Explore the various theories surrounding the death of the Civil Rights leader. The leader of the Civil Rights movement, a passionate advocate of non-violent resistance who had studied Gandhi's methods and brought them to bear on American racism, Martin Luther King, Jr. moved the nation toward justice through the sheer force of his personality and conviction. But on April 4, 1968, a sniper's bullet claimed King's life as he stood on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. Almost immediately, there were charges of cover-ups and government complicity in the crime.
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