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  2. Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Demonstrator with sign saying "Let his death not be in vain", in front of the White House, after the assassination of Martin Luther King. For some, King's assassination meant the end of the strategy of nonviolence. [32] Others in the movement reaffirmed the need to carry on King's and the movement's work.

  3. Fort Hood 43 - Wikipedia

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    After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, thousands of U.S. troops stationed at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, were sent to Chicago for riot control duty. Several black civilians were killed.

  4. Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the ...

  5. King assassination riots - Wikipedia

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    The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, [2] were a wave of civil disturbance which swept across the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Kansas City.

  6. List of shootings in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Dallas: November 22, 1963: 2: While traveling in an open car, President John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald, who then murdered J. D. Tippit, a Dallas police officer who had spotted him in a local neighborhood. Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald: Dallas: November 24, 1963: 1

  7. Why we’re still learning new things about the JFK assassination

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    What Landis remembers about being near Kennedy’s body could challenge elements of the so-called magic bullet theory, that one of the bullets that struck Kennedy also wounded then-Texas Gov. John ...

  8. Here's why the US Supreme Court halted Texas death row ... - AOL

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    Texas inmate Ruben Gutierrez came within 20 minutes of death by lethal injection before the U.S. Supreme Court intervened Tuesday evening. Here's why.

  9. United States House Select Committee on Assassinations

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    The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established on September 15, 1976 by U.S. House Resolution 1540 [7] to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 and 1968, respectively.