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  2. James Earl Ray - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

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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.

  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.

  5. Izola Curry - Wikipedia

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    Izola Curry (née Ware; June 14, 1916 – March 7, 2015) was a woman who attempted to assassinate the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. She stabbed King with a letter opener at a Harlem book signing on September 20, 1958, during the Harlem civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. King survived Curry's attempt.

  6. 10 Surprising Facts About Martin Luther King Jr. - AOL

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    King reportedly donated the prize money, amounting to $53,123, to support the civil rights movement. He was named after Protestant reformer Martin Luther. King was born Michael King Jr. on Jan. 15 ...

  7. Jack Kershaw - Wikipedia

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    Starting in 1977, Kershaw represented James Earl Ray, who had been sentenced to 99 years in prison for his role in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Charged with firing the shot that killed Dr. King on April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, Ray had pleaded guilty to the crime in 1969 at the suggestion of his attorney Percy Foreman; Ray would have faced an ...

  8. Samuel L. Jackson: How I became an usher at Martin Luther ...

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    Samuel L. Jackson was a sophomore at Morehouse College in Atlanta when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

  9. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s net worth: then and now - AOL

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    April 4 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of one of world history’s great leaders.