Holding Hands processing-nfs-regular as captured by veteran Times

as captured by veteran Times photographer George Tames in February 1962

"In this pleasant land where the greatest tension ever felt by most people in the past was the pull of a fish on a baited line all the countryside is now taut with the strains of the Atomic Age

It would be only a year after this photo was taken when a new 50-acre park would arise

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they look as if they're moving but the absence of drivers makes you slow down and take a second look

Holding Hands processing-nfs-regular as captured by veteran TimesMourners shared their grief in Atlanta during the funeral of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 9, 1968, five days after the civil rights leader was assassinated. The day commenced with a service at Ebenezer Baptist Church at 10: 43 a. m. and didn't conclude until Dr. King's burial at 5: 30 p. m. A farm wagon pulled by two Georgia mules carried Dr. King's coffin the three and a half miles from the church to South View Cemetery. "It was