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Associated Press Witness

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09739.099 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Memphis, Tennessee Type: Photograph Date: 12 April 1968 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 25 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press depicting Charles Q. Stevens, a resident of the rooming house where the assassin of Dr. King rented a room, standing outside of the bathroom from which the fatal shot was taken.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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