King, Martin Luther assassination

Following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert Kennedy, Congress passes the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. It includes the Gun Control Act of 1968, which prohibits nearly all interstate gun sales, requires licensing of all gun dealers, and requires the recording of details about gun sales. 

James Earl Ray, the "patsy" in the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis, was also a frequent visitor to Shaw s New Orleans World Trade Mart during the month before King s murder. Ray escaped via Canada to London where he was traced and captured a month after King died. (3)... 

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was the most well-known leader of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. He was assassinated in 1968. King delivered this speech in 1963 at a celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation, before a crowd of 250,000 who had marched to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. 

In 1968, Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy were assassinated. New York s Columbia University Students rioted over US actions in Vietnam. In April 1970, the US blue blood establishment was shocked out of its complacency when six thousand of their sons and daughters rioted at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

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