![]() With relentless storytelling drive, Sides follows Galt and King 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. ![]() Humiliated, King fatefully vowed to return to Memphis in April. Hoping to resuscitate his faltering crusade, King joined the sanitation workers cause, but their march down Beale Street, the historic avenue of the blues, turned violent. On February 1, 1968, two Memphis garbage men were crushed to death in their hydraulic truck, provoking the exclusively African American workforce to go on strike. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this nondescript thief and con manwhose real name was James Earl Raydrifted through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he was galvanized by George Wallaces racist presidential campaign. ![]() On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. ![]()
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