Martin Luther King Jr., a 39-year-old African American civil rights leader, was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel, where he was staying while supporting a local sanitation workers' strike. King was on the balcony of his room, Room 306, when he was struck by a single bullet fired from a Remington 760 Gamemaster rifle. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m.
The assassin, James Earl Ray,
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