Photos: Martin Luther King Jr. murdered this day in 1968

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A brace of plow mules drawing the farm wagon bearing the mahogany casket of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., along the funeral procession route in Atlanta, Ga., April 9, 1968. Reverend Jesse Jackson, in green, and Andrew Young, at the left corner of the casket, are among some of the mourners. (AP Photo)

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The Rev. 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. The 39-year-old Nobel Laureate was the proponent of non-violence in the 1960's American civil rights movement. King is honored with a national U.S. holiday celebrated in January. (AP Photo/Charles Kelly)

AP

Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, victim of an assassin's bullet in Memphis Thursday Apr. 3, 1968, presented this study in that city earlier this week. Scene was Wednesday as king and his aides were being served papers by U.S. Marshal. A federal restraining order prohibited King from leading any mass marches. Violence erupted in Memphis last week when King headed a march in the city. (AP Photo)

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Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with tears in her eyes, holds her head high during funeral services for her husband in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, April 9, 1968. (AP Photo)

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Floral pieces line the rail outside the room that Dr. Martin Luther King occupied in a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, April 7, 1968. It was outside this room while leaning on the rail that Dr. King was struck and killed by a sniper's bullet on Thursday. An unidentified staff member looks out over the flowers and the direction of the shot. (AP Photo)

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**FILE**Mourners in Sisters Chapel at Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga., in a Sunday, April 8, 1968 file photo, are shown paying final respects to slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., lying in state. When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, then-Gov. Lester Maddox refused to close the Georgia Capitol in his honor and was outraged to see state flags at half-staff. Four decades later, the state is paying tribute to King's widow with full honors. (AP Photo, File)

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Mourners crowd into the tiny chapel of a Memphis funeral home on Friday, April 5, 1968 to view the body of Dr. Martin Luther King who was assassinated in Memphis by a sniper on Thursday. (AP Photo/Charles Kelly )

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A huge crowd fills the square in front of Memphis’ City Hall during a mass march in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who was assassinated in Memphis on April 9, 1968. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)

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Family members and friends of the assassinated civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., follow his casket into an Atlanta funeral home after the body arrived from Memphis, on April 5, 1968. From left are: King's brother, the Rev. A.D. Williams King; Dr. Ralph Abernathy, King's close associate and new head of the SCLC, Coretta Scott King, the widow, and her two sons, Martin Luther III, 10, and Dexter, 7. (AP Photo/Bill hudson)

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Coretta Scott King, center, widow of slain civil right Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. walk in the funeral procession with their children and family in Atlanta, Ga., April 9, 1968. From left are, daughter Yolanda, 12; King's brother A.D. King; daughter Bernice, 5; widow King; Rev. Ralph Abernathy; sons Dexter, 7, and Martin Luther King III, 10. (AP Photo)

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Singer Harry Belafonte escorts Mrs.Coretta King , and three of her children to his private plane in Atlanta April 8, 1968. Mrs. King is going to Memphis to lead the march scheduled by her slain husband. The children are, from left, Dexter, Martin III and Yolanda. Rest of people are unidentified. (AP Photo)

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Coretta Scott King, center, widow of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is comforted in the doorway of an airliner in Memphis, Tenn., April 5, 1968, as her husband's body is brought up the ramp. Dr. King was assassinated yesterday in Memphis. Others on board plane are unidentified. (AP Photo)

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Singer Harry Belefonte listens as Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of the slain civil rights leader, leans over to whisper during a mass meeting mid-way of a march in Memphis, Tennessee on April 8, 1968. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)

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An unidentified man lifts Bernice King, 5, over her father's casket in Atlanta, April 7, 1968. Her father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was slain by sniper fire in Memphis, Tenn., April 4. Bernice's brothers, Martin III and Dexter, and her mother, Coretta Scott King, center, wearing hat, also view the body. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell)

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This aerial view shows clouds of smoke rising from burning buildings in northeast Washington, D.C. on April 5, 1968. The fires resulted from rioting and demonstrations after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tenn. on April 4. (AP Photo)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Charles Arnold touches up the lettering which was stenciled on the crypt of Dr. Martin Luther King in Atlanta on April 8, 1968. (AP Photo/Charles Kelly)

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