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

CHAPTER 44

PLAGUES

⁶⁸⁵ declared open for business: My passage on the Poor People's encampment on the Mall is primarily drawn from daily coverage in the Washington Post throughout May and June 1968, as well as from McKnight, Last Crusade, pp. 107-39; Risen, Nation on Fire, pp. 235-36; Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, pp. 494-539; and Young, Easy Burden, pp. 477-92.

⁶⁸⁶ "plague after plague": Abernathy, quoted in McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 130.

⁶⁸⁷ "Resurrection City was flawed": Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, pp. 503, 516.

⁶⁸⁸ "megalomania": McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 116.

⁶⁸⁹ "just another fish-fry": Ibid., p. 126.

⁶⁹⁰ "Ralph was frustrated": Young, Easy Burden, p. 490.

⁶⁹¹ "The gray skies poured water": Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 517.

⁶⁹² "document such things as immorality": Hoover memo quoted in McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 128.

⁶⁹³ "some grotesque soap opera": McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 134.

⁶⁹⁴ "almost a perfect failure": Ibid., p. 107.

⁶⁹⁵ "Lincoln smiled kindly": Clark, Crime in America, p. 236.