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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 3446729" data-attributes="member: 1246">April 4, 1968 Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr" target="_blank">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/tennessee" target="_blank">Tennessee</a>. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.</blockquote>