On Nov. 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, according to David Margolick’s illuminating book “The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King., Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy,” James Earl Ray sat in a Missouri State Penitentiary and vowed to kill King when he got out and collect a “businessmen’s association’s” $100,000 bounty.

Fifty-five years ago today—April 4, 1968—King was standing on the balcony of the second floor of his Lorraine Motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, when shortly after 6 p.m., Ray aimed a Remington Model 760 rifle and fired a single bullet that gorily snuffed out King’s life and the dream of millions.

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