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VIDEO: April 4, 1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN.

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April 4, 1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN.

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