Since “Hellhound on His Trail” came out in the spring of 2010, I’ve had occasion to think anew about the many conspiracy theories that swirl around the story of the King assassination…a lot of perfectly sane people believe that Martin Luther King was killed as a result of a vast, shadowy conspiracy.
—Hampton Sides, author, “Hellhound on His Trail.”
This being the weekend America honored MLK, we’re recalling that lament of the above-quoted author Hampton Sides—whose excellent, compelling account of the largest manhunt in FBI history is worth buying, right now, on your Kindle or iPad—about the persistence of weird conspiracy theories surrounding what was, in fact, the well-documented assassination of one civil rights leader by one sorry but clever-enough jailbird, as we consider the persistence of a weird conspiracy theory about a once-proud retailer brought low by one genius of a hedge-fund manager.
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