NEWSWEEK TWEETS PHOTO OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. IN OPEN CASKET

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 

Martin Luther King speaks in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.(JOHN DUPREY/NY DAILY NEWS)

Newsweek tweeted, then quickly deleted an image of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in an open casket Monday with a link to an article about notable historical anniversaries in 2018.

King’s daughter, Bernice King, was among the scores of twitter users who were outraged by its use of the image.

“Why, @Newsweek? Wow,” she wrote, referring to the since deleted post.

Newsweek removed the tweet and issued an apology to the King family.

Bernice King urged the media to consider King’s family before sharing images of the civil rights activist, particularly in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the leader’s assassination.(JASON DAVIS/GETTY IMAGES FOR 51 MILES FORWAR)

“Earlier this afternoon we published an opinion piece with an insensitive image of Martin Luther King Jr. We sincerely apologize to the King family for this egregious error,” the news outlet said on Twitter.

Bernice King went live on social media Monday afternoon to discuss the incident.

“Today I saw where Newsweek published this insensitive image of my father,” she said.

She urged the media to consider King’s family before sharing images of the civil rights activist, particularly in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the leader’s assassination.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, Bernice A. King, lashed out at Newsweek for sharing an image of her father in an open casket on Twitter on Jan. 1, 2018.(TWITTER/GETTY IMAGES)

“We must never forget that Dr. King was a husband and was a father so we deal all the time just with continuing to manage our father and the great work that he’s done...so it was difficult,” she said of seeing the image.

She nonetheless accepted Newsweek’s prompt apology.

“I want to thank Newsweek for immediately responding and removing the image and for giving an apology. Apology accepted,” she said.

She said her father’s death nearly 50 years ago still feels fresh.

“My mother continued this great work of my father’s legacy so in some respects we have not been able to bury him,” she said.

She issued a challenge to those wanting to commemorate her father’s death over the next year.

“Keep in mind that there is a living breathing family, three offspring, a sister, a host of nieces and nephews, so as people prepare to post images, try to be careful about the images around him in the casket. Those are difficult, those are very challenging for us to have to see.”

Others were offended too that Newsweek opted to run the image of a dead King along with the article, entitled “Has Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Martin?”

Newsweek ran the story, which originally appeared on the Council on Foreign Affairs site, on the first day of 2018.

New York Daily News front page announcing the news of King's assassination. (NEW YORK DAILY NEWS )

Newsweek ran an image of King’s body on the cover of its April 15, 1968 issue following King’s death on April 4 of that year.

The family of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., walk in the funeral procession in Atlanta, April 9, 1968.  (CHARLES TASNADI/AP)