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

CHAPTER 8

A BUGLE VOICE OF VENOM

¹³⁵ Galt told a representative: Posner, Killing the Dream, p. 194.

¹³⁶ "Several recruits": Carter, Politics of Rage, p. 310.

¹³⁷ "The Rockefeller interests": Ibid., p. 311.

¹³⁸ stock car track: My description of the Burbank rally for Wallace is primarily drawn from Carter, Politics of Rage, pp. 314-15.

¹³⁹ "He has a bugle voice of venom": New Republic, Nov. 9, 1968.

¹⁴⁰ "the heat, the rebel yells": Lesher, George Wallace, p. 410.

¹⁴¹ he wrote to the American-Southern Africa Council: Ray's correspondence is reprinted in House Select Committee on Assassinations (hereafter HSCA), Appendix Reports, vol. 13, p. 252.

¹⁴² the Friends of Rhodesia: Ray's letter is reproduced in ibid., vol. 4, p. 116.

¹⁴³ reader of the Thunderbolt: Ray is thought to have read the Thunderbolt while in prison; after his arrest for King's assassination, he eventually hired J. B. Stoner as his attorney, and his brother Jerry Ray served as Stoner's personal bodyguard.

¹⁴⁴ "Invariably the bastard": See Carter, Politics of Rage, p. 165.

¹⁴⁵ archly effeminate organizer: Ibid., p. 166.

¹⁴⁶ "the last chance": Lesher, George Wallace, p. 301.

¹⁴⁷ pasted the racist sobriquet: McMillan, Making of an Assassin, p. 285.

¹⁴⁸ "a murky, jukebox-riven hole in the wall": Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 99.

¹⁴⁹ "a moody fellow from Alabama": Ibid., p. 110.

¹⁵⁰ Pat Goodsell: My account of the incident inside the Rabbit's Foot is mainly drawn from interviews with eyewitnesses in bureau reports, especially the FBI interview with Bo Del Monte, April 22, 1968, MLK Exhibit F-168, in HSCA, Appendix Reports, vol. 4, p. 122. Also see Posner, Killing the Dream, pp. 215-17, and Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, pp. 109-12. Ray himself discusses the incident, giving slightly varying versions, in his two books, Tennessee Waltz and Who Killed Martin Luther King?