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

CHAPTER 43

A RETIREMENT PLAN

⁶⁸¹ "What appealed to Jimmy about Hitler": George McMillan interview with Jerry Ray on April 1, 1972, box 5, McMillan Papers.

⁶⁸² "was unreasonable in his hatred": Rife, quoted in McMillan, Making of an Assassin, p. 147.

⁶⁸³ "retirement plan": This passage concerning Curtis is primarily drawn from "Raymond Curtis Interviews, Whitfield County Jail, Dalton, Georgia," box 1, McMillan Papers. See also McMillan, Making of an Assassin, pp. 175-85; Frank, American Death, p. 183; and Posner, Killing the Dream, p. 136.

⁶⁸⁴ John Sutherland: The passage here on Sutherland and the alleged fifty-thousand-dollar bounty to kill King is chiefly drawn from "Evidence of a Conspiracy in St. Louis," House Select Committee on Assassinations (hereafter HSCA), Final Assassinations Report, pp. 359-75. I also relied on the testimony of Russell Byers in HSCA, Appendix Reports, pp. 177-310.