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Michael Beschloss ✔
@BeschlossDC
Jacqueline Kennedy and Coretta King on the day of MLKs funeral, Atlanta, April 1968
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Im glad you posted it!
Demovictory9
(32,482 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)was probably donated to one of the historical organizations. This is in Wikipedia about Michael Beschloss:
Beschloss has been a frequent commentator on the PBS NewsHour and is the NBC News Presidential Historian. He is a trustee of the White House Historical Association and the National Archives Foundation and he also sits on the board of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. He has been a trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello), the Urban Institute, the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. He also sits on the advisory board to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and was a member of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. He has held appointments in history at the Smithsonian Institution,[8] a Senior Associate Member at St. Antony's College (University of Oxford),[8] a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University Russian Research Center,[8] a Senior Fellow of the Annenberg Foundation, and a Montgomery Fellow and Dorsett Fellow at Dartmouth College.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Beschloss
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)TNNurse
(6,929 posts)It is always moving and poignant. Michael Beschloss is a significant resource for NBC and MSNBC.
Bayard
(22,181 posts)Thanks for posting.
And I always learn something from Beschloss.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)I found the credit for the photo here: https://www.art.com/products/p38821801753-sa-i9835844/maurice-sorrell-coretta-scott-king-jacquelyn-kennedy-1968.htm
From the JFK Library Archives the story of how Mr. Sorrell joined the White House Photographers Association:
https://archiveblog.jfklibrary.org/2017/02/spotlight-on-maurice-sorrell-photographer/
From his obituary:
By Louie Estrada
Maurice Sorrell, an award-winning news photographer whose career both chronicled and challenged racial segregation, died of heart ailments June 22 at Providence Hospital. He was 84.
Mr. Sorrell, who began his profession rather late in life, had a photographic career that spanned more than three decades. During that time, he documented black civil rights leaders and urban riots in the 1950s and 1960s, photographed nine U.S. presidents and numerous members of Congress, and traveled to more than 24 countries. He also took one of the earliest pictures of the Black Congressional Caucus.
He retired in 1994 after 34 years as a news photographer in the Washington bureau of Johnson Publishing Co., which publishes Ebony and Jet magazines. His work appeared regularly in those two publications.
In 1961, Mr. Sorrell joined the ranks of the Washington photo elite as part of the White House Photographers Association and became its first black member. His early days at the White House were an unwelcoming experience as other photographers boxed him out, preventing him from taking decent pictures, he once said in an interview. Because he was 5 feet 4 inches tall, it was no small feat to jostle for a better position, but he soon learned to throw his elbows. More importantly, he said, "once they found out that I could shoot as well as they could, they accepted me."
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/06/25/news-photographer-maurice-sorrell-84-dies/3bb4a082-5baf-4e18-89c3-0ed7d1a11713/?utm_term=.da62ce277615
https://slought.org/resources/photographic_memory
tosh
(4,424 posts)Love this photo of his.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)C. Deloris Tucker in close conversation with President Jimmy Carter
(Maurice Sorrell, Year unknown)
https://slought.org/resources/photographic_memory
Ilsa
(61,707 posts)Collimator
(1,639 posts)My apologies that I can't recall this more clearly.
It was a news story or an interview. The point being made was that someone spoke to Mrs. King and said something about how Mrs. Kennedy's strength or composure were so important to "us" when the President was assassinated. Mrs. King was asked about her role in helping "her people" when her husband was likewise murdered.
This was a long time ago, but I think that the point of the story was the less overt tragedy that the distinctions between "us", white America and "them", black America were being made so thoughtlessly.
In the moment captured by the photo, I see two women who understand each other's struggle and grief. Did they see one another as some designated "other"? Or were they just two people united in the universal understanding of love and loss?
iluvtennis
(19,882 posts)mountain grammy
(26,658 posts)The 60s were open season on Democrats. Too many funerals.