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Listen: The Blues ProgramGovernor Claude Kirk in Tallahassee during riots following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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, M87- 27, Box 13
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Civil rights movements
Riots--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Traffic police--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Public officers
Statesmen--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Politicians--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Governors--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Peace officers--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Sheriffs--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Law enforcement--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
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General Note
Foreground (L-R): Sheriff William P. "Bill" Joyce, Governor Kirk, and unidentified highway patrolman.
Two men silhouetted in background may be Kirk's administrative aide Dick Warner and a representative of the Office of Economic Opportunity.
Accompanying note: "On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, in Memphis, Tennessee. In the ten days following this tragic event, riots erupted in over one hundred American cities. One of the cities struck by rioters, Tallahassee, Florida, reported that one person was killed and fourteen injured during the period April 5-7."
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