When I heard Martin Luther King was shot, I thought: 'Maybe he'll survive': Reporter's Notebook. It is impossible to describe what he meant to black Americans while he lived.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s confidant Andrew Young shares details about the hours leading up to the activist's assassination in a documentary re-airing on The CW Monday.

Caught in a somber mood, Dr. Martin Luther King addresses some 2,000 people on the eve of his death. The former founder and Chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was slain by an ...

State Prison photo taken in 1952 of James Earl Ray (Picture: Getty) Today marks 50 years since Martin Luther King was shot and killed. Although it’s been half a century since the civil rights ...

Martin Luther King’s assassination 50 years on: ... Less than 24 hours later, he was dead, killed by a single shot from a rifle later judged to have been fired by 41-year-old James Earl Ray.

Martin Luther King, III and Bernice King recount memories of their late father, Martin Luther King, Jr. and his assassination 50 years ago.