On this day, April 4, in 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally wounded by an assassin’s bullet.
King, 39, was standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine in Memphis, Tenn., where he planned to lead a march in support of sanitation workers.
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