I interviewed my grandmother, Yevonne H. She was twenty-nine years old when Martin Luther King Jr. Died on April 4, 1968. "The morning of Luther's death, I got up like any other day and got the kids ready for school. Kirk was eight years old at the time, and I was a stay at home mom. After I took the kids to school, I cleaned the house. The Vietnam War was going on, and Civil rights movements were taking place. Also, Ole Miss had been integrated a few years earlier. The president at the time of Luther's death was London B. Johnson. After we had all eaten dinner, it was late at night, and I turned on the news and herd that Martin Luther king Jr. had been shot at a hotel. It was everywhere on the news, and it was talked about for weeks. I was in aww, and I had greatly respected Luther for being the head of the Civil Rights Movement. It was a sad day for the world, because Luther didn't just speak in the U.S about his dream but all over the world. Riots broke out in the streets of Memphis. Houses were broken into and destroyed. Memphis and the world was angry and sad. It was not safe to go many places right after he was killed. Weeks later the police found the man who shot Luther, and he had to serve 99 years in prison."