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04/07/2006:
"Martin Luther King shooting tapes released online"
Thirty-eight years after he was assassinated on a motel balcony, photographs, recordings and police files that describe the death of Martin Luther King Jr. have been placed on the internet.On yesterday's anniversary of Dr King's death, the Shelby County Register’s office in Memphis, Tennessee, made available hours of tapes, including hurried police calls from the scene of the crime, hundreds of photographs and thousands of pages of files and transcripts of the trial of James Earl Ray, the man found guilty of the shooting.
Dr King was shot in the jaw while he spoke to supporters from his balcony outside Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis in the early evening of April 4, 1968. He was in the city, and under police surveillance, trying to lead a peaceful protest of sanitation workers. He died an hour later.
timesonline.co.uk
