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[Portrait of John F. Kennedy]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.2124 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Print Date: January 1977 Pagination: 1 print Order a Copy

One portrait of John F. Kennedy. Reverse side contains photographs from John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.'s funerals. A third picture captures Dr. King attending President Kennedy's funeral.

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
1945 to the Present
President
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Funerals
The Seventies

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