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A racially-mixed group of ministers respond with raised hands in a black church in Albany, Georgia on August 28th, 1962 when the Rev. Martin Luther King, black integration leader, asked them if they would be willing to go to jail for the cause. A few minutes later, after marching to the city hall steps for a prayer service, 75 of the ministers from the East and Midwest were arrested. (UPI Photo)
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Albany police chief Laurie Pritchett appeals to a group of ministers from the East and Midwest to "go back to your own cities and cleanse the sins of segregation in your own back yards" during demonstrations in Albany, Georgia, on August 28th, 1962. The racially-mixed group had traveled here to help the integrationist Albany Movement. After telling the group, which marched to a prayer service in front of City Hall "I have no desire to put you in jail" Pritchett ordered their arrest when they refused orders to move on. (UPI PHOTO)
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy with their children Caroline Kennedy (L) and John F. Kennedy Jr. at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts on August 4, 1962. November 22, 2008 marks the 45th anniversary of the day President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. (UPI Photo/Cecil Stoughton/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum)
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President John F. Kennedy at a news conference at the State Department Auditorium in Washington on November 20, 1962. November 22, 2008 marks the 45th anniversary of the day President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. (UPI Photo/Abbie Rowe/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum)
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