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

CHAPTER 4

ANATHEMA TO EVIL MEN

⁶² Burrhead--that was one of his many names: Garrow, FBI and Martin Luther King Jr., p. 106.

⁶³ "Based on King's recent activities": Ibid., p. 182.

⁶⁴ weird phobias: Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, p. 280.

⁶⁵ "mental halitosis": DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 67.

⁶⁶ "a mythical person": Buchwald, quoted in Richard Gid Powers, Secrecy and Power, p. 395.

⁶⁷ "Are you familiar": Capote, quoted in Hersh, Bobby and J. Edgar, p. 464.

⁶⁸ "You must understand": Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, p. 501.

⁶⁹ "Watch the borders": DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 95.

⁷⁰ Helen Gandy: Ibid., p. 109.

⁷¹ "high and distant and quiet": Hugh Sidey, Life, May 12, 1972.

⁷² "transformed the FBI": Jack Anderson, Washington Post, May 3, 1972.

⁷³ "dangerous and rather a psycho": Robert Kennedy, quoted in Richard Gid Powers, Secrecy and Power, p. 397.

⁷⁴ "I'd rather have him": Ibid., p. 393.

⁷⁵ "J. Edgar Hoover is a hero": President Johnson, Executive Order 11154, May 8, 1965, quoted in Ralph de Toledano, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man in His Time (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1973), p. 301.

⁷⁶ "is a pillar of strength": Johnson, quoted in Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, p. 611.

⁷⁷ "the most notorious liar": Newsweek, Nov. 30, 1964.

⁷⁸ "They had to dig deep": Richard Gid Powers, Secrecy and Power, p. 416.

⁷⁹ "top alley cat": Garrow, FBI and Martin Luther King Jr., p. 121.

⁸⁰ "I am amazed": Ibid., p. 121.

⁸¹ "There are as many Communists": King 1965 interview in Playboy, quoted in Dyson, I May Not Get There with You, p. 231.

⁸² "a tom cat": Richard Gid Powers, Secrecy and Power, p. 417.

⁸³ "narrow his eyes": DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 203.

⁸⁴ "saw extramarital sex": Ibid.

⁸⁵ "if the country knew": Hersh, Bobby and J. Edgar, p. 386.

⁸⁶ "I don't understand": Ibid., p. 379.

⁸⁷ "King, look into your heart": Richard Gid Powers, Secrecy and Power, p. 420.

⁸⁸ "They are out to break me": Garrow, FBI and Martin Luther King Jr., p. 134.

⁸⁹ "Hoover is old": Ibid., p. 124.