NATION IN BRIEF : TENNESSEE : Woman Ordered Off King Slaying Site
A woman who has camped for more than two years in a tent outside the Memphis, Tenn., motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated was ordered to be off the site by noon today. Jacqueline Smith, 39, is protesting the state’s decision to build the $9.5-million Lorraine National Civil Rights Museum on the site of the Lorraine Motel, where the civil rights leader was slain in 1968. Shelby County Chancellor George T. Lewis ordered her to move or face eviction by the sheriff. Smith wants the motel to be turned into a medical clinic for poor people or a homeless shelter.
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