Thomas Merton's reflection to Gethsemani Abbey novices on the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Title: Thomas Merton's reflection to Gethsemani Abbey novices on the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Description: Thomas Merton reads excerpts of a letter from June Yungblut. She describes the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date: April 14, 1968 See all items with this value
Language: English See all items with this value
Rights: Recordings © Copyright of the Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University
Source: Thomas Merton Audio Recordings, Tape #176, Track #1 (excerpts); The recording was transferred from reel-to-reel audio tape to digital format. Most recordings were first transferred to compact disk and then ripped to digital. NOTE: transcripts were generated in 2025-2026 using the Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. Some known errors in transcription were corrected by archivists; however, there are still mistakes, especially with specialized monastic names and terms, foreign languages, and recording sections with multiple people speaking at once or off-microphone. All text needs to be screened by a human and cleared with the Merton Legacy Trust before publication.
Subject: Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968 See all items with this value; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 See all items with this value