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

CHAPTER 12

ON THE BALCONY

¹⁹² King fell into an argument: Frank, American Death, p. 90.

¹⁹³ "I don't play with them anymore": Ibid., p. 91.

¹⁹⁴ Abernathy woke up in the dead of night: This anecdote from King and Abernathy's trip to Acapulco is adapted from ibid., pp. 91-92, and also Abernathy's testimony in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 1, pp. 33-34.

¹⁹⁵ "a team": Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 478.

¹⁹⁶ another letter from the FBI: See Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 708.

¹⁹⁷ "You see that rock out there?": Frank, American Death, p. 92.