article_snippet.sent: Dr Martin Luther King .
article_snippet.sent: King was shot dead by James Earl Ray on 4 April 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee in a killing which galvanized the civil rights movement.
article_snippet.sent: Dr King's leadership of the civil rights movement was demonstrated in the
article_snippet.sent: I Have A Dream speech in 1963.
article_snippet.sent: His death on 4 April 1968 shocked a nation already scarred by the deaths of President John F Kennedy - and the civil leader's murder was followed by that of President John F Kennedy .
article_snippet.sent: The balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where King was shot.
article_snippet.sent: Interest in King's life has been renewed since the release of the Oscar-winning film 'Selma', about the historic march from the Alabama town, which was 50 years ago this year.
article_snippet.sent: David Oyelowo in FBI director Herbert Hoover acclaimed performance as Dr King in this year's movie Selma .
article_snippet.sent: The memorial at the site of King's assassination.  