1968-04-05: Letter from Thomas Merton to Coretta Scott King after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.

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Title

1968-04-05: Letter from Thomas Merton to Coretta Scott King after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.

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Date

Identifier

Section A (Correspondence): "King, Coretta Scott," 1968/04/05.

Language

Publisher

Published in: The Hidden Ground of Love.

Relation

See also Coretta Scott King's telegram to Gethsemani Abbey after the death of Thomas Merton at the King Center archive, 17 December 1968.

Rights

© The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. All rights reserved.

Source

Thomas Merton Correspondence

Subject

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination.
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006

First Lines

First line: 'Some events are too big and too terrible to talk about. I think we all anticipated this one:' ...

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