It's Been Fifty Years

It's Been Fifty years...Fifty Years since April 4th 1968, around 6:00 pm in the afternoon...Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Balcony of the Lorraine, Motel in Memphis, Tennessee ..Perhaps he wanted to smoke a cigarette, perhaps he wanted to catch some fresh air...

He was chilling with his buddies, Rverend Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young....It was just another balmy Tennessee afternoon...

At 6:01pm, Someone....After all this time, we are still not sure who...Fired a shot from a rifle that struck Dr. King in the head....He fell to the floor of the outside balcony....He was rushed to the hospital...A little after 7:00 pm, est..Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was pronounced dead....He was 39 years old..

I had turned 10, just days before....

It's been 50 years....I just turned 60 , a few days ago...

We still aren't sure just who killed Dr. King....Was it James Earl Ray, an escaped white convict, the man they SAY did it....Or was it a police sharpshooter paid by rogue supporters of then Presidential candidate,George Wallace?? , was it the Mob?? Was it the FBI???

Truth is...Nobody can be sure...All We know is somebody shot him and killed him and they killed the last bit of moral high ground and innocence America had...

We had a moral leader in Dr. King....We haven't seen anyone close to him or Malcolm X since then...

Maybe we don't deserve either one of them anymore!