Hellhound on His Trail by Michael Parker Thomas

1960

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#00416-J was convicted of armed robbery.

Early May 1967

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South's Greatest Party

November 1967

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Martin Luther King Jr. was in Frogmore, South Carolina for the SCLC annual conclave.

Fall of 1967

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King became so stressed to a breaking point.

December 4, 1967

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King gave a press conference announcing "The Southern Christian Leadership Conference will lead waves of the nation's poor and disinherited to Washington next spring,".

Thursday, March 28 1968

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King takes a flight to Memphis.

Thursday October 19 1967

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Galt checked into Hotel Rio

Late fall, Early winter 1967

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King pressed forward with his Poor Peoples Army to Washington.

Friday, March 29 1968

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Galt walked into the Long-Lewis hardware store and bought a Rifle.

November 19 1967

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Galt arrived in LA

November 27, 1967

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Gault had his first visit with clinical psychologist Dr. Mark O. Freeman.

January 2, 1968

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The formal request was sent to Clark for his legal approval.

Friday morning, March 29 1968

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J. Edgar Hoover had been monitoring the events in Memphis and came to work with a feeling of vindication.

Early morning Friday, March 29, 1968

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FBI field office was in high dudgeon.

10:00 Friday, March 29 1968

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King wakes up in his Rivermont suite.

Saturday, March 30th 1968

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King held an emergency meeting of his SCLC executive staff to talk about what to do in Memphis.

Sunday, March 31, 1968

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President Johnson announces that he will not be running for president in the next election.

Wednesday, April 3 1968

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Ralph Abernathy and King board a flight from Atlanta Georgia to Memphis Tennessee.

Thursday, April 4 1968

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Eric Galt slept in the New Rebel Motel.

6:01 Thursday, April 4 1968

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Galt wrapped his finger around the trigger to shoot King.

6:01 Thursday, April 4 1968

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King is struck by a bullet on the right side of his face.

6:09 Thursday, April 4 1968

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King gets taken by the ambulance and goes to St. Joseph's hospital.

6:15 Thursday, April 4 1968

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King arrives at St. Joseph's Hospital unconscious put still alive.

6:20 Thursday, April 4 1968

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Dr. Brown performs Tracheotomy on King.

6:47 Thursday, April 4 1968

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Somebody screamed over the CB, "He's shooting at me! He's hit my windshield!" This was a diversion for Eric Galt to escape.

6:45 Thursday, April 4 1968

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Dr. Ted Gaylon ordered a medical technician to wire King's bare chest to an EKG machine. King's heartbeat was weak.

7:05 Thursday, April 4 1968

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Dr. Jerome Barrosso pronounced Martin Luther King dead.

6:10 Thursday, April 4 1968

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First bulletin of Eric Galt's car over the police radio.

6:30 Thursday, April 4 1968

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After a traffic jam, Galt heads towards south Mississippi.

Some time after 8:00 Thursday, April 4 1968

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The bundle that Galt left at the Hotel which contains his rifle and other items, was brought to the field office of the FBI to be examined.

8:20 EST Thursday, April 4 1968

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The president finds out that King is dead.

9:00 EST Thursday, April 4 1968

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President Johnson made a speech before the U.S. about the death of King.

During the Speech, Around 9:00 EST Thursday, April 4 1968

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President Johnson announces a curfew on Memphis from 5pm to 9 am.

After 9:00 Thursday, April 4 1968

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Galt kept on driving into Mississippi

April 4, 1968

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Galt pulled off the road to wipe the Mustang's surfaces clean of fingerprints. About an hour later Galt pulled over again and dumped his camera equipment in a ditch with all of the other stuff he had to become... ykw.

Around 7:00 CST April 4, 1968

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Authorities transported King's body to John Gaston Hospital.

Around 9:00 p.m. CST April 4, 1968

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Abernathy was summoned to the lab to identify King's body. Then Mrs. King was called to give her consent to Dr. Francisco to start the autopsy.

9:30 p.m. CST April 4, 1968

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Dr. Francisco excavated the main bullet fragment from an area just beneath the skin of King's left shoulder blade.

Around 11:00 p.m. CST April 4, 1968

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King's body was loaded into the rear of a hearse.

11:15 p.m. CST April 4, 1968

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King's body arrived at R. S. Lewis and morticians began their work.

Around 12:30 a.m. CST Friday, April 5, 1968

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Special Agent Jesen finished reviewing and tagging all of the physical evidence.

Around 12:55 a.m. CST Friday, April 5, 1968

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Agent Fitzpatrick boarded a plane and took off with the evidence.

5:10 a.m. EST April 5 1968

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Fitzpatrick personally delivered the evidence to Special Agent Robert A. Frazier of the FBI Crime Lab.

Just after dawn Friday, April 5, 1968

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A Lockheed Jetstar took off with government officials that were headed to Memphis to kick off the federal investigation of King's assassination.

7:20 a.m. CST Friday, April 5, 1968

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The Jetstar landed in Memphis with the government officials.

8:20 a.m. EST Friday, April 5, 1968

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Eric Galt arrived in Atlanta and parked his Mustang in a parking spot at a forlorn housing project.

8:41 a.m. EST Friday, April 5, 1968

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Galt got into a cab and asked the driver to head to the Greyhound bus depot.

Around 9:00 a.m. EST Friday, April 5, 1968

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Eric Galt dropped by the Piedmont Laundry to pick up the clothes he had left before he left for Memphis.

Afternoon Friday, April 5, 1968

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President Johnson had a meeting with the nation's most prominent black leaders.

Early afternoon April 5, 1968

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Riots in Washington D.C. start, and the FBI finds a laundry tag that leads them to Los Angeles.

April 16, 1968

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Galt uses his temporary alias, Ramon Sneyd, to obtain a passport from Canadian travel agency. He also books a flight to London on this day.

April 15, 1968

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On the morning of April 15th, the garbage strike finally comes to a halt.

April 17, 1968

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The FBI gives the public information on Galt. Meanwhile, Galt comes within breathing distance of getting caught when he receives a jaywalking ticket.

February 1, 1968

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Echol Cole and Robert Walker were killed in a garbage truck incident.

February 12, 1968

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Thirteen hundred sanitation employees went on strike because of the fatal incident between Cole and Robert.

March 5, 1968

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Eric Galt visited a prominent plastic surgeon and was scheduled for a nose job.

March 16, 1968

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Martin Luther King gave a talk to the California Democratic Council at the Disneyland Hotel in Anahiem.

March 17, 1968

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Martin Luther King delivered a speech titled "The Meaning of Hope".

March 18, 1968

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King landed in Memphis for the rally.

March 22, 1968

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Eric Galt swung his mustang into Selma, Alabama.

March 24,1986

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Eric Galt rolled into Atlanta.

March 28,1968

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The new date for the march was set for March 28.

April 19, 1968

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Fingerprint experts at the FBI exactly match Galt's prints to those of escaped convict James Earl Ray.

April 23, 1968

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Galt takes a bus to Montreal for a few days and searches for a freighter who would take him to southern Africa. He doesn't find anyone who would take him without his passport, so he heads back to Toronto.

May 2, 1968

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Galt's passport comes in the mail. To his dismay, his new alias was misspelled. The passport said Sneya instead of Sneyd.

May 6, 1968

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Galt boards his flight to London, which departs with no issues.

May 7, 1968

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Galt's flight lands in London and he immediately goes to Lisbon, Portugal, drawn to the city's ports.

May 17, 1968

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Galt receives a new passport with his "surname" spelled correctly, and flies back to London.

Mid-May (date not specified)

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The FBI finds out that Galt lived in Canada for a time, so they contacted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about various leads. One of which required them to search passport photos for men who looked like Galt.

May 27, 1968

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Galt attempts to rob a jewelry store, but severely underestimates the ferocity of the middle-aged couple running the store. He leaves the shop still poor and defeated.

June 1, 1968

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Constable Robert Wood unknowingly finds Galt's passport photo, examines it with some colleagues, and puts it in the "possibles" pile without another thought.

June 4, 1968

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Galt successfully robs a bank for 95 pounds, but, in his getaway, leaves a well-preserved fingerprint on the note that aided in the robbery.

Early June (date not specified)

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The FBI interview the real Ramon George Sneyd and Lillian Spencer and find out that Galt stole Sneyd's identity and fled to London.

June 5, 1968

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Galt gets a room at the Pax, a hotel in Pimlico.

June 8, 1968

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Galt left the Pax and went to the airport. He wanted to board flight 466 to Brussels, Belgium, but he is stopped by a Scotland Yard detective. Galt was detained when they found his name on the "Watch for and Detain" list and a revolver in the pocket of his coat.

June 8, 1968

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Galt is placed in Cannon Row jail in Scotland Yard for the possession of a gun without a permit.

June 8, 1968

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Detective Chief Superintendent Thomas Butler confirmed that Galt was the man who killed Martin Luther King Jr.

Early June (date not specified)

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The FBI receives positive DNA identification matching James Earl Ray to the murder. The information is quickly released to the public.

June 10, 1968

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Ray meets his British solicitor, Michael Eugene.

July 18, 1968

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Ray was flown to America from the U.S. Air Force Base in Suffolk.

Early morning, July 18, 1969

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Ray's convoy reached the Criminal Courts Building in downtown Memphis and he was led to his very fortified cell.

Around 1:00 p.m. EST Friday, April 5, 1968

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Galt boarded the bus that said Cincinnati.

By nightfall Friday, April 5, 1968

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Galt arrived in Cincinnati.

Late at night on April 5, 1968

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Galt boarded another bus headed for Detroit.

5:00 p.m. CST Friday, April 5, 1968

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Attorney General Ramsey Clark boarded a plane and took off to Washington D.C. because of the riots.

Around 8:00 a.m. EST Saturday, April 6, 1968

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Galt arrives in Detroit and goes to a barber to get his face shaved.

Around 9:00 a.m. EST Saturday, April 6, 1968

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Galt hailed a taxi to take him across the USA and Canada border.

Around noon Saturday, April 6, 1968

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Galt arrived at Windsor train station and took the noon train towards Toronto.

Around 4:00 p.m. EST Saturday, April 6, 1968

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Galt arrived at Toronto.

(time not specified) Saturday, April 6, 1968

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Galt got a room at a rooming place at 102 Ossington Avenue.

(time not specified) Monday, April 8, 1968

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Coretta Scott King lead a march down Main Street in downtown Memphis.