Events are planned across the United States to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The 39-year-old Baptist Minister died in Memphis, Tennessee on this day (April 4) in 1968 while standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel when a sniper's bullet struck him in the neck sparking rioting in more than 100 cities across the country.
SABC US Correspondent Sherwin Bryce-Pease looks back at that fateful day and engages both historians and political scientists about King's legacy, 5 decades later.
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