There was little press coverage of the Apollo 6 mission mainly because on the same day as the launch , Martin Luther King , Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis , Tennessee , and President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek reelection only four days before .
There was little press coverage of the Apollo 6 mission . On the same day as the launch , Martin Luther King , Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis , Tennessee , and President Johnson had announced he would not seek re-election only four days before .