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I read this book for the Diversity in All Forms! Book club. I enjoyed the read and learned so much! I suggest this book to everyone.
"On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this nondescript thief and con man—whose real name was James Earl Ray—drifted through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he was galvanized by George Wallace’s racist presidential campaign.
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"On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this nondescript thief and con man—whose real name was James Earl Ray—drifted through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he was galvanized by George Wallace’s racist presidential campaign.
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Read this for my book club. I found it engrossing and compelling by the end. The author doesn't do much analysis of the historical events, he just relays them. After setting up the historical context and the players (MLK, Coretta Scott King, Hoover, James Earl Ray, George Wallace, etc), Sides pretty much pulls from other sources to piece together what happened before, during and after MLK's assassination. This was simple but fascinating. You learn things they didn't teach you in elementary schoo
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Hellhound On His Trail certainly held my interest as I followed James Earl Ray on his travels throughout Mexico, California, and The South as he tracks Martin Luther King down. It was an interesting character study of both James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King telling me probably more about Martin Luther King's private life than I really wanted to know. After his assassination, Hampton Sides continues with the effort to capture James Earl Ray as he travels to Canada, England, Portugal, and back
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