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‘Amazing Grace’ sung by Barack Obama

President Barack Obama delivers a eulogy for the late Rev. Clementa Pinckney, at the TD Arena in Charleston, S.C., on Friday. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

Credit: Jim Galloway

Credit: Jim Galloway

President Barack Obama delivers a eulogy for the late Rev. Clementa Pinckney, at the TD Arena in Charleston, S.C., on Friday. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
By Jim Galloway
June 26, 2015

What might be a first in presidential history: Below, Barack Obama sings "Amazing Grace" during his eulogy for state senator Clementa Pinckney, pastor of Emanual AME Church in Charleston, S.C., who was slain last week by a young man looking to start a race war:

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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