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  2. Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Woodlawn Memorial Park (Nashville, Tennessee) - Wikipedia

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    It is located 660 Thompson Lane, a site rich in history. The land was originally a Revolutionary War land grant of 968 acres given to John Topp in 1788, [1] eight years before Tennessee became a US state. In 1836 it became known as "Melrose" when US Senator Alexander Barrow purchased it and built a fine mansion with that name.

  4. Nathan Meeker - Wikipedia

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    Nathan Cook Meeker was born in Euclid, Ohio on July 12, 1817, [1] [a] to Enoch and Lurana Meeker. [1] He had three brothers. Meeker was a writer and submitted articles to area publications when he was a boy. [1] He left home at 17 years-of-age for New Orleans, where he worked as a copy boy for the New Orleans Picayune.

  5. Jacob Edwin Meeker - Wikipedia

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    He resigned in 1912. He studied law at Benton College of Law and was admitted to the bar in 1914. Meeker was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death from Spanish flu in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 16, 1918. [1] He was interred in Union Cemetery, Attica, Indiana. [2]

  6. Tommy Burks - Wikipedia

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    Fred Thomas Burks (May 22, 1940 – October 19, 1998) was a farmer and Democratic Party politician in Tennessee, United States. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1970 until 1978 and in the Tennessee State Senate from 1978 until his assassination in 1998. [1]

  7. Arthur Meeker Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Meeker's grave at Graceland Cemetery. Letters he wrote to his family from Europe in the 1930s suggest he was homosexual. [12] He had a thirty-year relationship with Robert Molnar, with whom he lived from at least 1940 until Meeker's death in their New York City home on October 22, 1971. [12] Meeker named Molnar his heir. [12]

  8. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

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    On his return, flying through the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, from Imphal to Lalaghat, the USAAF North American B-25H-1-NA Mitchell bomber, 43-4242, [22] [246] of the 1st Air Commando Group [247] in which he is traveling crashes into jungle-covered hills near Bishnupur, Manipur, in the present-day state of Manipur in Northeast India.

  9. Mike Meeker - Wikipedia

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    Michael Thomas Meeker (February 23, 1958 – June 5, 2024) [1] was a Canadian professional ice hockey center who played four games in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 1978–79 season.