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Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST.He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died at 7:05 p.m at age 39.
On April 4, 1968, United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York delivered an improvised speech several hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy, who was campaigning to earn the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, made his remarks while in Indianapolis, Indiana, after speaking at two Indiana universities earlier in the day.
Martin Luther King Jr., whose death greatly upset civil rights activists and led to a wave of riots across the United States On April 4, 1968, African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a sniper in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King III speaks from the spot where his father was assassinated on April 4, 1968, during the “Remembering MLK: The Man. The Movement.
A look back at the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us ...
The National Civil Rights Museum will host a remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. on the April 4, 1968, anniversary of his assassination in Memphis.
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.
The 1968 New York City riot was a disturbance sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968. Harlem, the largest African-American neighborhood in Manhattan was expected to erupt into looting and violence as it had done a year earlier, in which two dozen stores were either burglarized or burned and four people were killed.