European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 24 the stars and stripes saturday. April 6, negro Leader King killed by Memphis snip continued from i workers most of them negroes when he was word of King s death spread through the stunned City negroes in scattered areas looted stores stoned police and fire trucks and tossed several fire bombs. Two policemen were injured mainly by flying Glass when a Shotgun blast broke their hours after King died the City was quieting some but police still reported sporadic White Man following an apparently Well planned proce Dure was the Assassin police director Frank Holloman said Friday. Holloman said the investigation showed the Assassin checked into a main Street flophouse afternoon shot King from a second floor window of the build ing three hours later and then disappeared in the resulting con fusion. The Man believed to be the killer had a silly smile and registered under the name of John Willard police and Fri agents were told of mrs. Bessi Brewer 44, the Landlady. The murder weapon was apparently a new 30-06 Remington pump Rifle with telescopic sights Holloman said. The Assassin also carried a new pair of binoculars and a new suitcase. A Remington pump Rifle was one of 15 weapons stolen a night earlier from a Memphis sporting goods store but Holloman re fused to say immediately that the stolen gun was the death far As we know and from the evidence at this time there was Only one Man in the physical area of the slaying Holloma said. He said the 30 to 40 officers on duty in the Vicinity of the Motel immediately converged on the scene. The shot was fired from the window of a bathroom in the flophouse Holloman said King room was 200 feet away through Trees and across a Street but in Clear View of the window. Holloman said the Assassin Wasa White male Between 26 and 32 years of age standing six fee tall and weighing 165-175 pounds he had dark to Sandy hair medium build a Ruddy complexion and was wearing a Black suit and White shirt. The nation s leaders and it people reacted with anguish Shock and grief at the there was violence. President Johnson said the nation was vice president Hubert Humphrey said the killing brings shame to our country. An apostle of non violence has been the Vic Tim of body was carried in a Bronze and Copper casket to the Airport Friday for the journey Home to . King flew to Memphis in a plane chartered for her by sen. Robert f. Kennedy. She did not leave the plane but stood at the door As the Cas Ket was loaded. She kept her composure while the casket was being lifted from the Hearse but collapsed sobbing on the Shoul Der of a woman companion As a freight lift raised it to the orderly crowd of More than 100 met the plane in . King Clad in Black watched quietly As the casket was rolled Down the ramp. Some congressional Leader called for open housing Legisla Tion to be passed As a memorial to the Man who marched for it. Observers said the slaying rocked Washingon As nothing else has since the assassination of president Kennedy. Martin is said James Farmer former Leader of the Congress of racial Equality Cor god help us the Rev. Jesse Jackson said students Send Wreath Frankfurt is Money for u Floral Wreath for slain civil rights Leader or. Martin Luther King was raised Here Friday in a spontaneous col Lection among All Frankfurt american High school in the drive were three Brothers Hill Tom an Wallace Collins. By noon Home $70 had been Wreath was sent to the i Iii family Home in Atlanta. He and others in the King part were getting ready to go to Din Ner when the shooting was on the second floor Balcony of the Motel Jackson said. The had just Bent Over if he had been standing up he would t have been hit in the had just told Ben Branch another member of the Kin party my Man to sure to sing blessed lord tonight and sing it a shot then rang out Jackson said Jackson said the Only sounding uttered after that was of it knocked him Down Jack son said Wien i turned around,1 saw police coming from every where. They said behind you the police were coming from Branch said the Bullet exploded in his face. It knocked him off his Jones the civil rights Leader s chauffeur was talking to or. King when the fatal shot was was standing beside the car looking right into his face Mosaid. Be had just come out of his room and i had told , it is getting Chilly. Why Don t you nut on your topcoat.1""ho said o.k., i will a a smiled. He Nad lust finished Smil ing when i heard the . King was looking right atthe Man and when i turned round i saw a Man with some thing White Over his head Tun Ning into the Bushes toward maid Street i ran up the fire escape an when i got to him King he looked like he a dead i was negroes riot in continued from Page pelted by rocks and bottles they 7th Street in Washington s downtown shopping Center noontime strollers watched As gangs of negro youths estimated in size from 5 to 75smashed store windows. But a few blocks away on Busy Pennsylvania Avenue thousands of tourists in the Capi Tal for the annual Cherry Blos som festival went about their sight seeing either unconcerned or unaware of the violence. Brig. Gen. Charles l. South Ward guard commander said ail but three units of the 1,750-Man . Guard were told at 2 . To report immediately for training and to be available As required for other the action was taken at the request or City officials southward said. The guard Call out was de scribed As a weekend training Drill rather than a summons Tractive Federal duty. This same technique was used last october during the massive Antiwar demonstration at the Pentagon. The renewed disturbances meanwhile spilled Over at mid Day into Washington s Down town business District and police rushed busloads of reinforce ments into the area and used tear in an attempt to Dis Perse roving gangs. Meanwhile in Lansing mich., g o v. George Johiney Friday ordered 9,000 National guards men to their a Mohed on stand by Alert to be ready to move in Case trouble erupts in Detroit Orother Michigan cities. Romney said he ordered the guardsmen readied. For action on the recommendation of Detroit mayor Jerome Cayan agh who said we ought Mohave the National guard ready for possible deployment four Hundred state police troopers were already on duty in Detroit assisting police i quelling sporadic disturbances by roving gangs of youths. In the thurs Day night violence mobs burned looted and clashed with police in More than a dozen american cities thursday night. Three persons were killed an dozens were injured. National guard troops were summoned in Nashville and Memphis tenn., and in Raleigh and Greensboro . The out bursts were especially violent inner York s Harlem ghetto Washington Tallahassee fla.,and Nashville. A White youth was suffocated in a firebombing in Tallahassee an elderly Man died in afire in Harlem and a White Man died Friday of injuries suffer Din the Washington violence. Scattered violence also was reported in Charlotte Winston Salem new Bern and Wilming closing . Stock Market prices Admiral Alcan ally. 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Dozens were injured in the South alone Andin new York police reported More than 100 arrests As Youn negroes turned Lenox Avenue in the heart of Harlem into wasteland of looted stores and burned out buildings two policemen were shot by snipers in Detroit a mile from the scene of last summer s riot ing. ,. R. Vin new York City. Mayor John Lindsay wandered through the streets of Harlem offering condolences to negroes. Gangs an wild in the big City smashing windows and looting in Harlem and Brooklyn. There were several multiple alarm fires reportedly set by arsonists. At least three five Story apartment buildings went up in Itta Bena miss., two negro students at Mississippi Valley state College were shot and wounded following a Brick throwing demonstration. All the 11,000 members of the Tennessee National guard were alerted and 4,000 of that number were activated and sent into trouble spots throughout Testate notably in Nashville where one guard official said the situation was worse than in Memphis general rioting followed the shooting of 200 fires were reported. In Jackson miss most Vio Lence halted when negro Leader Charles Evers called a Mas meeting. Evers attacked King s slay ers saying he had been trying to do something for the poor Whites who murdered him for the cause of Al opener postponed Washington up the american league s opening game scheduled monday be tween the Washington senators and the Minnesota twins has been postponed. After a meeting of washing ton club officials a spokesman said Tho postponement was ordered in deference to the funeral Arrango Menth for there. Martin Luther in Shock and the others Roe by 1 did not so wound. A White Man was theto Comfort him with a the Jjck tie wat staying Attel. Jon had returned to Phis wednesday to Lead an massive protest Anarch to Suppert of the garbage Era. Sympathizers fro parts of the country had Nouh ced they would join a Many of 10.006 or More were pc cd for the similar March March 28 about 6,000 erupted into the in Memphis since of Nifte civil alike blamed the negro youths not the March. 17-Yeark old negro Jed in the violence Arch and his by be we was in Memphis to that he could Lead a non Al Olin Rob. With his massive i people s Campaign to fashion perhaps the biggest d Trafton he Ever planned set for Hwi month King led relatively Small March Here Las thursday of King s cd tics and Many this friends expressed fear that he could not keep the washing ton March. From likewise ing into violence. Had scheduled March King insisted he could an came Back to Memphis Widne Day to prove it. He Toha rally wednesday night that like anybody i would like Tolive a Long lit e. But i m nol concerned about that ? i be seen the promised land the told his followers co the Evo of his death. "1 Mainot get therl with you but 1 want you to know tonight thai we As a people will get to Tea promised lieutenants said the Mas Sive poor people s March on Washington would go on Ai . Dist. Judge Bailey Brown cleared the Way for a memory March in Memphis monday. Brown set Down suit regulations for the March in ruling a suit filed earlier by the cd tit was originally planned As March to support the a Bawor kers and King was to liar lied City withdrew its objections to the March after King supporters decided to make it a said the March must Start at 11 . And be completed and the marchers dispersed by 3 .King had been the target or violence on several occasions be fore. His most serious prior Brushwitz death came in new York in 1958 when a negro woman stabbed him with a letter opener us to was autographing copies of his Book in a Harlem department store. Bonifac rocked windows As Early As 1950, a Boink shattered the windows of his Home. He then was living in Montgom Ery months later a Shotgun blast was fired in front of nishime there but no one was Hurt. Born Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta,ga., King was the son of a Baptist minister whom he followed into Tho ministry. He took an . Degree fro Morehouse College Atlanta a Bachelor of divinity degree fro Crozer theological Seminary in Chester pa., and u . In systematic theology from Huston University. He is survived by his wife Ami four children
