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

CHAPTER 41

THE TOP TEN

⁶⁴³ "He came with a suit on": Loo, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 10, 1968.

⁶⁴⁴ Sneyd sat at the crowded bar: Posner, Killing the Dream, pp. 244-45; Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 160.

⁶⁴⁵ "He was a dirty little neck": Peterson, quoted in Life, May 3, 1968.

⁶⁴⁶ thumbnail sketch: This information concerning Ray's prison history is primarily drawn from FD-302 reports of the FBI's interviews with Ray's former prison inmates at Jefferson City, in the voluminous compendium document St. Louis Files, Hughes Collection.

⁶⁴⁷ "raise" the numerals: See Shaw, "Are You Sure Who Killed Martin Luther King?"

⁶⁴⁸ agents soon found a brother, John Ray: My description of the FBI's initial contact with John Ray is primarily based on FD-302 reports of interviews in St. Louis Files, Hughes Collection.

⁶⁴⁹ "seal his lips forever": Interview with John Ray conducted on May 2, 1968, by Special Agents Jack Williams and Patrick Bradley, FD-302 report, Hughes Collection.

⁶⁵⁰ "What's all the excitement about?": The FBI's initial interview with John Ray, conducted on April 22, 1968, by Special Agents Harry C. Jun and Robert Hess, FD-302 report, Hughes Collection.

⁶⁵¹ John Ray would boast: See Ray and Barsten, Truth at Last, p. 109.

⁶⁵² "hottest man in the country": Jerry Ray, quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times, May 3, 1968.

⁶⁵³ "He sure didn't have any love": Jerry Ray, quoted in Life, May 3, 1968.

⁶⁵⁴ "A supermarket": Ray, quoted in McKinley, "Interview with James Earl Ray," p. 134.

⁶⁵⁵ found him in the rear of the store: For a good account of the incident at Loblaws, see Frank, American Death, p. 317.

⁶⁵⁶ beheld a rotund man: Ibid.

⁶⁵⁷ "I should have pulled a holdup": Posner, Killing the Dream, p. 249.