8. When King Was Assassinated One Of The Hotel Workers Also Died From A Heart Attack... And This Caused A Delay In Phoning For An Ambulance
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968 - but he was not the only person to lose their life there that day, as a member of the hotel staff died of shock following the shooting. Lorraine Bailey witnessed King getting shot and immediately went into shock - which induced a massive heart attack, from which she would also later die. Due to the fact Bailey would have been the one to operate the hotel's switchboard, her death caused a delay in the ambulances arriving on the scene because Reverend Samuel Kyles - who tried to made the emergency call - was unable to be connected.
NUFC editor for WhatCulture.com/NUFC. History graduate (University of Edinburgh) and NCTJ-trained journalist. I love sports, hopelessly following Newcastle United and Newcastle Falcons. My pastimes include watching and attending sports matches religiously, reading spy books and sampling ales.
