I spent a year in military language school (1967 - 68).
After graduation, I returned to my home in Chicago for leave; the hot news was that MLK had been assassinated that very day - April 4, 1968.
There was a joke going around that was half in jest, half serious. JFK had an eternal flame and now, MLK was going to have an eternal flame, except MLK’s eternal flame would go from house to house to house. In Detroit, it probably did.
“JFK had an eternal flame and now, MLK was going to have an eternal flame, except MLK’s eternal flame would go from house to house to house.”
That’s actually really, really funny.