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A coffin labelled ‘Martin Luther King’ sits before the United States Capitol, its flag at half mast, as a thunderstorm rages above the Capitol and flames burn across it and the city in the background.

The Herald, 8 April 1968

Race riots had been erupting all over the United States following the assassination of black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on 4 April.