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April 1968
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Two months later, his accused slayer, James Earl Ray, is arrested in London.
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