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

CHAPTER 9

RED CARNATIONS

¹⁵¹ "Did you get the flowers?": My account of King's gift of artificial carnations comes from Coretta Scott King's memoir, My Life with Martin Luther King Jr., p. 308.

¹⁵² "a guilt-ridden man": Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 588.

¹⁵³ "Tonight I have taken a vow": Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 653.

¹⁵⁴ confessed to her: Ibid., p. 678.

¹⁵⁵ "Each of us is two selves": Dyson, I May Not Get There with You, p. 162.

¹⁵⁶ "That poor man": William Rutherford, quoted in Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 617.

¹⁵⁷ "Martin had ... an ambivalent attitude": Dyson, I May Not Get There with You, pp. 212-13.

¹⁵⁸ "There was nothing fashionable": Ibid., p. 210.

¹⁵⁹ "I won't have any money": Ibid., p. 276.

¹⁶⁰ "We had a sense of fate": Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King Jr., p. 303.

¹⁶¹ "This is what will happen to me": Dyson, I May Not Get There with You, p. 214.