Clara Ester Speaks Out 50 Years Later About the Day Martin Luther King Was Assassinated: “I May Not Get There With You”

Today marks only 50 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. In her first network television interview, A then-college junior, Clara Ester was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee and rushed to Martin Luther King Junior’s side when he was shot. She is shown as merely a one of the figures appearing on the balcony that day, but the memory of MLK is etched in her soul forever; as she was one of the last people to see him alive.