ToxicGarden
04-04-2004, 12:20 AM
April 4, 1968
The American black civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King, has been assassinated.
Dr King was shot dead in the southern US city of Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a march of sanitation workers protesting against low wages and poor working conditions
He was shot in the neck as he stood on a hotel balcony and died in hospital soon afterwards.
Reverend Jesse Jackson was on the balcony with Dr King when the single shot rang out.
"He had just bent over. I reckon if he had been standing up he would not have been hit in the face," said Mr Jackson.
Did she make you cry
Make you break down
Shatter your illusions of love
The American black civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King, has been assassinated.
Dr King was shot dead in the southern US city of Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a march of sanitation workers protesting against low wages and poor working conditions
He was shot in the neck as he stood on a hotel balcony and died in hospital soon afterwards.
Reverend Jesse Jackson was on the balcony with Dr King when the single shot rang out.
"He had just bent over. I reckon if he had been standing up he would not have been hit in the face," said Mr Jackson.
Did she make you cry
Make you break down
Shatter your illusions of love