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Local activists recall meeting Martin Luther King Jr.
The year was 1965: the height of the civil rights movement when the lives of a pair of teens from North Philadelphia would change forever.
Vernon Odom recalls covering MLK assassination
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Vernon Odom recalls covering MLK assassination