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7, his Viet- be serve

April attended the abuses himself: sermon, honors and

declared 300,000 on meeting and protests eulogized Major' and "love

Johnson 1968, a national day of mourning for the lost civil of funeral two days later, on April 9. Vice President Hubert Humphrey attended on behalf of Lyndon a at nam War at Camp David. (There were fears that with King His last sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, a re- 'Drum given on February 4, 1968, was played at the fu- In that sermon he makes a request that at his fu- awards his made, but that it be said that he tried to "feed the

B. crowd was hit be request, famous of question,"

Lyndon A leader. who might over the war if he attended). widow's his of mention war

President rights Johnson, B. Johnson his At cording neral. no neral [Vietnam] humanity."