The MLK Memorial, which officially opens on August 28th, is located by the Tidal Basin between the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials on The National Mall, Washington, D.C.
Virtual Tour of Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Regular readers of this blog will recall that I've written before that though I was born in San Antonio, I was a seven-year old First Grader growing-up in Memphis when Dr. King was assassinated there.
On the night of April 4, 1968, my family and I went out to our neighborhood McDonald's and when we got back to our apt., I walked into the living room and turned on our black-and-white TV, and within a few minutes, everything changed...
ABC News video: ABC News correspondent Tom Jarriel reports LIVE from Memphis, with Bob Young and Peter Jennings reporting from New York.
We moved to South Florida three months later, arriving on a very warm July day via Delta Airlines the day after Larry Csonka signed his first contract with the Dolphins, which was front page news in the Miami Herald as I could tell when we walked past the vending machines at the airport.
CBS News: CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite announces the assassination of Dr. King in Memphis.
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