Faith Middleton Show: The Largest Manhunt In American History
The gripping portrayal about the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
Gripping is the only word for this. The book is Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin. Author Hampton Sides brilliantly recreates the eye-opening and fascinating tale behind this tragic, historical event in vivid detail. Poring over hundreds of newspaper accounts, oral histories, memoirs, court proceedings, autopsy reports, archival news footage, crime scene photographs, and official reports filed by the Memphis authorities, the FBI, the U.S. Justice Department, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and Scotland Yard, Sides tells the truly bizarre story of James Earl Ray - a.k.a. Eric Galt, Harvey Lowmeyer, Ramon George Sneyd - from his tragic journey to Memphis to his sixty-five day flight across the globe and ultimate capture. Sides conducted scores of personal interviews and traveled tens of thousands of miles - from Puerto Vallarta to London, from St. Louis to Lisbon. Every atmospheric detail arises from factual evidence. Every scene is supported by the historical record. Sides follows Galt and King as they crisscross the country to their fateful meeting in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
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Hampton Sides Interview
I heard a portion of the interview with Hampton Sides related to his new book. It seemed to me that any time Hampton Sides brought up "unsaintly" aspects of Martin Luther King's life, Faith Middleton would interject to change the topic or gloss over the author's comment. It is sad to me that we have to canonize our heroes and that we can not look at these people as human beings with all the faults that our species has.
I am sure the Faith Middleton is a very interesting person, but when she is interviewing a person, it is the interviewee that I am interested in, not the interviewer.
I love you show and keep up the good work.
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