Hellhound on his trail book review6/29/2023 From the room he rented, there was no direct line of sight onto the balcony where King was shot. Ray checked into a flophouse across the street from the Lorraine. "It's actually extraordinary how little security King had. He had no bodyguards, no entourage watching out for him," Sides says. "Not only that, but King had no security detail. Though it would be unheard of today, both King's location and his room number had been reported in the local media. It was public knowledge, Sides says, that King was staying at the Lorraine Hotel. In his new book, Hellhound on His Trail, Sides carefully weaves the movements of King's assassin, James Earl Ray, with those of King, who had traveled to Memphis to support sanitation workers on strike. and the International Hunt for His Assassinįour decades later, Sides, an editor-at-large for Outside magazine and the author of the historical books Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder, has returned to the subject of King's assassination. Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr.
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