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

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⁷⁴² two hundred inmates: My reenactment of Ray's prison escape is drawn primarily from newspaper and magazine accounts from June 1977--especially the Atlanta Constitution, the New York Times, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Nashville Tennessean, and the Washington Post. In-depth stories in Time and Newsweek, both appearing on June 20, 1977, proved especially helpful. I also consulted Building Time at Brushy, a semi-fictional memoir by the prison's warden, Stonney Lane. Finally, I found James McKinley's interview with Ray (Playboy, Sept. 1977) extremely useful.

⁷⁴³ "Ray's hot": New York Times, June 12, 1977, p. 1.

⁷⁴⁴ "Ray is smart like a rat": Foreman, quoted in Newsweek, June 20, 1977, p. 25.

⁷⁴⁵ "funny in the head": McKinley, "Interview with James Earl Ray," p. 176.

⁷⁴⁶ "Raoul does not and did not exist": Time, June 20, 1977, p. 17.

⁷⁴⁷ "You always have it": McKinley, "Interview with James Earl Ray," p. 86.

⁷⁴⁸ "convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt": Abernathy, quoted in the Washington Post, June 11, 1977, p. A10.

⁷⁴⁹ "engineered to see that Ray": Time, June 20, 1977, p. 14.

⁷⁵⁰ "I hope they don't kill him": Martin Luther King Sr., quoted in the Atlanta Constitution, June 13, 1977, p. 19A.

⁷⁵¹ Sammy Joe Chapman: This passage involving the bloodhounds is largely drawn from my interview with Sammy Joe Chapman, Sept. 2009. I also relied on "How the Mountain Men Did It," Time, June 27, 1977, pp. 11-12, and "Back in Cell: Ray Brought to Bay by Two Bloodhounds," Washington Post, June 14, 1977, p. 1.

⁷⁵² "For a 49-year-old man": "How the Mountain Men Did It," p. 11.

⁷⁵³ "It's disappointing being caught": McKinley, "Interview with James Earl Ray," p. 94.