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4 U.S. Presidents Expected at King Funeral (Live Thread)
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| Feb. 7, 2006
| Errin Haines
Posted on 02/07/2006 6:55:05 AM PST by katieanna
LITHONIA, Ga. - Shivering in near-freezing temperatures, thousands of people waited hours in line Tuesday for one last chance to say goodbye to Coretta Scott King before her funeral.
"There's one word to describe going to go see Coretta historic. It's good to finally see her at peace," said Robert Jackson, a 34-year-old financial consultant from Atlanta whose 10-year-old daughter, Ebony, persuaded him to take her to the visitation.
The lines had already started forming by 3 a.m. By the time the doors opened at 6:30 a.m., people toward the end were warned that if they stayed in line they likely wouldn't get into the funeral because of long lines that were already forming there.
An estimated 10,000 people, including four U.S. presidents, were expected to attend the midday funeral at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, where King's daughter Bernice is a minister.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: corettaking; jimmycarter; king; wellstonememorial2; whitetrashcarter
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To: unspun; spectre
Let's not disrespect the style of singing of people different than we may be familiar with.What the hell is that suppose to mean?
FYI, there are some of us on here who actually know good singing when we hear it; that wasn't it.
No matter what "style" of singing it was suppose to be.
821
posted on
02/07/2006 12:48:54 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? - Donald Rumsfeld 1/25/2006)
To: HairOfTheDog; Howlin
"Dreadful"...says it all..
sw
822
posted on
02/07/2006 12:49:27 PM PST
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife)
To: Howlin
Agreed. The singing was awful regardless of the style.
823
posted on
02/07/2006 12:49:40 PM PST
by
andyland
("if John Kerry didn't exist, Karl Rove would have to invent him.")
Comment #824 Removed by Moderator
To: GrandmaPatriot
Send me
You are so right.
What a blatant bit of politicking. These clintons have no shame.
825
posted on
02/07/2006 12:50:39 PM PST
by
Churchillspirit
(Anaheim Angels - 2002 World Series Champions)
To: TigerSilly
Apparently YOU do; why don't you tell us? one is a minister at the church where this funeral is being held, I have heard.
To: andyland
These things are so confusing, aren't they?
Are we not suppose to say it's horrible because he's black and blind?
827
posted on
02/07/2006 12:50:46 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? - Donald Rumsfeld 1/25/2006)
To: Mo1
strange things for a funeral/dnc pep rally/hillyforpresident Rally.
Actully, I figured it would be as much. It all started when bill and hill took the mic.
828
posted on
02/07/2006 12:51:54 PM PST
by
JFC
(W, I am with YA)
To: Howlin
Just drink the kool-aid, howlin'. It won't hurt a bit. Really. :)
829
posted on
02/07/2006 12:52:26 PM PST
by
bonfire
To: Howlin
I guess. I have never fallen for that PC junk.
Stevie has had better efforts....
830
posted on
02/07/2006 12:52:34 PM PST
by
andyland
("if John Kerry didn't exist, Karl Rove would have to invent him.")
To: unspun
Let's not disrespect the style of singing of people different than we may be familiar with oh puhlease...acapella is often an excuse....like everyone thinks they are Aretha...they aren't..
vocal harmony is not by default relative
831
posted on
02/07/2006 12:52:36 PM PST
by
wardaddy
(Guns, God, Abortion is Murder, Private Property, Borders,My Culture, Break Islam....any questions)
To: Howlin
Oh, well that explains all that head bobbing by bubbette.
If she's the future of the dem party, they're doomed.
832
posted on
02/07/2006 12:52:56 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
To: Christian4Bush
LOLOL....so he mentions Wellstone!!! LOL.....dummies are them!
833
posted on
02/07/2006 12:53:56 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
To: retrokitten
I hope someone has a picture of Hitlery at The State of the Union address when the President mentioned two of his father's favorite people. Her expression then was priceless.
834
posted on
02/07/2006 12:54:18 PM PST
by
Churchillspirit
(Anaheim Angels - 2002 World Series Champions)
To: All
Oh my gosh. I just left for 2 hours to run some errands. Came back and this service is still on!! Can't believe it.
To: spectre
Had the sound muted while Bubba and Hillary were speaking.
Hillary bobbing and nodding her head reminded me of the bobble-head dolls in the rear window.(..of somebody else's car of course);^)
836
posted on
02/07/2006 12:55:35 PM PST
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: justanotherfreeper
I am proud to say my first vote was for Reagan in the 1976 primary! Be glad you were climbing trees and throwing rocks instead of being lectured to about your malaise and how you should wear sweaters and lower your expectations and we had to understand the Iranians who took American hostages and it was inevitable we would lose the cold war. Carter always was a narcissitic, petty, bitter, self righteous humbug. Oh, ag. "Jimmy Who?" I remember that stuff. Yuck.
I campaigned for Ford. Heh.
To: Mo1
Is that what Stevie Wonder is doing.........singing???????
838
posted on
02/07/2006 12:55:37 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
To: bonfire; Mo1; Txsleuth; Dog
Chris Matthews just said Lyndon Johnson wiretapped MLK.
It was the Kennedys.
Wiretaps, which were initially approved by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, were maintained on Dr. King's home telephone from October 1963 until mid-1965; the SCLC headquarter's telephones were covered by wiretaps for an even longer period. Phones in the homes and offices of some of Dr. King's close advisers were also wiretapped. The FBI has acknowledged 16 occasions on which microphones were hidden in Dr. King's hotel and motel rooms in an "attempt" to obtain information about the "private activities of King and his advisers" for use to "completely discredit" them. 2
839
posted on
02/07/2006 12:55:38 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? - Donald Rumsfeld 1/25/2006)
To: half-cajun
840
posted on
02/07/2006 12:56:02 PM PST
by
JFC
(W, I am with YA)
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