Video: 'MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.'S CASKET ARRIVES AT MEMPHIS AIRPORT APRIL 5, 1968 85614'

(Friday, April 5, 1968, 11:30 a.m. CST; during the African-American civil rights movement (1954–1968)) — One day after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., the casket containing his body was loaded aboard an American Airlines Convair chartered by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy today at the Memphis Airport for a flight to Atlanta.

The body was accompanied by King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy and other Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) staff members.

Video: 'Eyes On The Prize - (Part 10) The Promised Land 1967–1968' (Apr. 5, 1968, at 41:12)