02309nam a2200409Mi 4500 101939 20230410143212.0 100622s2009 xx a 000 0 eng d (OCoLC)ocn705606531 DE-604 rakwb ger DEBBG 9780385523929 0385523920 DEBBG BV036517012 (OCoLC)705606531 GRAL bSI568h 2009 Sides, Hampton. Hellhound on his trail : the stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the international hunt for his assassin / Hampton Sides. 1. ed. New York [u.a.] : Doubleday, 2009. xiv, 459 S. : Ill. #416-J -- In the City of Kings -- Who is Eric Galt? -- The hottest man in the country -- #65477. Includes bibliographical references (p. [49]-59). 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 Drawing on previously unpublished material, this nonfiction thriller illuminates how history is so often a matter of the petty bringing down the great.--From publisher description. King, Martin Luther / Jr. / 1929-1968 / Assassination. Ray, James Earl / 1928-1998. King, Martin Luther. swd Ray, James Earl (Krimineller) swd Geschichte. swd Festnahme. swd Mord. swd Stalking. swd Strafverfolgung. swd lcc bk C0 DRFGD rg 97620 97620 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2023-04-10 0 SI568h 2009 00000094790 2019-01-21 00:00:00 1 2019-01-21 bk