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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 Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 12, 1968. Depicts 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
Stevens, Charles Q., fl. 1968

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