Pillar of Fire (119 page)

Lynda Bird's hamburger party: Johnson,
White House Diary
, pp. 162-64.

“Open up some communication”: LBJ phone call with Lee White, June 10, 1964, Cit. 3671, Audiotape WH6406.05, LBJ.

“planting political stories”: Cf. LBJ phone call with George Reedy, June 9, 1964, Cit. 3647, Audiotape WH6406.04, LBJ.

“the nicest thing”: LBJ phone call with Robert Kennedy, June 11, 1964, Cit. 3699, Audiotape WH6406.06, LBJ.

“do a little heavy thinking”: LBJ phone call with Richard Russell, June 11, 1964, Cit. 3680-81, Audiotape WH6406.05, LBJ.

“magnificent drama taking place”: MLK address of June 10, 1964 (misdated June 11, 1964), A/KS7.

repeat the 40 percent loss: Lee White memo of June 10, 1964, David Colburn Papers, UF.

White House brokered messages: Ibid. Also White to MLK and Robert Hayling, June 11, 1964, Gen. HU2/ST9, LBJ; Douglass Cater to LBJ, June 11, 1964, David Colburn Papers, UF; Carl Holman to William L. Taylor, June 11, 1964, David Colburn Papers, UF; Judge Bryan Simpson to Assistant Deputy Attorney General Joseph P. Dolan, June 11, 1964, Box 7, Burke Marshall Papers, JFK.

“The Governor said that he would talk”: Lee White memo of June 10, 1964, David Colburn Papers, UF.

fn “we are not going”: Mrs. Edwin Price to Simpson, June 10, 1964, Bryan Simpson Papers, UF.

fn “how does it feel”: W. Forrest Taylor to Simpson, Aug. 20, 1964, Ibid.

fn “You S.O.B.”: “A mad citizen” to Simpson, Sept. 8, 1964, Ibid.

King presented himself for lunch: CD, June 13-19, 1964, p. 1; PC, June 20, 1964, p. 1;
Jet
, June 25, 1964, pp. 14-19;
Miami Herald
, June 12, 1964, p. 1; Colburn,
Racial Change
, pp. 91-92.

arrests for breach of peace: SAC, Jacksonville, to Director, June 11, 1964, FSA-1404.

Klansmen dressed as women:
Jet
, June 25, 1964, p. 16.

“Had it not been”: WMBR (Jacksonville) radio special,
St. Augustine, Florida
, Tape No. 64005-NWR, PEA.

brick borders from public flower beds: NYT, June 12, 1964.

told the FBI they wanted to move King: SAC, Jacksonville, to Director, June 12, 1964, FSA-1403.

“Medgar Evers was just”: Hartley, “A Long, Hot Summer,” p. 53, in Garrow, ed.,
St. Augustine
.

inches from a German shepherd guard dog:
Miami Herald
, June 14, 1964, p. 14.

“can be mobilized”: Reddick to MLK, June 19, 1964, A/KP20f5.

fn “He gave every hearer”: Harold H. Martin, “George Wallace Shakes Up the Political Scene,”
Saturday Evening Post
, May 9, 1964, p. 87.

“great personal strife”: Brando to MLK, June 10, 1964, A/KP4f46.

“Dear Sy”: MLK to Rabbi Israel S. Dresner, June 12, 1964, A/KP8f32.

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On Friday, June 12: Jacksonville LHM dated June 15, 1964, FSA-1438; NYT, June 13, 1964, p. 21. (The
Times
referred to Williams, a relative newcomer to its news pages, as a Hispanic “Jose” instead of the correct “Hosea,” perhaps because his name was commonly pronounced with only two syllables.)

“We're not gonna be put in chains”: Good,
Trouble I've Seen
, p. 96.

whiff of legend about Stoner: Massengill,
Portrait of a Racist
, p. 10; Carter,
Politics of Rage
, pp. 164-65.

“You need to learn more”: Stoner to Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy, Aug. 6, 1959, FEM-NR.

specialized in anti-Jewish polemics: “Down with the Jews,” a circular by Stoner dated April 30, 1946, is one of several documents attached to a 1964 investigative report solicited by Judge Bryan Simpson. Another is a
Miami Herald
editorial dated June 6, 1947, which attacks Stoner for mailing a pamphlet stating, “The Jews are too evil to be allowed to live.” Bryan Simpson Papers, UF.

friend and fellow stump speaker: “Portrait of an Extremist,”
Saturday Evening Post
, Aug. 22, 1964, pp. 80-83.

doctrines of Dr. Wesley Swift: Ibid. Also Massengill,
Portrait of a Racist
, pp. 214-17, 274-85.

inspire white supremacy: Massengill,
Portrait of a Racist
, pp. 9-10, 239.

“When they said that”: Good,
Trouble I've Seen
, p. 96.

“The coons have been parading”: NYT, June 12, 1964, p. 21.

Stoner led a double column: Colburn,
Racial Change
, p. 95.

“She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain”: Ibid. Also Good,
Trouble I've Seen
, pp. 97-98.

Slave Market on Saturday: Jacksonville teletype to Director, June 13, 1964, FSA-1402.

“I respect you”: Smathers telegram to MLK, June 13, 1964, A/KP20f41.

White told King's staff: White memorandum for the files, June 13, 1964, Box 5, Lee White Papers, LBJ.

King delivered his Rip Van Winkle: NYT, June 15, 1964, p. 32.

arrest a Yale student:
Miami Herald
, June 15, 1964; Jacksonville LHM dated June 15, 1964, FSA-1438, p. 5.

“The gratitude of people”:
Newsweek
, June 29, 1964, p. 26.

Yale's 263rd commencement: NYT, June 16, 1964, p. 34.

Sidney Poitier's home: New York LHM dated June 16, 1964, FMX-NR; Clarence Jones correlation summary dated Nov. 30, 1965, FJ-105, p. 4.

conceal his excitement: Int. Clarence Jones, Oct. 26, 1983; New York LHM dated June 16, 1964, FMX-NR.

He arrived at Poitier's: Boston LHM dated June 15, 1964, FMXNY-4565; Goldman,
Death and Life
, p. 195; Perry,
Malcolm
, p. 288.

Malcolm amplified his charges: Boston LHM dated June 15, 1964, FMXNY-4565, p. 8. When Lucille Karriem had fallen in love with a member of the Boston Temple, Malcolm explained, Captain Clarence X and Minister Louis had prevailed upon her during the Nation's premarital interrogation to confess the father of her children.

“brain trust”: FBI wiretap of June 17, 1964, FMXNY-1-15a, pp. 2-3.

challenged Minister Louis: FBI wiretap of 12:02
A.M.
, June 14, 1964, FMXNY-1-12.

“Tell Minister Louis to stop”: Karim,
Remembering Malcolm
, pp. 103-4.

“a few words”: Wiretap summary of June 9, 1964, FMXNY-4636.

“going right after the whole thing”: Wiretap summary of June 12, 1964, FMXNY-4636, p. 2.

crestfallen when Benjamin 2X arrived: Int. Benjamin Karim, March 19, 1991; Karim,
Remembering Malcolm
, pp. 183-84;
Saturday Evening Post
, Feb. 27, 1965, p. 29.

Benjamin could offer: Boston LHM dated June 18, 1964, FMXNY-4585, p. 1.

disaffected Muslims in the room: Boston LHM dated Aug. 7, 1964, FMXNY-4826; Boston LHM dated Sept. 16, 1964, FMXNY-4966, containing record of Aug. 26, 1964, int. of John Thimas, and Aug. 31, 1964, int. of Aubrey Barnette.

The chase began: Int. Benjamin Karim, March 19, 1991; Goldman,
Death and Life
, p. 194; Perry,
Malcolm
, p. 288.

“It was here”: Boston LHM dated June 18, 1964, FMXNY-4585, p. 4.

Benjamin 2X returned: Wiretap log of June 14, 1964, FMXNY-1-12a.

delivered his bastardy speech: New York LHM dated June 15, 1964, FMXNY-4557.

“and talk some stuff”: Wiretap log of June 15, 1964, 1:26 a.m., FMXNY-1-13.

thirty-two officers escorted: Goldman,
Death and Life
, pp. 195-98; Perry,
Malcolm
, pp. 290-93.

“just like the Boy Scouts”: Int. Yusuf Shah (Captain Joseph), Oct. 17, 1991.

“cut him to pieces”: Conversation of June 15 in wiretap summary dated June 24, 1964, FMXNY-4636.

“I found out that”:
New York World Telegram
, June 18, 1964, p. 1.

“There is no people”:
New York Herald Tribune
, June 16, 1964.

“Muslim Factions at War”: NYAN, June 20, 1964, p. 1.

“Says Muhammad Brought Stork”:
Philadelphia Tribune
, June 20, 1964, pp. 1, 24.

begged her favorite son: Clara Muhammad-Wallace Muhammad conversation of June 16 in wiretap summary dated June 18, 1964, FMXNY-4594.

Muslims carrying rifles: Goldman,
Death and Life
, p. 199; SAC, New York, to Director, June 16, 1964, FMX-116.

telephone dead at the house: Wiretap log of Malcolm X conversation, June 15, 1964, FMXNY-1-15a; NYAN, June 20, 1964, p. 1.

grace period of several months: Perry,
Malcolm
, p. 292.

Jackie Robinson had received:
Miami Herald
, June 17, 1964, p. 1; Jacksonville to Director, June 16, 1964, FSA-1445.

fifty-one demonstrators: Jacksonville LHM dated June 17, 1964, FSA-NR.

camera crew from Miami: WKCT-TV, Miami,
St. Augustine: Fountain of Dissent
, 1964, Part 3, PEA.

petitioned Burke Marshall: Jacksonville teletype to Director, June 15, 1964, FSA-1408.

staying at the Lincolnville home: Int. Henry and Katherine Twine, April 2, 1991.

eating figs off a tree: Int. Janic Jones Price, April 6, 1991.

“This is the old”: Good,
Trouble I've Seen
, pp. 99-100.

lost twenty pounds:
Jacksonville Journal
, June 17, 1964, p. 4.

prepared the audience for a settlement: Jacksonville teletype to Director, June 16, 1964, FSA-1422.

“Thank you very kindly”: WKCT-TV, Miami,
St. Augustine: fountain of Dissent
, 1964, Part 3, PEA.

“How is St. Augustine?”: LBJ phone call with Lee White, June 16, 1964, Cit. 3751, Audiotape WH6406.09, LBJ.

Ohio auditorium that night: Sutherland,
Letters from Mississippi
, pp. 5-6; Carson,
In Struggle
, p. 113; Rothschild,
Black and White
, p. 54; Cagin and Dray,
We Are Not Afraid
, pp. 29-33; Dittmer,
Local People
, pp. 242-44; int. Cleveland Sellers by William Link, May 10, 1989.

CBS television documentary: CBS Reports,
Mississippi and the Fifteenth Amendment
, aired Sept. 26, 1962.

SNCC members eyed them warily: Int. Charles Cobb, Aug. 29, 1991.

Drills in nonviolence: Cagin and Dray,
We Are Not Afraid
, p. 33; Blackstone, PBS documentary
Eyes on the Prize
, I, 5,
This is America? Mississippi: 1962-64
, aired Feb. 18, 1987.

“I met those SNCC”: Evans,
Personal Politics
, p. 70.

Hollis Watkins could not bear it.”: Int. Hollis Watkins, June 22, 1992.

ten stewards of Mount Zion and Cole beating: NYT, June 28, 1964, p. 47; Huie,
Three Lives
, pp. 84-89; Holt,
The Summer
, pp. 266-67; Whitehead,
Attack on Terror
, pp. 47-51; Mars,
Witness
, pp. 168-75; Dittmer,
Local People
, p. 247.

“Father, I stretch my hands to Thee”: A Methodist martyrdom hymn attributed to Charles Wesley, 1707-88, revised in the 1930s by J. Jefferson Cleveland and Verolga Nix.

fn “We are asking”: Moses to LBJ, June 14, 1964, A/SN100f14.

another COFO press release: COFO press release of June 17, 1964, A/SN100f14.

orchestrated letters to Washington: Form letter to LBJ dated June 17, 1964, A/SN10014; reply to Clarence J. Harris from Lee White, June 29, 1964, A/SN100f12.

“Although on the surface”: Lee White to LBJ, June 17, 1964, Ex HU 2/ST 24, LBJ.

James Lawson addressed: Sutherland,
Letters from Mississippi
, pp. 29-30.

John Doar warned: McAdam,
Freedom Summer
, p. 67; Dittmer,
Local People
, p. 245.

Forman denounced: Int. John Doar, May 12, 1986; int. Robert P. Moses by Joseph Sinsheimer, Dec. 5, 1984; int. Robert P. Moses, Feb. 15, 1991; Sutherland,
Letters from Mississippi
, p. 12; Huie,
Three Lives
, p. 94.