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King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.
Jonesboro (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ n z b ʌ r ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Clayton County, Georgia, United States. [4] The population was 4,235 in 2020. The city's name was originally spelled Jonesborough .
Georgia State Route 920 (SR 920) was a 17.1-mile (27.5 km) arterial road in the Metro Atlanta area in the state of Georgia.The route number was a temporary designation placed along the route while it is upgraded to be converted to be a future alignment of SR 81.
Jonesboro Historic District in Jonesboro, Georgia is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1972. [ 1 ] Jonesboro was the setting of much of the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind ; the fictional houses Tara and Twelve Oaks were placed near it, in Clayton County .
Clayton County is located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 297,595 by the U.S. Census Bureau. [1] The county seat is Jonesboro.
The 'Racial Cleansing' That Drove 1,100 Black Residents Out Of Forsyth County, Ga., 38:57, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR, September 15, 2016. [ 1 ] After the American Civil War , black enslaved persons in the South were emancipated and granted citizenship and the franchise through constitutional amendments .
Mortuary Affairs is a service within the United States Army Quartermaster Corps tasked with the recovery, identification, transportation, and preparation for burial of deceased American and American-allied military personnel. The human remains of enemy or non-friendly persons are collected and returned to their respective governments or ...
[2] [1] A traditional funeral service consists of a viewing (sometimes referred to as a visitation), a funeral service in a place of worship or the funeral home chapel and a graveside committal service. Direct cremation consists of the funeral home receiving the body, preparing it for the crematory and filing the necessary legal paperwork ...