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AN ASSASSINATION ON THIS DAY IN 1968

How MLK’s death affected a nation, as told by those who remember it - Los Angeles Times

Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was
fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-
story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,
Tennessee.

The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation
workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet
struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was
pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He
was 39 years old.

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Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

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CREW NAMED FOR NEXT TRIP TO THE MOON

PHOTO DATE: March 29, 2023. LOCATION: Bldg. 8, Room 183 - Photo Studio. SUBJECT: Official crew portrait for Artemis II, from left: NASA Astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen. (PHOTOGRAPHER: Josh Valcarcel courtesy of NASA)
Crew portrait for Artemis II, from left: NASA Astronauts
Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian
Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

NASA on Monday named the four astronauts who will fly to the
moon by the end of next year, including one woman and three
men.

The three Americans and one Canadian were introduced during
a ceremony in Houston, home to the nation’s astronauts as well
as Mission Control.

"This is humanity’s crew," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

The four astronauts will be the first to fly NASA’s Orion capsule, launching atop a Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy
Space Center no earlier than late 2024. They will not land or even
go into lunar orbit, but rather fly around the moon and head
straight back to Earth, a prelude to a lunar landing by two others
a year later.

Provided this next 10-day moonshot goes well, NASA aims to
land two astronauts on the moon by 2025 or so.

NASA picked from 41 active astronauts for its first Artemis crew
and Canada had four candidates. (
MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer)

   

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004)

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RADIO LEGEND IS GONE AT AGE 86

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Robert "Red" Robinson OBC (born March 30, 1937)

(CANADIAN PRESS) – VANCOUVER — The family of Vancouver
radio personality Red Robinson says he has died after a brief
illness.

In a statement posted online, Robinson’s family says he passed
away on Saturday, April 1st, shortly after 8 a.m.

Robinson began his radio career in 1954 at Vancouver’s CJOR,
and his website credits him as the first DJ in Canada to play
rock ’n’ roll music on a regular basis.

It says Red jumped to Vancouver CKWX station in 1957, where
he met American singer Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley.

His website says he was elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in 1994, the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame in 1997
and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 2000, retiring from radio
in 2007.

In 1959, Robinson took a job with KGW Radio in Portland, OR,
on the condition that he also host a TV show. He got his wish,
hosting Portland Bandstand on KGW TV. However, because
of American draft laws, he was also required to do a six-month
stint in the US Army at Fort Ord in California.

Red Robinson, 1955.
Red in 1955

Red Robinson and Buddy Holly
Red with Buddy Holly

Red Robinson and Elvis Presley, 1957.
Red Robinson with Elvis Presley in 1957.

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Red Robinson in the booth at KGW, radio ‘62’ in Portland, Or.

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DECLARATION OF WAR ON THIS DAY IN 1917

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On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress
to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in
World War I.

In his address to Congress that day, Wilson lamented it is a
fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war.

Four days later, Congress obliged and declared war on
Germany.

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924)

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