Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. CST. He was a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested on June 8, 1968, in London at Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States, and charged
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Campus High School Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Campus High School The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Campus High School is a high school in Buffalo, New York. It is located at 487 High Street and serves Grades 9 through 12. The first school building built on High Street was constructed in 1885, with a two-story brick addition constructed four years later. The current building structure was completed in 1926 and would be renovated and renamed the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Multicultural Institute in 1968, then renovated again in 2006. During that renovation, the MLK School was housed at the