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Source Collection
Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0475.0064a_03.001
Description
Located at 220 Overton Avenue, St. Joseph's Hospital is most well known for being the hospital where Martin Luther King Jr. was pronounced dead on Thursday, April 4, 1968. St. Joseph's and Baptist Memorial Health Care merged in 1998 and the last patients were transferred to Baptist on November 17, 2000.
Date Created
6-24-2021
Date
1959-07
Recommended Citation
"St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, 1959" (2021). Buildings. 2.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-mpressscimitar7/2
Keywords
St. Joseph's Hospital--Tennessee--Memphis
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