TDW 1706 - Final Moments Of Martin Luther King

0:09 Tennessee it's a beautiful day welcome

0:09 everyone Adam the woo here it's my

0:11 second channel daily Vlog channel it's

0:14 the daily

0:15 woo on the corner of Mason Street and

0:19 tapped in place is the Church of God in

0:22 Christ World Headquarters and on April

0:26 3rd

0:28 1968 a very

0:31 important and now very famous speech was

0:35 held inside those doors Bishop CH Mason

0:38 founded the Church of God in Christ and

0:41 if you read closer to the bottom he is

0:45 intuned inside the Mason Temple which is

0:49 also this structure the Church of God in

0:53 Christ I'm very fascinated by stained

0:55 glass windows and churches this one is a

0:58 little different there appears to be a

1:00 man in a tuxedo

1:02 engraved in the stained glass

1:06 workmanship and it was Behind These very

1:09 walls that Dr Martin Luther King gave

1:13 his final

1:14 speech referred to now as the I've been

1:19 to the Mountaintop speech one of the

1:21 things that really hits home for me when

1:23 I listen to those words and I watch that

1:25 footage back of that night and I am

1:28 paraphrasing is how he was saying saying

1:30 how he would like to live a long

1:33 prosperous life and how longevity has

1:36 its place but he was content with maybe

1:40 not having those

1:43 aspects and the very next

1:49 day his life was taken from him with the

1:49 cityscape off on the horizon we have to

1:53 drive about a mile to the now famous

1:57 Lorraine Motel I should rephrase that as

2:00 Infamous because what happened there is

2:03 very

2:04 tragic I missed my turn but I'm not

2:07 complaining because I'm always excited

2:11 to drive through these old bridges and

2:13 there it

2:14 is the motel itself preserved to look as

2:19 it

2:20 did on that day just a brief moment past

2:25 6:00 p.m. on April 4th 1968

2:35 Martin Luther King was standing on that

2:35 second floor

2:39 ledge when he was killed there is some

2:41 video footage that can be found online I

2:44 believe it's from the day before where

2:46 he was entering the motel and he walked

2:49 up these very stairs and there's some

2:53 photographs of

2:55 him walking along that pathway to his

2:59 room and in fact one of the angles was

3:01 from this very

3:04 spot one thing I did notice however is

3:07 room

3:08 304 is in the same location but 303 in

3:12 the

3:13 photograph was

3:15 307 but now it's

3:23 303 I'm not really sure why that was

3:23 corrected in that fashion but according

3:25 to the

3:26 photo it was the room 307 there not not

3:30 303 as it is current day he stood on the

3:34 balcony in front of room

3:36 306 and they have placed a wreath there

3:40 in his honor he requested that his

3:42 favorite spiritual precious Lord be

3:45 played that night those were some of the

3:48 last words he would speak at 6:01 a

3:52 bullet streaked across mberry street

3:56 official investigations concluded that

3:59 the bullet

4:01 came from up

4:04 there this is what the view from the

4:07 boarding house

4:09 window look

4:11 like as well

4:13 as a photograph of the men pointing up

4:17 to where the bullet came

4:27 from right across the street his body

4:27 laid right up there on that corner

4:29 Corner

4:31 angle and it was taken down these very

4:36 steps

4:37 here he was taken to the

4:40 hospital and just over an

4:43 hour after he was shot he was pronounced

5:01 dead the Motel is now home to the

5:01 National Civil Rights Museum it opens up

5:03 in a few minutes I normally get to

5:05 locations like this really really early

5:07 in the morning before people start to

5:10 show up and tourists show up I kind of

5:12 like to have a moment to myself

5:14 especially in somber places like this

5:18 another interesting fact about this

5:19 Motel the wife of the owner the night

5:24 that Dr Martin Luther King was shot she

5:27 suffered a stroke

5:30 because of that event on the property

5:33 and ended up passing away a couple days

5:35 later I find that very interesting two

5:38 dramatic

5:40 events involving two separate people on

5:43 the same spot on the same night

6:18 please move to the back of the

6:18 bus I need that seat now please move

6:22 back if you can sit there in other buses

6:25 suppose you get off and into one of them

6:29 if you don't move out of that seat I'll

6:32 have you

6:33 rested get up from there

7:03 suffering gr Injustice and shameful

7:03 humiliation the inex cruelties of slave

7:07 we will be able to transform the

7:09 dangling discords of our nation into a

7:12 beautiful Cy of Brotherhood with this

7:16 thing we will be able to work together

7:18 to pray together to struggle together to

7:21 go to jail

7:30 togetherly appreciate you

7:30 call and I don't

7:37 want it's very

7:37 interesting

7:57 only the absolute support and that means

7:57 financial support the

8:00 chrisan I'm not worried about anything

8:04 I'm not fearing any man my eyes have

8:07 seen the glory of coming of

8:11 the they have a glass window looking

8:15 into room

8:18 306 the room he was in cigarettes in the

8:21 ashtray

8:23 food on the end table and that is where

8:26 he

8:27 laid right there

8:30 on that

8:31 spot this is a replica of the

8:35 66 Ford Mustang that was seen leaving

8:39 the scene of the crime that day behind

8:42 the sheet of glass is the window

8:46 believed where the shot came from this

8:50 is a picture of around the time

8:54 frame when it happened

9:04 that's

9:05 it out that open

9:08 window you can

9:09 see it would be able for someone to get

9:13 a very clear shot

9:16 easily from this position the toilet and

9:21 tub still remain in their

9:24 places but just looking at that angle

9:28 standing

9:30 in this spot

9:41 a what an interesting

9:41 feeling to know what happened and to

9:45 be in the same location

9:53 wow what a tragedy a look at Downtown

9:53 Memphis there the

9:56 museum was pretty amazing I learned a

9:58 lot in there definitely check it out if

10:01 you're ever in this area another

10:02 interesting fact about the motel in the

10:05 early 8s when it was bought by the

10:07 foundation it was closed and there were

10:10 a couple residents who still remained

10:14 one of them being the lady across the

10:16 street Jacqueline Smith who has been

10:20 protesting ever since that day for

10:24 decades for 29 years and 35

10:28 days to be

11:04 so they evicted you what year was that

11:04 1988

11:05 1988 because I forced them to you forced

11:09 them to evict you yeah they just want

11:11 they just told them to get out I told

11:13 them I would go nowhere and you've been

11:15 here ever since that day yeah they cut

11:17 off Utilities in my room

11:20 there which room are you

11:22 in3 room

11:24 303 so was it the room 303 the corner

11:28 yeah over there

11:30 cuz I noticed in a picture I found

11:31 online that it was 307 at one

11:39 time yeah it doesn't really

11:39 matter going by I talked to Jacqueline

11:42 for a little while very nice lady when

11:44 she reminded me her name she said just

11:47 think of Charlie's Angels but there is

11:49 something

11:50 interesting about the room number which

11:53 still confuses me I mentioned earlier

11:55 about the confusion of room 303 and 307

11:58 she said she was in room 303 but this

12:01 photo shows

12:04 307 you can see the top part of the

12:06 seven is kind of been dismantled a

12:09 little bit just like it was in the photo

12:11 I showed earlier of Dr King walking past

12:14 that door so why was it changed from 307

12:17 to 303 she confirmed that's her room yet

12:21 the room number now is 303 but in the

12:25 photos from that day it was 307

12:29 very interesting I even asked one of the

12:31 guys at the Museum and he said oh no

12:33 that's always been room 303 you've

12:36 always been the caretaker and then I

12:39 showed him the photo he was super

12:41 confused by it and bewildered and said

12:43 he was going to ask around he never got

12:45 back with

12:46 me who the heck knows out of all the

12:50 little details of that case the

12:53 investigation all that why is that

12:55 sticking in my mind so much 303 versus

12:58 307

12:59 why was it changed and why doesn't

13:01 anyone know things that make you

13:04 go heading out of Memphis now cruising

13:08 down the

13:09 roadways not even sure which destination

13:14 will be in tomorrow's future I haven't

13:17 decided yet I don't know how far I'm

13:19 going to drive which technical Direction

13:23 I will be going but rest assured all

13:27 will be unveiled not only to you but to

13:31 myself by tomorrow I'll see you then

13:35 Vlog over

TDW 1706 - Final Moments Of Martin Luther King

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