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MARTIN LUTHER KING WEEK OBSERVANCES AT K-STATE INCLUDE DEDICATION OF BUST AT AHEARN FIELD HOUSE, SITE OF KING'S LAST UNIVERSITY SPEECH

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From: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
Date: 20070104
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Kansas State University issued the following news release:

Martin Luther King Jr. will once again have a presence at Kansas State University, where he delivered a speech - his last on a college campus - nearly four decades ago.

K-State will dedicate a bust of King at noon Friday, Jan. 19, outside the southeast corner of Ahearn Field House as the culmination of the university's Martin Luther King Jr. Observance Week, Jan. 14-19. Adding a special poignancy to the event is that the last university speech King gave before his assassination in April 1968 was at the field house. On Jan. 19, 1968, ...

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