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PHOTO NUMBER:

P-53523

SERVICE MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

NEW YORK--At the end of a service marking the twelfth anniver-

sary of the April 4, 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King,

Jr., the congregation of New York's Riverside Church, was led in

singing "We Shall Overcome," by participants including, from left:

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young; Ms. Marion Hollingsworth,

chairperson of the commemorative service; New York Judge Bruce

Wright; the Rev. George Thomas, minister of outreach and institu-

tional relations of Riverside Church; the church's pastor,

Dr. William Sloane Coffin, Jr.; Dr. Edward Lowe and Benjamin

Lorick, both black Christian caucus leaders of the congregation

and the Rev. Dr. Eugene Laubach, the church's coordinating minister.

During the ceremony, the controversial Mr. Wright -- known

among his critics as "cut 'em loose Bruce" for his alleged practice, as

a criminal judge, of quickly releasing some persons accused of

felonies, with little or no bail -- was awarded a Humanitarian Award

by the Riverside Church, in recognition of his "concern for black

Christians."

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