April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America New Harbinger Publications Murrow and Walter Cronkite

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April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America New Harbinger Publications Murrow and Walter CronkiteOn April 4, 1968, at 6: 01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King the prophet for racial and economic justice in America ended his final speech with the words, "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land."Acclaimed public intellectual and best selling author Michael Eric Dyson uses the