We visited the The Lorraine Motel and National Civil Rights Museum during our recent visit to Memphis. I had been here once before many years ago. This is such a moving, incredible place to visit. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of The Lorraine Motel. The National Civil Rights Museum, directly across the street, encompasses the boarding house from where James Earl Ray fired the fatal shots. You can see the bathroom from where he fired the shots. The museum also includes the room where James Earl Ray stayed in. The museum has every artifact imaginable from this horrible tragedy, including the bullet from Dr. King's body. It goes into tremendous detail regarding the events that led up to the shooting, the shooting itself, the aftermath, and the hunt for and prosecution of Dr. King's killer, in addition to conspiracy theories that I never knew about. I learned so much about this tragic event that I never knew about. This is definitely a place that I highly recommend to everyone to visit.
