On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST, Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, whe
The immediate aftermath of the shooting of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. This photograph was taken within just seconds of the shooting by photographer Joseph Louw, the only known photographer at the scene.
Lorraine Motel, pictured in 2022
The approximate location of King when he was shot on April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel. The location can be seen marked with a white wreath and a tile on the floor of the balcony.
Demonstrator with sign saying "Let his death not be in vain", in front of the White House, after the assassination
Assassination of Malcolm X
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On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X, a Muslim African American minister and Black power activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
…was one of four major assassinations of the 1960s in the United States, coming several years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and two months before the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968. As early as the mid-1950s, Martin Luther King Jr. had received death…
Malcolm X being taken away from the Audubon Ballroom on a stretcher after the shooting
Assassin Thomas Hagan being restrained by a police officer at the hospital where he was taken after the killing.
Grave site of Malcolm X
Louis Farrakhan in 1997