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

CHAPTER 34

HOME SWEET HOME IN TORONTO

⁵⁴⁴ coach reached the Motor City: See James Earl Ray's testimony in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 3, p. 245, as well as his two books, Tennessee Waltz, p. 81, and Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 98, and Ray's own account for his lawyers, "20,000 Words," Hughes Collection.

⁵⁴⁵ "It is better to overreact": Cavanaugh, quoted in Risen, Nation on Fire, p. 141.

⁵⁴⁶ Galt later claimed that he stashed his suitcase: See Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 148.

⁵⁴⁷ Mrs. Szpakowski showed him up to the room: My description of Ray's room on Ossington, and his behavior and actions while staying there as a guest, is largely drawn from O'Neil, "Ray, Sirhan--What Possessed Them?" I also relied on a special report, "King Murder Suspect Held--He Hid 1 Month in Metro," Toronto Daily Star, June 8, 1968, p. 1. Finally, I also relied on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Files, a large body of documents concerning Ray's time in Toronto, Hughes Collection.

⁵⁴⁸ Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte: See Poitier, This Life, pp. 319-20.

⁵⁴⁹ "I didn't want to face Coretta": Georgia Davis Powers, I Shared the Dream, p. 233.

⁵⁵⁰ "Sorry for what?": Ibid., p. 234.

⁵⁵¹ didn't leave his room: See Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 149, and Posner, Killing the Dream, pp. 239-40.

⁵⁵² He was in Baltimore: See Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, p. 606.

⁵⁵³ "This man, in the full prime": Lawson, quoted in Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, pp. 473-74.

⁵⁵⁴ "I noticed how worried": Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 149.