"Nobel Laureate Martin Luther King Jr., father of nonviolence in the American civil rights movement, was killed by an assassin's bullet Thursday night," was the first paragraph on The Dallas Morning News front page on Friday, April 5, 1968.Dr. King's message of nonviolence and equality lives on nearly 50 years after his death. Here's how The News' front page covered the assassination.Touch to read enlarged text Continue reading...
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