At Canaan's Edge (167 page)

On their way out: McKnight,
Crusade,
pp. 65–66; Beifuss,
River,
pp. 253–55.

King told assembled reporters: Abernathy,
Walls,
pp. 421–22; Hearings, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Vol. 6, p. 17; AC, March 30, 1968, p. 1; MCA, March 30, 1968, p. 1; NYT, March 30, 1968, p. 31; videotape outtakes, March 29, 1968, MVC.

“Nonviolence can be as contagious”: NBC,
Huntley-Brinkley Report,
March 29, 1968, VTR 236-A, LBJ.

“Martin Luther King is dead”: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between MLK and Stanley Levison, 3:30
P.M.
, March 28, 1968, FLNY-9-1624a; New York LHM dated April 1, 1968, FK-3291.

like James Lawson: James Lawson oral history, Sept. 23, 1969, MVC.

Jerry Wurf escorted him to the airport: Goulden,
Wurf,
pp. 154, 175–76; Beifuss,
River,
pp. 256–59.

“We never had any problem”: Beifuss,
River,
p. 227.

marchers stepped gingerly: MCA, March 30, 1968, p. 1; news script, WMC-TV Channel Five, March 29, 1968, MVC.

“The young people here”: “Dr. King and the Militants,”
Southern Patriot,
April 1968, p. 1.

“I think my answer”: NBC,
Huntley-Brinkley Report,
March 29, 1968, VTR 236-A, LBJ.

Butler Street YMCA: Garrow,
Bearing,
p. 615.

“If I get some fish”: Juanita Abernathy interview on
Citizen King,
a Roja Production for
The American Experience,
PBS, 2004; Hearings, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Vol. 1, pp. 17–18; Abernathy,
Walls,
pp. 422–24; Raines,
Soul,
pp. 519–20.

third-floor conference room at Ebenezer: Account of the meeting on March 30, 1968, drawn from Garrow,
Bearing,
pp. 616–17; Young,
Burden,
pp. 457–59; Frady,
Jesse,
pp. 224–25; Kotz,
Judgment,
pp. 406–7; Fairclough,
Redeem,
p. 378; Abernathy,
Walls,
pp. 424–27; Raines,
Soul,
pp. 520–21; Beifuss,
River,
pp. 255–56; Reynolds,
Jesse Jackson,
p. 85; Frank,
American Death,
p. 72; Jesse Epps oral history, pp. 37–38, MVC; int. Hosea Williams, Oct. 29, 1991; int. William Rutherford, Dec. 7, 2004; int. Bernard Lafayette, May 28, 1990, March 22, 2005, Aug. 10, 2005.

“He did something I've never”: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between Stanley Levison and Adele Kanter, 1:52
P.M.
, April 1, 1968, FLNY-9-1627a.

Stanley Levison criticized King: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between Stanley Levison and Alice Loewi, 4:03
P.M.
, March 31, 1968, FLNY-9-1626a.

“He said very quietly”: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between Stanley Levison and Adele Kanter, 1:52
P.M.
, April 1, 1968, FLNY-9-1627a.

the battered reconciliation: Tom Offenburger staff memo, April 1, 1968, A/KP34f15.

“How do you keep the looters out?”: NYT, March 30, 1968, p. 30.

“emotional demonstrations in this time”: Ibid., p. 32.

“Let us have a march”: WP, April 23, 1968, p. 18.

“ran like a scared rabbit”: Beifuss,
River,
p. 249.

“King's Credibility Gap”: MCA, March 30, 1968, p. 6.

“Chicken a la King”: MCA, March 31, 1968, p. 8; Beifuss,
River,
p. 248.

“The Real Martin Luther King”:
St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
March 30–31, 1968, p. 2-C.

grotesque zombie labeled King: Ibid.

Congressional investigators would discover: Stokes,
Report,
pp. 575–80; “FBI Tried to Hide Ties with Globe-Democrat,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Dec. 1, 1977, p. 1; “Aides Deny King Moved to Motel Because of FBI,”
Louisville Courier-Journal,
Jan. 2, 1976, p. 3.

Three thousand people filled: NYT, April 1, 1968, p. 20; Blackside, Inc.,
Eyes on the Prize II—America at the Racial Crossroads, 1965 to 1985,
Vol. IV, “The Promised Land (1967–68)”.

“Behold I make all things new”: Revelation 21:5. King mistakenly said his text came from the 16th chapter.

“I was in Marks, Mississippi”: MLK sermon listed as “Sleeping Through a Revolution,” March 31, 1968, A/KS; Washington, ed.,
Testament,
pp. 268–78; “Martin Luther King at National Cathedral, March 31, 1968,” Section 24, FHOC; Carson and Holloran, eds.
Knock,
p. 205ff.

“Oh, we're always willing”: NYT, April 1, 1968, p. 20.

“King Threatens Demonstration”: AC, April 1, 1968, p. 2.

“I'm committed to non-violence absolutely”: MLK, “Showdown for Non-Violence,”
Look,
April 16, 1968, pp. 23–25.

greet their daughter Lynda: PDD, March 31, 1968, LBJ; Johnson,
Diary,
pp. 642–43; int. Lynda Johnson Robb, June 18, 1991; Johnson,
Vantage,
pp. 431–37.

“Daddy, I want to ask you”: NYT, July 9, 1968, p. 25.

“No, we have heard nothing from Hanoi”: Busby,
Thirty-first,
pp. 8–9, 181–90.

“Don't let a soul know”: Ibid., pp. 191–96.

thunderstruck Vice President: Ibid., pp. 205–6; Humphrey,
Education,
pp. 358–59.

Johnson met the four top managers: Miller,
Lyndon,
p. 619.

bottom in his Gallup approval: NYT, March 31, 1968, p. 50.

“Chuck will hear this”: Johnson,
Diary,
p. 644; Busby,
Thirty-first,
pp. 209–13.

“I'm very sorry, Mr. President”: McPherson,
Political,
pp. 438–39.

Less than an hour before: PDD, March 31, 1968, p. 8, LBJ; FRUS, Vol. 6, pp. 494–95.

“Nothing in my career”: Clifford,
Counsel,
pp. 522–24.

“He said that the decision”: Busby,
Thirty-first,
pp. 223–25.

“Finally, my fellow Americans”: NYT, April 1, 1968, pp. 1, 26.

“Nobly done, darling”: Miller,
Lyndon,
p. 624; “Move Called ‘Completely Irrevocable,'” NYT, April 1, 1968, p. 28.

“Can I go to England now?”: PDD, March 31, 1968, p. 13, LBJ.

lifted the whole country into euphoria: Busby,
Thirty-first,
pp. 226–29; Califano,
Triumph,
pp. 270–72; Dallek,
Flawed,
p. 530.

record for most shares traded: “'29 Mark Broken/ 17.73 Million Shares Are Sold Day After Johnson Peace Bid,” NYT, April 2, 1968, p. 1.

new mark lasted only two days: “Stocks Spurred to Sales Record,” NYT, April 4, 1968, p. 1.

“This is a defeat”: FRUS, Vol. 6, pp. 510–11; NYT, April 4, 1968, p. 16.

“Your speech was magnificent”: Charles S. Murphy notes of LBJ, RFK, Sorensen meeting, 10:07–11:41
A.M.
, April 3, 1968, Diary Back-up, Box 94, LBJ; Walt Rostow notes in same file.

received only twelve minutes earlier: LBJ received the Reuters bulletin at 9:55
A.M
. (“Hanoi is ready to talk”), and he entered the Cabinet Room to begin the Kennedy meeting at 10:07. PDD, April 3, 1968, p. 2, LBJ.

White Mountain Apaches: NYT, March 31, 1968, p. 59.

Humphrey, in fact: Humphrey,
Education,
pp. 360–61; Walt Rostow notes of LBJ, HHH meeting, 12:29–1:29
P.M.
, April 3, 1968, Diary Back-up, Box 94, LBJ; Tom Johnson notes, in FRUS, Vol. 6, pp. 523–25.

“and you wouldn't have liked it either”: Sorensen notes, in Middleton,
LBJ,
pp. 224–25.

“You are a brave and dedicated man”: Ibid.; Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 933–34; Dallek,
Flawed,
pp. 531–32; Shesol,
Contempt,
pp. 441–44.

single-race sports conferences: “U.S. Court Rules Out Alabama Race Curb in School Athletics,” NYT, April 2, 1968, p. 14.

Missouri Athletic Club:
St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
March 30–31, 1968, p. 3. This edition of the
Globe-Democrat
featured the editorial cartoon of King as trigger man for the March 28 Memphis riot.

percentage of black recruits: “Negro Increase in Guard Sought,” NYT, March 31, 1968, p. 1.

odd mix in weekly American casualties: NYT, April 5, 1968, p. 15.

Eastern Air Lines Flight 381: Stokes,
Report,
p. 363; McKnight,
Crusade,
pp. 66–67; Garrow,
Bearing,
p. 619; Washington, ed.,
Testament,
p. 286.

J. Edgar Hoover's spiteful edict: Branch,
Parting,
p. 692; Branch,
Pillar,
pp. 195–98, 408–9.

“Your airline brought Martin Luther King”: McKnight,
Crusade,
pp. 68–69.

James Harrison endured: Garrow,
FBI and King,
p. 198; McKnight,
Crusade,
p. 71; U.S. Department of Justice, Report of the Department of Justice Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr. Security and Assassination Investigations, p. 139.

The Memphis police force: Beifuss,
River,
pp. 121–23; McKnight,
Crusade,
pp. 46–47.

“Had one in our meetin'”: Honey,
Black Workers,
p. 306.

William Rutherford made note: Int. William Rutherford, Dec. 7, 2004.

Lawson himself told police inspector Don Smith: Stokes,
Report,
pp. 546–52; U.S. Department of Justice, Report of the Department of Justice Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr. Security and Assassination Investigations, pp. 26–27.

Robert Lewis stepped from a hearse: Frank,
American Death,
pp. 43–44.

Detective Ed Redditt: Pepper,
Orders,
pp. 249–51.

“We are not going to be stopped”: MCA, April 4, 1968, p. 1.

Redditt by then had selected: Frank,
American Death,
pp. 45–47.

Marrell McCullough: Hearings, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Vol. 6, p. 413ff; McKnight,
Crusade,
p. 48; Melanson,
Murkin,
pp. 74–78.

“would have given their eye teeth”: McKnight,
Crusade,
p. 48.

“Liberation School”: U.S. Department of Justice, Report of the Department of Justice Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr. Security and Assassination Investigations, p. 20.

King's top aides acknowledged: Garrow,
Bearing,
pp. 619–20; Hearings, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Vol. 6, p. 512; Fairclough,
Redeem,
p. 380; int. Bernard Lafayette, Aug. 10, 2005; Garrow,
FBI and King,
p. 199.

“How many people did you kill”: Young,
Burden,
p. 460.

“About nine male coloreds”: Frank,
American Death,
p. 47.

security detail left the motel: Stokes,
Report,
pp. 547–50.

delayed another week: NYT, April 4, 1968, p. 30.

Redditt had scarcely entered the Mason Temple: U.S. Department of Justice, Report of the Department of Justice Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr. Security and Assassination Investigations, pp. 29–30.

orders to report elsewhere in the morning: Stokes,
Report,
pp. 555–57; McKnight,
Crusade,
p. 76; Beifuss,
River,
p. 288.

seven o'clock twister: “Tornado Strikes Near Millington/ At Least 30 Hurt,” MCA, April 4, 1968, p. 1; Beifuss,
River,
pp. 276–77.

“I want you to go speak”: Abernathy,
Walls,
pp. 430–32; Raines,
Soul,
p. 522; Stein,
Journey,
pp. 253–54; Garrow,
Bearing,
p. 620; Young,
Burden,
p. 461; Frank,
American Death,
pp. 48–49; Hearings, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Vol. 1, p. 18.