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

CHAPTER 37

THE MURKIN FILES

⁵⁸⁷ "It was a huge operation": Author interview with Clark, Oct. 8, 2009, New York City.

⁵⁸⁸ "We are continuing": Memo signed by J. Edgar Hoover, MURKIN Files, sec. 2, which the author viewed on microfilm at Stanford University.

⁵⁸⁹ "A racist": DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 233.

⁵⁹⁰ "Tips" arrived from all points of the compass: All these various leads are taken from the opening weeks of the manhunt and are in the MURKIN Files, sec. 2.

⁵⁹¹ "Shoot the son-of-a-bitch": See Frank, American Death, p. 143.

⁵⁹² woman in Memphis called Holloman's office: From a Memphis police report investigating the footage taken by WMC-TV Channel 5, the NBC affiliate in Memphis, dated April 10, 1968, box 5, Posner Papers, Gotlieb Center.

⁵⁹³ call came from the Mexican consulate: Memphis Press-Scimitar, April 19, 1968.

⁵⁹⁴ white male American tourist: Frank, American Death, p. 188.

⁵⁹⁵ Mrs. John Riley had been thinking: This passage is drawn largely from "Capitol Homes Stirred Up by That Mustang," Atlanta Constitution, April 22, 1968.

⁵⁹⁶ president was signing into law: See Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 421, and Dallek, Flawed Giant, p. 534.

⁵⁹⁷ Brown's Theatrical Supply Company: See Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 154.

⁵⁹⁸ Arcade Photo Studio: Ibid., p. 152.

⁵⁹⁹ convoy of bureau sedans: Here I relied on a compilation document of FBI interviews with tenants at the housing project titled, "Capitol Homes Interviews," Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰⁰ "There must have been a billion of 'em": "Capitol Homes Stirred Up by That Mustang."

⁶⁰¹ Every inch of the impounded car: This passage is largely drawn from the FBI analysis of the Mustang, in "Report of the FBI Laboratory, April 19, #44-38861," Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰² Theodore A'Hearn: FD-302 report of A'Hearn's April 11, 1968, interviews at Cort Fox Ford in the compendium document "Los Angeles Investigations," Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰³ Thomas Mansfield: FD-302 report of Agent Mansfield's April 12, 1968, interviews at the St. Francis Hotel, in "Los Angeles Investigations," Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰⁴ Lloyd Johnson and Francis Kahl: FD-302 report from the interview conducted by Johnson and Kahl with Pinela at Home Service Laundry, in "Los Angeles Investigations," Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰⁵ George Aiken: FD-302 report from interviews conducted at the National Dance Studio by Aiken, in "Los Angeles Investigations," Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰⁶ "Yes, Eric Galt was a student here": FD-302 report from interviews conducted at the International School of Bartending by A'Hearn and Raysa, in "Los Angeles Investigations," Hughes Collection.

⁶⁰⁷ Donald Jacobs: Ibid.