Associated Press Long Live the King

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GLC#
GLC09739.007-View header record
Type
Images
Date
5 April 1968
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
Long Live the King
Place Written
Memphis, Tennessee
Pagination
1 photograph Height: 26.3 cm, Width: 18.8 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Sixties

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 placed in a hearse at a funeral parlor. According to the wirephoto text, King's body would be flown from Memphis to Atlanta. Rev. Abernathy would take over the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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