Transcript: James Earl Ray Dies

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NPR All Things Considered
Article date:
April 23, 1998
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NOAH ADAMS, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Noah Adams.

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: And I'm Linda Wertheimer.

On April 4th, 1968, a killing in Memphis, Tennessee shocked and appalled people around the world. This is how the news was delivered to one group in New York City.

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP, MASTER OF CEREMONIES ANNOUNCING ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AT CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK) ANNOUNCER: Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention please. At 7:10 this evening, Martin Luther King was shot in Tennessee. This was to be a gala occasion for a little Negro college from Mississippi, appearing in Carnegie Hall, with the great Duke ...

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