Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton SidesMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Well, this well-researched, fascinating book puts in the final nail in the coffin of MLK assassination conspiracy theories, IMHO. (Later reading of other books makes me less sure.)
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 African-slaying merc.
It was a bit confusing for the author to always call Ray/Galt/Sneyd by his then current alias, but I can understand his reasons.
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