Martin Luther King Jr., an African-American clergyman, and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. What happened that day? And did James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, really act alone to bring down one of the most famous people in the world?

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