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

CHAPTER 15

"MARTIN LUTHER KING IS FINISHED"

²²⁷ "losing hold" of his faculties: Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 609.

²²⁸ "just wrong": McKnight, Last Crusade, p. 66.

²²⁹ "All the police would have to do": Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 220.

²³⁰ "Make the crowds stop pushing!": Memphis Press-Scimitar, March 29, 1968, p. 15.

²³¹ "If you were black": Thomas, quoted in Bond and Sherman, Memphis in Black and White, p. 123.

²³² "Turn around!": Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 349.

²³³ "Take Dr. King out of the way": Beifuss, At the River I Stand, p. 225.

²³⁴ "never had trouble": Ibid., p. 227.

²³⁵ "the march was abandoned": Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 366.

²³⁶ "We have a war": Holloman, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, March 29, 1968.

²³⁷ "Until then, King really didn't have any idea": Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 611.

²³⁸ "Get your ass out of Memphis": Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 367.

²³⁹ "'Martin Luther King is dead'": Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 614.

²⁴⁰ "Ralph, we live in a sick nation": Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 420. Also see Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 612, and Taylor Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 734.