“I was still trying to figure out what the hell I was gonna do,” author Hampton Sides said when we talked recently.
It was three years ago when we last talked, and back then, Sides was about to embark on the research for his next book.
“I was having to ask: How am I to make a dent in the literature that exists on this subject?”
The subject is the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The site of that killing was Sides’ hometown, Memphis. And three years ago, Sides was just starting on his reconstruction of the events leading up to and following April 4, 1968. This week, that book finally hits stores. It’s called Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin (Doubleday).
Sides continued:
