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Dr. King's Friends Console Each Other

Dr. King's Friends Console Each Other

Ralph Abernathy and Will D. Campbell, a long-time friend and civil rights activist, embrace in Dr. King's room. "I was documenting a momentous event, and I thought that at any time I was going to be asked to leave, so I did what I could as quickly as I could."

Photo: Henry Groskinsky/Time & Life Pictures

Apr 04, 1968