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- Title
- Tears in Atlanta.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-45752 TEARS IN ATLANTA ATLANTA -- Members cry outside a church where the mother of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was slain by a gunman in Atlanta. One other person was killed in the fusillade of bullets unleashed by a black man regarded by authorities as insane. The famed civil rights leader’s mother was slain as she played the organ in the church in which her son and her husband had served as pastors. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (L-7A-74-JW)
- Creator Name(s)
- Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1974, June 30, 1974, June 30, 1974
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., King, Alberta Williams, 1904-1974--Death and burial., Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.), King, Alberta Williams, 1904-1974--Assassination.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Spouses of clergy--Georgia--Atlanta., Families of clergy--Georgia--Atlanta., Church shootings--Georgia--Atlanta., Assassination--Georgia--Atlanta., Bereavement--Georgia--Atlanta.
- Geographic subjects
- Georgia, Atlanta., Georgia, Atlanta., Georgia, Atlanta., Georgia, Atlanta., Georgia, Atlanta., Atlanta (Ga.), North and Central America--United States--Georgia--Fulton--Atlanta
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. PC-45752; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-45752
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:358355
- Title
- Convicted of slaying Mrs. King.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-46021 CONVICTED OF SLAYING MRS. KING ATLANTA -- Marcus Wayne Chenault (right) is escorted from court in Atlanta after he was convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair for the murder of Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr., and a church deacon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Mrs. King’s husband is a pastor. Mr. Chenault, a 23-year-old black college student from Dayton, Ohio, clapped his hands as the jury convicted him, and blew kisses at the court as the sentence was read. Grinning, Mr. Chenault told the court, “My name is Servant Jacob. I was ordered here by my God, my father and my master.” At the time of the murder, he claimed he had been sent by his “god” to confront Mr. King, Sr., father of the slain civil rights leader. The defendant was said to be part of a group which believes black minister have misled their people and should be punished. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-ATL-9C-74-DS)
- Creator Name(s)
- United Press International. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1974, September 12, 1974, September 12, 1974
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Chenault, Marcus Wayne, Jr., 1951-1995., King, Alberta Williams, 1904-1974--Death and burial., King, Alberta Williams, 1904-1974--Assassination., Boykin, Edward, -1974--Death and burial., Boykin, Edward, -1974--Assassination.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Murderers--Georgia--Atlanta., Judgments, Criminal--Georgia--Atlanta., Sentences (Criminal procedure)--Georgia--Atlanta., Assassination--Georgia--Atlanta., Capital punishment--Georgia.
- Geographic subjects
- Georgia, Atlanta., Georgia, Atlanta., Georgia, Atlanta., Georgia, Atlanta., Georgia., Atlanta (Ga.), North and Central America--United States--Georgia--Fulton--Atlanta
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. PC-46021; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-46021
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:361267