Near the end of his eulogy for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney—one of the nine victims of last week’s fatal church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina—President Obama led the congregation and those assembled in a rendition of “Amazing Grace.”
Obama also called the late pastor a “man of God who lived by faith.”
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