Attends Memorial Service: President Johnson enters Washington Cathedral today to attend a memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. At right is the Very Reverend Francis B. Sayre, Jr., Dean of the Episcopal Cathedral, and at left is the Right Reverend William F. Creighton, Episcopal Bishop of Washington DC.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: date stamp.

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

This object has the following keywords:

• Assassinations
• Civil Rights Movements
• Death
• Injustice
• Lyndon Johnson
• Lyndon Johnson
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Memorial services
• Mourning
• Racial Discrimination
• Reverend Francis Sayre, Jr.
• Reverend Francis Sayre, Jr.
• Reverend William Creighton
• Reverend William Creighton
• Washington Cathedral
• Washington DC

• Image Dimensions: 9 7/8 x 7 in. (25.08 x 17.78 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 1/16 x 7 15/16 in. (25.56 x 20.16 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen