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

CHAPTER 18

TARGET PRACTICE AT SHILOH

²⁸³ "You must have a goal": Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics, p. 37.

²⁸⁴ dropped off a bundle of dirty clothes: FBI interview with Annie Estelle Peters, manager of the Piedmont Laundry, conducted on April 16, 1968, by Special Agents Charles Rose and Robert Kane. The Piedmont Laundry's ledger and receipts were taken into evidence.

²⁸⁵ hide his snub-nosed .38 revolver: Ray claimed he buried the revolver in the rooming house basement, which had a dirt floor. Ray, Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 91.

²⁸⁶ found a secluded place: Ray told his first lawyers, as well as the journalist William Bradford Huie, that he pulled off the road near Corinth, Mississippi, and test-fired the new rifle. See Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 140, and McMillan, Making of an Assassin, pp. 297-98. Years later, before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Ray changed his story and said that although he indeed drove through Corinth, Mississippi, he never test-fired the rifle.

²⁸⁷ "smoking jungle": Bierce, quoted in Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic, pp. 166, 170.