Summary

Part III begins with Walker taking a bus to San Francisco in 1951. Tired of this mode of transportation, he disembarks at a rest stop and begins hitchhiking. He is picked up by a man named Ed Newell, who points out the flora and fauna as they make their way up the coast. In San Francisco, Walker checks in to a boardinghouse. He buys a postcard and writes a message on it to Annie MacLeod. He interviews homeless veterans and wanders the city. He happens upon a film crew and recognizes the name of the director, Dmytryk, because the man had been arrested on suspicion of being a communist, and then witnesses a man being stabbed in the throat in an alley.

Walker visits UC Berkeley to talk to a professor Overholt suggested he get in touch with, Walter Friedländer. Friedländer explains...