Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination: the leadup and aftermath

This editable slideshow details the events and figures surrounding Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, including: the leadup to it as well as its immediate aftermath. Specifically, the chain of events that brought him to Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN; a hyperlink to a video clip/overview of his last speech on April 3, 1968 and the prophetic words he spoke; eyewitness accounts of his final moments; the short-term and long-term impact his assassination had on both the civil rights movement and race relations in America; related events that followed immediately after the news of his assassination was reported, including a hyperlink to an audio clip of Robert Kennedy’s first public statement on MLKs assassination while on the campaign trail; a hyperlink to a supposed conspiracy surrounding his murder alleged by MLKs family; and profiles on Jesse Jackson and MLKs widow, Coretta Scott King.