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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Penn State in 1965

WPSU | By Kristine Allen

Published January 16, 2015 at 2:23 PM EST

This year marks the 30^th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration at Penn State, University Park. One of the events on Monday, January 19th ,will be a replaying of the audio of a speech King gave at Penn State 50 years ago.

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Kristine Allen

Kristine Allen is Program Director of WPSU-FM. She also files feature stories for WPSU on the arts, culture, science, and more. When she's not at WPSU, Kris enjoys playing folk fiddle, acting, singing and portrait-sketching. She is also a self-confessed "science geek." Kris started working in public radio in college, at age 17, and says she "just couldn't stop."

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