Lorraine Motel shooting
On April 4th, 1968 civil rights activist, author, pastor, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King junior was shot down as he stood in a Memphis hotel balcony. He was in Memphis to support a sanitation worker strike and he was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the face from above fracturing Dr king’s jaw exiting his face reentering his body through the neck then severing numerous vital arteries and fracturing his spine in several places causing severe damage to his spinal column and coming to rest on the left side of his back he would die from his fatal injuries within the hour at St joseph’s hospital.
