{"id":118,"date":"2024-05-19T00:11:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T00:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2024-05-19T00:19:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T00:19:08","slug":"118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 4,&nbsp;Martin Luther King Jr.&nbsp;spends the day at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis working and meeting with local leaders on plans for his Poor People\u2019s March on Washington to take place late in the month. At 6pm, as he greets the car and friends in the courtyard, King is shot with one round from a 30.06 rifle. He will be declared dead just an hour later at St. Joseph\u2019s hospital. After an international man-hunt James Earl Ray will be arrested on June 27 in England, and convicted of the murder. Ray died in prison in 1998.<br>Robert Kennedy, hearing of the murder just before he is to give a speech in Indianapolis, IN, delivers a powerful extemporaneous&nbsp;eulogy&nbsp;in which he pleads with the audience \u201cto tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The King assassination sparks rioting in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, Newark, Washington, D.C., and many others. Across the country 46 deaths will be blamed on the riots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1HQtfh5HbYY?si=CJ9_1cn0xU5V7H8F\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 4,&nbsp;Martin Luther King Jr.&nbsp;spends the day at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis working and meeting with local leaders on plans for his Poor People\u2019s March on Washington to take place late in the month. At 6pm, as he greets the car and friends in the courtyard, King is shot with one round from a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}