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

CHAPTER 47

THREE WIDOWS

⁷¹⁶ DeLoach was making late Saturday morning pancakes: This passage is primarily drawn from DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 249.

⁷¹⁷ "Every muscle in my body relaxed": Ibid.

⁷¹⁸ "Dammit, man": Ibid., p. 250.

⁷¹⁹ "Fine--prepare the press release": Ibid.

⁷²⁰ At St. Patrick's Cathedral: My account of the scene outside St. Patrick's is largely drawn from the coverage of Robert Kennedy's funeral in the New York Times and the Washington Post, June 9, 1968.

⁷²¹ in good taste to wait: Author interview with Clark, Oct. 9, 2008, New York City. See also Richard Gid Powers, Secrecy and Power, p. 422, and Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, pp. 606-7.

⁷²² "We're happy he's been caught": Williams, quoted in Atlanta Constitution, June 9, 1968, p. 20.

⁷²³ "Some felt this case": Byrd's comments before the U.S. Senate, in MURKIN Files, sec. 57, p. 71.

⁷²⁴ two men held up a bank: For an in-depth discussion of the Alton bank robbery and the possible involvement of the Ray brothers, see House Select Committee on Assassinations (hereafter HSCA), Final Assassinations Report, pp. 342-50.

⁷²⁵ "We are dealing with a man": Hoover, quoted in HSCA, Appendix Reports, vol. 7, p. 7.

⁷²⁶ "one of the strongest": Author interview with Clark.

⁷²⁷ "Some Americans": Ibid.

⁷²⁸ "Nothing Ray did": DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 256.

⁷²⁹ "was a loner": DeLoach testimony in HSCA, Appendix Reports, vol. 7, p. 28.

⁷³⁰ "Truth be told": DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 257.