Fifty-seven years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Downtown Memphis. While visiting Memphis to support a workers' strike, King was shot and killed outside ...

Recent travelers agreed the National Civil Rights Museum should be at the top of anyone's list of things to see in Memphis. Housed in the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was ...

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is commemorating the 57th anniversary ... and a wreath-laying at the Lorraine ...

Friday marks 57 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The ...

On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Every year since our opening in 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum ...

In recent years in Memphis, recognition of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. national ... which was built around a preserved portion of the Lorraine Motel, where King was murdered.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 3, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what was to be his final speech, telling a rally ...

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is commemorating ... and a wreath-laying at the Lorraine Motel balcony. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been dead almost 60 years, but his philosophy ...