Mayor Ivan Allen escorts Coretta King through Hartsfield Airport

In this WSB-TV newsfilm clip dated April 4, 1968, Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s personal secretary Dora McDonald accompany Coretta Scott King through an Atlanta airport terminal to an Atlanta city police escort vehicle just moments after Mrs. King has been notified of her husband 's assassination in Memphis, Tennessee; later in the clip, visitors walk up the front steps of the King residence in Atlanta, where the front door is guarded by police officers.

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Who is the child that’s crying 😭♥️?

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Was an amazing time with an amazing cast of characters. Ivan and Coretta were two of them. I remember the riots in DC. Ivan, for all his warts, helped usher in desegregation. Quite a few white folks in Atlanta helped, even Ivan’s father, a staunch segregationist, who sent his son to have dinner at a black family’s house at a time when that didn’t occur, and probably set in motion his sons part in the Civil Rights Movement a few years before it began in earnest. If anyone reads this I highly recommend a book written by Gary Pomerantz titled “Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn”. It’s Atlanta’s story told through the intertwining stories of the Allen and Dobbs families and many other players. It paints a very real picture of how the south was transformed and how Atlanta grew and both of those families played a huge part in it.

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Is that Dora McDonald? Next to king