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August 16, 2013
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(1974) Members cry outside a church where the mother fo 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 to be 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. Religion News Service file photo

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