On this day in 1968,

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. 

SHOT AND KILLED

On this day in 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot in the head and killed while standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.  Just the day before King had given his last sermon saying, “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop . . . And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.”  

Two months later Bobby Kennedy would be shot in the head and killed while campaigning for president in Los Angeles.