Martin Luther King: An Assassination Remembered

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A Bullet Can't Kill A Dream

Only four of Martin Luther King's closest aides who were there to witness his murder are still alive. They gave TIME their perspectives and memories

Four of the civil rights leader's closest aides recall the day of his death forty years ago

Rare and unpublished images of the civil rights movement from LIFE photographers

Biographer Taylor Branch chronicles the untold story of the turbulent final days of Martin Luther King Jr.

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The gap between the brevity of King's life and its consequence is easy to state but hard to fathom

Soon after his death, TIME took a look into the life of Martin Luther King and found who he was and how he came to be