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.
Eisenhower and Nixon were guests at MLK's funeral.
You may have the last word on this one. I'm through playing with you.
I'm anticipating Benny Hinn to heal somebody, Paul Crouch to tell his love partners to hurry to that phone if they want salvation, and Rod Parsley rolling around on the stage in his own flop sweat.
Oh puleese....you aren't playing...you just have no argument...and I think it's the other way around...it's past my bedtime...so you are left off the hook......ciao!
They don't look as colorful as they did this morning.
They have that brown tinge that lettuce gets when you've kept the lettuce salad out of the fridge for 6 hours.
I'm expecting despite all else, for the Lord to be glorified -- and He unfailingly is.
McCartney sang "Get Back" when he was still with the Beatles.
You all need to be decorated with purple hearts for watching this thing for so long.
Is Elder Bernice channeling her daddy and trying to motivate the DNC to win elections this year??
Let me guess: cancer eating our society = Dubya?
Thanks, I saw that and was outraged by the politics that later was unleashed at Bush at a funeral.
Classless, small and desperate of them IMO.
Bernice seems to be very upset of what's been reported of how her mother passed away
Many cities in America were torched by rioters after MLK was murdered. I don't think very many people have a memory of his actual funeral.
Today's funeral for his widow in some ways is a replacement for the outward signs of respect that he did not get because the country was in the middle of the Civil Rights movement.
The length of this thing is starting to rival that of a Fidel Castro speech.
Don't be thinking you all will be getting combat pay from watching this.....sorry not going to happen.....:-)
Are you kidding me???
This is STILL going on??
It's almost Wednesday for goodness sakes.
I remember that time...it was scary.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, talks with the Rev. Al Sharpton during the Coretta Scott King funeral ceremony at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., Tuesday, Feb. 7, 200 6. (AP Photo/ Ric Feld, Pool)
President George Bush and Rev. Al Sharpton during the funeral service for Coretta Scott King at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, February 7, 2006. (Jason Reed/Pool/Reuters)
Former first lady and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) steps off Air Force One in Washington after traveling with U.S. President George W. Bush to a memorial service for Coretta Scott King at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, outside Atlanta February 7, 2006. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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