Martin Luther King4 April 1968
Shot dead while stepping out onto a motel room balcony in Memphis
United States of America · Politics / Racial Equality. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Shot dead while stepping out onto a motel room balcony in Memphis
A crowd of 300,000 attend Martin Luther King's funeral
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