Posted on 01/20/2020 12:16:08 PM PST by lowbridge
The sad event occurred on June 30, 1974, about six years after her son was killed.
It was a Sunday, and Mrs King and her family were at their Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., which was headed by her husband, Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
King Sr. was not at church that day. Mrs. King was reportedly elated that she would be playing a new organ the church had just received.
In front of about 500 congregants, the 69-year-old began playing the organ for the Lords Prayer while the congregation bowed their heads in prayer. That was when the attack began.
A young man later identified as Marcus Wayne Chenault jumped from a pew and yelled: Im taking over here! Im tired of all this!
He then drew two pistols and for the next 90 seconds fired wildly and continuously, hitting Mrs. King, another elderly woman parishioner, and a 69-year-old church deacon, Mr Edward Boykin, The Guardian reported.
Mrs. King and Boykin died from the gunshot wounds but the other member survived.
Chenault, a then 23-year-old Ohio State dropout, was wrestled to the ground by bystanders while attempting to reload, yelling constantly about the war.
He was delirious. He appeared to be in a fever. He said over and over, The war did this to me. Its the war,' Mrs. Kings grandson, Derek, said at the time.
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“Black Hebrew Israelites”
Weren’t the two people that shot up that Jewish neighborhood in New Jersey the other month? One would think these cults wouldn’t last that long.
Is that Micheal Jackson? Who knew?
You’re not kidding. God Bless her and Mr. Boykin, how awful.
Thats a lot of suffering for one family.
Exactly.
It’s the same nut group, which apparently started in the 19th century, and has many splinter sects. Southern Poverty Law Center supposedly lists 144 of these as anti-Semitic/anti-White hate groups. But not all the sects are into that. I’d never heard of this until the Nickolas Sandman incident in Washington DC, where Back Hebrew Israelites were said to have stirred things up.
M. W. Chenault, 44, Gunman Who Killed Mother of Dr. King
>>>How weird. I was in Jr. High at the time and I dont remember hearing about that at all.<<<
Nor did I . . .
I never realized before that MLK was not even 40 when he was assassinated.
>>>Still had the middle name Wayne.... Hmmmm.<<<
My middle name is Wayne.
Somehow, I made it to 66-years-old without murdering any one.
Now that I think about it, June 30 is during summer vacation. I wasn’t a news junkie back. I was a get out of the house as soon as I can and get home after dark junkie.
Probably because it happened during summer vacation. We didn’t have a 24 hour news cycle back then.
I was in the Air Force stationed at Plattsburgh, New York at the time. We had a good number of blacks living in the dorm, but I can not honestly recall even hearing one word about it. It’s true that some of the blacks kept to themselves, but I don’t remember them excluding us.
First time I heard of it as well. Sad the King family lost two family members.
Right, Im sure what you say is right. I feel like I never heard this, just a local news story. RIP
I was a lowly freshmen in high school when this happened and I hadnt been aware of this. Ever. Kudos for not calling Jr High middle school my FRiend.
I think you are confusing him with Urkel on Family Matters, a total dork. Michael Jackson was a very good looking black child/young man until he became a uuugly white woman.
Jesse Jackson needed to get people out of his way to taking over.
Just saying.
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