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

CHAPTER 48

RING OF STEEL

⁷³¹ "Look, they got me mixed up": This exchange between Sneyd and Eugene is recounted in Frank, American Death, p. 201.

⁷³² "Yes, I'd like you to call my brother": Ibid., p. 203.

⁷³³ Patriotic Legal Fund: Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 181.

⁷³⁴ Alexander Eist: The passages concerning Eist and his time spent with Sneyd in London are drawn from a lengthy interview with Eist conducted at Cambridge, England, on August 4, 1978, by Edward Evans, chief investigator, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 3, pp. 264-84.

⁷³⁵ "He seemed absolutely mad about publicity": Ibid.

⁷³⁶ "There's no way": Ibid.

⁷³⁷ Sneyd was met by four FBI agents: Custody Log, James Earl Ray, July 19, 1968, Aboard USAF Plane C135," MURKIN Files, 4901-4982, sec. 66, pp. 178-81. See also Posner, Killing the Dream, pp. 55-56.

⁷³⁸ At 3:48 a.m.: My depiction of Ray's arrival in Memphis is largely drawn from the Memphis Press-Scimitar, July 19, 1968, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal, July 20, 1968. See also Frank, American Death, pp. 223-34.

⁷³⁹ "They're getting out of the plane": DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 254.

⁷⁴⁰ "ring of steel": Ibid.

⁷⁴¹ Morris had arranged: Frank, American Death, pp. 228-34.