@coldwararchives on Instagram: "‼️ On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot while standing on balcony outside his second-story room at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike & was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw & severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old. ⚫️ Black Americans were devastated, pained, and an