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===后事===

这次暗杀事件导致了全国范围内的种族骚乱，在华盛顿特区、芝加哥、巴尔地摩、路易斯维尔、堪萨斯城和许多其他城市都发生了种族骚乱。<ref name=BBC>{{cite news | title=1968: Martin Luther King shot dead| work=On this Day| publisher= BBC | year=2006 | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/4/newsid_2453000/2453987.stm| accessdate=2008-08-27 |date=1968-04-04}}

</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Risen|first=Clay|title=A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination|year=2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=0-470-17710-1}}