At Canaan's Edge (160 page)

performers even quarreled on stage: Int. Joan Baez, Jan. 7, 1984;
Rolling Stone Rock Almanac,
p. 135; Maraniss,
They Marched,
p. 313.

a showcase federal trial: “All-White Jury Picked as Trial of 18 in Slaying of 3 Rights Workers Begins in Mississippi,” NYT, Oct. 10, 1967, p. 21.

“young male Negroes to sign”: Ibid.; Cagin and Dray,
Not Afraid,
p. 445ff; Mars,
Witness,
p. 228ff; Whitehead,
Attack,
p. 260ff; McIlhany,
Klandestine,
p. 81ff.

“It was the first time that Christians”: Cagin and Dray,
Not Afraid,
p. 447.

historic Arlington Street Unitarian: Zaroulis and Sullivan,
Who Spoke Up?,
pp. 133–34; Coffin,
Once,
pp. 238–44; Mendelsohn,
Martyrs,
pp. 173–74; Friedland,
Lift Up,
pp. 193–94.

“Are we to raise conscientious men”: Goldstein,
Coffin,
p. 197.

Across the country in Oakland: Powers,
War,
pp. 236–37; DeBenedetti,
Ordeal,
p. 196; Viorst,
Fire,
p. 413.

a demonstration in Wisconsin: DeBenedetti,
Ordeal,
p. 196; Maraniss,
They Marched, passim.

author David Maraniss: Maraniss,
They Marched,
pp. 322–28, 348–56, 363ff.

traced a sharp transformation: Ibid., p. 381.

“I'm a radical!”: Ibid., p. 397.

“It was a brutal business”: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between Stanley Levison and an unidentified party, 2:04
P.M.
, Oct. 21, 1967, FLNY-9-1464a.

King complained of a “vicious” editorial: Moore to Sullivan, Oct. 16, 1967, FK-3119; Hoover to SAC, Houston, Oct. 17, 1967, FK-3113.

Hoover approved: Handwritten note on Moore to Sullivan, Oct. 18, 1967, FK-3129.

“Midnight murder in the rural area”: Whitehead,
Attack,
pp. 278–79.

raised finger at Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price: NYT, Oct. 19, 1967, p. 37.

“What I say”: Cagin and Dray,
Not Afraid,
p. 449.

government officials braced: “Thousands Reach Capital to Protest Vietnam War,” NYT, Oct. 21, 1967, pp. 1, 8; Califano,
Triumph,
pp. 198–99; Dallek,
Flawed,
pp. 487–89.

“are not going to run me out of town”: Tom Johnson notes, LBJ meeting with Rusk, McNamara, Rostow, CIA Director Richard Helms, and Press Secretary George Christian, Oct. 3, 1967, in FRUS, Vol. 5, p. 840.

“You must not go down”: Ibid., p. 845.

“If history indicts us for Vietnam”: LBJ interview with Robert Manning of
The Atlantic Monthly,
cited in Dallek,
Flawed,
p. 486.

“Dr. Coffin, am I being tendered something?”: NYT, Oct. 21, 1967, p. 8; Coffin,
Once,
pp. 244–51; Powers,
War,
pp. 193–94; Goldstein,
Coffin,
pp. 199–200.

“the Friday after Friday”: Cagin and Dray,
Not Afraid,
p. 451.

“John Doar gave thanks and soon retired: Int. John Doar, May 12, 1986; NYT, Nov. 30, 1967, p. 35.

“a first step in a thousand-mile journey”: NYT, Oct. 21, 1967, p. 18.

White Knights had intensified terror attacks: Whitehead,
Attack,
pp. 285–88; Nelson,
Terror,
pp. 64–82; Evans,
Provincials,
p. 221ff; Perkins,
Brother,
pp. 78–81; Tarrants,
Conversion,
pp. 48–61.

“preacher of Jesus the Galilean”: Marsh,
Summer,
pp. 71–72.

It would be another twenty-two years: Jerry Mitchell, “Justice Delayed, Not Denied,”
Jackson Clarion-Ledger,
Jan. 8, 2005, p. 1; NYT, April 2, 1995, p. 18; NYT, May 29, 1998, p. 1; WP, July 22, 1998, p. D-1.

seventy-nine-year-old Edgar Ray Killen: Jerry Mitchell, “Preacher Helped Conceal Klan Killings, Friend Says,”
Jackson Clarion-Ledger,
July 19, 2001, p. 1; Jerry Mitchell, “Grand Jury Indicts Killen in '64 Slayings,”
Jackson Clarion-Ledger,
Jan. 7, 2005, p. 1; NYT, Jan. 8, 2005, p. 1.

“sprinkling of Negroes”: NYT, Oct. 22, 1967, pp. 1, 58.

“We don't want to play Indian”: Zaroulis and Sullivan,
Who Spoke Up?,
p. 137.

vigils, skirmishes, and bonfires: Ibid., pp. 136–42; John C. Diamante, “Federal Troops Stop March at Pentagon,” SC, Nov. 4–5, 1967, p. 4; DeBenedetti,
Ordeal,
p. 198; Dellinger,
From Yale,
pp. 302–7; Langguth,
Our Vietnam,
pp. 459–60.

none of the two hundred Wisconsin students: Maraniss,
They Marched,
pp. 428–29, 443, 460–66, 475–76.

“almost enough to retrieve”: James Reston, “Everyone Is a Loser,” Oct. 23, 1967, p. 1.

His testimony before the Kerner Commission: NYT, Oct. 24, 1967, p. 33; NYT, Jan. 14, 1968, p. 71.

“I think that the time has come”: MLK statement, ABC Radio News, Oct. 23, 1967, A/KS.

“appeal to anarchy”: “King's Camp-In,” WP, Oct. 26, 1967, p. 20; Garrow,
Bearing,
p. 579.

Dora McDonald asked Levison: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between Stanley Levison and Dora McDonald, 2:55
P.M.
, Oct. 23, 1967, FLNY-9-1466a.

“will be lucky to break even”: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between Stanley Levison and Chauncey Eskridge, Oct. 30, 1967, FLNY-9-1473a. An accounting in the files showed that the series lost $9,000 above overall revenues of $86,000: “Balance Sheet, Belafonte-Franklin Show,” Nov. 15, 1967, ACS10f4.

“I thought you were coming”: Int. Bernard Lafayette, March 22, 2005.

convocation at tiny Grinnell College: Mays,
Born,
pp. 269–70.

final court orders to surrender: NYT, Oct. 10, 1967, p. 40; NYT, Oct. 19, 1967, p. 41; Garrow,
Bearing,
pp. 579–80.

“a small price to pay”: MLK statement of Oct. 30, 1967, attached to Atlanta office LHM dated Oct. 31, 1967, FK-3136.

“As we leave”: SC, Nov. 4–5, 1967, pp. 1, 2.

hauled off by police cars: Ibid.; Westin,
Trial,
pp. 1–2.

“coherent voice to a catastrophe”: NYT, Oct. 3, 1967, p. 45.

“I absorbed by osmosis”: NYT, Aug. 5, 1967, p. 13.

diverted King to a facility: NYT, Oct. 31, 1967, pp. 1, 30; NYT, Nov. 1, 1967, p. 33; NYT, Nov. 2, 1967, p. 34.

four prisoners were transferred: SAC Birmingham to Director, Nov. 1, 1967, FK-3130.

Harry Wachtel to reconvene at Union Seminary: Harry Wachtel to Al Lowenstein, Nov. 8, 1967, Box 11f377, #4340, UNC.

passed over President Franklin Roosevelt's veto: Dickson and Allen,
Bonus Army,
pp. 252–53.

tuition grants for 11 million: Ibid., pp. 273–77.

King began an opinion piece: MLK, “A Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged,” NYT, Nov. 12, 1967, p. IV-11.

gossip about Birmingham authorities: Int. Edward Gardner, Jan. 21, 1986.

cut short the sentence: NYT, Nov. 4, 1967, p. 21; Birmingham LHM dated Nov. 6, 1967, FK-NR.

“This looks like '63!”: SC, Nov. 11–12, 1967, p. 1.

Cleveland for the off-year elections: NYT, Aug. 27, 1967, p. 64; NYT, Oct. 4, 1967, p. 1; Garrow,
Bearing,
pp. 578–81; Young,
Burden,
pp. 436–37; Abernathy,
Walls,
pp. 485–88.

“Stokes, the great-grandson of a slave”:
Newsweek,
Nov. 20, 1967, p. 66.

consultation in Chicago: MLK speech, University of Chicago, Nov. 11, 1967, Series 4, Box 1, CALCAV, SCPC; wiretap transcript of telephone call between Jesse Jackson and Bea Levison, Nov. 9, 1967, FLNY-9-1483a; wiretap transcript of telephone call between Stanley and Bea Levison, 11:40
A.M.
, Aug. 16, 1967, FLNY-9-1398; wiretap transcript of telephone call between MLK and Stanley Levison, 12:41
A.M.
, Oct. 9, 1967, FLNY-9-1452.

“I feel presumptuous even in asking questions”: WP, Nov. 13, 1967, p. 1; NYT, Nov. 13, 1967, p. 1.

“turned to stone on the outside”: Johnson,
Diary,
pp. 587–89.

postlude into a tempest: NYT, Nov. 14, 1967, p. 6; WP, Nov. 14, 1967, p. 10; NYT, Nov. 16, 1967, p. 8; NYT, Nov. 19, 1967, p. 2; NYT, Nov. 19, 1967, p. IV-12.

King departed for northern England: Garrow,
Bearing,
p. 581.

“psychologic elaboration”: NYT, Nov. 12, 1967, p. 70.

openly proclaiming an advocacy stance: “Newsweek Drops Its Policy of Avoiding ‘Advocacy'”: NYT, Nov. 11, 1967, p. 31; full-page advertisement signed by
Newsweek
editor Osborn Elliott, NYT, Nov. 13, 1967, p. 96; “Newsweek Urges Wide Aid to Negro,” NYT, Nov. 13, 1967, p. 55.

special issue on the crisis of race: “The Negro in America: What Must Be Done,”
Newsweek,
Nov. 20, 1967, p. 32ff.

King let Stanley Levison draft arguments: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between MLK and Stanley Levison, 10:45
A.M.
, Nov. 16, 1967, FLNY-9-1490; wiretap transcript of telephone call between Stanley Levison and Andrew Young, 1:26
A.M.
, Nov. 19, 1967, FLNY-9-1493.

“I'm on fire about the thing”: MLK, “Why a Movement,” Nov. 28, 1967, A/SC28f42.

At the week-long retreat: NYT, Nov. 27, 1967, p. 53.

“Violence has been the inseparable twin”: MLK, “The State of the Movement,” Nov. 28, 1967, A/SC28f42.

had just met with Olympic athletes: Ibid.; NYT, Nov. 24, 1967, p. 30.

“So I say to you tonight”: MLK, “The State of the Movement,” Nov. 28, 1967, A/SC28f42, p. 12.

Bevel disputed King's constitutional basis: Int. Bernard Lafayette, May 28, 1990 and March 22, 2005.

FBI intelligence reports of leadership friction: FBI HQ LHM dated Dec. 7, 1967, Box 32, OFMS, LBJ.

“his ability to confront without repelling”: The Rev. G. H. Jack Woodard, Jr., to MLK, Nov. 28, 1967, A/SC2f19.

“I can't support you”: Int. Hosea Williams, Oct. 28, 1991.

“That nigger don't know nothin' about niggers!”: Int. William Rutherford, Dec. 7, 2004.

“The great burden of this”: Notes, SCLC Frogmore Retreat, Nov. 1967, with a cover note from Stanley Levison to Dora McDonald, A/SC14f42.

“I figure our riots”: Ibid.

check for culture shock in Rutherford: Int. William Rutherford, Dec. 7, 2004; int. Bernard Lafayette, March 22, 2005.

sell or license his businesses: Rutherford to Andrew Young, Sept. 1, 1967, A/SC39f10; Rutherford to MLK, Sept. 21, 1967, A/SC5f15; Rutherford to Andrew Young, Oct. 24 and Oct. 25, 1967, A/SC39f13.

greeted Rutherford with two secret assignments: Garrow,
Bearing,
pp. 584–85.

“Even Lillian?”: Int. William Rutherford, Dec. 7, 2004.

“Public preoccupation with Vietnam”: Rutherford to Andrew Young, Oct. 24, 1967, A/SC39f13.

“The day of the demonstration”: MLK, “Why a Movement,” Nov. 28, 1967, A/SC28f42.

this might be the last campaign: Int. Bernard Lafayette, March 22, 2005.

“I got really upset”: Int. Hosea Williams, Oct. 29, 1991.

“There is something in the book of Revelation”: MLK, “Why a Movement,” Nov. 28, 1967, A/SC28f42. King's verse is apparently a paraphrase of Revelation 3:2: “Awake, and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God.”

twelfth anniversary of his debut speech: Branch,
Parting,
pp. 138–42.

“The Southern Christian Leadership Conference”: MLK press conference, Dec. 4, 1967, A/KS.

“The Negro leader's mood”: NYT, Dec. 5, 1967, pp. 1, 32.

37: NEW YEAR TRIALS

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“We're killing innocent people”: NYT, Nov. 27, 1967, pp. 1, 15.

“I don't know what I can do”: Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 351.