Alex Evans & Chris Dench

Martin Luther Shot Dead

Martin Luther King Shot Dead

The American black civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King, has been assassinated. Dr King was shot dead in the southern US city of Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a march of sanitation workers protesting against low wages and poor working conditions

Some Eye Whiteness’s Said He was shot in the neck as he stood on a hotel

balcony and died in hospital soon afterwards. Reverend Jesse Jackson was on the balcony with

Dr King when the single shot rang out. "He had just bent over. I reckon if he had been

standing up he would not have been hit in the face," said Mr Jackson.

His Killer Police in Memphis were put on alert for a

"well-dressed" white man who is said to have dropped an automatic rifle after the shooting and escaped in a blue car. Below is the car the police are looking for.