road
, p. 349.

²³³
"Take Dr. King out of the way":
Beifuss,
At the River I Stand
, p. 225.

²³⁴
"never had trouble":
Ibid., p. 227.

²³⁵
"the march was abandoned":
Honey,
Going Down Jericho Road
, p. 366.

²³⁶
"We have a war":
Holloman, quoted in the
Memphis Commercial Appeal
, March 29, 1968.

²³⁷
"Until then, King really didn't have any idea":
Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, p. 611.

²³⁸
"Get your ass out of Memphis":
Honey,
Going Down Jericho Road
, p. 367.

²³⁹
"'Martin Luther King is dead'":
Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, p. 614.

²⁴⁰
"Ralph, we live in a sick nation":
Abernathy,
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
, p. 420. Also see Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, p. 612, and Taylor Branch,
At Canaan's Edge
, p. 734.

CHAPTER 16
THE GAMEMASTER

²⁴¹
He made his way over to a salesman:
My account of Galt's visit to the Long-Lewis hardware store is based on the initial FBI interview with the salesclerk Mike Kopp, April 8, 1968, FBI, MURKIN Files, 2323, sec. 21, pp. 143-44.

²⁴²
"Mr. Sullivan requested":
Halter, quoted in Garrow,
The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr.
, p. 196.

²⁴³
"Did Martin Luther King do anything":
Sullivan to Halter, memorandum, March 28, 1968, FBI files on the Memphis sanitation strike, doc. 167.

²⁴⁴
"The fine Hotel Lorraine":
G. C. Moore to Sullivan, blind memorandum, March 29, 1968, quoted in Friedly and Gallen,
Martin Luther King Jr.
, pp. 575-76.

²⁴⁵
"could end in great violence":
Sullivan to DeLoach, memorandum, March 20, 1968, quoted in ibid., p. 570.

²⁴⁶
"Chicken a la King":
Memphis Commercial Appeal
, March 31, 1968.

²⁴⁷
"The headline-hunting high priest":
Dallas Morning News
article reprinted in the
Memphis Commercial Appeal
, April 2, 1968, p. 6.

²⁴⁸
"A Judas goat":
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
article cited in Honey,
Going Down Jericho Road
, p. 364.

²⁴⁹
"a man who gets other people into trouble":
Senator Robert Byrd news footage reproduced in the Insignia Films documentary
Roads to Memphis
, produced for the PBS program
American Experience
, WGBH, Boston.

²⁵⁰
"a powerful embarrassment":
New York Times
, March 31, 1968, p. 46.

²⁵¹
"like striking a match":
Memphis Commercial Appeal
, March 30, 1968, p. 1.

²⁵²
took a shower and pulled on some clothes ... just buttoning his shirt:
In Beifuss,
At the River I Stand
, p. 253, the Invader Calvin Taylor is quoted as saying, "Dr. King came in. He had gotten out of the shower." In
At Canaan's Edge
, p. 737, Branch says, "King emerged just then buttoning his shirt."

²⁵³
warned him of a plot:
Honey,
Going Down Jericho Road
, p. 373.

²⁵⁴
"What can I do to have a peaceful march?":
My description of the conversation in the Rivermont suite between King and the young Invaders is primarily drawn from oral histories recorded in Beifuss,
At the River I Stand
, p. 254.

²⁵⁵
"He wasn't raising his voice":
Ibid.

²⁵⁶
large sporting goods store:
My depiction of Galt's visit to the Aeromarine sporting goods store is primarily drawn from the initial FBI interviews conducted on April 5, 1968, by Special Agent Neil Shanahan and other agents working out of the Birmingham field office. Among those interviewed were the salesclerks U. L. Baker and Don Wood, as well as the Aeromarine customer John DeShazo.

²⁵⁷
"I did
not
run away":
King's quotation from the Rivermont press conference are taken from newsreels housed in the Sanitation Strike Collection, Memphis Multi-Media Archival Project, March 29, 1968, reels 35-37.

²⁵⁸
"It was perhaps his finest performance":
Abernathy,
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
, p. 422.

²⁵⁹
"must be called":
Lee, quoted in Coretta Scott King,
My Life with Martin Luther King Jr.
, p. 311.

²⁶⁰
"Can you get me out of Memphis?":
Abernathy,
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
, p. 422.

²⁶¹
dropped King off at the Butler Street YMCA:
Ibid.

²⁶²
somber dinner at the Abernathy house:
The dinner is described in detail in Abernathy,
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
, pp. 423-24. Also in Raines's interview with Abernathy in
My Soul Is Rested
, pp. 466-67. See also Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, p. 615, and Branch,
At Canaan's Edge
, p. 741.

²⁶³
Galt returned to Aeromarine:
My description of Galt's second trip to Aeromarine is adapted from the aforementioned FBI interviews, conducted in Birmingham on April 5, 1968, with store employees.

²⁶⁴
"The pump-action aids":
Remington company literature describing the Gamemaster 760's attributes is quoted in Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
, p. 138.

²⁶⁵
"wide enough field of view":
Specifications and special features of the Redfield scope come from company literature reproduced in McMillan,
Making of an Assassin
, pp. 292-93.

CHAPTER 17
TO LIVE OR DIE IN MEMPHIS

²⁶⁶
"was a set up":
James Orange, quoted in Honey,
Going Down Jericho Road
, p. 381.

²⁶⁷
"We are in serious trouble":
Branch,
At Canaan's Edge
, p. 742.

²⁶⁸
"Memphis is the Washington campaign in miniature":
Ibid.

²⁶⁹
"You guys come up":
Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, p. 616.

²⁷⁰
"Ralph, give me my car keys":
My description of the argument and King's abrupt exit from the SCLC meeting primarily derives from Abernathy,
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
, pp. 425-27.

²⁷¹
"Everything's
not
going to be all right":
Ibid. See also Branch,
At Canaan's Edge
, p. 743.

²⁷²
"The leader is confused":
Abernathy,
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
, p. 426.

²⁷³
"We had never seen Martin":
Young,
Easy Burden
, p. 459.

²⁷⁴
war whoops and hallelujahs:
Branch,
At Canaan's Edge
, p. 744.

²⁷⁵
one of his mistresses:
Ibid. See also Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, p. 617.

²⁷⁶
"one of the most unjust wars":
My depiction of King's sermon comes from the
Washington Post
, April 1, 1968. See also Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, p. 618; Branch,
At Canaan's Edge
, p. 745; and Kotz,
Judgment Days
, p. 409.

²⁷⁷
"I see an alternative":
Kotz,
Judgment Days
, p. 409.

²⁷⁸
"I would be glad":
Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, p. 618.

²⁷⁹
"I felt that I was being chased":
Goodwin,
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
, p. 343.

²⁸⁰
"With the world's hopes":
Kotz,
Judgment Days
, p. 411.

²⁸¹
"His air was that of a prisoner let free":
Dallek,
Flawed Giant
, pp. 529-30.

²⁸²
"I never felt so right":
Branch,
At Canaan's Edge
, p. 749.

CHAPTER 18
TARGET PRACTICE AT SHILOH

²⁸³
"You must have a goal":
Maltz,
Psycho-Cybernetics
, p. 37.

²⁸⁴
dropped off a bundle of dirty clothes:
FBI interview with Annie Estelle Peters, manager of the Piedmont Laundry, conducted on April 16, 1968, by Special Agents Charles Rose and Robert Kane. The Piedmont Laundry's ledger and receipts were taken into evidence.

²⁸⁵
hide his snub-nosed .38 revolver:
Ray claimed he buried the revolver in the rooming house basement, which had a dirt floor. Ray,
Who Killed Martin Luther King?
p. 91.

²⁸⁶
found a secluded place:
Ray told his first lawyers, as well as the journalist William Bradford Huie, that he pulled off the road near Corinth, Mississippi, and test-fired the new rifle. See Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
, p. 140, and McMillan,
Making of an Assassin
, pp. 297-98. Years later, before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Ray changed his story and said that although he indeed drove through Corinth, Mississippi, he never test-fired the rifle.

²⁸⁷
"smoking jungle":
Bierce, quoted in Horwitz,
Confederates in the Attic
, pp. 166, 170.

CHAPTER 19
TORNADO WARNINGS

²⁸⁸
"It was an ordinary goodbye":
Coretta Scott King,
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.
, p. 314.

²⁸⁹
"We have a celebrity":
Abernathy,
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
, p. 428.

²⁹⁰
"Nobody's going to kill you":
Ibid.

²⁹¹
"We have not fully made up our minds":
Honey,
Going Down Jericho Road
, p. 403.

²⁹²
"If I were a man":
Ibid., p. 402.

²⁹³
"We are fearful":
Memphis Commercial Appeal
, April 4, 1968, p. 1.

²⁹⁴
"Martin fell silent":
Abernathy,
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
, p. 429.

²⁹⁵
"Well, we are not going to be stopped":
Beifuss,
At the River I Stand
, p. 269.

²⁹⁶
Lucius Burch:
For a good overview of Burch's multifaceted career, see the fine anthology
Lucius: Writings of Lucius Burch
.

²⁹⁷
"Dr. King":
Beifuss,
At the River I Stand
, p. 271.

²⁹⁸
"I had no second thoughts":
Ibid., p. 272.

²⁹⁹
holding up binoculars:
Memphis Police Department official statements, "Edward E. Redditt, MC, 37, Detective with the Memphis Police Department" and "Ptm. W. B. Richmond, MC, 27, Inspectional Bureau," box 5, Posner Papers, Gotlieb Center.