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Assassination
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Dr King fought bravely for
the black people in the U.S.A. In March 1968, he went to Memphis (孟非斯),
Tennessee (田纳西州)
to support the black workers who were on strike for better
conditions. On April 4, as he stood outside his motel room, he was
shot to death by an assassin (暗杀者,
刺客).
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Hosea
Williams (left), Jesse Jackson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Ralph
David Abernathy on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel Memphis hotel, a day
before King's assassination. April 3, 1968. |
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Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., the Nobel
peace prize winner who repeatedly walked in the shadow of death in his
fight to bring integration
(取消种族隔离)
to America, was slain (杀害)
by a white sniper(狙击手)
Thursday night when he
stepped onto the balcony (阳台)of
his hotel.
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The
National Civil Rights Museum, located at the Lorraine Motel, is a
shrine (神殿,
圣地)
to the civil rights
movement. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated as he stood on
the balcony outside room 306-7. The room remains just as it was on the
night Dr. King was slain. (KRT)
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The
exterior (外部)
of room 306 of the Lorraine Motel, Mulberry St., Memphis, April 6, 1968,
just after Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.'s assassination. At left is a memorial (纪念)
plaque (装在墙上作纪念用的板)
and, at right, a cross on Dr.
King's motel room. April 4 marks the 30th anniversary (周年纪念)
of the civil rights leader's death. (AP Photo)
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Mourners
line up in the chapel (礼拜堂)
at Spellman College to pay their last respects to the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. Atlanta, April 1968.
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King's funeral (葬礼)
procession (队伍)
through the streets of Atlanta drew this huge crowd of mourners (哀悼者).
April 9, 1968. |
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The
memorial tomb and a surrounding
reflecting pool at the Martin Luther
King Jr. National Historic Site. |
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Martin Luther King Jr., during a meeting with President John F. Kennedy at the White House. They were both shot to death by assassins. |
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