"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On the morning of April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. readied to head to Memphis, Tennessee, for the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A member of the Action News team has a very vivid memory of how the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. unfolded. Vernon Odom was a 19-year-old radio journalist while ...

Monday marks the 54th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. He was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, while he stood on the balcony of ...

Six years after MLK Jr. was killed, his beloved mother Alberta Williams King was also assassinated, while playing a church ...