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Lives Less Ordinary

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The Trauma of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

Max King was observing the goings-on at Claybourne Temple when he bumped into one of Dr King's colleagues, talking with some student activists. Max offered to help them do errands in his car and they headed over to the Lorraine motel for a meeting between Dr King and members of the invaders. Lita recounts that her father ran up an external staircase up to the balcony to attempt first aid. He got down into a crawl and crawled over to where Dr King was lying and pressed the towel onto his wounded jaw area and attempted to try to stop the bleeding. When did he know that Dr King was dead? Well, the sense was that judging by the wound, he knew that

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