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ORAL HISTORY
I made extensive use of oral histories collected by the Memphis Multi-Media Archival Project housed at the Ned R. McWherter Library at the University of Memphis. This extraordinary research endeavor, undertaken in the late 1960s by the Memphis Search for Meaning Committee under the direction of Carol and David Yellin, includes audiotape, videotape, and oral histories collected from hundreds of eyewitnesses to the 1968 events in Memphis--including the sanitation strike, King's appearances, and the assassination and its aftermath.
My collaboration with the Insignia Films documentary Roads to Memphis (produced for the PBS series The American Experience) also yielded a substantial body of oral history. Subjects interviewed for the series include Andrew Young, Benjamin Hooks, Harris Wofford, Arthur Hanes Jr., Ramsey Clark, Louis Stokes, Samuel "Billy" Kyles, Dorothy Cotton, Roger Wilkins, John Campbell, Vince Hughes, Joseph Sweat, Dan Rather, and Gerald Posner.
SELECTED MAGAZINE AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
Biles, Roger. "Cotton Fields or Skyscrapers? The Case of Memphis, Tennessee." Historian: A Journal of History (Feb. 1988).
Huie, William Bradford. "I Got Involved Gradually, and I Didn't Know Anybody Was to Be Murdered." Look, Nov. 22, 1968.
------. "I Had Been in Trouble All My Life, in Jail Most of It." Look, Nov. 12, 1968.
------. "The Story of James Earl Ray and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King." Look, Nov. 22, 1968.
------. "Why James Earl Ray Murdered Dr. King." Look, April 1969.
"I Still Believe We Shall Overcome: The Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination, 40th Anniversary Issue." Memphis, April 2008.
King, Coretta Scott. "Tragedy in Memphis." Life, Sept. 19, 1969.
McKinley, James. "Interview with James Earl Ray." Playboy, Sept. 1977.
McKnight, Gerald D. "The 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike and the FBI: A Case Study in Urban Surveillance
." South Atlantic Quarterly 83 (Spring 1984).
O'Neil, Paul. "Ray, Sirhan--What Possessed Them?" Life, June 21, 1968.
"Ray's Breakout." Time, June 20, 1977.
"Ray's Escape." Newsweek, June 20, 1977.
Shaw, Bynum. "Are You Sure Who Killed Martin Luther King?" Esquire, March 1972.
Wills, Garry. "Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case." Esquire, Aug. 1968, reprinted in The New Journalism, edited by Tom Wolfe. London: Picador, 1996.
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Sides, Hampton.
Hellhound on his trail : the stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the
international hunt for his assassin / Hampton Sides.--1st ed.
p. cm.
1. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination. 2. Ray,
James Earl, 1928-1998. I. Title.
E185.97.K5S534 2009
364.152'4092--dc22 2009043659
eISBN: 978-0-385-53319-5
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