Hampton Sides: Hellbound on His Trail May 5, 2010

With relentless storytelling drive, Sides follows Eric Galt, a.k.a. James Earl Ray, and Martin Luther King Jr. as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the crushing moment at the Lorraine Motel when the drifter catches up with his prey. Against the backdrop of the resulting nationwide riots and the pathos of King's funeral, Sides gives us a riveting cross-cut narrative of the assassin's flight and the sixty-five-day search that led investigators to Canada, Portugal, and England-a massive manhunt ironically led by Hoover's FBI.