In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Hellhound on His Trail, Hampton Sides tells the story of the final moments of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life—including his last conversation, his obliviousness to danger and why he didn’t want bodyguards, his dinner invitation for Jesse Jackson, and the careful attention of his assassin.
Sides is the author of Hellhound on His Trail, a narrative history of the King assassination, out in paperback this March from Anchor.