Martin Luther King, Jr., was the Lorraine Motel’s most famous guest. He stayed at the motel numerous times while visiting the city, and again in the spring of 1968, when he came to Memphis to ...

Life.com has over a dozen photos taken at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis hours after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. The photographer, Henry Groskinsky, was on assignment 46 years ago ...

The iconic photo captured just moments after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968. National Civil Rights Museum “I'm standing there.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A huge crowd has turned out at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was struck down by an assassin's bullet on April 4, 1968, and which ...

For the first time in 50 years Andrew Young and Jesse Jackson return together to the motel balcony where their mentor, Martin Luther King Jr., was fatally shot in 1968.

Associates of Martin Luther King Jr. point toward the sound where the gunfire originated just moments after his assassination at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. Joseph Louw ...

The National Civil Rights Museum at The Lorraine Motel will honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s annual event, Remembering MLK: The Man, The Movement, The Moment, on April 4, the 57th anniversary ...

Days after King's assassination, legislation was drafted to have Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but it would be another 15 years before King was recognized with a day and even longer for all of the ...

The motel that housed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on his only trip to Charlottesville has been razed after spending several years in ruins after a gutting fire.

Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.? James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old who had been in and out of prison, confessed to killing King and was sentenced to 99 years in jail for it.