Title
News Release Including Florida's Response to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination, 1968
Subject
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Florida--Race relations
Civil rights movements
Riots--Florida--Tallahassee
Description
News release describing how Floridians and other Americans responded to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and information about King's funeral and who was attending. There is also other Florida news about Governor Claude Kirk being sued by J. A. Maloney; Floridians fighting in the Vietnam War; a car accident along the Tamiami Trail; an arrest at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami; the murder of William Guffey of St. Louis; and Boca Raton police sergeant Robert Lynch being charged with embezzling money.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Series S923
Identifier
s923_b085_f02_01
Coverage
Postwar Florida (1945-1968)
Subject - Person
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Kirk, Claude R. (Claude Roy), Jr., 1926-2011
Griffin, I. L.
Maloney, J. A.
Nicholson, John
Seidel, Melvin
Stokes, Cleve
Kirk, Sarah Stokes
Zimmerman, Robert
Click, William
Guffey, William
Fish, Barton
Lynch, Robert
Johnson, John
Stedman, Carling
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Bunker, Ellsworth, 1894-1984
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979
Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971
Lindsay, John V. (John Vliet)
Jenkins, Roy, 1920-2003
Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003
Smith, George Thornewell, 1916-2010
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination
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