Associated Press Long Live the King
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09739.007 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Memphis, Tennessee Type: Photograph Date: 5 April 1968 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 26.3 x 18.8 cm. Order a Copy
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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