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Description Photograph showing the wreckage of a bomb explosion near the Gaston Motel where Martin Luther King Jr., and leaders in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were staying during the Birmingham campaign of the Civil Rights Movement.
Date Published 14 May 1963. Bomb exploded 11 May 1963.
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Author Trikosko, Marion S., photographer.
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Public domain This work is from the U.S. News & World Report collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
This photograph is a work for hire created between 1952 and 1986 by one of the following staff photographers at U.S. News & World Report:
  • Warren K. Leffler (WKL)
  • Thomas J. O'Halloran (TOH)
  • Marion S. Trikosko (MST)
  • John Bledsoe (JTB)
  • Chick Harrity (CWH)

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