Report: MLK center needs $11.6 million in repairs

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Report: MLK center needs $11.6 million in repairs
Thursday, February 3, 2005 Posted: 8:54 AM EST (1354 GMT)

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- The memorial where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is buried needs $11.6 million in repairs, according to a National Park Service report.

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"I was surprised at the extent of the problems," said Frank Catroppa, superintendent of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site.
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"The King Center has very little resources for maintenance," said Young, the only one of the board's nine directors who is not a King family member. He was a close associate of King and was with him when he was assassinated in Memphis in 1968.

Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, who fought for civil rights alongside King in the 1960s, told the newspaper in Thursday's editions that he would be willing to seek federal assistance for the center.

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