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

CHAPTER 38

CANADA BELIEVES YOU

⁶⁰⁸ disguised themselves as hippies: Frank, American Death, p. 172.

⁶⁰⁹ "Take the door off its hinges": Ibid.

⁶¹⁰ a few telltale artifacts: FD-302 report filed on April 17, 1968, by the FBI agents Harry Lee, John Sullivan, Roger Kaas, and John Ogden, which enumerates and describes all the items found inside Galt's room.

⁶¹¹ William John Slicks and Richard Ross: This passage is drawn from the FBI's FD-302 report of the April 13, 1968, interview conducted with Stein by Slicks and Ross, in "Los Angeles Investigations," Hughes Collection.

⁶¹² Tomaso had sharp recollections: FD-302 report of the April 13, 1968, interview conducted with Tomaso (a.k.a. Marie Martin) by Slicks and Ross, in "Los Angeles Investigations," Hughes Collection.

⁶¹³ handwritten sign: McMillan, Making of an Assassin, p. 285.

⁶¹⁴ John Ogden and Roger Kaas: FD-302 report of April 14 and 15, 1968, interviews conducted with Garner by Ogden and Kaas, Hughes Collection.

⁶¹⁵ "we were numb": Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 348.

⁶¹⁶ Abe Plough: See Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 489.

⁶¹⁷ "After Dr. King was killed": Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 345.

⁶¹⁸ "'I am a man'--they meant it": Reynolds, quoted in Beifuss, At the River I Stand, pp. 346-47.

⁶¹⁹ "We have been aggrieved": Memphis Press-Scimitar, April 17, 1968, p. 1.

⁶²⁰ "We won": Newsweek, April 29, 1968, p. 22.

⁶²¹ Sun Fung Loo: The FBI's summary of Ray's activities while in Canada, in the MURKIN Files, 4442-4500, sec. 57, p. 61.

⁶²² wrote to the registrar of births: A copy of Galt's request for Ramon Sneyd's birth certificate is in the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 5, p. 15.

⁶²³ Lillian Spencer: This passage concerning Spencer at the Kennedy Travel Bureau is drawn from "King Murder Suspect Held--He Hid 1 Month in Metro," Toronto Daily Star, June 8, 1968, p. 1. I also relied on RCMP interviews with Spencer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Files, Hughes Collection.

⁶²⁴ "I thought it was an odd name": Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 155.