Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Many of us have seen the picture. I wasn't born yet. But it's an image that's hard to get out of one's head. Just as his words are hard to get out of one's heart.
The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
And...
so....
we...
remember.
The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
And...
so....
we...
remember.
Sad day...and happy day. Elise was born today 30 years later.
Question: have you ever seen the entire 'I have a dream' speech?
1968 was a BAD year: First MLK, then Bobby Kennedy, then the Chicago riots at the Dem. Nat'l Conv., the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam. Bad year...
Yes, seen the whole speech. Did some research into MLK in seminary. Turbulent times.