Hellhound on His Trail

by Hampton Sides

  735 "He seemed absolutely mad about publicity": Ibid.

  736 "There's no way": Ibid.

  737 Sneyd was met by four FBI agents: Custody Log, James Earl Ray, July 19, 1968, Aboard USAF Plane C135," MURKIN Files, 4901-4982, sec. 66, pp. 178-81. See also Posner, Killing the Dream, pp. 55-56.

  738 At 3:48 a.m.: My depiction of Ray's arrival in Memphis is largely drawn from the Memphis Press-Scimitar, July 19, 1968, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal, July 20, 1968. See also Frank, American Death, pp. 223-34.

  739 "They're getting out of the plane": DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 254.

  740 "ring of steel": Ibid.

  741 Morris had arranged: Frank, American Death, pp. 228-34.

  EPILOGUE

  #65477

  742 two hundred inmates: My reenactment of Ray's prison escape is drawn primarily from newspaper and magazine accounts from June 1977--especially the Atlanta Constitution, the New York Times, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Nashville Tennessean, and the Washington Post. In-depth stories in Time and Newsweek, both appearing on June 20, 1977, proved especially helpful. I also consulted Building Time at Brushy, a semi-fictional memoir by the prison's warden, Stonney Lane. Finally, I found James McKinley's interview with Ray (Playboy, Sept. 1977) extremely useful.

  743 "Ray's hot": New York Times, June 12, 1977, p. 1.

  744 "Ray is smart like a rat": Foreman, quoted in Newsweek, June 20, 1977, p. 25.

  745 "funny in the head": McKinley, "Interview with James Earl Ray," p. 176.

  746 "Raoul does not and did not exist": Time, June 20, 1977, p. 17.

  747 "You always have it": McKinley, "Interview with James Earl Ray," p. 86.

  748 "convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt": Abernathy, quoted in the Washington Post, June 11, 1977, p. A10.

  749 "engineered to see that Ray": Time, June 20, 1977, p. 14.

  750 "I hope they don't kill him": Martin Luther King Sr., quoted in the Atlanta Constitution, June 13, 1977, p. 19A.

  751 Sammy Joe Chapman: This passage involving the bloodhounds is largely drawn from my interview with Sammy Joe Chapman, Sept. 2009. I also relied on "How the Mountain Men Did It," Time, June 27, 1977, pp. 11-12, and "Back in Cell: Ray Brought to Bay by Two Bloodhounds," Washington Post, June 14, 1977, p. 1.

  752 "For a 49-year-old man": "How the Mountain Men Did It," p. 11.

  753 "It's disappointing being caught": McKinley, "Interview with James Earl Ray," p. 94.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

  City of Memphis v. Martin Luther King Jr. et al., April 3, 1968. Hearing proceedings.

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  State of Tennessee v. James Earl Ray. Shelby County Criminal Court, div. 3, Tenn., 1969. Proceedings.

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  U.S. Justice Department. "Report of the Department of Justice Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King Jr. Security and Assassination Investigations," Jan. 11, 1977.

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  Hughes, B. Venson Collection on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Germantown, Tenn. Collection includes unpublished crime scene and evidentiary photos, Memphis Police Department files, police dispatcher audio files, rare and unpublished FBI reports, and other investigation documents.

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  Huie, William Bradford. Papers. Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University, Columbus.

  King Center Library and Archives, and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta.

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