MLK Assassination Aftermath

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures on April 3, 2009 at 12:16 pm


Tomorrow will mark the 41st anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. LIFE magazine has published a set of pictures taken of the scene at the Lorraine Motel directly after the shooting. The photographs were previously unavailable to the public.

They were taken April 4, 1968, by Life magazine photographer Henry Groskinsky, who was on assignment in Alabama with writer Mike Silva when they learned that King had been shot in Memphis and rushed to the scene.

To their surprise, they had access not just to the motel but to King’s room.

“I was very discreet. I shot just enough to document what was going on. I didn’t want to make a nuisance of myself,” the 75-year-old Groskinsky said in the caption to a photo showing a group of King’s associates, including Andrew Young and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, assembled inside the room.

“It’s very somber, and there I am with a flash camera. So I took a couple of pictures and just kind of backed off,” Groskinsky said.

Link to story. Link to gallery. -via Fark


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16 comments to "MLK Assassination Aftermath"

  1. Kalel
    April 3rd, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    Very powerful images, and difficult to look at, even now.

  2. Johnny Cat
    April 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    Those were compelling photos.

  3. Neil
    April 3rd, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    Dang! I was hoping they’d show the hot white prostitutes he was with that night or the night before, as is well documented. Or maybe, since his family has arranged that his FBI records be permanently sealed to the public, they could shed light on his well-known (and questioned by rival civil rights activists) ploy of feigning “nonviolence” while simultaneously orchestrating the chivalrous riots that pioneered later ones by these liberated souls in LA and Cincinnati. It would have been fascinating to see some shots of him in the company of his KGB-financed communist handlers. Oops, we already have those (and of militant Marxist Rosa Parks). Best of all would be shots of him sneaking published theses of other scholars from the library for appropriation into large-scale, whole-text plagiarization of some postdoctoral thesis as he did with his first one. Come on, LIFE, get it together! lol

  4. sad man
    April 3rd, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    These photos really piss me off until i remember that violent anger is not what Dr King would have wanted.

    (righteous peaceful anger maybe but not violent)

  5. Neil
    April 3rd, 2009 at 9:13 pm

    Oh yeah, no censorship here (as you folks stated elsewhere this week).

  6. OhTheCosmos
    April 3rd, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    i really like the briefcase image. these photos are so compelling they almost seem staged, instead of candid as the photographer explains... beautifully captured either way.

  7. Alex
    April 4th, 2009 at 12:33 am

    Come again, Neil?

  8. Johnny Cat
    April 4th, 2009 at 12:39 am

    Neil, you're full of it.

  9. sad man
    April 4th, 2009 at 7:03 am

    Get off neil's case.

    His penis obviously doesn't work and listening to the voices in his radio/head is the only way he can get off without taking a shotgun to schoolyards.

    Poor little bitty penis boy.

  10. sad man
    April 4th, 2009 at 7:05 am

    Get off neil’s case.

    His p*nis obviously doesn’t work and listening to the voices in his radio/head is the only way he can get off without taking a shotgun to schoolyards.

    Poor little bitty p3nis boy.

    (wow are we censoring body parts but not Neil?)

  11. skidworth
    April 4th, 2009 at 10:33 am

    Neil is spot-on.....don't believe all you have been told about MLK. the truth shall set you free!

  12. Qworeit
    April 4th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    Why did Skidworth name himself after his underwear?

  13. violet
    April 4th, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    Alex, please don't encourage Neil to come. The world is already full up on crazy; we're not taking any ejaculations, I mean applications, right now.

  14. Kalel
    April 4th, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    I think we can all agree that murder is tragic.

    These stark photographs of terror, blood, grief, and the remnant minutia of a life lost all transecend political debate.

  15. skidworth
    April 4th, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    sorry, the name is skidworth, not skidmark.

    why are Dr. Kings FBI records sealed?
    don't believe me, ask for a FOI request for Dr. King's birth certificate. you won't get it....I tried!

    Don't believe all you are told about him...do you really believe Sarah Palin was that vile?

  16. Anon
    April 4th, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    While I still believe that Martin Luther King was a good man, I have to admit that the bias of mainstream media has me now in doubt. Were they lying to us all along, as they are lying to us today?


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