March 2012 Auction Ends Wednesday, March 28th, 5pm Pacific
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/28/2012
Lot of nine pages of UPI news release teletypes supplying minute-by-minute details on 4 April 1968 for Martin Luther King's assassination. Teletypes describe shooting and its immediate aftermath: ''...The shot apparently came from a...building across the street...Police put out a bulletin for a 'young white male, well dressed,' who ran out of the building, dropped a weapon...and leaped into a car...'' Teletypes are printed on 8.5'' wide newsprint. Minor toning, else very good condition.
UPI News Bulletins as Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Unfolded -- ''...Dr. Martin Luther King was shot...late today in Memphis...Police rushed the negro civil rights leader to a hospital...
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