A bell at the Lorraine Motel where King was killed tolled 39 times, once for each year he lived. Churches and universities around the world joined in ringing their own bells in King’s memoryAt the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the silence was piercing at 6.01pm, 50 years to the minute since Martin Luther King Jr was killed by an assassin’s bullet. A bell erected off to the side of the balcony where King took his last breath tolled 39 times, once for each year he lived. More than 200 churches and universities around the world joined in ringing their own bells in King’s memory. Continue reading…

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/05/bell-tolls-39-times-to-commemorate-martin-luther-king-jrs-death