Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. And the International Hunt for His Assassin

CHAPTER 32

ONE MAN ON THE RUN

⁵⁰⁵ "I thought it was a provocation": Author interview with Clark, Oct. 9, 2008, New York City.

⁵⁰⁶ "What a message that was": Ibid.

⁵⁰⁷ "To see these men": Roger Wilkins interview, Roads to Memphis, an Insignia Films documentary produced for the PBS program American Experience, WGBH, Boston.

⁵⁰⁸ "gracious in a Southern kind of way": Ibid.

⁵⁰⁹ "He was just about out on his feet": Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 325.

⁵¹⁰ "I had not a scintilla": Holloman's testimony in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 4, p. 332.

⁵¹¹ "All of our evidence": Clark's comments from his Memphis press conference were printed in the Memphis Press-Scimitar, April 5, 1968, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 6, 1968.

⁵¹² "In view of Mr. Hoover's": DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 229.

⁵¹³ "courageous and calm": Wilkins, Man's Life, p. 212.

⁵¹⁴ "a bloated and faded version": Ibid.

⁵¹⁵ "We'll do everything we can": DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 229.

⁵¹⁶ "We aren't so much concerned": Andrew Young, in Roads to Memphis.

⁵¹⁷ "Why, it's sitting right out there": FBI interview with Capitol Homes tenants in "Eric Starvo Galt, Bureau File #44-38861" prepared by Special Agent Alan G. Sentinella of the Atlanta field office, filed on April 18, 1968, Hughes Collection. I also adapted material here from "Capitol Homes Stirred Up by That Mustang," Atlanta Constitution, April 22, 1968.