Statement by the President on the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson4 April 1968
The statement President Lyndon Johnson made on the evening of 4 April 1968, the day Martin Luther King Jr was shot dead in Memphis. It is a contemporary official record of the killing.
Johnson spoke of the “brutal slaying” of King that night and asked every citizen to reject the violence that had struck him. The editorial note printed with the statement in the Public Papers records that King, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was assassinated on 4 April in Memphis, Tennessee.
It is cited in this wiki for the date, place and manner of King’s death.