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050	0	0	_aE185.97.K5 _bS534 2010
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100	1		_aSides, Hampton
245	1	0	_aHellhound on his trail _b: the stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the international hunt for his assassin _c/ Hampton Sides
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Doubleday _c, 2010.
300			_axiv, 459 p. _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [49]-59).
505	0		_aPrologue #416-J -- In the City of Kings -- Who is Eric Galt? -- The hottest man in the country -- Epilogue #65477.
520			_aApril, 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 Drawing on previously unpublished material, this nonfiction thriller illuminates how history is so often a matter of the petty bringing down the great.--From publisher description.
600	1	0	_aKing, Martin Luther, Jr. _d, 1929-1968 _x--Assassination
600	1	0	_aRay, James Earl _d, 1928-1998
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