Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin (73 page)

¹⁴⁷
pasted the racist sobriquet:
McMillan,
Making of an Assassin
, p. 285.

¹⁴⁸
"a murky, jukebox-riven hole in the wall":
Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
, p. 99.

¹⁴⁹
"a moody fellow from Alabama":
Ibid., p. 110.

¹⁵⁰
Pat Goodsell:
My account of the incident inside the Rabbit's Foot is mainly drawn from interviews with eyewitnesses in bureau reports, especially the FBI interview with Bo Del Monte, April 22, 1968, MLK Exhibit F-168, in HSCA,
Appendix Reports
, vol. 4, p. 122. Also see Posner,
Killing the Dream
, pp. 215-17, and Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
, pp. 109-12. Ray himself discusses the incident, giving slightly varying versions, in his two books,
Tennessee Waltz
and
Who Killed Martin Luther King?

CHAPTER 9
RED CARNATIONS

¹⁵¹
"Did you get the flowers?":
My account of King's gift of artificial carnations comes from Coretta Scott King's memoir,
My Life with Martin Luther King Jr.
, p. 308.

¹⁵²
"a guilt-ridden man":
Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, p. 588.

¹⁵³
"Tonight I have taken a vow":
Branch,
At Canaan's Edge
, p. 653.

¹⁵⁴
confessed to her:
Ibid., p. 678.

¹⁵⁵
"Each of us is two selves":
Dyson,
I May Not Get There with You
, p. 162.

¹⁵⁶
"That poor man":
William Rutherford, quoted in Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, p. 617.

¹⁵⁷
"Martin had ... an ambivalent attitude":
Dyson,
I May Not Get There with You
, pp. 212-13.

¹⁵⁸
"There was nothing fashionable":
Ibid., p. 210.

¹⁵⁹
"I won't have any money":
Ibid., p. 276.

¹⁶⁰
"We had a sense of fate":
Coretta Scott King,
My Life with Martin Luther King Jr.
, p. 303.

¹⁶¹
"This is what will happen to me":
Dyson,
I May Not Get There with You
, p. 214.

CHAPTER 10
AN ORANGE CHRISTMAS

¹⁶²
Marie Tomaso:
FBI FD-302 interview with Marie Martin (Tomaso), conducted on April 13, 1968, by Special Agents William Slicks and Richard Ross.

¹⁶³
"like he didn't get out too often":
Ibid.

¹⁶⁴
a deeply eccentric man:
My depiction of Charles Stein and his relationship with Galt is primarily drawn from the initial FBI interview with Stein on April 13, 1968, conducted by Special Agents Slicks and Ross out of the Los Angeles field office, as well as a follow-up interview on April 15, 1968. The FBI also interviewed Rita Stein on April 13, 1968 (MURKIN Files, 1051-1175, sec. 9, p. 270), and Stein's mother on April 27, 1968 (MURKIN Files, 3762, sec. 45, p. 43).

¹⁶⁵
"I got a gun":
FBI FD-302 follow-up interview with Marie Martin, April 14, 1968.

¹⁶⁶
Galt had one stipulation:
Galt's requirement that Charles Stein, his sister, and his cousin stop by the Wallace headquarters and sign their names is found in FBI interviews with Rita Stein, Charles Stein, and Marie Martin.

¹⁶⁷
"I figured he was getting paid":
McMillan,
Making of an Assassin
, p. 280.

¹⁶⁸
"What's God got to do with it?":
Frank,
American Death
, p. 165.

¹⁶⁹
They rode all night:
My account of Ray's cross-country journey to New Orleans is largely adapted from "Analysis of James Earl Ray's Trip to New Orleans, December 15-December 21, 1967," House Select Committee on Assassinations,
Appendix Reports
, vol. 13, pp. 268-69.

¹⁷⁰
"Charlie would nudge me":
Ray,
Tennessee Waltz
, p. 65.

¹⁷¹
"It's Galt":
Frank,
American Death
, p. 166.

¹⁷²
"a train whistle":
Posner,
Killing the Dream
, p. 206.

¹⁷³
"You ought to know that Christmas":
Ray, "20,000 Words," quoted in Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
, p. 105.

¹⁷⁴
"I didn't do any gambling":
Ibid.

¹⁷⁵
"a nearly impossible feat":
Lesher,
George Wallace
, p. 400.

¹⁷⁶
"All persons":
William Bradford Huie interview with Koss, in Huie's
He Slew the Dreamer
, pp. 114-16.

¹⁷⁷
"You must complete your course":
Ibid.

¹⁷⁸
"I lost him":
Ibid.

CHAPTER 11
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.

CHAPTER 12
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.

CHAPTER 13
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.

CHAPTER 14
SOMETHING IN THE AIR

²¹⁰
"You are demonstrating":
My account of King's March 18 speech in Memphis is drawn from the Memphis Commercial Appeal; from news footage of the speech captured in the PBS documentary
At the River I Stand;
and from secondary accounts in Honey,
Going Down Jericho Road
, pp. 296-303, and Beifuss,
At the River I Stand
, pp. 193-96.

²¹¹
The Lorraine had long been popular:
My sketch of the Lorraine's history largely comes from the National Civil Rights Museum Web site, clippings in the
Memphis Commercial Appeal
, and Honey,
Going Down Jericho Road
, p. 442.

²¹²
The old part of the lodge:
Wills, "Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case," reprinted in
The New Journalism
, ed. Tom Wolfe, p. 395.

²¹³
"the King-Abernathy suite":
See Abernathy's testimony concerning the Lorraine Motel in House Select Committee on Assassinations,
Appendix Reports
, vol. 1, p. 32.

²¹⁴
"seeming so modern":
Young,
Easy Burden
, p. 460.

²¹⁵
Flamingo Motel:
My account of Galt's stay at the Flamingo Motel comes from the following sources: Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
, pp. 130-31; Posner,
Killing the Dream
, p. 219; McMillan,
Making of an Assassin
, p. 289; Ray,
Tennessee Waltz
, p. 70; and my own visit to the motel in Selma.

²¹⁶
Nature ... had gone on strike:
Honey,
Going Down Jericho Road
, p. 323.

²¹⁷
"We've got a perfect work stoppage":
Beifuss,
At the River I Stand
, p. 205.

²¹⁸
"Well, the Lord has done it again":
Ibid., p. 203.

²¹⁹
"It had never snowed":
Honey,
Going Down Jericho Road
, p. 309.

²²⁰
He located a rooming house:
My description of Galt's Atlanta rooming house is based on several accounts in the
Atlanta Constitution
and on FBI FD-302 reports of interviews with his landlord, Jimmie Garner, conducted on April 14 and 15, 1968, by Special Agents John Ogden and Roger Kaas. See also Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
, p. 132.

²²¹
"Every time I look at Atlanta":
Reed, quoted in Horwitz,
Confederates in the Attic
, p. 283.

²²²
"wouldn't have to answer":
Ray,
Who Killed Martin Luther King?
p. 89.