St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, 1959

Creators

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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