where did martin luther king got shot?
Memphis
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 After the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr . , on April 4 , 1968 , riots broke out in the District , primarily in the U Street , 14th Street , 7th Street , and H Street corridors , centers of black residential and commercial areas . The riots raged for three days until more than 13 @,@ 600 federal troops stopped the violence . Many stores and other buildings were burned ; rebuilding was not completed until the late 1990s . 

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 On the night of May 11 , a bomb heavily damaged the Gaston Motel where King had been staying — and had left only hours before — and another damaged the house of A. D. King , Martin Luther King 's brother . When police went to inspect the motel , they were met with rocks and bottles from neighborhood blacks . The arrival of state troopers only further angered the crowd ; in the early hours of the morning , thousands of blacks rioted , numerous buildings and vehicles were burned , and several people , including a police officer , were stabbed . By May 13 , three thousand federal troops were deployed to Birmingham to restore order , even though Alabama Governor George Wallace told President Kennedy that state and local forces were sufficient . Martin Luther King returned to Birmingham to stress nonviolence . 

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 Martin Luther King Jr. was held in the Birmingham jail and was denied a consultation with an attorney from the NAACP without guards present . When historian Jonathan Bass wrote of the incident in 2001 , he noted that news of King 's incarceration was spread quickly by Wyatt Tee Walker , as planned . King 's supporters sent telegrams about his arrest to the White House . He could have been released on bail at any time , and jail administrators wished him to be released as soon as possible to avoid the media attention while King was in custody . However , campaign organizers offered no bail in order " to focus the attention of the media and national public opinion on the Birmingham situation " . 

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 King Boy D and Rockman Rock travelled to ABBA 's home country of Sweden , in the hope of meeting with ABBA personally , taking an NME journalist and photographer with them , along with most of the remaining copies of the LP and a gold disc of the album . Failing to find ABBA in residence at Polar Studios in Stockholm , they instead presented the gold disc to a blonde prostitute they pretended was Agnetha " fallen on hard times . " Of the original LP 's stock , some copies were disposed overboard on the North Sea ferry trip across , and the remainder were burned in a field in Gothenburg before dawn ( as shown on the cover of their next album , Who Killed The JAMs ? ) . The JAMs also played a recording of " The Queen and I " loudly outside the offices of ABBA 's record label , Polar Music . The trip was unexpectedly eventful , the JAMs accidentally hitting and killing a moose , and later being shot at by a farmer , a bullet cracking the engine of their Ford Galaxie police car . They were , by their own account , towed back to England by the AA . 

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 Martin Luther King , Jr. was assassinated in Memphis the next night . The Memphis Ministers Association organized a memorial service for King on the 5th . At the service , the ministers voted to march to Loeb 's office that day and insist he address the workers ' grievances and end the strike ; led by Wax and William Dimmick , the dean of St. Mary 's Cathedral , 250 clergymen marched in pairs to Loeb 's office , where he was urged in front of television cameras to end the strike . In his sermon at Temple Israel , Wax told the congregation : " This city shall witness a new spirit and the memory of this great prophet of our time shall be honored . There will be bigots and segregationists and the so @-@ called respectable but unrighteous people who will resist . But in the scheme of history , God 's will does prevail . " The strike was settled on April 16 , with the sanitation workers getting union recognition and other benefits . The only remaining impediment was a recommended ten @-@ cent @-@ an @-@ hour raise on May 1 , followed by another raise on September 1 . The city budget did not have the estimated $ 558 @,@ 000 ( today $ 3 @.@ 8 million ) required to pay the workers . To resolve the impasse , Temple Israel member Abe Plough donated the shortfall anonymously . 
