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By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide to 20th Century History since 1997

Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated

Sunday April 4, 2004
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a shot rang out. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had been standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, now lay sprawled on the balcony's floor. What happened that evening?

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