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Associated Press Where Dr. King Was Assassinated

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09739.095 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Memphis, Tennessee Type: Photograph Date: 9 April 1968 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 25 cm, Width: 19 cm Order a Copy

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 9, 1968. Depicts Charles Q. Stevens, the man who rented a room neighboring Dr. King's assassin. He looks through the window from which the sniper took aim at Dr. King.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Stevens, Charles Q., fl. 1968

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