Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

Thursday marked a monumental moment in American history as it was April 4, 1968 that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed.

Something happened at a park on Indianapolis’ north side on the night of April 4, 1968. An hour or so after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was gunned down in Memphis, Robert F. Kennedy mounted a flatbed trailer parked on a grassy incline near the 1700 block of Broadway Street and told a