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Martin Luther King Jr. had won victories on desegregation and voting rights and had been planning his Poor People's Campaign when he turned his attention to Memphis, the gritty city by the Mississippi River. That decision set in...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eThe Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had won victories on desegregation and voting rights and had been planning his Poor People's Campaign when he turned his attention to Memphis, the gritty city by the Mississippi River. That decision set in motion events that had a profound impact on his country, and on those who directly witnessed the subsequent tragedy.\u003cbr/\u003e              It began Feb. 1, 1968, when two sanitation workers were crushed when a garbage truck compactor malfunctioned, sparking a strike by about 1,300 black sanitation workers weary of working conditions and racist treatment in the dirtiest of municipal jobs.\u003cbr/\u003e              King tried to lead a march on March 28 that turned violent _ storefront windows were smashed and police wielded clubs and tear gas.\u003cbr/\u003e              King went back to Atlanta disheartened, but returned April 3, determined to show that nonviolent protest still worked.\u003cbr/\u003e              King delivered a speech that, in retrospect, seemed to foretell his death: \"Well, I don't know what will happen now; we've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter to me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Ministers, men were crying,\" the Rev. Jesse Jackson said.\u003cbr/\u003e              The next day, Jackson and other friends were getting ready to go to dinner with King who had not been feeling well. They were standing on the balcony at the Lorraine Motel.\u003cbr/\u003e              King's aide, Andrew Young, remembers asking if he needed a coat.\u003cbr/\u003e              Then: \"Pow! A bullet,\" recalled Jackson, pointing to the right side of his own face.\u003cbr/\u003e              It was 6:01 p.m. April 4, 1968.\u003cbr/\u003e              Clara Ester, a college student who marched alongside the sanitation workers, had gone to the motel for dinner when she saw King chatting on the balcony and then heard the shot.\u003cbr/\u003e              Ester said she noticed King's tie had blown off. His eyes were open, \"almost a pleasant expression on his face,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003e              King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where college student John Billings worked as a surgical assistant.\u003cbr/\u003e              Billings was ordered to stay with King's body until someone could come get him.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I walked over, pulled the sheet back, and there he was,\" Billings said. \u003cbr/\u003e              Fifty years after King's assassination, Ester has trouble talking about the months that followed. Haunted by memories, she left her hometown.\u003cbr/\u003e              Billings became a private investigator; met James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty to killing King; and explored the notion someone else had been involved.\u003cbr/\u003e              Young became a congressman, ambassador to the United Nations and Atlanta's mayor.\u003cbr/\u003e              Jackson ran for president, then stood in Chicago's Grant Park with tears streaming down his face after a black man was elected president in 2008.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee - February 14, 1968\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of sanitation trucks ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Garbage cans\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee – March 28, 1968\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Clashes with police ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Martin Luther King Jr. leading protest ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee - February 14, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow-Push Coalition:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"'I feel depressed, he said. The attacks are so vicious and are so misguided.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              FILE \u003cbr/\u003e              6. King marching ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e              Atlanta, Georgia - March 26, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Young, Andrew Young Foundation:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It was such a powerful message.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee  - April 3, 1968\u003cbr/\u003e              8. STILLClose-up of King\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee – February 14, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Jesse Jackson leaning against a rail at the Lorraine Motel ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow-Push Coalition:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I've been to the mountaintop, I may not get there. I remember, ministers, men were crying, it was an interesting kind of dynamic.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee - April 3, 1968\u003cbr/\u003e              11. STILL King at the Lorraine Motel balcony day before his assassination\u003cbr/\u003e              12. STILL King with civil rights leaders, from left Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Abernathy on the right\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee – February 14, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow-Push Coalition:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I was coming across the stariway, coming across the courtyard, he said, 'Jesse you are late, does doctor know you are late.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee - April 4, 1968\u003cbr/\u003e              14. STILL Jesse Jackson with King earlier in the day before his assassination \u003cbr/\u003e              Atlanta, Georgia - March 26, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Young, Andrew Young Foundation:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"And I said, 'You know, you had a fever yesterday, you probably ought to get a coat.' And he said, 'Oh, I don't , do I need a coat?' And he sort of lifted his head like that, sort of looking up at the weather.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee - April 3, 1968\u003cbr/\u003e              16. STILL King speaking at Mason Temple day before his assassination\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee – February 14, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow-Push Coalition:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"He turns, and I say doctor, and pow….the bullet….\"\u003cbr/\u003e              London - April 5, 1968\u003cbr/\u003e              18. STILL London morning papers on King's death\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee – February 14, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I remember Rev. Abernathy coming and saying, 'Back up, back up this is my dearest friend. Martin, you can't give up, don't leave us, don't leave us now.'\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Geneva, Switzerland - May 28, 1967\u003cbr/\u003e              20. STILL Andrew Young and King at \"Pacem in Terri II\" conference \u003cbr/\u003e              Atlanta, Georgia - March 26, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Young, Andrew Young Foundation:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The bullet had knocked him out of his shoes, and I ran up and there he was, he was laying in his own blood with his whole spinal cord exposed.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee - April 3, 1968 \u003cbr/\u003e              22. Various people marching for the sanitation workers ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee - April 5, 1968\u003cbr/\u003e              23. STILL Lorraine Motel sign\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee - March 17, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Clara Ester, witness:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Blood is all around his head and neck area and his eyes are open with almost a pleasant expression on his face.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee - April 4, 1968 \u003cbr/\u003e              25. STILLS various outside the Lorraine Motel and streets of Memphis\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee - February 22, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              26. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Billings, former surgical assistant:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I walked over, pulled the sheet back, and there he was, looked like Dr. King except his neck…it hit him on the right side and all this was gone.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Washington, DC. - March 24, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              27. STILLS March for Our Lives\u003cbr/\u003e              Atlanta, Georgia - March 26, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Young, Andrew Young Foundation:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I really sat at home alone, well, fighting back tears just listening to these young people. So articulate, so visionary, so confident and I thought that Dr. King's message that unearned suffering is redemptive.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - August 28, 1963\u003cbr/\u003e              29. STILL King delivering his \"I Have a Dream\" speech\u003cbr/\u003e              Memphis, Tennessee - March 17, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Clara Ester, witness:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"To lay there with his eyes open looking toward heaven, he had seen the promise land and he may not get there with us, but he promised that we as a people will see the promise land…\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Atlanta - April 7, 1968\u003cbr/\u003e              31. 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