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  2. 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 was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m at age 39.

  3. 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.

  4. National Civil Rights Museum - Wikipedia

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    Civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. stayed in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in early April 1968, while working to organize protests around the ongoing Memphis sanitation strike. While standing on the balcony outside his room on the evening of April 4, King was shot once in the face by an unseen assassin.

  5. Witness at Memphis motel where Martin Luther King was shot ...

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    For five decades, most people never knew what Mary Ellen Ford — or "Witness #43" — saw on April 4, 1968.

  6. 9 places where you can walk in MLK Jr.’s footsteps - AOL

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    King and his group were booked at the Lorraine Motel, a safe and welcoming place to stay for black travelers at the time. ... King was standing on the balcony outside of room 306 when he was shot ...

  7. Trump signs order to declassify files on JFK, RFK and MLK ...

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    Under the Martin Luther King Jr.Records Collection Act, the remaining files pertaining to King are not due for release until 2027. King was fatally shot by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in ...

  8. Loyd Jowers - Wikipedia

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    Loyd Jowers (November 20, 1926 [1] – May 20, 2000) was an American restaurateur and the owner of Jim's Grill, a restaurant near the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. For the first 25 years after the assassination of King, Jowers testified that he was in the restaurant at the time of ...

  9. St. Joseph's Hospital (Memphis) - Wikipedia

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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.