![]() ![]() But he's a rock-solid historian as well all those details are meticulously sourced in 40 pages of notes, mostly from firsthand accounts – especially from Ray, who left a relative wealth of interviews and memoirs about what he did and thought at various points. ![]() Memphis native Sides is a great storyteller, and he sets his scenes in such intimate detail, dialogue and even characters' thoughts included, that Hellhound often reads more like historical fiction than nonfiction. This is the story of what brought both men to that point, and then of Galt's largely improvised flight from justice. ![]() Across the alley was a guy no one ever seemed to notice, but who also never really fit in anywhere he went – an escaped convict going by the name Eric Starvo Galt, born James Earl Ray. was there for the Memphis garbage strike, which had become both a crisis and an opportunity for a civil rights movement in turmoil. On April 4, 1968, two lives collided on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides ![]() Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]()
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