57 years ago today, April 4, 1968 (March 7, 1968 in the lunar calendar), the black American leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. King, martyr of the black civil rights movement. On April 4, 1968, the black priest Dr. Martin Luther King was shot and killed. He was on the balcony outside his bedroom on the second floor of the Lorain Motor Inn in Memphis, Tennessee, leaning against the railing of the balcony, with leaders of the civil rights movement-Hosey Williams, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Abernathy. King's death on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, the 39-year-old civil rights leader, shook Memphis Jincheng and across the United States. Tennessee Governor Buford Ellington ordered 4000 National Guard members to drive into the city to maintain peace and order. At the same time, a curfew was imposed on residents. 40% of the residents here are black. It is believed that the assassin who escaped after the incident was a white man who was staying in a cheap hotel about 50 to 100 yards from the Lorain Motor Inn. Police determined that the man later drove away in a state-of-the-art Mustang. The gun found at the crime scene proved it was a high-efficiency rifle. The moment King was shot and fell to the ground, Dr. King was known for advocating non-violence and racial reconciliation. He was leaning against a railing when the accident occurred and talking to his civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, who was standing downstairs. Previously, King Kong had just invited a friend of Jackson's (a musician) to play a black hymn "Dear God, Please Hold My Hand" at a rally in two hours to support the Memphis sanitation workers 'strike. After being shot, Dr. King, unconscious, was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died. King died in hospital. Colleagues of the murdered black civil rights leader tried to comfort his fellow black people and remind them to remember his creeds of nonviolence. But despite this, riots broke out in certain areas of the city before the National Guard arrived to maintain order. Later, Andrew Young, executive chairman of Dr. King's Southern Christian Leaders 'Conference, recalled that two days ago there had been talk of harming Dr. King. He said Dr. King told him: "Such rumors have not affected me. I have reached the peak of nonviolence." In fact, Dr. King was also somewhat fatalistic when he was at the forefront of the movement for racial equality. He had been beaten; ten years ago, he was stabbed in the left chest at a department store in Harlem. A few years ago, he was preaching in a small church in Georgia when someone fired shots at neighboring houses. Afterwards he said: "I could be crucified and tortured; I could even die. But even if I die in the struggle, I want people to say,'He died to set me free.'" About 150,000 people attended the funeral in Atlanta, with King's youngest daughter lying in her mother's arms, her eyes showing inexplicable fear.