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On this date in 1968 the Reverend Martin Luther King was assassinated at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. This event then caused riots and fires in some of our cities.
April 4, 1968:
Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.