Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Well, this well-researched, fasinating book puts in the final nail in the coffin of MLK assassination consipiracy theories, IMHO.
It ends up that James Earl Ray/Ramon Sneyd/Eric Stavro/Galt/etc. was a petty criminal from a family of them with a murderous bent born of neo-Nazi thoughts, George Wallace worship and a specific loathing for MLK.
His basic false identity skills kept him on the run long enough to get almost half-way to Rhodesia where he hoped to be an Afircan-slaying merc.
It wasa bit confusing for the author to always call Ray/Galt/Sneyd but he then current alias, but I can understand his reasons.
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