1.+King+Assassination

=**ASSASSINATION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. **=

Dr, Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and civial rights advocate was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son of Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta William King. King attended Morehouse College at the early age of fifteen, graduated, and continued his studies. He was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 1964.

King had been threatened and encouraged to commit suicide, and in the spring of 1968 he was assassinated. He had traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to support striking sanitation workers. On April 4, 1968 he was shot while standing on the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel.  James Earl Ray was arrested and confessed to having murdered Dr. King, but while in jail Ray recanted his story. He escaped prison, was found and put back. Members of the King family believed that he was either innocent or part of a larger conspiracy. He was sentenced to 99 years and died in 1998 of liver problem.

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