During the Vietnam War in November 1967, "Life" magazine named Kennedy Onassis "America's unofficial roving ambassador" when she and David Ormsby-Gore, former British ambassador to the United States, traveled to Cambodia. Many historians saw that her visit was "the start of the repair to Cambodian-US relations, which had been at a very low ebb". She also went to the funeral services of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia, in April 1968.