Ivan Allen
WH6804-01-12908
Date:
Thursday, April 4, 1968 - 11:00pm - 11:03pm
Participants:
Lyndon Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Ivan Allen
Location:
Mansion
Listen:
At 6:01 P.M. on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was pronounced dead at 7:05 P.M. At 9:07 P.M. that same evening, President Johnson read a short statement for radio and television broadcast from outside the entrance to the West Lobby of the White House. The statement read:
