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

CHAPTER 5

DIXIE WEST

⁹⁰ the Cicero of the Cabdriver: The reporter James Dickenson, quoted in Lesher, George Wallace, p. 395.

⁹¹ "bit himself": Ibid., p. 401.

⁹² "the surly orphan": Frady, Wallace, p. 253.

⁹³ "pointy-headed intellectuals": Carter, Politics of Rage, p. 313.

⁹⁴ "the nigra would still be in Africa": Ibid., p. 161.

⁹⁵ "Let 'em call me a racist": Frady, Wallace, p. 9.

⁹⁶ "a fraud, marching and going to jail": Lesher, George Wallace, p. 184.

⁹⁷ "who could go to bed": Ibid., p. 199.

⁹⁸ "the blood of our little children": New York Times, Sept. 17, 1963, pp. 1, 25.

⁹⁹ "how costly Wallace": Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 357.

¹⁰⁰ "He has just four [speeches]": King to Dan Rather, quoted in Carter, Politics of Rage, p. 156.

¹⁰¹ "In both the North and South": Life, Aug. 2, 1968, pp. 17-21.

¹⁰² "The capital of Alabama": Wall Street Journal, Dec. 7, 1967.

¹⁰³ "political ventriloquism": Carter, Politics of Rage, p. 294.