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EXCLUSIVE: Captured on camera, the aftermath of the civil rights leader s assassination remains one of the most iconic images ever. But for one woman, whose father was pictured 55 years ago tending to the fallen man, it also has a deeply personal and troubling resonance.
Image source Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights legend and leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is murdered, the evening of April 4, 1968 at 6:01pm by an assassin’s bullet outside his room, #306, on the 2nd floor balcony of the Lorrain Motel in Memphis Tennessee. This brutal act shocks the conscience of
Martin Luther King Jr. s Mountaintop speech offers hope to an angry nation
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This excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr. s I Have Been To The Mountaintop speech has particular resonance today. Delivered to a church packed with workers in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, the speech would prove eerily prophetic. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated the next day. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That s a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding.