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From then who knew him

street, grief _-and tributes

murdered Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, the corner-
stone 'of .the- ?civil-rights
movement. .

didn?treally believe it,?
said William Huelett, 1814
24th Ave., as he shepped in a
central~area market. 5?He
was a peacefulman. It was
so unfair to him. It was a
great loss to us and a very
tragic thing to happen at
this time.?

THE GRIEF was deeper
for two of Dr. King?s friends
here. The Rev. Dr. John H.
Adams, who was a graduate
student with Dr. King in 1953
at the n_ University
School of Theology, said last
night: a
feel like a lot of me died
tonight. You don?t follow a

years or know a man of his
kind of personality without
his death having a traumatic
effect.

?It took me some time to
recover from the shock.?

Dr. Adams, pastor of the
First A. M. E. Church here,
last saw Dr. King in Atlanta
in mid-February.

DR. ADAMS said: ?Let?s
understand that there is no
other Martin Luther King
floating around.? But he
hoped that Dr. King?s death
would create many men at
the local and national level
who would continue to speak
for and practice ?the nonvi-
olent revolution for justice.?

Dr. Adams said he hoped

Well, to the man on ?the.

poured forth ?here for the'

the

man?s leadership for 12 or 13?

concerned about their fellow
'man,'not' only in the white

community but the black.?
The Rev. Samuel Mc-

Kinney, who was a freshman

at Morehouse College in At-

lanta with Dr. jKing and a .

personal friend ?who referred 

?-to the martyred leader as

Mike, said:

?Dr. King was an apostle
of love. While the mood of
America today hasbeen one
of hate and anger, he
brought to it a dimension of

love.?

Mr. McKinney, pastor, of
Mount Zion Baptist
Church, said Dr. King had a
premonition of death. Mr.
McKinney said:

?He told me before he
took his movement to Chica-
go: will not live to be an
old man because this nation
is not willing to accept
nonviolence.? 



 ufe to Dr: King,



Alfred E. Cowles, execu-
tive secretary of the State
Board Against 
tien, said he haped a living
memorial could be made ?to
Dr. King -- passage'by the
House of Representatives
?with great dispatch? of the
open-housing bill that has
cleared the Senate.

Cowles said such an act
would ?allay irresponsible
behavior and give new confi-
ence to a lot of people who
feel frustration.?

Dr. Adams, Cowles and
Mr. McKinney were among
participants in a special
Channel 9 telecast last
night arranged after Dr.
King?s death. 

There is a mood of sad-
ness among Negroes in the
Central Are. Some of their

reactions:

William James Bass, 915
26th Ave. S.: don?t think

 

MOLLY WILSON

anybody can fill his place.
With all the hardship he
went through, he didn?t give


Jim Finkley, 118 3lst Ave.

Welcome Was ontroversiol

 

In Brotherhood, Dr. King

By LANE SMITH
Assistant City Editor,

The Times
The Rev. Dr. Martin Lu-
ther King, Jr., came to

Seattle in November, 1961,
on a visit that, not unexpect-
edly, precipitated a
controversy.

Seattle was just a quiet
eddy in the turbulence of
civil-rights activity then and
so the contr0versy seemed
mild.

Dr. King remained aloof of
criticism leveled at him but
he gave the impression then
that nothing would deter him

Before he came, a down-
town church had canceled a
tentative agreement to rent
its sanctuary for a lecture
by Dr. King. The church
never made its reasons clear
except that the Dr. King?s
sponsor, the Mount Zion
Baptist Church, had ?pro-
ceeded on a mistaken idea.?

A woman appeared before
the School Board to protest

that Dr. King should not
speak in a ?tax-supported
public school? on the

grounds he is a ?contr0ver?
sial figure known to be asso-
ciated with causes inimical
to the United States.?

was against any form of
war. This is sometimes for-
gotten by those who criti-
cized him for speaking
against the Vietnam war.
They said it. weakened his
leadership in civil rights.

Dr. King said some pretty
strong things here but he
was marvelously articulate.
This reporter can recall no
other speaker who could
match him in an ability to
use the exactly right word.
Hewas superbly educated 
the holder of a doctorate in
philOSOphy and many as-
sociates said he would have
been happy in teaching in a

 

THE REV. SAMU EL
MCKINNEY

S.: ?It was like the death of
President Kennedy. He was
like a president to a lot of
our pe0ple.?

Molly Wilson, a grocery

Vsted

critical of Dr. King and he
was in and Out of jails.

But he represented a time
when whites and blacks
could work together. It was
he who called out idealism
that sent thousands of well -
intentioned young people on
various ?freedom? projects.

Dr. King won over a lunch-
hour crowd of more than
2,000 at the University of
Washington- And he told the
student body and facuity
that America was a dream
that had not been fully real-
ized because it has divided

checker:
courage.
didn?t get it before now with
the places he went. He was
a tremendous leader.?

JIM FINKLEY

?He had a lot of
It?s a wonder he

Seattle

ative.
violence. But as he defined it
in Seattle, it meant a mani-
festation of love, ?the love
of brotherhood, a type of
creative good will and un-
derstanding.?

Dr. King summed it up as
brotherhood,
braced all the races.

i. B. I. lights
Robber 0i

It sometimes drew

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Dr. King?s. untimely death in his militanc for equal itself because of racial
REV. H. ADAMS. left. and ALFRED E. COWLES would ?turn on? all those rights for they American DR KING ff Northern semmary. segregation and religious  
After talking on Channel 9 program ?who are indifferent or un~ Negro. such ?He gas quiet (in convent? bigOtrY- it a
on, apper 1n ress,,gen - .
makizig 1t clear he was an with ques?oners and he Federal Bureau of Investi?
can a. i Wk} A tif?mit?ir 59?? audiences with? His nonviolence was Drovoci gait01?? theatr'cs. he walk lik ?um 1
??635 v" ?ea ers? I   rights struggle was a holy a ?ghier? aliniddlewefght. the strangely dressed man

cause.

Manny memories crowd to
the mind?s surface now, and
one of those is of Frank

who robbed the Seattle-First
National Bank branch in the
Cascade Vista Shopping Cen?
ter in Renton of $7,041 yes?

man of great courage.?
Gov. Dan Evans thus char-
acterized Dr. Martin Luther

again violence has snuffed
Out the life of an American
leader," Evans said.

Arthur A. Fletcher, a
Negro and a Pasco city
councilman: ?Martin Luther

the race for lieutenant gov-
emor.
Carl Maxey, a Negro at-

This reporter also recalls
that in the many appear-
ances he made in Seattle,

Deep South Sets



King last night ?His death win not have King possibly will have a torney from Spokane and a . . his strongest Words and 1 K. terda

Evans lauded Dr. King for been in vain if it brings to more powerful influence on member of the advisory 0f haFShest demands were Thg'man 25 to 30, wore
bringing the plight of his fel- each .?zrivrican citizen the the civil-rights movement in committee on the United a 18 lg 5.3100; made on Negroes. large dark? glasses, Olive;
low citizens to the attention need for Ismpassion and a the grave than he did on States Commission on Civil Hanawalt mid this MOBILE, Ala- (AP) ?3

drab fatigues, beige tennis
shoes and a helmet liner for
a hat. He was armed with a

ter he had pressed hard for
Dr- King?s appearance at

The Archbishop of the Mo-
bile~Birmingham a i 

earth. You can kill the man
but not the idea.?

of the American people, the
Associated Press reported.

sense of human dignity in
his :?eiationship with every

Rights:
bespeaks of the sick-

is NECESSARY for
all to take a stand on inte-

 

mains;

IS TRAGIC that once

labor Leaders Mourn Death

The death of the Rev- Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr., in
Memphis ?is a grievous sor-
row for all of America,? Joe
Davis, president of the State

othzr citizen.? .
Other comments:

the Pacific Northwest and
throughout the nation, will
never forget that his mission
in Memphis was a nonviolent
protest in support of striking

Fletcher said the shooting
has prompted him to enter

of King

leaders of organized labor to
bring his vision of a truly
free and just America into a
living reality.?

Democratic

ness of our nation, particular?
ly the white community. It
makes you wonder how
many other black
AmeriCa.will have to offer
up. 1 think it is. symbolic of
the resiults of theKerner re-
port. Racism is just a part
of the American epic.?
State Atty. Gen. John
O?COnnell, candidate for the

Gar?eld because the Negro
students there needed a bol?
stering of their sense of
self-worth. Hanawalt said
Garfield needed exposure to
a man of King?s strength.
Although the nonviolent
?tum-the-other cheek? and
integrationist approach of
Dr. King is no longer the
style of many of the younger

gration,? Dr. King told Gar-
field students. ?But the
Negro himself must take a
stand and stand up to it. It
is his chief responsibility for
making it so.

?The Negro must not idly
sit back and let others seem-
ingly be more concerned.?

Dr. King was 32 then. It
was a time of sit - ins, mass
nonviolent

Diocese has directed that
memorial Masses be conduct~
ed throughout Alabama and
Northwest Florida for the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.

The Most Rev. Thomas J.
Toolen said last night that
he learned of the assassina?
tion of Dr. King ?with a
deep sense of profound re?
gret.?

sawed-off shotgun.

The robber waved six cus?
tomers, two children and a
teen-ager aside as he en-
tered the bank about 10:50 a.
no. He ordered one employe
to hang?up a telephone. She
did, pushing an alarm button
at the same time.

Three tellers put money

into a large cloth bag car-

gubernatori-al Negro militants, he left the demOnstrations ried by the robber.

?His death will not be in

-.4

Labor Council, and Walter
E. Berg, chairman of its hu?
man-rights committee, said

today.

The joint statement

said:

?We, in organized labor in

members of the American
Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employes, A.
F. I. 0.

?Throughout his memora~
ble life the Rev.- Dr. King
worked with members and

 

 

 

 

 
     
   

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vain. Union and nonunion
workers know in their hearts
that his doctrine of peaceful
reconciliation must not, can
not, be stopped by an assas-
sin?s bullet.?

nomination: ?This is one of
the great tragedies of our
time, and I hope that our so-
ciety will learn from this
dreadful, violent death to
forget its bigotries and pre~
judices.?

strong impression that he

and boycotts. It was before
was a fighter.

the long hot summers came
north and the specter of

THIS WAS out of keeping riots that hang over our cit-

with the image of a pacifist, ies.
Which Dr. King was. In 1961,
he was clearly stating he MANY WERE violently

?The loss of Dr. King is
indeed a national tragedy
and this tragedy will be even
greater if our future actions
Show that he has died in
vam,? Archbishop Toolen
said.

He fled in a stolen light
green 1949 Ford. The car
was found by a deputy sher-
iff in 144th Avenue Southeast
off the Power Line Road at
12:15 p. m. The bank is at
17034 116th Ave. S. E.

 

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