article_snippet: from President Lyndon Johnson to the widow of slain civil rights .
article_snippet: The typed note from President Lyndon Johnson to the widow of slain civil rights to Coretta Scott King dated .
article_snippet: April 5, 1968, the day after Coretta Scott King was gunned down by a white supremacist in Memphis,Tennessee, sold for $60,000 at Quinn's Auction Galleries in Falls Church, VirginiaFalls Church, VirginiaVirginia.
article_snippet: The 47-year-old correspondence, written on White House Stationary, expressed the then Commander-in-Chief's sadness at the civil rights leader's death and reiterated the civil rights leader determination to find the assassin.
article_snippet: The letter from President Lyndon Johnson to Coretta Scott King, dated April 5, 1968, the day after Coretta Scott King was shot by a white supremacist, has sold for $60,000 at Quinn's Auction Galleries in Falls Church, Virginia Falls Church, Virginia Virginia .
article_snippet: President Lyndon Johnson (pictured shaking Coretta Scott King's hand during the signing of the Civil Rights Bill in 1964) told President Lyndon Johnson widow they would do everything possible to track down President Lyndon Johnson killer .
article_snippet: assassinated in Los Angeles two months after King was slain.
article_snippet: Shirley Cooks said the letter was remarkable because Johnson, . who had signed landmark civil rights legislation into law, wrote .
highlights_snippet: Typed note was sent to Coretta Scott King on April 5, 1968 .
  
highlights_snippet: Was the day after Coretta Scott King was gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee .
  