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

CHAPTER 42

RESURRECTION CITY

⁶⁵⁸ "the greatest nonviolent demonstration": Young, quoted in McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 84.

⁶⁵⁹ "the idea of rebirth": Young, Easy Burden, p. 481.

⁶⁶⁰ Lurleen Wallace's body lay in the rotunda: Carter, Politics of Rage, pp. 320-21.

⁶⁶¹ electric lines, water lines: For plans and preparations for the Poor People's Campaign, see Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, pp. 500-506, and Young, Easy Burden, pp. 484-85.

⁶⁶² "one of the bigger tasks": McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 85.

⁶⁶³ "hurt the president--deeply hurt him": Ramsey Clark, quoted in McKnight, The Last Crusade, p. 110.

⁶⁶⁴ "Mecca for migrants": Ibid., p. 87.

⁶⁶⁵ "one of paranoia": Clark, Crime in America, p. 235.

⁶⁶⁶ The Ray clan had a hundred-year history: For background on the Ray family, I relied largely on McMillan's psychological study, Making of an Assassin, and documents in the McMillan Papers.

⁶⁶⁷ cannibalize their own house: Posner, Killing the Dream, p. 85.

⁶⁶⁸ "I made it to keep my sanity": Life, May 3, 1968.

⁶⁶⁹ "He liked being clean": Newsweek, April 29, 1968.

⁶⁷⁰ William Duncan and James Duffey: FBI interview with Jerry Raynes conducted in Center, Missouri, by Duncan and Duffey on April 17, 1968, FD-302 report, Hughes Collection.

⁶⁷¹ "He was thinking all the time": McMillan interview with Jerry Raynes, March 20, 1969, box 1, McMillan Papers.

⁶⁷² "those people will poison you": Ibid.

⁶⁷³ "All politicians are thieves": Ibid.

⁶⁷⁴ "I don't hate niggers": Ibid.

⁶⁷⁵ "People try to get too much out of life": McMillan interview with Ray's father, Oct. 20, 1969, box 1, McMillan Papers.

⁶⁷⁶ ship bound for Angola: Ray, Tennessee Waltz, pp. 86-87.

⁶⁷⁷ second floor of the Hotel Portugal: My descriptions of Sneyd's hotel and its Lisbon environs are drawn from O'Neil, "Ray, Sirhan--What Possessed Them?" and my own visit to the hotel in July 2007.

⁶⁷⁸ Gentil Soares: In this section I chiefly relied on FBI reports prepared in collaboration with the Portuguese International and State Security Police in Lisbon. These reports include interviews (with customs officials, hotel personnel, nightclub employees, and prostitutes who had contact with Sneyd) conducted in Lisbon on June 8-12, 1968, and distilled in a thirteen-page document titled "Lisbon Files," Hughes Collection.

⁶⁷⁹ Gloria Sausa Ribeiro: Ibid.

⁶⁸⁰ "He did not know any Portuguese": Ibid.