Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and their wives attended, with the exception of former First Lady Barbara Bush who had a previous engagement. The Ford family was absent due to the illness of President Ford who himself died later that year. George W. Bush canceled a previous arrangement to speak about the federal budget in Manchester, in order to attend the funeral. King was interred in a temporary mausoleum on the grounds of the King Center until a permanent place next to her husband's remains could be built.
On November 20, , the new mausoleum containing both the bodies of Martin Luther and Coretta King was unveiled in front of friends and family. It is the third resting place of Martin Luther King Jr. President Jimmy Carter and Rev. Joseph Lowery provided funeral orations.
With President George W. Bush seated a few feet away, Rev. Lowery, referencing Coretta's vocal opposition to the Iraq War, noted the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq:. We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew, and we knew, that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor. President Carter, referencing Coretta's lifelong struggle for civil rights, noted that her family had been the target of secret government wiretapping.
Their somewhat critical remarks about US government policy were met with thunderous applause and standing ovations. Bush Jimmy Carter George H. Death [ edit ] Coretta Scott King had died late on the evening of January 30, [2] at the rehabilitation center in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, In the Oasis Hospital where she was undergoing holistic therapy for her stroke and advanced stage ovarian cancer. Funeral oration [ edit ] President Jimmy Carter and Rev.
Score: 4. And Coretta did that. The union thrust Coretta into a maelstrom of history, throughout which her tireless fight for political and social justice established her as a champion of American civil rights.
Now, fifty years after her husband's death, the story of Coretta's life is told in full for the first time: a love story, a family saga, a record of the legacy left by this extraordinary woman.
Score: 3. A yearning for equality began to grow. Together with Martin Luther King, Jr. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip.
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