Witnesses have come forward to say they remember seeing Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential candidate Mitt Romney's father marching together in 1963, Politico reported, after questions were raised about whether such a march ever happened.

The issue drew attention after Romney said during a major speech on faith in College Station, Texas, earlier this month that "I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."

He later said he was being "figurative" during the address, and that he didn't personally witness King with his father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney. But he stuck by his claim that they marched together.  

Politico reported that the former Massachusetts governor is not the only one who remembers this.

One witness, Shirley Basore, 72, said she saw the two "hand in hand" in 1963 in Grosse Pointe, Mich. Another witness, Ashby Richardson, 64, said she was not more than 20 feet from the two of them.

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Mitt Romney's campaign provided documentation to establish that George Romney participated in a series of marches in support of King in his home state, but for days the campaign was unable to place the two together at the same march.

The GOP presidential candidate has stated several times that he is proud of his father's leadership and the lessons he instilled in teaching his children about equal rights for all Americans.

The campaign provided several pages of excerpts from news articles and other sources detailing George Romney's civil rights history.

The excerpts show he gave the keynote address in 1963 at a conference that touched off King's "Freedom Marches" in Detroit. George Romney later made a surprise appearance and marched in an NAACP-sponsored rally in the summer of 1963 in Grosse Pointe, Mich. 

The Boston Phoenix and Detroit Free Press earlier reported that the historical evidence does not place George Romney with King at any march.

The Free Press reported he did not attend King's massive civil rights march in Detroit in June 1963, because it was on a Sunday and that he avoided public appearances because of his religion. The paper reported George Romney did participate in the civil rights march in Grosse Pointe shortly after but said King was not there.

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Even though Mitt Romney on Thursday said he believes his father broke his self-imposed Sunday rule, New York Times clippings from June 1963 back up the Free Press account. A June 24 story said George Romney, who was Mormon, would not make appearances on Sunday and instead issued a proclamation and sent two personal representatives to King's Detroit march.

A June 30 story said George Romney then led a "racially mixed group of 1,000" through Grosse Pointe on June 29.

The accounts counter an excerpt from a 1967 book by Stephen Hess and David Broder that says the two marched through the "exclusive Grosse Pointe suburb of Detroit."

Hess told the Detroit Free Press he couldn't remember the source for the reference in the book, but he doesn't think it matters to voters or Mitt Romney's candidacy whether his father and King literally were side by side.

FOX News' Shushannah Walshe contributed to this report.