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 an