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

CHAPTER 14

SOMETHING IN THE AIR

²¹⁰ "You are demonstrating": My account of King's March 18 speech in Memphis is drawn from the Memphis Commercial Appeal; from news footage of the speech captured in the PBS documentary At the River I Stand; and from secondary accounts in Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, pp. 296-303, and Beifuss, At the River I Stand, pp. 193-96.

²¹¹ The Lorraine had long been popular: My sketch of the Lorraine's history largely comes from the National Civil Rights Museum Web site, clippings in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 442.

²¹² The old part of the lodge: Wills, "Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case," reprinted in The New Journalism, ed. Tom Wolfe, p. 395.

²¹³ "the King-Abernathy suite": See Abernathy's testimony concerning the Lorraine Motel in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 1, p. 32.

²¹⁴ "seeming so modern": Young, Easy Burden, p. 460.

²¹⁵ Flamingo Motel: My account of Galt's stay at the Flamingo Motel comes from the following sources: Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, pp. 130-31; Posner, Killing the Dream, p. 219; McMillan, Making of an Assassin, p. 289; Ray, Tennessee Waltz, p. 70; and my own visit to the motel in Selma.

²¹⁶ Nature ... had gone on strike: Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 323.

²¹⁷ "We've got a perfect work stoppage": Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 205.

²¹⁸ "Well, the Lord has done it again": Ibid., p. 203.

²¹⁹ "It had never snowed": Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 309.

²²⁰ He located a rooming house: My description of Galt's Atlanta rooming house is based on several accounts in the Atlanta Constitution and on FBI FD-302 reports of interviews with his landlord, Jimmie Garner, conducted on April 14 and 15, 1968, by Special Agents John Ogden and Roger Kaas. See also Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 132.

²²¹ "Every time I look at Atlanta": Reed, quoted in Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic, p. 283.

²²² "wouldn't have to answer": Ray, Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 89.

²²³ "this place was just infested with hippies": FD-302 report of the Ogden and Kaas interviews with Garner, the FBI Atlanta field office.

²²⁴ looked "like a preacher": Blair, Strange Case of James Earl Ray, p. 139.

²²⁵ "to bone up": Ray, Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 90.

²²⁶ One of his circles A description of the markings found on Ray's Atlanta map are in the FBI summary report of Ray chronology, MURKIN Files, 4143, sec. 52, p. 34. See also Frank, American Death, p. 172, and Posner, Killing the Dream, p. 220.