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By Wayne Whitt, Staff Correspondent
Nashville Tennessean Newspaper
MEMPHIS - Dr. Martin Luther King, Nobel Peace Prize winner who made
nonviolence his chief Weapon in the fight for civil rights, was shot to
death here last night as he stood on a balcony outside his hotel room.
The 39-year-old Negro leader was felled by a snipers bullet which struck
him in the neck as he prepared to leave the Lorraine Motel for dinner.
He was rushed to St. Joseph Hospital and wheeled into the emergency
room, a white towel around his neck and an oxygen mask on his face.
He appeared to be breathing but died shortly after 7pm., despite
emergency surgery, an hour after he was shot.
Memphis Police immediately issued an alarm for a "young white male, well
dressed," who reportedly ran out of a building across the street and fled in
a car after dropping a Browning automatic rifle, fitted with a scope.............
My Memories:
I was just a kid when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, but remember when
it happened. Being a young white kid, I really didn't know much about him,
but knew it was a big deal. It was all over the news, and even caused riots
to take place in north Nashville shortly afterwards.
I later learned the importance of Martin Luther King Jr. and what he stood
for. I saved this newspaper, as I knew that this was a major news event.
I later visited the Lorraine Motel several times. See my pictures below.
By Wayne Whitt, Staff Correspondent
Nashville Tennessean Newspaper
MEMPHIS - Dr. Martin Luther King, Nobel Peace Prize winner who made
nonviolence his chief Weapon in the fight for civil rights, was shot to
death here last night as he stood on a balcony outside his hotel room.
The 39-year-old Negro leader was felled by a snipers bullet which struck
him in the neck as he prepared to leave the Lorraine Motel for dinner.
He was rushed to St. Joseph Hospital and wheeled into the emergency
room, a white towel around his neck and an oxygen mask on his face.
He appeared to be breathing but died shortly after 7pm., despite
emergency surgery, an hour after he was shot.
Memphis Police immediately issued an alarm for a "young white male, well
dressed," who reportedly ran out of a building across the street and fled in
a car after dropping a Browning automatic rifle, fitted with a scope.............
My Memories:
I was just a kid when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, but remember when
it happened. Being a young white kid, I really didn't know much about him,
but knew it was a big deal. It was all over the news, and even caused riots
to take place in north Nashville shortly afterwards.
I later learned the importance of Martin Luther King Jr. and what he stood
for. I saved this newspaper, as I knew that this was a major news event.
I later visited the Lorraine Motel several times. See my pictures below.
| Nashville Tennessean - April 5, 1968 - Nashville Tennessee DR. KING SLAIN IN MEMPHIS |
| CBS Television News of the 1968 death of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis Tennessee |
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| Pictures of the Lorraine Motel including the balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed. The above pictures were taken by myself (Pat Adams) in 1989 |
| Pictures of the Lorraine Motel after it was turned into a Civil Rights Museum The above three photographs were taken by myself (Pat Adams) around 2000 |
| My Pictures Of The Lorraine Motel My first trip to the Lorraine Motel was in 1989, at a time when the hotel was just a rundown abandoned motel. A glass enclosed shrine to Martin Luther King Jr., stood on the balcony where he was shot. I remember taking pictures, only to be confronted by a homeless women living at the hotel, and her large male friend. We quickly jumped in our car and left , before they had a chance to catch up with us. My second trip (around 2000) was after the Civil Rights Museum had been built. |
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