Photos: When Martin Luther King Jr. Died

Images from the day King was assassinated.

Dr. King's Assassination\r - The assassination of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shocked the world and altered the course of the movement indefinitely. Take a look back at some of the events of days following King's 1968 shooting.
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Assassination - On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m., a single shot was fired at King, who was standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.\r(Photo: Commercial Appeal/Landov)The Balcony - On the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, flowers and pictures adorn a memorial for King at the site where he was assassinated.(Photo: Fred Griffith/Commercial Appeal/Landov)\r\r 

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Dr. King's Assassination\r - The assassination of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shocked the world and altered the course of the movement indefinitely. Take a look back at some of the events of days following King's 1968 shooting.

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