Dr. King came into Memphis on April 3, 1968 to work with the Sanitation Strike and the preachers of Memphis. That night he addressed the small crowd that came out to hear him, because of a heavy rain. He riveted the room with his "I've Been to the Mountaintop Speech", "Well, I don't know what will happen now...but it doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop...I've looked over and I've seen the Promised Land."
Perhaps he had a premonition that something bad was about to happen or perhaps, he wanted to tell them that they were on their way and could not be stopped. But, whatever his reason was for using that line, a shot rang out at 6:01 on April 4, 1968 at he stood the next evening on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
The man who preached non-violence had been killed by a sniper's bullet. But that bullet would not still the voice of Dr. King!
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