FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1968

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ABOUT THIS CBS RADIO BROADCAST

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This was the news the CBS Radio Network reported the evening after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee.

You will hear various reports of widespread rioting and disturbances from around the country, the aftermath. In the wake of Dr. King’s assassination the night before. Hardest hit overnight were 11 major American cities. You will hear reports from Jeb Duvall in Chicago; Jim McQuarry in Detroit; reports by Tony Sargent and Robert Pierpoint in Washington D. C.; reports by Ed Rable and Tony Brunton in Memphis; Bill Stout in Los Angeles, and reports by CBS Washington correspondents Dan Rather and Eric Severeid. Anchored by CBS’ Douglas Edwards in New York.

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THE CBS RADIO NETWORK. 50 YEARS AGO TODAY

This special report aired on CBS affiliate WJR-AM 760 Detroit, April 5, 1968.

**CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER** Andrew Young (L) and others standing on balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, pointing in direction of assailant seconds after a bullet felled Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who is lying at their feet. *April 4, 1968*

A FINAL WORD

While a minute and a half was found missing at the end of this CBS report, the substance of the news having been reported that day is most somber in having described the mood of a nation, having felt over this tragic event, and having witnessed, fifty years ago.

This CBS reporting on the death of Dr. King bears reminding much what the nation had lost on this day in April 1968.