Larry P. was a 28 year old truck driver living in Southaven, MS in 1968. Larry happened to be in Downtown Memphis when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. He remembered hearing all of the sirens and being given a curfew and was told to stay off the streets. In the weeks following the shooting, he remembers there being much sadness from everyone and he was afraid of what might would happen to him. He also said that the racial relations were actually better back then than they currently are today.