Sunday, February 11, 2001

Through Spokane's eyes

Day before the assassination

A foreshadowing: Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated at approximately the same place. From left are Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, King and Ralph Abernathy.

Audio
Listen to King's final speech, known as the "Mountaintop Speech," delivered the day before his assassination.


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