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Saint Joseph Hospital was a Catholic operated hospital located at 220 Overton Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.It is most well known for being the hospital where Martin Luther King Jr. died at 7:05 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 1968, an hour after he was shot at Lorraine Motel.
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 was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m at age 39.
St. Joseph's Hospital is a private, not-for-profit 615-bed [1] [2] community hospital in Tampa, Florida. [3] It was founded by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany in 1934, [1] [4] and was part of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany Health System alongside St. Anthony's Hospital in neighboring St. Petersburg.
King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.
Dr. Elaine Batchlor, chief executive of MLK Community Healthcare, walks around the exterior of the emergency department at MLK Community Hospital in South Los Angeles on Jan. 2, 2023.
Lowell General Hospital, Massachusetts, one campus of which was known as St. Joseph's Hospital prior to 1992; St. Joseph's Hospital (St. Paul, Minnesota) St. Joseph Medical Center (Kansas City, Missouri) St. Joseph's Hospital (Lewistown, Montana) St. Joseph's Hospital (Omaha, Nebraska) St. Joseph Hospital (Nashua, New Hampshire)
April 4 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of one of world history’s great leaders.From 1957 to 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled 6 million miles, gave over 2,500 speeches ...
King's prize medal displayed at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, Atlanta, United States. Martin Luther King received the news of his Nobel recognition while he was undergoing a medical checkup at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, Florida. Interviewed by news correspondents of The New York Times, he said: