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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 died at 7:05 p.m at age 39.

  3. Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin ...

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    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.

  4. 1968 New York City riot - Wikipedia

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    The 1968 New York City riot was a disturbance sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968. Harlem, the largest African-American neighborhood in Manhattan was expected to erupt into looting and violence as it had done a year earlier, in which two dozen stores were either burglarized or burned and four people were killed.

  5. Remember when ... Central Jersey reacts to Martin Luther King ...

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    A look back at the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. ... "This is one of the worst things that could have happened, especially at a time when we have all these people ...

  6. The view from the mountaintop: Martin Luther King's turbulent ...

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    On April 4, 1967, a Tuesday, Martin Luther King Jr. took the pulpit at New York’s Riverside Church, the great Gothic cathedral conceived by John D. Rockefeller Jr., to deliver a speech entitled ...

  7. Remembering MLK on April 4 in Memphis: Event to celebrate ...

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    The commemoration is set to begin at 4:30 p.m. and end with a moment of silence at about 6:05 p.m. — the time when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed outside his room at the Lorraine ...

  8. 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. After the assassination, Ray fled to London, England and was captured in the United Kingdom.

  9. King assassination riots - Wikipedia

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    The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, [2] were a wave of civil disturbance which swept across the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Kansas City.