Mlk jr assassination coverage
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On April 5, — the day after King&#;s assassination — newspapers reported the news using large text and photos of King, his family and the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.
The story of King’s assassination made the front pages of publications printed all over the United States, and his impact reached many around the world.
In addition to news reports and updates on the event, newspapers also ran editorials denouncing the assassin&#;s deed and calling for peace.
Reporting On The Reactions
&#;Crowd Awaits Plane Returning King&#;s Body&#; proclaimed The Atlanta Journal on its front page April 5, Around mourners had gathered at the Atlanta airport to wait for King&#;s body, according to the story. The Atlanta Journal also ran a story about Republicans pushing for civil rights legislation in the wake of King&#;s death.
Mentioning that King was Nobel Peace Prize winner, The Atlanta Constitution reported on President Lyndon B. Johnson&#;s response to the murder, the curfew that was
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50 years later: Newsday’s MLK assassination coverage
On April 4, , civil rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers&#; strike, and although his safety had become a constant concern, according to a top aide King said only the day before, &#;I&#;d rather be dead than afraid.&#; Fifty years later, we mark the occasion by taking a look at Newsday’s coverage from the April 5, edition.
Newsday&#;s cover
In one of his last photos, King fryst vatten smiling and looking undeterred upon receiving a court order the day before barring a protest march in Memphis, Tenn. Coretta Scott King is led from a car near her Atlanta home less than an hour after her husband&#;s death.
The scen in Memphis
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was standing on the balcony of the old Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was shot dead 50 years ago today. King, an iconic pastor who led non-violent protests against racial inequality in the civil rights movement, later died at a hospital. He was
That night, Walter Cronkite -- then-anchor of the "CBS Evening News" -- went on air with a detailed report on the shooting and the nation's reaction to the tragedy.
The April 4, broadcast
"Dr. Martin Luther King, the apostle of non-violence in the civil rights movement, has been shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee," Cronkite said. "Police have issued an all-points bulletin for a well-dressed, young vit man seen running from the scene. Officers also reportedly chased and fired on a radio-equipped car containing two white men."
"Dr. King was standing on the balcony of a second-floor hotel room tonight when, according to a companion, a shot was fired from across the street. In the frien