John Pemberton who invented Coca-Cola", is chosen as one of the few people allowed to leave the city of Atlanta, just before it sinks into the Atlantic Ocean. In 2010, the Coca-Cola Company paid tribute to Pemberton as a key character in an advertising campaign called "Secret Formula". Centered on the secret ingredients of Coca-Cola, imagery related to Pemberton was used to make people more aware of Coke's history and mythology. In 2013, Pemberton was portrayed by Bill Hader in the "Atlanta" episode of Comedy Central's "Drunk History", created by Derek Waters. Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers have an album track
John C. Pemberton Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, where his mother and father had been buried. Despite a supposed decision that the Confederate Pemberton would be interred elsewhere; he ended up in an obscure area of the cemetery. His sisters Rebecca Clifford Pemberton Newbold (1820-1883) and Anna Clifford Pemberton Hollingsworth (1816-1884) and brother Israel Pemberton (1813-1885, a railroad engineer) were buried at Laurel Hill shortly thereafter. Other later Pemberton family burials at Laurel Hill would include his brothers who fought for the Union, Lt. Andrew Jackson Pemberton (1831-1900) and Pvt. Clifford Pemberton (1835-1897), his widow, sons John Jr. (1853-1934) and Francis (1856-1923) and