WATCH: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago tonight. Chet Huntley reported the news in an NBC News Special Report, seen here. King was in Memphis, Tenn., where sanitation workers, almost all of them black, had been on strike for weeks. The night before he was killed, King gave the last speech of his life, the famous “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, before an audience of striking workers and their supporters. He ended the speech by saying, "I don't know what will happen

Many still remember the two-and-a-half days when the world's eyes were on Brushy Mountain State Prison, when James Earl Ray and six other inmates escaped in the summer of 1977. Full story: http://bit.ly/2GgjEpA | Tennessean