at the Lorraine Motel. The non-violent leader had traveled there to support sanitation workers who were striking. RELATED: Trump orders declassification of JFK, RFK and MLK Jr. records James Earl Ray ...

King was shot and killed by James Earl Ray on the evening of April 4, 1968, as he stood on a second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. Friends and family of Martin Luther King ...

Mary Ellen Ford was a 21-year-old cook at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel in April 1968, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. checked in to the Tennessee motel for the last time. King, who was in ...

Who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. King was shot by James Earl Ray from a window across the street from the Lorraine ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is celebrated each year ... King was shot at 6:05 p.m. on April 4, 1968, on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He had arrived in Memphis ...

For the 23rd year, the Grizzlies will host an MLK Day matchup in Memphis, the city where Dr. King was assassinated in the former Lorraine Motel 57 years ago on the night of April 4, 1968.

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated and honored Monday in events around the ...

Martin Luther King Jr’s family offered their response to President Trump’s decision to release the secret FBI files on the civil rights icon’s assassination nearly 60 years ago — a “deeply personal ...