Police stand with civil rights leaders Ralph Abernathy (2L) (1929 - 1990), Andrew Young (3L), and Jesse Jackson (4L), and others on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel over body of slain American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) following his assassination, Memphis, Tennessee, April 4, 1968. (Photo by Joseph Louw/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
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Revisiting MLK's final moments (2018)
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. CNN's Dana Bash traveled to Memphis to the sites where Martin Luther King Jr. spent his final hours.
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Police stand with civil rights leaders Ralph Abernathy (2L) (1929 - 1990), Andrew Young (3L), and Jesse Jackson (4L), and others on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel over body of slain American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) following his assassination, Memphis, Tennessee, April 4, 1968. (Photo by Joseph Louw/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
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On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. In a CNN Exclusive, two men who were with King when he was killed, Reverend Jesse Jackson and former Ambassador Andrew Young, return to that balcony, the first time they have tighter since 1968, to remember their friend 50 years later and to share little-known details of the moment King was killed. Victor Blackwell reports.
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The statue of Martin Luther King Jr. is pictured at a memorial on August 24, 2103, in Washington, DC, as thousands of people gather to commemorate the 50th anniversary of The March on Washington. Tens of thousands gathered on August 24 to mark 50 years since the March on Washington, the civil rights watershed where Martin Luther King Jr famously declared: 'I have a dream.' The March on Washington is best remembered for King's stirring vision of a United States free of inequality and prejudice, telecast live to a nation undergoing a phenomenal decade of soul-searching, crisis and change. AFP Photo/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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