United Press International [Group of 103 press photos surrounding assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.] [Decimalized .001-.103]

[Photo of President Johnson meeting with top African American leaders]

One telephoto taken by UPI dated April 5, 1968. Photograph depicts top African American leaders meeting with President Lyndon Johnson at the White House. Press is present.

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[Photo of Martin Luther King's casket being loaded onto an Atlanta bound plane]

One telephoto taken by UPI dated April 5, 1968. Photograph depicts casket of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. being loaded onto a plane for transport back to Atlanta, Georgia.

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King's Body Put on Plane

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 5, 1968. Photo depicts casket of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. being loaded onto a plane as the Rev. Ralph Abernathy stands in the doorway of the plane. Wirephoto description notes that Rev. Abernathy...

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To Claim Body

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 5, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King boarding a plane bound for Memphis, Tennessee to claim the body of her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holding a umbrella for Mrs. King is her late husband's...

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To Lead Service

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 6, 1968. Depicts Benjamin E. Mays, retired president of Morehouse College. According to the wirephoto description, Dr. Mays was a former teacher of Dr. King and was selected to lead the funeral...

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Examines Attache Case

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 5, 1968. Depicts Hosea Williams, an aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, examining the contents of King's briefcase. Observable contents of briefcase include King's book "Strength to Love" and...

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Long Live the King

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 5, 1968. Depicts Reverend Ralph Abernathy raising an arm to the sky and saying "Long Live the King." Picture taken after a short memorial service in Memphis, Tennessee after King's body had been...

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[View through simulated rifle scope aimed at Dr. Martin Luther King's hotel room]

One wirephoto taken by United Press International dated April 6, 1968. Depicts the view through a simulated rifle scope aimed at the spot where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel. The shot was taken from an...

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[View of mop handle aimed at Dr. Martin Luther King's hotel room]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 5, 1968. Depicts the length of a mop handle pointed at room 306 of the Lorraine Hotel, meant to simulate the view of a rifle's barrel. Picture taken from the inside of an adjacent motel...

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[Interior of bathroom from which assassin stood to murder Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.]

One United Press International Telephoto dated April 5, 1968. Depicts the interior of the bathroom from which an assassin shot Martin Luther King Jr.

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Assassin's Room

One Associated Press wirephoto dated April 5, 1968. Depicts a newsman in the room rented by James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, in a motel adjacent to the Lorraine hotel.

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[Coretta Scott King, 1968]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 6, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King as she reads a prepared statement at a press conference in Atlanta. According to the telephoto description, "In her first public statement since her...

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Mrs. King Gives Views

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 6, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King at a press conference in Atlanta following Dr. King's assassination. Pictured in the background is Rev. Ralph Abernathy.

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[Coretta Scott King Reads Prepared Statement at Ebenezer Baptist Church]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 6, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King at a press conference at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta two days after Dr. King's assassination. In the background is Dr. King's pulpit with the...

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[Coretta Scott King leaves press conference]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 6, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King leaving a press conference where she reads a prepared statement urging Dr. Martin Luther King's followers to remain true to the tenets of nonviolence...

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Floral Tribute to Dr. King

One Associated Press wirephoto dated April 7, 1968. Depicts the floral wreaths which hang on the balcony rail outside of Dr. Martin Luther King's room at the Lorraine Motel. According to the text on the wirephoto, Dr. King was leaning on the rail...

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[Casket of Dr. Martin Luther King placed into Hearse]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 6, 1968. Depicts men carrying Dr. Martin Luther King's casket into a hearse from the funeral home in Atlanta for transport to Spellman College where his body will lie in state. Information...

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Wait to View King

One Associated Press wirephoto dated April 5, 1968. Depicts crowds gathered outside of an Atlanta funeral home waiting to view the body of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Pictured in the crowd is Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, identified in the accompanying...

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[Martin Luther King Sr. carried away from son's funeral bier]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 7, 1968. Depicts Martin Luther King Sr. being led away from his son's funeral bier after collapsing while viewing the body. Assisting King Sr. is Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a top aide of...

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[Martin Luther King Sr. Weeps at son's viewing]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 7, 1968. Depicts Martin Luther King Sr. crying at the viewing of his son's body as it lay in state in Atlanta, Georgia.

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