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| | nthposition online magazine: Early evening, April 4th... |
 | | In this city, better known for its racetrack than for its race relations, one of the most eloquent speeches on love and compassion was delivered in the face of a national tragedy. |
 | | On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr, was shot by a sniper while standing on a balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine in Memphis, Tennessee. |
 | | At the time of the shooting, Senator Robert F Kennedy, younger brother of the slain president, was addressing a crowd of 11,000 at Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana. |
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