been 40 years, incredibly enough, since Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis. The Commerical Appeal has a section devoted to King.
Yesterday some activists there called for new action.
I remember the assassination like it was yesterday. I was in seventh grade at the time and heard about the killing in my first-period science class. It had happened several hours before, but I hadn't heard the news. It was a horrible shock.
Here is RFK's remarks about the killing, which is full of irony, of course:
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