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  2. Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

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    The first memorial service following the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, took place the following day at the R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis, Tennessee. This was followed by two funeral services on April 9, 1968, in Atlanta, Georgia, the first held for family and close friends at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King ...

  3. 1998 Westside Middle School shooting - Wikipedia

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    The Westside Middle School shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on March 24, 1998, at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas near the city of Jonesboro. [ 1 ] 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden opened fire on the school, shooting and killing five people [ a ] with multiple weapons, and ...

  4. List of prematurely reported obituaries - Wikipedia

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    Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...

  5. Battle of Jonesborough - Wikipedia

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    Aug. 31: 1,700–2,200. Sept. 1: 1,400, 8 guns. The Battle of Jonesborough (August 31–September 1, 1864) was fought between Union Army forces led by William Tecumseh Sherman and Confederate forces under William J. Hardee during the Atlanta Campaign in the American Civil War. On the first day, on orders from Army of Tennessee commander John ...

  6. Jonesboro, Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Jonesboro (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ n z b ʌ r ə /) is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County . In 2023, the city had an estimated population of 80,560, [ 4 ] making it the fifth-most populous city in Arkansas .

  7. Category:People from Jonesboro, Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    W. Crown Prince Waterford. John Williams (first baseman) Zach Williams (musician) Elana Wills. Categories: Jonesboro, Arkansas. People by populated place in Arkansas. People from Craighead County, Arkansas.

  8. List of newspapers in Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Monroe County Sun [27] Clarendon: 2007 [27] Merged into Central Delta Argus-Sun: Monte Ne Herald: Monte Ne: 1903 1905 [20] The Morning News [40] 2009 [40] Merged with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's northwest operation [40] Mountain View Herald: Mountain View 1932 1953 Merged with the Stone County Leader: Napoleon Journal: Napoleon 1839 1840

  9. Jonesborough, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Jonesborough (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ n z b ʌ r ə /; historically also Jonesboro) is a town in, and the county seat of, Washington County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States. Its population was 5,860 as of 2020. It is "Tennessee's oldest town". Jonesborough is part of the Johnson City metropolitan area, which is a component of the "Tri-Cities ...