Hellhound on his trail : the stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the international hunt for his assassin / Hampton Sides.
Sides, Hampton.
2010
E185.97.K5 S534 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Hellhound on his trail : the stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the international hunt for his assassin / Hampton Sides.
Author Sides, Hampton.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780385523929
0385523920
Imprint New York : Doubleday, c2010.
Language English
Description xiv, 459 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number E185.97.K5 S534 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.152/4092
Summary April, 1967: a prison escape. James Earl Ray, nondescript thief and con man, drifts through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he is galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. February, 1968: a Memphis garbage strike. Martin Luther King joins the sanitation workers' cause, but their march turns violent. King vows to return to Memphis in April. Historian Sides follows Ray and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the drifter catches up with his prey. Against the backdrop of the resulting nationwide riots and the pathos of King's funeral, Sides gives us a cross-cut narrative of the assassin's flight and the 65-day search that led investigators to Canada, Portugal, and England--a massive manhunt ironically led by Hoover's FBI. Drawing on previously unpublished material, this nonfiction thriller illuminates how history is so often a matter of the petty bringing down the great--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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