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Associated Press Guards King's Grave

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09739.098 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Atlanta, Georgia Type: Photograph Date: 10 April 1968 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 20.5 x 26 cm. Order a Copy

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press depicting a guard sitting in his car at the gravesite of Dr. King at the South View Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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