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"The Accident on a Garbage Truck That Led to the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.", episode of the Southern Hollows podcast; Dr. King's Assassination Archived May 5, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Civil Rights Digital Library.
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.
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.
Civil rights movement leader, advocate of nonviolence and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while standing on the balcony of his motel in Memphis on Thursday, April 4 ...
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.
Hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents detailing the FBI’s investigation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s 1968 assassination, the civil rights ...
Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination files will be declassified following an executive order signed by President Trump on Jan. 23, 2025. ... Friends and family of Martin Luther King Jr. ride ...
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.