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- GLC#
- GLC09739.023-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 7 April 1968
- Author/Creator
- Associated Press
- Title
- Tears for Dr. King
- Place Written
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 1 photograph Height: 26.2 cm, Width: 21.3 cm
- Primary time period
- 1945 to the Present
- Sub-Era
- The Sixties
One Associated Press wirephoto dated April 7, 1968. Depicts two mourners weeping at a memorial service for Martin Luther King Jr. at Crump stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. The mourner on the right is identified as Walter Bradin, 66, of Memphis. According to the wirephoto text, Bradin remarked, " I love him (King), I love that song," as the national anthem was playing.
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