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; AUDIO : Charles Wheeler reports on the reaction in America; The American black civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King, has been assassinated. ... Dr King was shot dead in the southern US city of Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a march of sanitation workers protesting against low wages and poor working conditions...
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news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/low/dates/stories/april/4/news...
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/low/dates/stories/april/4/newsid_2453000/2453987.stm
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Martin Luther King, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progre...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
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At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a shot rang out. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had been standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, now lay sprawled on the balcony's floor. What happened that evening? ... Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated...
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history1900s.about.com/cs/martinlutherking/a/mlkassass....
history1900s.about.com/cs/martinlutherking/a/mlkassass.htm
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Martin Luther King, Jr. catapulted to fame when he came to the assistance of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery, Alabama Black seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus to a White passenger. ... James Meredith was shot on a 220 mile "March Against Fear" from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson Mississippi...
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www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm
www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm
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Other children born to the Kings were Christine King Farris and the late Reverend Alfred Daniel Williams King. Martin Luther King's maternal grandparents were the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, second pastor of Ebenezer Baptist, ... Dr. King was shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,
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www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs218.html
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Since Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, assassination 40 years ago, his murder has become endless fodder for conspiracy theorists. Using a rifle with a sniper scope, he shot King from his bathroom window as King stood on the balcony of the motel. The single bullet severed King's spinal cord and killed him.
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www.infoplease.com/spot/mlk1.html
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to The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot , which Haskins cites as the ``end of the civil rights era.'' Brief accounts of brave individuals, both black and white, are included: abolitionists; students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1957;
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www.amazon.ca/Day-Martin-Luther-King-Shot/dp/0590436619
www.amazon.ca/Day-Martin-Luther-King-Shot/dp/0590436619
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