On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Every year since our opening in 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum ...

This year's theme, "How Long, Not Long," is taken from King's famous speech in Alabama. The ceremony will feature performances, a keynote speaker, and a wreath-laying at the Lorraine Motel balcony. Dr ...

Friday marks 57 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 3, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what was to be his final speech, telling a rally ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther ... That evening, as ...

Fifty-seven years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Downtown Memphis. While visiting Memphis to support a workers' strike, King was shot and killed outside ...

Documents related to the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F ... as he stood on the balcony of the old Lorraine Motel. King, who was 39 years old, was rushed to a hospital, ...

From Memphis, TN, television news broadcasts and a morning newspaper -- the Commercial Appeal, James Earl Ray discovers that Martin Luther King is staying at the Lorraine Motel, room 306.

Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. Trump renews call for interest rate cut, says rates would be lower if Fed chief Powell 'understood ...