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

CHAPTER 39

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

⁶²⁵ found the laundry service: FBI interview with Estelle Peters conducted on April 16, 1968, by Special Agents Charles Rose and Robert Kane, FD-302 report, Hughes Collection.

⁶²⁶ fingerprint raised from a map: "Scientific Report on the Subject of Analysis of Fingerprint Evidence Related to the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by the Fingerprint Panel," House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 13, pp. 109-21.

⁶²⁷ "Our net was beginning to close": DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, pp. 242, 247.

⁶²⁸ "All I can say": See Frank, American Death, p. 124.

⁶²⁹ FBI announced that it was issuing a warrant: A copy of the warrant, with accompanying shots of Galt/Ray adapted from his bartending school photo, is in the Hughes Collection.

⁶³⁰ jaywalked across a busy street: Ray discusses the jaywalking incident in both of his books, Tennessee Waltz, p. 84, and Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 99. See also Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 158.

⁶³¹ shredded his driver's license: Ray, Tennessee Waltz, p. 84.