Video: 'Eyes On The Prize - (Part 10) The Promised Land 1967–1968' (Apr. 7, 1968, at 41:34)

(Sunday, April 7, 1968; during the African-American civil rights movement (1954–1968)) — Coretta Scott King and her four children viewed the body of her husband today as he lay in state at Sisters Chapel on the campus of Spelman College in Atlanta.

More than 60,000 mourners would pay their final respects to King through the following day.

King, 39, was assassinated Apr. 4, 1968, while standing on the second floor balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.