This article was originally published on theburningspear.com on April 4, 2017. Civil Rights Movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by the U.S. government on April 4, 1968. He was 39 years old when he was gunned down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. April 4, 2017 marks the … Continue reading 49th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination: MLK Did not Die of Natural Causes!