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#MLK #Assassination #MartinLuther KingJr #Memorial The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.was assassinated 45 years ago today. The somber anniversary will be marked across the country, including with a wreath-laying ceremony at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., which is on the site where King was fatally shot. And the new Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., will also mark the anniversary -- it's very first since it just opened to the public last summer -- with a candlelight vigil later this evening. On April 4, 1968, King was staying at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., preparing a speech he was scheduled to give that night at the nearby Mason Temple. The hotel was one of the few places in the area where blacks were welcome to spend the night, according to the Commercial Appeal, and was a haven on the road for the likes of black celebrities and entertainers such as Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton and Aretha Franklin. When King ste