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| The civil rights leader is shot and killed on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel after leading a march in support of a garbage workers strike. James Earl Ray is later arrested and convicted for King's assassination. | The Lorraine Motel has been transformed into the 10,000-square-foot National Civil Rights Museum. The museum opened in 1991. |
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