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--SUPERS-- File --VO SCRIPT-- TODAY (MONDAY), MARKS 48 YEARS SINCE THE ASSASSINATION OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS ICON WAS IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE TO SUPPORT A STRIKE BY SANITATION WORKERS HE WAS GUNNED DOWN AT THE LORRAINE MOTEL--JUST AFTER SIX P-M, ON APRIL FOURTH, 1968 A BULLET STRUCK HIM IN THE NECK WHILE HE WAS STANDING ON A BALCONY KING WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AND PRONOUNCED DEAD ABOUT AN HOUR LATER HE WAS 39 YEARS OLD RIOTS ERUPTED IN MORE THAN 100 CITIES AROUND THE U-S IN THE DAYS AFTER HIS DEATH A SMALL-TIME CRIMINAL NAMED JAMES EARL RAY PLEADED GUILTY TO DOCTOR KINGS MURDER IN 1969, BUT LATER RECANTED HIS CONFESSION SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATIONS FOUND RAY GUILTY BUT EVEN MEMBERS OF DOCTOR KINGS OWN FAMILY HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT RAYS INVOLVEMENT -----END-----CNNSCRIPT----- --KEYWORD TAGS-- DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ANNIVERSARY ASSASSINATION CIVIL RIGHTS

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Title FILE- MLK ASSASSINATION ANNIVERSARY-MONDAY
Date 04/03/2016
Description --SUPERS-- File --VO SCRIPT-- TODAY (MONDAY), MARKS 48 YEARS SINCE THE ASSASSINATION OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS ICON WAS IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE TO SUPPORT A STRIKE BY SANITATION WORKERS HE WAS GUNNED DOWN AT THE LORRAINE MOTEL--JUST AFTER SIX P-M, ON APRIL FOURTH, 1968 A BULLET STRUCK HIM IN THE NECK WHILE HE WAS STANDING ON A BALCONY KING WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AND PRONOUNCED DEAD ABOUT AN HOUR LATER HE WAS 39 YEARS OLD RIOTS ERUPTED IN MORE THAN 100 CITIES AROUND THE U-S IN THE DAYS AFTER HIS DEATH A SMALL-TIME CRIMINAL NAMED JAMES EARL RAY PLEADED GUILTY TO DOCTOR KINGS MURDER IN 1969, BUT LATER RECANTED HIS CONFESSION SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATIONS FOUND RAY GUILTY BUT EVEN MEMBERS OF DOCTOR KINGS OWN FAMILY HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT RAYS INVOLVEMENT -----END-----CNNSCRIPT----- --KEYWORD TAGS-- DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ANNIVERSARY ASSASSINATION CIVIL RIGHTS
Class Editorial
Rights Rights Managed
Format Standard Definition
Synopsis April 4, 1968 marks 48 years since the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
CNN ID 38739539
Name 370KH0X_001
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