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King Shooting Mystery Broadcast Shocks Memphis
In Memphis Rev. Jesse Jackson stood beside Martin Luther King Jr on the Lorraine Motel balcony when a gunshot killed the civil rights leader. Witnesses described a white Mustang and a gun in a rooming house, sparking a high speed chase report and a police jacket of silence as the Ray trial nears.
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Memphis
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Council
Jesse Jackson
Lorraine
Dr. King
Rev. Jackson
Cnme
Solomon Jones
Kings
Chauncey Eskridge
SCLC
Jones
St. Josephs Hospital
King
Tiating
Ray Will
Main Street
Charles Stephens
Willie Anchutz
Ray
Oli
Rooming House
Guy W. Canipe
Amusements
Hemel Finley
Julius Graham Eee
Wood
Tennessee
Alabama
de. King
Jim
Austin Peay Highway
Lorraine Motel
Martin Luther King