Legacy of Secrecy (172 page)

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX

1.
Nick Kotz,
Judgment Days
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), p. 383.
2.
Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s
Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 680; Evan Thomas,
Robert
Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 356.
3.
Ibid Branch, pp. 680-682.
4.
Ibid, pp. 676, 680-682.
5.
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 357; Thurston Clarke,
The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
, (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008).
6.
Clifton Daniel,
Chronicle of America
(Liberty, MO: JL International Publishing, 1993), p. 819; Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 710.
7.
Thurston Clarke,
The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
, (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008); Nick Kotz,
Judgment Days
(New York: Houghton Mifflin,

2005), p. 391; Ibid Branch, p. 711.
8.
Ibid Branch, pp. 705, 706.
9.
Ibid, pp. 674, 675.
10.
Ibid, pp. 717, 718.

11.
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 359; Nick Kotz,
Judgment
Days
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), p. 397.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Thurston Clarke,
The Last Campaign: Robert
F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
, (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008); Evan Thomas,

Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 361.
14.
Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge:
America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), pp. 713-715; Ibid Thomas, p. 360.

CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN

1.
Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), p. 208.
2.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977.
3.
Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), pp. 212, 213.
4.
HSCA vol. III, pp. 204-208; HSCA Report, p. 354.
5.
William Bradford Huie,
He Slew
the Dreamer
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), pp. 97, 98, 104.
6.
Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge: America
in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 712.
7.
HSCA vol. VII, pp. 354, 377.

8.
William Bradford Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), p. 100.
9.
Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), pp. 717, 718; HSCA vol. VII, pp. 347-376.
10.
HSCA vol. VII, pp. 354, 594; HSCA vol. III, p.208; Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), p. 217.
11.
HSCA vol. III, pp. 207-209.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Taylor Branch,
At
Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), pp. 630, 681, 693, 698; Woody Baird, “King slaying stained Memphis for years,” Associated Press, 4-2-08.
14.
Ibid Branch, pp. 718, 719.
15.
HSCA vol. III, pp. 208-209.
16.
Ibid, p. 209; William Bradford Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer

Notes

819

(New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), pp. 101-107.
17.
HSCA King vol. III, p594; Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s
Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), pp. 720-722.
18.
HSCA vol.

III, pp. 211, 212.
19.
Ibid.
20.
Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), pp. 724, 725.
21.
Ibid, p. 677.
22.
Nick Kotz,
Judgment Days
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), p. 398; Ibid, p. 729.
23.
Ibid, pp. 727, 736.
24.
Ibid, pp. 727, 728.
25.
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.,
The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), p. 268.
26.
Ibid.
27.
“Questions to Kennedy on assassin,” Associated Press, 3-26-68.

CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT

1.
HSCA King III, 207-22; William Bradford Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1970).

2.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977, p. 79.
3.
HSCA vol. III, 216-222; Ibid.

4.
HSCA Report, pp. 307, 308.
5.
Ibid.
6.
HSCA vol. III, pp. 222-25; Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), p. 223.
7.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977,

pp. 79, 80.
8.
Confidential interviews 1976-2007; William Bradford Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), p. 110.
9.
Ibid Huie.
10.
HSCA Report, p. 280; Nick Kotz,
Judgment Days
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), pp. 401-402; Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years

1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), pp. 730-733.
11.
Ibid Kotz, pp. 402, 403.
12.
Ibid, pp. 406, 407.

13.
Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), pp. 734, 735.
14.
Ibid; HSCA Report, pp. 409-411.
15.
Ibid.
16.
Ibid Branch, pp. 744, 745.
17.
Ibid, p. 735.

18.
Larry Hancock and Stuart Wexler,
Seeking Armageddon: Religious Terrorism in the 1960s and the effort
to kill Martin Luther King,
(advance manuscript, 2008).
19.
CIA 104-10133-10071.
20.
Rosen to DeLoach, 4-22-68 (part of the large file, with no identification number or RIF, titled “Department of Justice, Civil

Rights Referrals, Attachment D); William F. Pepper,
Orders to Kill
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), pp. 132, 133.
21.
Memphis FBI memo, 11-5-68, citing 9-17-68 Justice Department memo.
22.
Nick Kotz,
Judgment Days
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), pp. 409, 411.
23.
Ibid, p. 411.
24.
Taylor Branch,
At
Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), pp. 750, 751.
25.
Ibid.

26.
Ibid.
27.
HSCA Report, pp. 407-459; Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan,
The Arrogance of Power:
The Secret World of Richard Nixon
(New York: Viking, 2000), pp. 297-308.

CHAPTER FORTY-NINE

1.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977, p. 80; HSCA Report, p. 298; HSCA

vol. VII, pp. 347-376; Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), p. 225.
2.
Nick Kotz,
Judgment Days
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), p. 411; Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge: America
in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 752.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Ibid Branch, pp. 753-755.

5.
Ibid.
6.
Nick Kotz,
Judgment Days
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), pp. 412, 413; Taylor Branch,
At
Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), pp. 756-58.
7.
Ibid Branch.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Ibid.
10.
Memphis FBI memo 11-5-68, citing 9-17-68 Justice Department memo.
11.
Ibid; HSCA Report, p. 388.
12.
Ibid.
13.
HSCA Report, pp. 298, 299; Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977, p. 80.
14.
Jean-Pierre Charbonneau,
The Canadian Connection
(Ottawa: Optimum, 1976), p. 294; Philip H. Melanson,
The Murkin Conspiracy
(New York: Praeger, 1989), pp. 13, 14; as Melanson points out, the only other connection between the real Galt and the real Willard, who like all four of the

Toronto businessmen had no criminal past, was that each had visited Miami the previous year, traveling

through Georgia and Tennessee.
15.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977,

p. 81; Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), diagram “A Graphic Analy-

sis of the Assassination.”
16.
“Freedom Village,”
Time,
8-8-60; “Wrongs beyond Rights,”
Time,
1-6-61.

17.
Attachment to 4-22-68 FBI memo DeLoach to Rosen, subject MURKIN.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Ibid.
20.
William F.

Pepper,
Orders to Kill
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), pp. 379, 380; William F. Pepper,
Act of State
(New York: Verso, 2003), p. 145.
21.
Ibid.
22.
William F. Pepper,
Act of State
(New York: Verso, 2003), pp. 247, 317; William F. Pepper,
Orders to Kill
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), p. 247.
23.
Memphis FBI memo 11-5-68, citing 9-17-68 Justice Department memo.
24.
Ibid.
25.
Frank Holloman Collection, 1937-1992.

Memphis/Shelby County Public Library and Information Center.
26.
Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge:
America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 759.
27.
Ibid.
28.
HSCA Report, pp. 418-424.
29.
Ibid.
30.
Ibid, pp. 424, 425.

CHAPTER FIFTY

1.
Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 764.
2.
Ibid, pp. 765, 766.
3.
Ibid, p. 766.
4.
Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years
1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 766; Nick Kotz,
Judgment Days
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), p. 414.
5.
Ibid Kotz, p. 415.
6.
Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House,
820

LEGACY OF SECRECY

1998), p. 31, citing MURKIN ME, Sub. D., Section 1, p. 106; HSCA Report, p. 292.
7.
Ibid HSCA Report, pp. 291, 311.
8.
Ibid, pp. 291, 310.
9.
Ibid, p. 312.
10.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977, pp. 81, 82.
11.
Ibid.
12.
Ibid, pp. 50, 51.
13.
William F. Pepper,
Orders to Kill
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), pp. 128, 287.
14.
Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), p. 331.
15.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977, p. 51.
16.
HSCA Report, p. 300.

17.
“Black in America: Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination,” CNN 4-5-08; William F. Pepper,

Orders to Kill
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), pp. 214, 215; Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), p. 331.
18.
“Black in America: Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination,”

CNN, 4-5-08.
19.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977, pp. 40-42.
20.
James W. Douglass, “The King Conspiracy Exposed in Memphis,”
The
Assassinations: Probe magazine on JFK,
MLK, RFK , and Malcolm X
, James DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, eds. (Feral House, 2003).
21.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977, pp. 40-42; HSCA Report, p. 426; “Black in America:

Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination,” CNN, 4-5-08.
22.
Ibid Task Force Report, p. 43; William F. Pepper,
Act of State
(New York: Verso, 2003), p. 117.
23.
HSCA Report, p. 285; Mel Ayton,
A Racial Crime
(Las Vegas: ArcheBooks, 2005), p. 45.

CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE

1.
HSCA Report, pp. 290, 291, 293.
2.
HSCA Report, pp. 295, 296. Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), pp. 271, 272.
3.
Ibid Posner, p. 330.
4.
HSCA Report, p. 312.
5.
HSCA Report, pp. 312-315.
6.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977.
7.
HSCA Report, pp. 285, 292; William F. Pepper,
Orders to Kill
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), pp. 185, 253.
8.
Ibid; William F.

Pepper,
Act of State
(New York: Verso, 2003), p. 118.
9.
William F. Pepper,
Orders to Kill
(New York: Carroll

& Graf, 1995), pp. 184, 185; Ibid Pepper,
Act of State
, p. 118; Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), p. 269.
10.
Ibid, Pepper,
Act of State
, p. 117; Ibid Posner, p. 272.
11.
William F. Pepper,
Orders to Kill
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), pp. 229, 239; Ibid, Pepper,
Act of State
, pp. 315, 316.

12.
Larry Hancock helped to evaluate these alternate scenarios.
13.
HSCA Report, pp. 426, 427.
14.
Ibid.

15.
Clifton Daniel,
Chronicle of America
(Liberty, MO: JL International Publishing, 1993), p. 820.
16.
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 366.
17.
Ibid, p. 367.

CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO

1.
HSCA Report, pp. 300, 301.
2.
Ibid; Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), p. 238.
3.
HSCA Report, p. 302.
4.
HSCA vol. VII, p. 300, 356.
5.
HSCA Report, p. 301.
6.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977, pp. 1, 82, 83.
7.
Ibid Task Force Report; Confidential interviews, 1976-2007.
8.
Ibid interviews.
9.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977.
10.
“Atlanta Cabbies Remember Galt,”
The
New York Times
, 4-17-68; “New Clue Here Hints at King Murder Plot,”
Atlanta Journal Constitutio
n, 4-17-68; “The Face Was Thinner,” AP, 4-17-68.
11.
Dan Christensen, “Assassinations: Miami Link, Part II,”
Miami Magazine
, 10-76.
12.
Ibid.
13.
HSCA vol. III, p. 243.