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As early as the mid-1950s, Martin Luther King Jr. had received death threats because of his prominence in the civil rights movement. He had confronted the risk of death, including a nearly fatal stabbing in 1958, and made its recognition part of his philosophy. He taught that murder could not stop the struggle for equal rights.
Edith Isabel Rodriguez (February 1, 1964 – May 9, 2007) was a woman who died of gastrointestinal perforation at the Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital (King-Harbor) in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, [1] after being refused treatment by hospital staff.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Outpatient Center, formerly known as Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center, Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center (King/Drew), and later Martin Luther King Jr.–Harbor Hospital (MLK–Harbor or King–Harbor), was a public urgent care center and outpatient clinic and former hospital in Willowbrook, an unincorporated section of Los Angeles ...
James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998) was an American fugitive who was convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
As riots erupted and smoke billowed from black neighborhoods in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, Robert F. Kennedy met with black activists, politicians and celebrities in a hotel ...
Filming began in February 2008, with an April 1, 2008 deadline for completion in time for the 40th memorial of King's death. It was done on location at the Lorraine Motel and at several other historic sites in Memphis including the National Civil Rights Museum and Mason Temple Church of God in Christ. About the project, director Adam Pertosfsky ...
On July 22, 1991, Dahmer's final victim Tracy Edwards escaped his apartment and made it out alive. According to ABC News , Tracy led Milwaukee police to discover 84 Polaroid pictures in a bedside ...
The wildfires raging throughout Los Angeles County began on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, and have scorched more than 30,000 acres of land and left thousands displaced.