"Martin Luther King comes to Los Angeles and gives a series of speeches in which he's talking about this Poor People's Campaign that he is going to lead in Washington," Sides explains. Still, it wasn't until Ray, a repeat offender with a long rap sheet that ran from armed robbery to mail fraud, escaped from prison and arrived in Los Angeles that those plans began to take form. "At one point he talked about it being his retirement plan." "While he was in prison, he talked about killing King," Sides tells NPR's Scott Simon. Sides, whose previous books include Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder, says that Ray's crime was no spontaneous act.
and the International Hunt for His Assassin. The story of how these lives met, and the murder that came of that meeting, is told in Hampton Sides' new book, Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. Each traveled the country one to inspire, the other fueled by purposeless rage.
He was eloquent, beloved and brave James Earl Ray was sullen, inarticulate and eminently unnoticeable. was one of the most revered people in the world. Here's a question from history: How does the dim-witted fiend bring down the genuine hero? James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
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