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

CHAPTER 17

TO LIVE OR DIE IN MEMPHIS

²⁶⁶ "was a set up": James Orange, quoted in Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 381.

²⁶⁷ "We are in serious trouble": Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 742.

²⁶⁸ "Memphis is the Washington campaign in miniature": Ibid.

²⁶⁹ "You guys come up": Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 616.

²⁷⁰ "Ralph, give me my car keys": My description of the argument and King's abrupt exit from the SCLC meeting primarily derives from Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, pp. 425-27.

²⁷¹ "Everything's not going to be all right": Ibid. See also Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 743.

²⁷² "The leader is confused": Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 426.

²⁷³ "We had never seen Martin": Young, Easy Burden, p. 459.

²⁷⁴ war whoops and hallelujahs: Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 744.

²⁷⁵ one of his mistresses: Ibid. See also Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 617.

²⁷⁶ "one of the most unjust wars": My depiction of King's sermon comes from the Washington Post, April 1, 1968. See also Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 618; Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 745; and Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 409.

²⁷⁷ "I see an alternative": Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 409.

²⁷⁸ "I would be glad": Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 618.

²⁷⁹ "I felt that I was being chased": Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, p. 343.

²⁸⁰ "With the world's hopes": Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 411.

²⁸¹ "His air was that of a prisoner let free": Dallek, Flawed Giant, pp. 529-30.

²⁸² "I never felt so right": Branch, At Canaan's Edge, p. 749.