JET: The Weekly Negro News. Volume XXXIV, No. 3, April 25, 1968

Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co, 1968. Wraps. Fair. 4-1/4 x 5-3/4" stapled photo-illustrated wraps printed in red, black, and white. [70] pages, illustrated throughout. Covers scuffed and creased, rear wrap reinforced on the inside with cellophane tape, the first few pages with a tide mark at the fore-edge. Often imitated (think BROWN, HUE, and OUR LIFE), JET was founded by John Johnson in 1951, and was named for the airplane, not the color (because "In the world today everything is moving along at a faster clip"). The magazine shot to national prominence in 1955 with its shocking and graphic coverage of the murder of Emmett Till, and would remain an important voice in covering the Civil Rights Movement and in advocating for the rights of black and brown people. This issue is dedicated in its entirety to Martin Luther King, Jr., his assassination, the aftermath, and the future of both the Civil Rights Movement and the United States as a whole. King's family is depicted on the cover, with Coretta Scott King seated among her children. The copious photographs include personal snaps as well as now-iconic images, and there are numerous interviews with both major players (Mrs. King included) and people who were there, before, during, and after the assassination and funeral. A fascinating, you-were-there tribute.