Martin Luther King Jr. died from an assassin?s bullet around 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 1968. Less than 48 hours later, Baltimore?s streets were in chaos.

Around 5 p.m. on April 6, a few out-of-control looters were reported around the 900 block of Gay Street. Early on, the unrest, according to a 1968 report by the Maryland Criminal Investigation Commission, was nothing more than a few random fires.