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A Sad Day for the country.

paracarl44

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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.
 
Very sad day indeed. :(
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.
 
While we'll probably never know who really assassinated Martin Luther King, it is certain that King was being targeted by COINTELPRO and was also under surveillance by military intelligence agencies during the period leading up to his assassination under the code name Operation Lantern Spike.
 
Caught the rebroadcast of the "Roads to Memphis" episode of American Experience on PBS the other night, telling the parallel stories of Ray and King leading up to that fatal April 4. It includes a segment where in response to an interviewer's explicit mention of the possibility that his efforts were inviting assassination, King states, "I am convinced that when one does this, honestly, death can become redemptive." This is followed by footage of him flinching and ducking during a march apparently to a sound like gunfire, though this effect seems to have been added over the presumably originally silent black-and-white film.

The sequence can be viewed starting at 9:24 here, and from it I gained a new appreciation for the bravery of the man.
 
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