April 4, 1968, five years after his historic speech I have a dream, Martin Luther King, leader of the African-American civil rights movement, was shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half a century later, many people see in this tragedy not the solitary and racist act of James Earl Ray, a young white fugitive convicted of this murder, but a political conspiracy.
So who was Martin Luther King?
What happened on that tragic April 4, 1968? And what are the theories behind this assassination?
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