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[[image - black & white photograph of three men in a crowd of mourners]]
[[caption]] Among the mourners were Senator Tydings of Maryland, Lawrence Pierce of New York State Narcotics Commission and Assemblyman Bertram Baker of New York. [[/caption]]

[[image - black & white photograph of a young woman carrying a large floral cross, at the front of a group of walking mourners]]
[[caption]] The floral cross which covered the casket of the slain leader was carried all the way from the Ebenezer Baptist Church to the Public Ceremony at Morehouse college by a staunch friend and worker of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. [[/caption]]

[[caption]] Senators Edward W. Brooke and Wayne Morse, led the Senatorial delegation. [[/caption]]
[[image - black & white photograph of Sens. Edward Brooke and Wayne Morse]]

Free at Last - Free at Last - Thank God Almighty - Free at Last. Are the words inscribed on the crypt in which the mortal remains of Martin Luther King, a christian, who believed in non-violence and the brotherhood of his fellow man, rests.

The world was shocked by this tragic and great loss to all mankind. In eulogizing Martin Luther King, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, President Emeritus of Morehouse College disclosed "We made a pact - this martin and Me and it was simply this, which one of us was called first the other would preach his funeral. Here I stand, three scores and ten and there lies Martin just 39."

In the highly emotional eulogy, which Dr. Mays cut five minutes out of, Mays said his former pupil, was castigated, spat upon, stabbed by a member of his own race; arrested 30 times and all because he believed in a dream. Dr. Mays compared Dr. King to another christian gentleman who died for the cause of saving the world at age 33. "It is not how long you live but how well you live it," Mays said.

Dr. Mays said the American people must share the responsibility for Martin's death. If they had not allowed the climate in which his assassins thought he was safe, it would not have happened. Dr. Mays, also said that the city officials of Memphis, must share the blame too, because if they had settled the strike with the sanitation workers, Martin would not have been sacrificed. "It took courage for Martin to stand up for his principle of Non Violence and to speak out against the war in Viet Nam. Martin could not condone non-violence at home and look the other way at violence in another part of the world." Mays called the assassin a coward because he struck and fled. Martin, in disobeying the laws of the land for the cause of justice, knew the consequences of his actions and accepted the penalties.