40 years after Martin Luther King Jnr's death

Jesse Jackson(above on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel the day before the assassination with Dr King) has no difficulty remembering his last conversation with Martin Luther King. He was in the car park of the Lorraine motel in Memphis and King was standing a floor above him on the balcony outside room 306.

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40th Anniversary of his Assassination in Memphis, Tennessee

40 years ago civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King Jnr was assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

On 4 April 1968 at 6.10 pm, a sniper assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jnr while he was standing on the balcony of Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. Dr King had come to Memphis, to support striking sanitation workers.

Elvis - 30 years - Amazing Graceland

It is 30 years today since Elvis Presley died in his bathroom at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.

When I was planning my trip to the USA two years ago I knew I had to go to Graceland and I manoeuvred it so that I could be there during Elvis week, which culminated with the candlelight vigil on the night of the 16th.

Memphis was not at all as I had thought it would be, it is quite a small city - to me it felt like a big Southern town that just kept on growing, with the Mississippi right there, looking big and brown and muddy.

But Graceland itself was small, with overfilled little rooms and we were threaded though it like a production line. Everyone snapping their digitals and cellphone cameras in the places where we were allowed to photograph. Portraits of Elvis on the wall.

I wrote a story about it for Altitude P44 August issue - there is a flip though digital magazine on their website for Elvis fans.