Protester Ousted From Site of King Museum
<i> Associated Press</i>
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Sheriff’s deputies on Monday picked up and carried away a demonstrator at the small motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death in 1968.
Jacqueline Smith had camped in front of the Lorraine Motel for almost three years, protesting the motel’s conversion to a museum. She had defied a judge’s order to move. Smith wants the location to be used to serve the poor.
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