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

CHAPTER 13

FACES ARE MY BUSINESS

¹⁹⁸ "Your brain and nervous system": Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics, p. 17.

¹⁹⁹ "The automatic creative mechanism": Ibid., p. 37.

²⁰⁰ "Don't think before you act": Ibid., p. 169.

²⁰¹ "When you change a man's face": Ibid., pp. vii-viii.

²⁰² Galt visited a prominent plastic surgeon: My account of Galt's visits to Hadley's office is drawn from the FBI's initial interview with Hadley, conducted on October 2, 1968, out of the Los Angeles field office. See also Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, pp. 119-21; McMillan, Making of an Assassin, pp. 285-86; Frank, American Death, p. 311; and Ray's own version in Tennessee Waltz.

²⁰³ "I casually told him": Ray, Tennessee Waltz, p. 68.

²⁰⁴ "The ears": Ibid.

²⁰⁵ "in a position": Ibid.

²⁰⁶ "I'm a fairly observant person": Hadley, quoted in Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 121.

²⁰⁷ "The government is emotionally committed": Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 717.

²⁰⁸ "I've seen hatred": King's comments were reported in the Los Angeles Times, March 18, 1968, and also reproduced in Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 123.

²⁰⁹ official postal service card: "Investigation at St. Francis Hotel, Hollywood, California," compiled by the FBI's Los Angeles field office. Here I relied on the FD-302 report of an FBI interview with the St. Francis Hotel manager, Allan O. Thompson, conducted on April 12, 1968, by Special Agent Thomas G. Mansfield.