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Former basketball coach Raveling proud owner of Martin Luther King's famous speech

IN A SAFE-DEPOSIT box that George Raveling keeps sits a unique piece of American history. How Raveling obtained it is an extraordinary tale that dates back to a sweltering day in Washington, Aug. 28, 1963, when Raveling was a young former basketball star at Villanova University and found himself on the podium with Martin Luther King at the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom."

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