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

CHAPTER 20

NOT FEARING ANY MAN

³⁰² Galt coasted into the parking lot: FBI interview with New Rebel Motel desk clerk Henrietta Hagermaster, conducted on April 11, 1968, by Special Agent John Bauer, out of the FBI's Memphis field office.

³⁰³ He got a haircut: Ray told the journalist William Bradford Huie that on April 3 he got a haircut and bought a shaving kit at a Rexall drugstore in Memphis. Stickers from the Rexall drugstore were later found on several of his abandoned items. See Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 142.

³⁰⁴ a six-pack of Schlitz: Several unopened Schlitz beers were later found among Ray's abandoned belongings and, on the basis of Mississippi state liquor tags affixed to the cans, were traced to a bait shop in Southaven, Mississippi, near the city limits of Memphis.

³⁰⁵ "the kind of place where more or less legitimate people's around": "Staff Report: Compilation of the Statements of James Earl Ray," in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports, vol. 3, p. 226.

³⁰⁶ Galt put his money down: FBI interview with Hagermaster, conducted on April 11, 1968, by Special Agent Bauer.

³⁰⁷ "Ralph, I want you to go speak for me tonight": Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 430.

³⁰⁸ "Something is happening in Memphis": My depiction of King's "Mountaintop" speech at Mason Temple is drawn from Memphis television newsreels, newspaper accounts, and the documentary film At the River I Stand. I've also leaned on accounts in Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p. 433; Branch, At Canaan's Edge, pp. 757-58; Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, pp. 415-24; and Beifuss, At the River I Stand, pp. 277-80.

³⁰⁹ "it seemed like he was just saying": Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 424.

³¹⁰ "It seemed like he reached down": Interviews with striking sanitation workers present at Mason Temple, from the documentary Roads to Memphis, Insignia Films, for the PBS program American Experience, WGBH, Boston.

³¹¹ "I was full of joy": Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 425.

³¹² Ivan Webb: FBI interview with Webb, conducted on April 11, 1968, by Special Agent Bauer, out of the FBI's Memphis field office.

³¹³ "He was like a kid again": Interview with Kyles, Roads to Memphis.

³¹⁴ "Senator!": Author interview with Georgia Davis Powers, May 7, 2008, Louisville.

³¹⁵ "I didn't idolize him": Ibid.

³¹⁶ "Senator, our time together": Georgia Davis Powers, I Shared the Dream, p. 227.