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Associated Press Crying for Father

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09739.077 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Atlanta, Georgia Type: Photograph Date: 9 April 1968 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 17.7 x 25.5 cm. Order a Copy

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press showing Yolanda King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., wiping her eyes as her father is buried in South View Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
King, Yolanda, 1955- 2007

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