Premise: Martin Luther King Jr. ( born Michael King Jr. , January 15 , 1929 -- April 4 , 1968 ) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement . In 1968 , King was planning a national occupation of Washington , D.C. , to be called the Poor People 's Campaign , when he was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4 in Memphis , Tennessee . Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for King 's murder , and died in 1998 from hepatitis while serving his sentence . King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal .
Hypothesis: Martin Luther King Jr. is not dead.
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