PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A member of the Action News team has a very vivid memory of how the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. unfolded. Vernon Odom was a 19-year-old radio journalist while ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — As National Guard troops arrive in Memphis, the memory of thousands of them with bayonetted rifles and tanks in 1968 is still fresh for Joe Calhoun. Back then, he marched in the ...

A relief squad of the Tennessee National Guard files across Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn., to replace troopers already stationed at strategic points in the racially tense city, March 30, 1968. The ...

FILE - Tennessee National Guard troops leap out of a truck at the Memphis Armory after being ordered into the city by Gov. Buford Ellington at the request of city officials, March 28, 1968, in Memphis ...